Tribune Year Ender Mind Bender Sports Xword 2007

98ford

White peg in a multi-racial hole?
4 letters _A_E

Any Ideas

smashey

Pale.

98ford

Thanks.Appreciate the reply.
I kinda thought that but wanted to see what others thought
I see Pale relating to White & peg but whats with the multi-racial hole?

crisco10

i put in "jake" as in jake white the former springboks coach who was in trouble about quotas and stuff in the rugby team...

Boden08

I went with Jake...reckon it's right. One that I'm stuck on is "Fleet dashes down the wing, or throws by heavier sportsmen?" (7) I have D_R_o_G, but had NDO for the one down and maybe that's my problem
help!
Will return favour if any others needed!!!

samsausage

darting??

Boden08

Thanks Sam,
So instead of that being my last one, I now need the name of a Ghanaian who was to be the next big thing when he emerged to 1990, but never played in more than 36 games for any of his 14 pro clubs including Coventry and Aston Villa ( 3) N_I ...!!! I had Ndo, but that's obviously wrong!

samsausage

nii

Boden08

samsausage wrote: »

nii

Cheers!
That's a bit obscure - I was looking for a surname, and I'm old enough to remember Lamptey.
That's me done I think..you sorted?

samsausage

still not sure about what to put for 73 across
is 43 across HILLS?
also 35 down SCHON seems accepted spelling but had to add an "E" to fit

Boden08

samsausage wrote: »

still not sure about what to put for 73 across
is 43 across HILLS?
also 35 down SCHON seems accepted spelling but had to add an "E" to fit

73 across: Jake seems right to me
43 across is Hills
35 down is spelt Schoen...think there was those two dots on the o if I remember!

samsausage

Yeah gonna go with schoen even though most places seems to spell it other way. still not convinced yet re jake. how recent that story

crisco10

samsausage wrote: »

Yeah gonna go with schoen even though most places seems to spell it other way. still not convinced yet re jake. how recent that story

the jake white story was very much an ongoing thing throughout his tenure as SA coach. if he picked black players it was said he only did it cos they were black and the same was said if he didnt pick em! and with SA and jake white winning the world cup, the story is very current...

EDIT: I put in schoen with the "e", a little unsatisfactory but i put it down to the presence of the dots on the "o" everywhere i looked...

samsausage

ok, sounds good, thanks for that

The "2 dots" over the vowels in Germanic names and words is called an Umlaut. In cases where it's impossible to put the umlaut in (e.g. most typewriters) the generally accepted way of spelling is to put the letter e after the vowel in question because that's essentially what an umlaut does.

Thus Schőn becomes Schoen. Hässler becomes Haessler etc.