![]() ![]() This is a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. The only way to survive is to open your heart. Smart, warm, uplifting, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. If she does, she'll learn that she, too, is capable of finding friendship-and even love-after all. Ultimately, it is Raymond’s big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation that they had been living. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.īut everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Clue of the fortnightĪ reminder from Philistine that we should always try to break up things that look as if they should be joined together in this classy clue …ġ1aSpace in New Orleans for a Londoner (6,6)įind a collection of explainers, interviews and other helpful bits and bobs at one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine Please leave entries for the current competition – as well as your non-print finds and picks from the broadsheet cryptics – in the comments. The winner, for its apt “delivery” is “Sean Connery’s settee delivery driver”. The runners-up are Thepoisonedgift’s sneaky “Display/hide broadcast for Taxi Driver?” and Croquem’s elegant “Master of the Rolls?”. There’s an audacity award for Rakali, who appears to have invented a new and unmanageable format: Reader, how would you clue PIVOT? Cluing competition It’s also one which is always best responded to by impersonating either Ross or Chandler in the Friends couch scene: ![]() The new “going forward” is the partner of another term, which is the subject of our next challenge. Instead of the right thing (“You’re quite right, we are now irredeemably toxic”) we hear, ironically, “we are listening going forward”. These days, though, I hear it most often from the comms team of a scandal-addled institution. It was reasonable to hope that its overuse might mean it would fall from favour. In a slightly stabler world, it offered merely a way to pad a sentence with an unearned sense of purpose indeed, the Financial Times’ Lucy Kellaway thought it might have come from the Securities and Exchange Commission. “Going forward” is, to my ears, enjoying a revival. If your experience has been terrible, wretched or ridiculous, it will be ignored or – worse – will prompt some going-forwardism. When you hear these seven words in the real world, there is no point answering. The puzzle’s spine has the clue “How was your experience with us today? (1,6,2,5)”, a phrase that’s only acceptable in the context of someone messing about, as Starhorse is. I will say no more than that the level of fooling is extremely high. At Big Dave’s, the blog for all things Telegraph, the setter normally known as Starhorse created something for the Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle series. Last week’s celebration of the return of fooling in 1 April puzzles omitted to mention at least one example. ![]() Meanwhile, Beefeaters strike rarely but not never, an image evoked in this Telegraph clue …Ģd Strike illegally, putting crown jewels in danger? (3,5,3,4) … but the “putting inside” is indicated by “looking after”, the nurses are the Royal College of Nursing and the answer is URCHIN. From Bluth – known locally as Fed – a couple of clues acknowledging what’s going on in our hospitals, one referring to recession and another where I said to myself, “Oho, I won’t be fooled, ‘nurses’ surely means I’ll be putting one thing inside another” …ģd Union’s leader on nurses looking after heart of this poor child (6) ![]()
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