BONUS CLUE 12 REVEALED!!! - CONTEST TWO: Solve this puzzle to win a free Fanatic book by Chris Williams
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Hmmm. I've been to India dozens of times and love Indian food. And even though I'm still clueless on the puzzle, maybe I can help with some India food terms (e.g. briyani, gulab jaman, basmanti rice).
Try some Mulligatawny!
And let me introduce you to Colonel Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert. He was a long-serving British soldier in the Indian Army and wrote a well-known cookbook titled Culinary Jottings for Madras under the pseudonym Wyvern.
I think this is our Colonel. Because "mull over the Colonel's past" points to mulligatawny soup, the signature Anglo-Indian dish from Madras. "For that is where it comes from."
Madras is also where St. Thomas the Apostle was martyred and buried. The cross associated with him is the St. Thomas Cross.
To tie it into Part Two... in the Bible, "Thomas" is his Aramaic name, while "Didymus" is the Greek translation. Both names literally translate to "twin". And a twin is literally "another" and your closest kin. Hence my guess yesterday.
I've possibly gone off track with the St. Thomas portion of my guess here, but pretty confident in the Mulligatawny / Colonel Kenney-Herbert connection.
I’ve been to St. Thomas Mount and the Little Mount in Chennai many times. Tradition says that Thomas was beaten, and maybe stabbed, near the little mount and crawled to St. Thomas Mount where he died praying for the city.
Probably doesn’t have anything to do with the puzzle, but I like to bump this thread.
"Now mull over the Colonel's past" As much as I want to jump to Colonel Mustard, I haven't been able to connect Martin Mull, mustard, anything - back to Old Lavender or to the Part 2 clues. (but mustard is used a lot in Indian cuisine, so what do I know).
A different route: Old Lavender is on the same page and is precedes both column and row as mul(l)berry fruit (which I think is Indian? at least some varieties are). Colonel Mulberry Sellars is a character from several Mark Twain novels, The American Claimant, and The Gilded Age: A Tale Of Today
"Part 2: The cross means another, says your kin." I honestly couldn't find anything in those novels to tie to the symbol, a cross, or a kin, but I took a step back. Mark Twain is a pen name and a reference to how river men would mark ropes while crossing rivers. So Mark Twain is also an action "to mark it, twain"
So I'll be wrong and guess: Mark Twain
A different route: Old Lavender is on the same page and is precedes both column and row as mul(l)berry fruit (which I think is Indian? at least some varieties are). Colonel Mulberry Sellars is a character from several Mark Twain novels, The American Claimant, and The Gilded Age: A Tale Of Today
"Part 2: The cross means another, says your kin." I honestly couldn't find anything in those novels to tie to the symbol, a cross, or a kin, but I took a step back. Mark Twain is a pen name and a reference to how river men would mark ropes while crossing rivers. So Mark Twain is also an action "to mark it, twain"
So I'll be wrong and guess: Mark Twain
A couple more guesses:
George (tied to the farmer answer and sticking with the Madras theme, as the Colonel's army was the Army of Fort St. George.. and George means "Farmer")
Mother (Madre de Deus as the origin name for the region)
If I went down the wrong path with the wrong Indian food, these are both completely wrong anyway.
George (tied to the farmer answer and sticking with the Madras theme, as the Colonel's army was the Army of Fort St. George.. and George means "Farmer")
Mother (Madre de Deus as the origin name for the region)
If I went down the wrong path with the wrong Indian food, these are both completely wrong anyway.
PLEASE NOTE!
Both this new clue and the previous BONUS CLUE 10, also seen below, both refer to the last section of PART ONE.
BONUS CLUE 10 -
Comprehension is difficult on an empty stomach, why not try Indian food?
BONUS CLUE 11 -
Sid said the hike from Egypt to Yosemite is short, then China is next.
Both this new clue and the previous BONUS CLUE 10, also seen below, both refer to the last section of PART ONE.
BONUS CLUE 10 -
Comprehension is difficult on an empty stomach, why not try Indian food?
BONUS CLUE 11 -
Sid said the hike from Egypt to Yosemite is short, then China is next.
As a reminder to everyone, remember the answer to PART TWO has absolutely nothing to do with the color or book.
See my previous post here for more details.
It's definitely the right reference. The El Cap theatre is like 2 blocks from the Egyptian. And the Chinese is the next theatre along the boulevard. And Sid built them all!
Yes it refers to Sid Grauman. Clue was in order of theater opening date as well. So let's look at the last two lines again:
How do the two clues of "indian food" and Sid Grauman/movie theaters help affirm what this couplet refers to?
Once the "prize" couplet and this couplet are solved, then we are off to the races for PART TWO
Now mull over the Colonel's past.
For that is where it comes from.
How do the two clues of "indian food" and Sid Grauman/movie theaters help affirm what this couplet refers to?
Once the "prize" couplet and this couplet are solved, then we are off to the races for PART TWO
Idk after all these last clues I ended up here and thought it sounded familiar so went back and checked and yup someone already made those connections.
So, to try and build off of it, I just googled Dijon cross and this song came up so I have to assume this is the right answer.
With the latest clues, the last couplet could be referring to kernel/corn.
Combined with the other couplet, we get flint corn also known as Indian corn.
For part two, I wonder if the cross means another is for some kind of hybrid
/cross pollinated corn?
