Where (and who) is the mysterious MissScarlett24 from a few days ago?

I felt like playing with this today, since I can't when I'm at work, and the things I'd planned to do today were unappealing drudgery type tasks. But I had my chances to be entertained. When you're ready, see my advice above re a different way to approach this. You probably won't get it by traditional Google research, but you can easily get it by other methods.

Ok, the saint is S. Giuliano. I don't know what the town is yet. I'll try to look for it.

http://www.parcogallipolicognato.it/...tradizioni.htm

Use the translation engine in Google to translate this from Italian to English. It's easier to read.

Then type "Giuliano tree cult" into Google and out pops this thread started by cmt:

http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessa...p;tid=34401476

You know, cmt, I need to bookmark that thread. When in doubt, I'm always to guess Carlo Levi, Dante, or Basilicata.

Duh. The town has 9 letters....

It's all in that thread.

Accettura in Basilicata.

I'll try to see if I've time to post a clue before I go.

Clue: This famous person with this nickname (2 words for the nickname, 3, 4) was born in the chateau in this place (4 words -- technically hyphenated, so it's an obvious hint now.... 2-7-2-4). The person is famous for the tourist attraction known as (name: 10 letters).

Perhaps what's more surprising is that a museum in the 4-word place holds an unsigned masterpiece by (painter: 5 letters). This work, however, is rarely exhibited. I've just used the painter in a clue (I've used him twice now). Find this painting and let me know the animal (4 letters) that's on the table in the center of the painting.

To make the difficult part easy, the first letter of the painter is "b."

Happy New Year again. And just continue without me in case I don't check back over the weekend.

Ok, I guess technically, no one knows if the painting is in b's hand. It could be a copy. In any case, I went to the museum's website and the museum seems to be closed.

Now now, I don't think I've given that many Dante clues before, and maybe only twice gave a Levi-related clue. After all, we are on thread #12 of this game, and I've been playing it on and off since the first month it started! I'm running out of ideas. (And I can't remember what i've said before as well as you can. Tee hee. )

In a way, I'm glad that yk isn't playing this as regularly. I used to need to do a clue every ten minutes or something.

But yes, I'm out of ideas as well. But I'll off to Paris in two weeks. Maybe I'll give more Paris-related clues.

Maybe we can call the next thread World Crossword Puzzle #13. It's still travel related.

Oh cmt, by the way, the cream/Smetana clue came up once before too. The flour/Liszt is new.

Can I use the excuse that I'm getting old?

Weren't you just ion Paris a few weeks ago? Do you travel there for work?

Louis XIV
Roi Soleil/sun king
St-Germain-en-Laye
Versailles
Bosch
a wee toad

Just pop in to say Hi to you guys & Happy New Year!
I've been busy lately, but it's nice to know I'm being missed!

Hi, YK. Happy New Year. I've been addicted to the game today, but I'm much slower than you would be. (If you were here, we'd be on #13 by now probably.)

I'll take a chance and post the next puzzle, on the assumption that my solutions to 111op's last one are correct.

This was partly a consequence of monoculture and a cause of massive emigration.
2 words, 6 letters in each. The 3rd letter of the 1st word is the A from toad.

During the same period a terrible landlord evicted hundreds of tenants, destroyed their homes, and razed the foundations in an incident named for the village in which it took place.
11 letters. The 7th is the G from St-Germain-en-Laye.

Popular recipes made from the most common crop include these two:
5 letters, 3rd is the X from Louis XIV,
and
9 letters, using all the Ns appearing in the answers to the previous puzzle.











BIG hint for 111op: It has nothing to do with Sicily, Basilicata, or Dante.

Correction: For that first answer, it's the FOURTH letter of the first word that's the A from toad (not the third).

Hi cmt, I've started this thing of going to Europe over long weekends. And fares in the low season are cheaper anyway, and it'll be the sale season in Paris. I was just there over Labor Day long weekend. For long weekends I guess London or Paris makes sense since the flights are all direct and I can take a late-evening flight after work, and I prefer Paris (for now).

yk, you should join us when you get a chance.

I'll have to look at the clue later.

cmt, it's not Carlo Levi who evicted the poor souls?

I obviously need to research the clue. I've no clue.

cmt, I'm not sure I understand your clue. Do the three parts have something to do with one another? The monoculture and the recipes, for example?

I can provide some of the answers:

Potato Famine (Irish, 1840s)
Baltinglass, Co. Galway
Boxty
Colcannon