I forgot that I had to make up a clue.

In your puzzle, there are Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, but I have no idea who the other woman might be.

Hey, you're back. Well, you can give us the clue then.

The second woman is Sarah Kane. The Times featured a few articles on her in recent weeks. She's now very popular, and her plays are coming to NYC for the first time this year or next (produced at the Wooster Group in Brooklyn, I think).

I misspoke a little. I guess it's not the Wooster group -- though it frequently performs at St. Ann's Warehouse.

http://www.britishcouncil.org/usa/us...rt-feature.htm

This is strange. I can't see the most recent post (supposedly 3 Nov at 10:20 as of 10:50).

What's going on?

I actually topped the thread, but somehow my most didn't show up. I thought it was weird too! Boo

Weird. The count was updated by 1. The time stamp was updated to 10:20. I thought that cmt has given the clue, so I checked it. But there was nothing.

This clue is for the name of a great, prolific, innovative 16th century architect. His name has 5 letters. The "n" from Sevenoke is 3rd. He is also often called a longer name, including two words before his name. One of the words has 4 letters, ending with the "a" from Kane, and the other has 5 letters, of which the second is the "i" from Sylvia. His most famous work has a two-word name. The first word has 8 or 11 or possibly some other number of letters, depending on how it's spelled, but the name always begins with the first letter of one of the answers to the previous 3-part puzzle, and that letter also appears as the 3rd letter of the second word of the name of this structure. These additional words are just part of the clue to "help" you, and you don't have to give the architect's title or the name of his most famous work if you don't feel like it. You only need to come up with the architect's 5-letter name.

Here's a story, probably true, about the construction of the famous architect's best known work, which he built while he was chief architect for his country's ruler. The ruler of a neighboring country, as a patronizing insult, sent a "gift" of a chest of precious stones, saying that they should be sold to raise money to help speed up the construction, which he implied was taking too long and not going well. Our subject's ruler turned the stones over to the architect and told him to use them any way they might help in the job. It is said that the architect had the precious gems crushed into powder and used in the mortar from constructing the building.

Mimar Koca Sinan?

http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Sinan.html

By the way, the story that cmt relates to supposed relates to the Süleymaniye Mosque:

http://www.guide-martine.com/istanbul_5.asp

I'll try to post a clue later. I wonder what I'll dream up this time.

You're quick! (I HAD to get Turkey innto this puzzle!)

Actually I just typed "16th Century architect" into Google. But I've heard of Sinan (though I didn't know the story) and because of the Turkey connection, I knew it had to be Sinan.

Another story, which I was unable to confirm via Internet search, is that hidden behind the keystone of one of his buildings (I forgot which, possibly the Suleymaniye mosque), he left detailed instructions re how to reassemble the building if it ever fell during an earthquake. His structures are very solid and resilient in addition to being beautiful.

Interesting. I bought a book on Turkish architecture a few months ago because I was planning to go to Turkey. I'll check to see if the story is there if I remember.

Clue: This clue will be easy if you can identify this (generic) "event". Alternatively it should also be easy if you can guess what the wine in (f) is -- see below.

1. Event has 10 letters, 5th = "n".

2. This (famous) composer (6 letters) wrote a piece of music whose nickname is the same word as the event in #1. The music genre/type is this: 8 letters.

3. The event in this country (6 letters) was usually in this city (5 letters). That city is near the region where this type of wine (9 letters) is produced.

So, identify

a. event
b. composer
c. music genre/type
d. country
e. city
f. wine

Some gueses here:
c. symphony
d. France

d. is right, but the genre is not a symphony. The genre actually has two words, but I made it harder but omitting one of them.

I'll post some more hints later if there're no takers.

That wasn't quite clear -- a more proper way of saying what I said is that the genre could be more precisely identified with two words, but I chose the vague formulation with one word. It's a blank, but it could have been identified more precisely as blank blank.

a. coronation
b. Mozart
c. concerto

Yes. So the rest should be easy?

By the way, the "Coronation" concerto is Mozart's Piano Concerto #26. I believe it was indeed written for a coronation, but I forget which.

It's not that frequently performed, as far as I know. The most popular ones are 20, 21, 27, followed by 23 and 24, I think.

e. Reims
f. champagne

Yes!

So next clue.