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Cryptics short set
Some recycled.
1. Artery at road’s roundabout is underground. (5)
2. Famous horse! zonk out, halfass. (6)
3. Repentant tree named Bob. (7)
4. Memo from regressive school. (4)
5. Perfumed fruit got high on joints. (
6. Smelly animal with no back end foundered. (4)
7. Shoot cocaine. (4)
8. Ground grain for breakfast. (4)
1. Artery at road’s roundabout is underground. (5)
2. Famous horse! zonk out, halfass. (6)
3. Repentant tree named Bob. (7)
4. Memo from regressive school. (4)
5. Perfumed fruit got high on joints. (
6. Smelly animal with no back end foundered. (4)
7. Shoot cocaine. (4)
8. Ground grain for breakfast. (4)
indophile- Posts : 4338
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# 5 letter count is eight.
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Both #1 & # 4 answers are correct.
1. Artery at roa d’s roundabout is underground (hidden reversal)
4. Memo from regressive school (NOTE - rev, i.e., NOTE for memo)
1. Artery at roa d’s roundabout is underground (hidden reversal)
4. Memo from regressive school (NOTE - rev, i.e., NOTE for memo)
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Jeremiah Mburuburu wrote:6. sunk
Yes, SkUNK ("k" bobbed)
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PseudoIntellectual wrote:7. CRACK(dd). But 5 letters here
The answer is 4 letters. It's a slang word that's used for both "shooting" somebody and cocaine. (Hint: see my post in the Fun section "Burglary in Florida.":-
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indophile wrote:PseudoIntellectual wrote:7. CRACK(dd). But 5 letters here
The answer is 4 letters. It's a slang word that's used for both "shooting" somebody and cocaine. (Hint: see my post in the Fun section "Burglary in Florida.":-
Blow huh?
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PseudoIntellectual wrote:indophile wrote:
Blow huh?
Yes.
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5. rosehips (rose for "got high" and hips for "joints")
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3. ashamed? ash for the tree, amed from named although not sure why .
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All clues have been solved except # 2.
2. Famous horse! zonk out, halfass. (6)
Hints: (a) The answer is really a "halfass" (half donkey); (b) it's a word-in-word clue; (c) think of a very well known horse of a TV show of yester year; (d) think of other animals that are are also horses genetically (colt, mare, pony, gelding, stallion, some wild horses, and so on).
2. Famous horse! zonk out, halfass. (6)
Hints: (a) The answer is really a "halfass" (half donkey); (b) it's a word-in-word clue; (c) think of a very well known horse of a TV show of yester year; (d) think of other animals that are are also horses genetically (colt, mare, pony, gelding, stallion, some wild horses, and so on).
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indophile wrote:All clues have been solved except # 2.
2. Famous horse! zonk out, halfass. (6)
Hints: (a) The answer is really a "halfass" (half donkey); (b) it's a word-in-word clue; (c) think of a very well known horse of a TV show of yester year; (d) think of other animals that are are also horses genetically (colt, mare, pony, gelding, stallion, some wild horses, and so on).
ZEDONK ----- Z(ED)ONK (Famous horse is Mr. Ed of the Ed Sullivan show, Zonk is out (outside of Ed), and ZEDONK is the offspring of a zebra and a donkey (when they get horny - color, language (i.e., bray vs. neigh), national origin, and ...... even species -do not appear to matter, just the right gender):-
I agree it's not an everyday word. I did not make it up. It's there in the dictionary.
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charvaka wrote:3. ashamed? ash for the tree, amed from named although not sure why .
I didn't understand this one. How did "named" become "amed" and what does Bob mean?
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Repentant |tree |named Bob. (7)
ASH for tree + nAMED (bob "named," i.e., chop "named")
ASHAMED = Repentant
ASH for tree + nAMED (bob "named," i.e., chop "named")
ASHAMED = Repentant
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indophile wrote:nAMED (bob "named," i.e., chop "named")
i was right bw. this indo is myad.
- uzefa ("huzefa" bobbed).
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Main Entry: | clip |
Part of Speech: | verb |
Definition: | cut short |
Synonyms: | bob, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, decrease, dock, lower, mow, pare, prune, reduce, shave, shear, shorten, skive, slash, snip, trim, truncate |
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