On 9/15/2017 2:13 PM, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:28:57 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:15:24 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Ken Blake
writes:
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:27:09 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Wolf K
writes:

I remember a pleasing crossword clue - something like "Take a left from
one country to reach another".

Great! I had to read that a couple of times before I got it.

Glad you liked it! It wasn't mine - one I saw in a real crossword.

I hope you'll share the answer, if you remember it. From there, perhaps
I could work backwards to figure out the clue.

J. P. Gilliver's mention of the crossword clue "Take a left from
one country to reach another" was triggered by Wolf K's mention of
Austria.

A couple of years ago, a Jeopardy! final clue went something like "apart
from Austria/Australia, the only pair of countries whose names differ by
the inclusion or omission of two letters"...only one of the contestants
was able to come up with the response "Niger/Nigeria" which Alex
accepted....

I sat there staring at the TV afterwards wondering why he hadn't said
anything about my own immediate response upon hearing the clue:
"Mali/Malawi"....r