Cryptic Quiz - Help!!!
21 January 2003, 11:21 AM
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Hi All,
I need to borrow some extra brains for a few answers I can't get mine around. All the answers are moving/vehicle-related, e.g.,
Mostly mopped (5 letters) = MOPED
Chocolate shaver (9 letters)= AEROPLANE
Here are the ones we're all scratching our heads about in the office...
1) Big one is one (6,7)
2) Pretty coach? (6,3)
3) Wine glass (8)
4) Impersonate a President (8)
Free favours for the first to get the correct answers ;D
Avril
I need to borrow some extra brains for a few answers I can't get mine around. All the answers are moving/vehicle-related, e.g.,
Mostly mopped (5 letters) = MOPED
Chocolate shaver (9 letters)= AEROPLANE
Here are the ones we're all scratching our heads about in the office...
1) Big one is one (6,7)
2) Pretty coach? (6,3)
3) Wine glass (8)
4) Impersonate a President (8)
Free favours for the first to get the correct answers ;D
Avril
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21 January 2003, 12:43 PM
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22BUK, i know schooner can be a boat too, but how is that applicable to the clue "wine glass".
If this is glaringly obvious then maybe i need more coffee!
If this is glaringly obvious then maybe i need more coffee!
21 January 2003, 01:04 PM
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<bangs head on desk>
Yes i did!!!
But that's hardly cyptic, is it? When you rightly mentioned that schooner can be a boat as well as a wine glass, i thought there was something in the two words "wine glass" which you could cryptically infer as being to do with a boat, like a schooner.
As it is, we've just found another word for a wine glass, haven't we?
Yes i did!!!
But that's hardly cyptic, is it? When you rightly mentioned that schooner can be a boat as well as a wine glass, i thought there was something in the two words "wine glass" which you could cryptically infer as being to do with a boat, like a schooner.
As it is, we've just found another word for a wine glass, haven't we?
21 January 2003, 01:19 PM
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Many thankings, you gorgeous collective fountain of handsome knowledge, you.
22BUK, you get a Choc Chip Cornetto; Blair, you get a frisbee (the colour of your choice).
22BUK, you get a Choc Chip Cornetto; Blair, you get a frisbee (the colour of your choice).
21 January 2003, 01:59 PM
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<gulp>
Not till i've seen the correct answers. I love quizzes like this, but these are tough. I'm currently trying to think of all the wines i know, to see if they are another word for "glass", but failing miserably at the moment.
And on number 4, there aren't many similies to impersonate - ape is one i can think of, but then i can't think of a president starting with "ape". there are words like "dictator", but again i can't link that to either word convincingly enough.
You see, i AM thinking about this!!!
Not till i've seen the correct answers. I love quizzes like this, but these are tough. I'm currently trying to think of all the wines i know, to see if they are another word for "glass", but failing miserably at the moment.
And on number 4, there aren't many similies to impersonate - ape is one i can think of, but then i can't think of a president starting with "ape". there are words like "dictator", but again i can't link that to either word convincingly enough.
You see, i AM thinking about this!!!
21 January 2003, 03:29 PM
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Here's a proper cryptic clue from today's Telegraph -
Using "Stealth"? US pilot has it on manoeuvres in Southern county (15).
The answer to this is, rather obviously, "surreptitiously"
The one's above are far more difficult. No-one has got number 4 yet...
Using "Stealth"? US pilot has it on manoeuvres in Southern county (15).
The answer to this is, rather obviously, "surreptitiously"
The one's above are far more difficult. No-one has got number 4 yet...