December 23rd, 2021, 15:24
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Sorry, timing has not worked out well for me this evening - I'm going to post my thoughts, but am going to have another stab at this tomorrow morning, and will wait until then before even thinking of pointing.
Before I start: with NEEDLE and RAY both gone I would have seriously re-considered my earlier dislike of UNDERTAKER / WAKE for Cardiac, even without having seen this clue.
We're outside the spoiler zone, but these thoughts were drafted before reading the other posts.
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So, the ferryman of the Styx (or possibly the Acheron? Greek mythology is not always self-consistent), after whom Pluto's SATELLITE is named. Anyway, ferries dead souls about (and takes the coins that were put on their corpses eyes as a fee IIRC, but I can't see any links to that here).
UNDERTAKER - strictly, deals with souls not bodies, but yeah
WAKE - the wake of his boat
WINDs his oar on a one-way TRIP (for his passengers)?
A cloaked FIGURE? At least in a lot of art (I was reading the Wikipedia article on Dante's Inferno last week).
That's six, so one too many. I can also vaguely see links via Greek mythology to ATLANTIS, but that's a stretch.
SATELLITE + UNDERTAKER > WAKE + TRIP > FIGURE > WIND for me
Is El Grillo may be steering us away from CODE, with WAKE + UNDERTAKER here?
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Despite my comment, I think Cardiac = HOSPITAL, UNDERTAKER, CODE is plausible - but I'd wait to see if WAKE is blue before trying CODE personally. Wouldn't rule CODE out, but would make me pause.
Personally, I don't like Bermuda for this. To me, it's a holiday destination and tax haven, but the "triangle" thing may be more a common view.
And his boat probably has a shallow DRAFT, just to throw one more thing into the mix.
It may have looked easy, but that is because it was done correctly - Brian Moore
. Still, no-one to blame but myself - I could have pointed the top three last night.