Today’s nine answers share an obvious link.
Bond baddie
Thug’s weapon
Cicero’s gift
Musical handicap
US folk music legend
Canadian rockers
Coolness under pressure
Snake
Respirator
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BB168 SOLUTION: It’s a Heartache, Taking Care of Business, Smoke on the Water, La Isla Bonita, Driver’s Seat, Guantanamera, Werewolves of London, Beast of Burden
Each phrase below is a mondegreen (or misheard lyric) of the song title in question. Mice Aroma, for example, should be My Sharona. Can you decipher the other eight? We’ve supplied the title initials in brackets as an extra clue.
It’s a Hard Egg (IAH)
Baking Carrot Biscuits (TCOB)
Slow Motion Swatter (SOTW)
Louise the Bra Eater (LIB)
Travesty (DS)
One-Ton […]
What two sights common to a dance hall can both precede SAW, so making tools common to a timber workshop?
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BB166 SOLUTION: Tim must save vast summit
Climate crusader, Tim Flannery, has to prevent a colossal conference from derailing. Can you compose a palindromic headline (reading the same either way) to capture such a dramatic mission? The word breakdown is (3,4,4,4,6), with TIM your first word.
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BB165 SOLUTION: Mung, mango, genome, Managua, Magna, Gemini, mange, manga, Gaiman, gnome, Minogue
What bean, fruit, organic sequence, world capital, Mitsubishi model, zodiac sign, skin disease, comic style, contemporary UK novelist, elf and elfin singer possess the same three (and only three) consonants?
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BB164 SOLUTION: Stock/holm (home)
Ironically, what exotic capital city (to Australians at least) is a word for average beside a syllable that sounds like the least exotic place on the planet?
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BB163 SOLUTION: Schumacher (Chum), Fittapaldi (Pal)
What two Formula One champions contain dog food brands in their surnames?
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BB162 SOLUTION: SA(d)GLUM = MULGAS
Can you align two words for forlorn,
(The first with its final letter shorn),
Then reverse the cluster to shape
Hardy trees in the Oz landscape?
(The low-built trees - at 6 letters - will be common to most Australians.)
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BB161 SOLUTION: Lush & toper
Can you re-upholster UPHOLSTER to make two words of equivalent meaning? Every letter is used once only.
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BB160 SOLUTION: Ghost Rider (go/strider)
What 2007 film sounds like a word for travel beside one who’s traveling purposefully on foot? Coincidentally, the film’s hero seldom strays from his vehicle of choice. The complete title is (5,6) in length.
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BB59 SOLUTION: All eight are misnomers: a radiator relies on convection, Greenland is white, koalas aren’t bears, Oktoberfest opens in […]