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bonafide?

posted 13 years ago by wdawson-1
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this is really getting to me 'cos i just started watching this show and really hope it's going to be good. however, episode 1 @ 6 minutes in, two of the characters walking down the steps and the man asks the woman about a cryptic crossword clue with the hint of 'something o something f something d' to which she replies bonafide. anyone else pick this up and is it worth watching the rest if this is an unnoticed error. and yeah, i know it's picky but it's such an obvious mistake that it doesn't bode well for the rest of the series.

[–] bogwart-1 13 years ago

Picky is right. How desperately anal of you. If you want to go the whole hog you could have pointed out that bona fide is actually two words, not one.

[–] wdawson-1 13 years ago

i bow to your superior knowledge there but my point remains. it would have been just as easy to get it right and not disappoint this viewer as it was to get it wrong.

[–] fishmatter-277-120021 13 years ago

It's "8 letters ...Treacherous foe in bad or in good faith," so she knows its length.

The clue, like all cryptics, has two parts, one cryptic, the other literal. "Or" splits the parts. So we have:

Treacherous foe in

OR

in good faith

The solution means "good faith." And it's an anagram of "foe in bad." Treat those letters treacherously (eg move them about) and "foe in bad" rearranges as "bonafide," which means "in good faith."

Many cryptics would give this as Clue (4.4) but Clue (8) isn't uncommon.

Made perfect sense to me.

[–] wdawson-1 13 years ago

thanks fishmatter, i know how cryptics work. my point is(and rewatch the first episode from 5.39 onwards to understand what i'm obviously not able to convey) he describes the word as being 'something o, something f, something d,' which could not spell bona fide could it???? had he said 'something o, something something f' etc it would have.

[–] dbre 11 years ago

I think you are taking it too far. He may have just been trying to convey the order of the known letters

[–] chicago85 8 years ago

"Other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"

I don't know everything. Neither does anyone else