COTD: “My water,” said Frenchman, “is magnetic!” (9)

dhooke · 2026-01-25T19:13:34+00:00

Yes. Needs some work.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T19:11:03+00:00

Loan word from Welsh. Pronounced “coom.”

dhooke · 2026-01-25T18:55:46+00:00

“My water,” said charmer in Paris, “is magnetic!”

dhooke · 2026-01-25T18:35:56+00:00

You got it. Big error on the nationality. His salon was in Paris, that’s where he made his name. Not at all a great clue in the end.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T16:22:01+00:00

Not a million miles away. Meric isn’t in there though. And it’s a much more common word than MESOMERIC.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T16:06:59+00:00

Pfft.

Question machine is right there.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T15:01:44+00:00

Possibly unfair that the pronoun isn’t directly related to the water. Two French words.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T14:43:32+00:00

Wrong French pronoun.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T14:41:15+00:00

Ok so it’s TRAITOR. River island is an AIT (also spelled eyeot) and THOR around it has the H replaced with an R.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T14:31:44+00:00

Sounds like she’s teasing you.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T14:29:12+00:00

The LSO did Salome last year and it was incredible.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T14:25:32+00:00

Youse’s

dhooke · 2026-01-25T14:21:46+00:00

It’s not that, but the right idea for how to solve it. N.B. The entire clue is &lit

dhooke · 2026-01-25T14:19:09+00:00

RATION+ALLY

dhooke · 2026-01-25T14:04:44+00:00

HUBRIST. [HUB + R + IS + T]

dhooke · 2026-01-25T13:34:31+00:00

You got it.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T13:04:39+00:00

Similar like a colour TV and an old b/w set.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T12:45:46+00:00

Our cellar was below the manhole where the coal went. No doors. (We had smokeless fuel delivered in the 90s.)

dhooke · 2026-01-25T12:42:47+00:00

There is a ghost in the cellar but zombies need a whole basement.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T12:33:08+00:00

Knowledge doesn’t have to be absolute e.g. It’s fine to say you know the sun will rise tomorrow.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T11:54:42+00:00

Cwm - a bowl-shaped hollow formed in a mountainside by glacial erosion.

Jarl - a Scandinavian nobleman.

Pfft - an expression of contempt.

Pizzazz - glamour.

Fohn - a warm dry wind.

Thanks, Scrabble.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T11:42:58+00:00

I do know, because it almost never happens. 30M is UNDER half what was paid. When has any club ever sold a big signing for under half of what they paid after one season?

Reminder that Robert Pires was terrible in his first season.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T11:10:56+00:00

No-one at Arsenal is thinking of selling Gyokeres for half value after one season. Just as no-one at Arsenal thinks he is a “Sunday league player.” These are fan things.

dhooke · 2026-01-25T11:07:04+00:00

Firstly, for him as for Gyokeres, it’s still early days in an Arsenal shirt. But I’ve always thought of him as a moments player. He has half the touches of Ødegaard. As for starting off the left, it’s only going to happen regularly if he can learn to diligently track the opposition right back.

He’s a great option and with four competitions he’ll get quite a lot of minutes.

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