We can name eleven well-known writers (poets and kids-lit included) whose names obey the pattern (1,1,5), such as AA Milne and TS Eliot. Can you conjure up the other nine?
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB233 SOLUTION: Mix MARIA PRESTON to make AIRPORT NAMES
Nearly twenty head-spinning trips on offer this week, via our latest Brainstorm. If tourists weren’t visiting sacred biscuit sites or colourful Sydney corners, they were taking a Homophonic Killing Spree through the globe’s wardrobe.
But since we have to make some firm bookings, here are the three lucky pilgrims:
ECONOMY CLASS: Simon L for his Sheila Safari, taking in Birdsville [...]
Same deal as the last Reputed serving. See how many of these premium clues you can crack, all of them culled from a season of UK cryptics.
(Mixed around, the initials opening your first six answers will go to spell the answer to the Bonus Clue.)
Some gems here. Enjoy.
1) Original back to nature author! (7) [Puck]
2) [...]
Six delightful clues from the last few months of solving. See if you can solve them, with the answers’ six initials needing to be mixed to spell your answer to the Bonus Clue. (And look for another Repute post on the weekend.)
1) Horse and cart back to front? It’s monstrous (5) [Puck]
2) Daffy Duck waddles at [...]
More and more travel agents are customising tour packages. Forget the Bali Experience. Or the Disneyworld Fantasy. These new-wave trips are very particular, taking in the quirky, the eclectic, often with a special theme that shapes the itinerary.
Garden lovers, say, can visit the Palace of Versailles, the verdant sweep of Kew, the terraced wonder of [...]
In a departure from the usual Birdbrain puzzle, one name in the list below can be scrambled to reveal what the other seven names have in common.
Norman Manley
Marco Polo
John F Kennedy
Maria Preston
Indira Gandhi
Will Rogers
Simon Bolivar
Lester B Pearson
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB232 SOLUTION: Gut-of-war, shooting rats, miniature flog, vampire stab, square gel, lone flow, top reward, spare strap, relief [...]
Safe to say Mr X owned this Brainstorm – clearly a mind made for shambolic clueing. As a confab we managed to break most of the rules – and niceties – of clue-mongering, from taste to PC, from lame anagrams to obscure references, with a dash of Rube Goldberg.
In the end I’ve squeezeboxed the array into a [...]
Guy in a tree? Don’t get it. He’s just one more anti-logger, like you lot.
We got there in the end. (No credits on this occasion – you know who you are.) Here they are for public record:
Ten Classic Antilogues
abbreviated
French
monosyllabic
meaningless
onomatopoeia
palindrome
phonetic
symmetrical
unwritten
vertical
Column 8 occupies the back page of Section 1 in the Sydney Morning Herald, and most weeks language occupies Column 8. (Always worth a regular surf to see what verbal quirk is on the agenda.) This week the topic was the tragic irony of DYSLEXIA, surely one of the trickier afflictions to spell.
Then came STUTTER - no [...]
Asymmetrical but mercurial, this is an ad created for IKEA to help flog a Benno CD/DVD Tower. Squint and you’ll see a crossword swim out of the furniture, with movie and CD clusters creating the black squares. Not sure if you can read the clues that hang below the creation, but they all share a musical [...]