Off Topic Cryptic crossword

[terryb]

Not enough letters Taffvale.

His actual name was Karl the Unready!

You must be relieved that he didn't play for your home town club!

 

[Steelmonkey]

Karl Ready - from my home town!

Thought you'd get that one

 

[Taffvalerowdy]

A mole on the moorland? (6,5)

 

[surreyhoop]

Adrian Heath

 

[Taffvalerowdy]

Spot on!

 

[surreyhoop]

Helicopter my arse! ( 7,6 )

 

[Kilburn]

Karl Ready - from my home town!

So a Neath lad - looks like you're in good company Taff?

I grew up in a similar sized town in Hampshire.

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Notable people
See Categoryeople from Neath

• Clayton Blackmore (1964– ), the former Manchester United and Wales international;
• Michael Bogdanov (1938– ), international theatre director;
• Mark Bowen (1963–, b. Briton Ferry), deputy manager of Stoke FC, and formerly a player with Spurs and Norwich City;
• Richard Burton (1925–1984, b. Pontrhydyfen), actor;
• Hugh Dalton (1887–1962, b. Gnoll), Labour politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1945–1947.
• Ben Davies (1993– ), Tottenham Hotspur, and Wales footballer
• David Davies, (1877–1944), Welsh international rugby union forward;
• Ivor Emmanuel (1927–2007), singer and actor;
• Hugh Evan-Thomas, vice-admiral;
• Craig Evans (born 1971), cricketer;
• Rebecca Evans (1963–, b. Pontrhydyfen), soprano;
• Sir Samuel Thomas Evans (1859–1918, b. Skewen), politician and judge;
• George Grant Francis (1814–1822, b. Swansea) historian who wrote Original Charters and Materials for a History of Neath (1845);
• Julie Gardner (1969– ), television producer previously responsible for Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood, now executive producer of scripted projects at BBC Worldwide;
• Richard Grant (born 1984), cricketer;
• Cecil Griffiths (1900–1945), winner of an Olympic gold medal in the 4x400m relay at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics;
• Carl Harris (1956– ), the former Leeds United and Wales international;
• T. G. H. James (1923–2009), Egyptologist and former Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum;
• Sir William Jenkins (1871–1944), former Neath MP;
• Katherine Jenkins (1980– ), popular classical mezzo-soprano;
• Della Jones (1946, b. Tonna), mezzo-soprano;
• Geraint F. Lewis (1969– ), leading astrophysicist;
• Andy Legg (1966– ), former professional footballer and Wales international;
• Tony Lewis (1936–, b. Swansea), first Welshman to Captain an England cricket tour abroad, (India, Pakistan, 1972–73). Writer and broadcaster;
• Thomas Leyson (1549-c. 1608), Latin and Welsh poet and physician;
• Andrew Matthews-Owen, pianist;
• Ray Milland (1907–1986), Oscar winning Hollywood actor;
• David Watts Morgan (1867–1933), miners' leader and politician;
• Sir William Nott (1782–1845), British General in India;
• Harry Parr-Davies, composer;
• Jessie Penn-Lewis (1861–1927), missioner and revivalist;
• Sir Arthur Pugh (1870–1955, b. Ross, Hertfordshire), trade unionist, moved to his father's birthplace, Neath, 1894;[16]
• Henry Habberley Price (1899–1984), philosopher;
• Walter Enoch Rees (1863–1949), rugby administrator;
• Paul Rhys (1963– ), actor;
• Peter Shreeves (1940– ), former Spurs and Sheffield Wednesday manager;
• Samuel Charles Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich (1918–1988), barrister and politician, Attorney-General, 1974–1979;
• Jonathan Spratt Welsh rugby player
• William Squire (1917–1989), actor;
• David Thaxton (1982– ), West End performer
• Brian Thomas (1940–2012), Wales rugby union lock who also played and managed Neath RFC;
• Bonnie Tyler (1951–, b. Skewen), pop star;
• Andrew Vicari (1938– ), artist;
• Ron Waldron (1933– ) Welsh rugby coach;
• Alfred Russel Wallace (1823, b. Monmouthshire), evolutionary theorist, lived in Neath during 1841/2 and attended lectures given by the area's scientific societies;[17]
• Cyril Walters (1905–1992), Glamorgan cricketer and Captain of the England cricket team;
• Anna Letitia Waring (1823–1910), poet and hymn writer;
• Elijah Waring, writer; and
• Jane Williams [called Llinos] (1795–1873), singer and compiler of traditional Welsh music.
• Thomas Haffield (198 Great Britain Olympic swimmer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neath

 

[Taffvalerowdy]

10 out of 10 Kilburn !

I know/knew a few on that list.

 

[Steelmonkey]

Helicopter my arse! ( 7,6 )

Chopper Harris....

See, I was away, and now I'm back!!

 

[surreyhoop]

Outstanding! Is this a conspiracy steels? Who helped you find the answer your turn anyway!

 

[Steelmonkey]

Did these guys drive a shock in 2002? 8, 6

 

[kiwiqpr]

Vauxhall motprs

 

[Steelmonkey]

Vauxhall motprs

Your go kiwi

 

[kiwiqpr]

Bird arising from the ashes in new Zealands capital

 

[Steelmonkey]

Bird arising from the ashes in new Zealands capital

I'm guessing Wellington Phoenix?

 

[kiwiqpr]

Good guess
Well done

 

[Steelmonkey]

Does this boy in the middle like burgers? 7, 9

 

[Rod-nee]

Malcolm Macdonald?

 

[Steelmonkey]

Malcolm Macdonald?

Yep, over to you

 

[Rod-nee]

Ex-Ranger grew too idle, like me! (6, 11)