You got it in the end Trike. Yes - Number 17 is the Tuileries Palace.

LiR - the word 'stave' is indeed key to Clue 21, but the musical reference ends there. As a word, stave can have other meanings away from music.

Vizzer wrote:

LiR - the word 'stave' is indeed key to Clue 21, but the musical reference ends there. As a word, stave can have other meanings away from music.

Yes indeed ... and Scandinavian 'Stave Churches' (ie those entirely made of wood) are well known.

But within the current context, I'm still struggling to recall any that have famously suffered major and/or significant fires ... either of late or in the depths of history.

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Ah ha .... the Fantoft Stave Church in Norway was destroyed by arson in 1992, one of a series of church attacks in fact, all of which I'll admit I had entirely forgotten.

That's the one Meles. I can't decide whether it's a good thing or a bad thing that the stave church burning could be forgotten. Probably a good thing. The Bergen tourist office claims that the rebuilt church is 'exactly as it was before the fire'. Of that, however, I have my doubts.

I'm guessing that the names Bernadette and Harold Clarke Jnr have some significance for no. 16.  Some sleuthing in cyberspace threw up that there are some tennis courts thus named in Cazenovia, New York State, USA.  In 1895 the "Casa Nova" the town's opera house burned down so I wonder if that could be the connection.

That's some impressive sleuthing there LiR - and that really could have been an answer for no.16. But in this case the names written on the wall are pure red herrings. 

Rather think more in terms of how many courts there are in the picture.

Vizzer wrote:

Rather think more in terms of how many courts there are in the picture.

Without that clue, I would never have got it, Vizzer.

It's the Four Courts in Dublin, burned down during The Troubles;

I think you're likely right, Trike.  I should have realised that if anything is too obvious then it's not going to be the answer!

I've lost a post - briefly I thought the phoenix might be a Fenghuang or Chinese phoenix.  There was a bad fire in the Chinese city of Changsha in 1938 though I don't get the reason for the clue (if it does relate to China).

And I've been trying to think who the "singer" was and of course MM had already mentioned that it was comedian Jack Whitehall.

The Four Courts is right for Clue 16 Trike.

Just one more to go and fittingly it's The Phoenix itself in Clue 5. It's not Changsha or anywhere else in China LiR. In fact I thought that it would have been one of the easiest to get along with The Globe. The name of the building is almost orthographically identical to the English-language name of the city in which it is located.

Vizzer wrote:

The Phoenix itself in Clue 5. ... The name of the building is almost orthographically identical to the English-language name of the city in which it is located.

Of course. Teatro La Fenice - the Pheonix theatre in Venice - burned down several times and always rebuilt - hence the name. D'oh!

Bravo Meles! The exquisite theatre in Venice which has played such a critical role in the history of opera.

Thanks for that Vizzer - very enjoyable.

Belatedly I'll join MM in thanking Vizzer for this quiz. Now I think of it Vizzer had said there was a link between clue no. 5 and the Bellini cocktail so he had given us an inkling that no.5 related to Venice but I quite forgot the hint Vizzer gave.

Thanks Vizzer, that was lots od fun.


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