All twelve clues lead to a word or phrase that rhymes with hi-fi. You ready? Let’s hope the answer mimcs Mr Sparrow: AYE-AYE.
1) Rum cocktail
2) Kids’ game
3) Rot!
4) 2005 Disney flick
5) Gibson genre
6) Desert
7) Loyalty point
8] Hippie pattern
9) Supremes single
10) Lure
11) Hooroo
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BB247 SOLUTION: With your harmonies through the week, the extended solution includes awe/or, [...]
Homophones – such as PRIZE and PRISE – typically share more than a few letters. Yet what SIX separate homophone pairs reveal not a single letter shared by either partner? Award yourself a prize for naming four pairs at least.
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BB246 SOLUTION: In top to bottom order: rest, acne, SHIN, hops; EYES, rove, aria, sell; [...]
Stacked as a square, GROW, NAVE, AGES, TENT spell GNAT, RAGE, OVEN, WEST reading down each column. Supplied seven words from four more squares – can you retrieve the body part missing from each set?
acne, echo, hops, rash, rest, snip, tens
aria, eras, evil, rove, seal, sell, yore
acid, edge, fine, icon, long, walk, wife
agog, ague, eggs, [...]
If epee = duel tool, does Brainstorm = tough stuff?
That’s your challenge this week. Conjure a single word or name that can be defined by a pair of rhyming words. Exploitation, for example, can be defined as tacker yakka. While filthy could be bloody muddy.
Don’t be a silly billy and use established rhyming couples already. [...]
Resisting a visit to the atlas – or the household Scrabble set - what three American states are spelt entirely with one-point Scrabble tiles?
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BB241 SOLUTION: Strictly Ballroom; Herbie Fully Loaded; Desperately Seeking Susan; Suddenly 30; Truly, Madly Deeply; Love Actually; You Only Live Twice, For Your Eyes Only
What big hits for Roberta Flack, The Doors, The Kinks, INXS, Vanessa Amarosi, Robert Palmer, Custard, Olivia Newton-John, Crowded House, Lionel Ritchie, Jimmy Cliff and Pink Floyd each brag an adverb in their title?
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BB240 SOLUTION: Chicago, Traffic, Titanic
If plunder in Pig Latin is underplay (where the opening consonant cluster is moved to the end, and the ‘ay’ sound added), can you ‘latinise’ your first answer to make your second?
Mr Camilleri/Mr Simpson
Awe/in motion
Impudence/examine ore
Chubby/show more stamina
Ruins/snap a snap?
Ruin/Holiday’s end?
Yobbo/expenditure
Sport/trachea
Blazer, perhaps/retract
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BB238 SOLUTION: Anemone, mnemonic, The Stone Monkey, anemometer, Julianne Moore, unemotional, Bournemouth, Jane [...]
What six-letter word, ending in EST, has only one syllable? By contrast, what six-letter word, ending in EST, has three syllables? (PS – can I suggest all the best for this year’s Fest.)
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BB236 SOLUTION: Scarab, hornet, cicada, EARWIG; agouti, marmot, nutria: RODENT
A two-way challenge this week. The instructions are the same, just the degree of difficulty climbs between the first and second puzzle. Here we go:
Reading left to right, taking a letter per word, can you spell three related words? Your six leftover letters can be jumbled to spell a fourth member of the same set.
CASH, COIR, CARE, RANG, WADE, BAIT
MOAN, [...]
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?
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BB233 SOLUTION: Mix MARIA PRESTON to make AIRPORT NAMES