Correct, except that the morning station is one stop further out than (and downhill from) the evening station, not the other way around - once you pass the major rise in the Crystal Palace/Norwood area it’s downhill to Croydon and environs. We live halfway between the two stations.
**My eccentric Uncle Igor is the mad scientist in the clan. I suppose every family has got one.
Anyway, I went to visit him in his castle in Transylvania last week. He took me down a winding staircase to an underground laboratory. Inside the room was a creature. He pointed and laughed like a maniac. “Behold. That animal is a cross between a man and a cat,” he said truthfully. I wasn’t impressed.
Why not?**
Are you someone who is hard to impress?
Heh heh.
No.
Was there a cockapoo, labradoodle or some other crossbreed (or species, variety, genera) physically positioned in the room between a man and a cat?
No.
Was the creature alive?
Does “a cross between” mean a mixed breed(hybrid?)?
Yes.
No
Does “cat” refer to a person (as in copycat)?
No.
Was the cross a crucifix?
Or two or more bars of wood/metal/other that join in the middle at right angles.
Or a similar figure drawn or painted on some surface?
Perhaps an artistic depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
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Crucifix NO
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Bars NO
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Drawing NO
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crucifixion art NO
For the sake of unequivocalness, was there also a cat and a man in the room besides the “creature”?
No. Just the creature. And then of course my Uncle and I.
This puzzle is not an original so no fair googling!
Does the term “cross” indicate wordplay, so that a cross between a man and a cat might be mancat, or mantiger, or mcaant (not that any of those specific nonwords would make sense)?
Is the creature a cat?
Is the creature a can or mat?
Just reading the puzzle, and never having seen it before, I have an answer good enough that if it’s not what you intend, I’ll still stand by mine.
A cross between a man and a cat=manx cat