January 27 2012

Needing No Intro

images For those yet to glance at Times 9224 in The Australian, there is a neat clue at 1-Down: Scary book from German writer needing no introduction (7).

If you don’t wish to know the answer, then please don’t dive into the Comments section (where the solution is lurking). But no shock the wordplay entails a German writer losing his initial – or needing no introduction.

Naturally my mind wandered, thinking of other famous people who spell new words or names without their first letter. Orlando Bloom, for one, spells Loom, and Hugh (or Cary) Grant create Rant. A definitie Wordwit idea, and one to throw your way in production. Can you name these actors – none of whom gets or requires an intro – by these clues below? Warning, the last four are more playful.

Waterbird
Yacht fitting
Garden tool
Hirsute cousin
Scrabble letters
Fletcher’s creation?
Macho della corrida
Yours affectionately? (And very affectionately?)
Sigmund Freud?
One vocalist?

Feel free to blab the answers. It’s a bit of Friday whimsy. Likewise, if you can add to the list – actors or anyone who needs no intro – then throw in a new numbered clue.

Comments

DA — 27 January at 10:15AM

Times clue solution: SCHILLER - S = CHILLER

DC — 27 January at 11:00AM

1. Howard Stern
3. Francis Drake
5. Julia Stiles
6. Mia Farrow

DC — 27 January at 11:26AM

10. Kim Basinger

11. Colour property
12. additionally
13. mature
12. like Flynn

DA — 27 January at 11:48AM

Curiously, DC, this puzzle can generate its share of alternative solutions. I have OTHER actors for (1) and (2), just as I can crack your (11 - Colour property) with a double:

11. Sharon Stone & Elizabeth Shue

AC — 27 January at 11:48AM

4. Brad Pitt

AC — 27 January at 12:02PM

This might also be an alternative...

13. Nicholas Cage

DC — 27 January at 12:04PM

13. steer
14. masticating

I can think of two actresses for 13 as well, albeit with the same root. And is it the same as your 8?

Should have got 4, tarnation.

DC — 27 January at 12:06PM

I have mis-numbered my own clues. How about I start again:

14. like Flynn
15. steer
16. masticating

Mr X — 27 January at 12:07PM

13. Brian (Coutney) Cox
14. Paul Keating

AC — 27 January at 12:07PM

Ah yes:

16. Michael Keating

Mr X — 27 January at 12:08PM

oops actors only

DC — 27 January at 12:15PM

I didn't see that actors-only clause -- Keating was who I was thinking of, and I have a couple of writers in there too.

Megan Fox is another for 15 (and maybe 8).

AC — 27 January at 12:17PM

Actors only was for DA's clues, the clause is actually at the bottom which stipulates that we may create clues for anyone.

AC — 27 January at 12:27PM

And on that note I propose:

17. Assassin

(p.s. the perhaps less-than-famous alternative is ironically amusing)

DA — 27 January at 12:38PM

For my (8), I had Megan Fox in mind. (She can act, can't she?) But Brian Cox is much better.

So what about VERY affectionately - the part II? There is another name we need.

17 Walt Whitman?

Sam — 27 January at 12:50PM

8b - Jamie Foxx?

Sam — 27 January at 12:51PM

8b - or Danny Glover?

DC — 27 January at 12:56PM

On a different tack

18: semi-aquatic wildlife
19: 18 protector?

Sam — 27 January at 12:57PM

2; Ben Stiller

Sam — 27 January at 01:14PM

20: Monopoly property (2 actors)

AC — 27 January at 02:14PM

@DA - Yes, Walt Whitman was the mainstream. And for a lark I found Charles Whitman, a Texas Uni student who went on a shooting rampage in the sixties.

Hopefully this is not too conspicuous:

21. Slats was further down the order?

DC — 27 January at 02:20PM

9. Nicole Kidman

21: riding from Darwin to Adelaide

That's a bit obscure...

RK — 27 January at 02:20PM

7. Benicio del Toro?

RK — 27 January at 02:24PM

21. Joel Monaghan?

DC — 27 January at 02:27PM

Joel works. I was thinking of Michelle from the great Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. And I now see we have a LotR actor too...

AC — 27 January at 02:35PM

23. Courier vehicles

RK — 27 January at 02:56PM

A set of Aussie singers:

24. Compound
25. Leer
26. Inquire
27. Listen up!
28. African currency
29. Plus
30. Looker

SK — 27 January at 03:31PM

I thought 9 may have been George Clooney ;)

DA — 27 January at 03:49PM

25 Eric Bogle (performed by Renee Geyer, your 30!)

26 Nathan Tasker? Though that owuld be inquirer...

29 Allen Caswell (a Wiki peek!)

Adding to your list of Oz singers:

31. Spin
32. Golden child?

RobT — 27 January at 04:07PM

33. Weirdo

DA — 27 January at 04:09PM

@RobT: your 33 sounds like SK's George Clooney...

RK — 27 January at 04:17PM

24. Think of aeroplanes
25. correct
26. She's a jazz singer
27. Similar to your 7
28. A different clue - Atlas
29. Not what I was thinking. You shouldn't need to look him up.
30. correct

RK — 27 January at 04:33PM

Perhaps plus isn't quite right for 29. Make it tot.

SK — 27 January at 04:48PM

Ok, here are some pollies. All past/present leaders of western governments.

34. Old chook?
35. Carry on
36. Haunt
37. Nothing on top?
38. Peter Fitzsimons?
39. Double degree

RK — 27 January at 04:49PM

32. Jessica Mauboy

RK — 27 January at 04:58PM

36. Tony Blair

DA — 27 January at 05:01PM

OR 36 - Anthony Eden (Amazing how many doubles we've found!)

RK — 27 January at 05:02PM

31. Helen Reddy

Lucasta — 27 January at 11:33PM

34. Margaret Thatcher
39. Barack Obama

Lucasta — 27 January at 11:59PM

Some scientists:

40. Haystack
41. The place for beer
42. Shout

Some writers:

43. Wagon
44. Short girl? (Two possibilities)
45. Idle about
46. Pothead

And some artists:

47. The greatest?
48. Tree
49. Pigment

SNA — 28 January at 07:25AM

1. CHARLIZE THERON ?

JPR — 29 January at 12:58PM

100 Pertaining to a famed French speaking philosopher -- who needs no introduction? Well well!