I think I have it now. but still can't get many answers.
20. oodles
5. eerie
16. D day
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I think I have it now. but still can't get many answers.
20. oodles
5. eerie
16. D day
4 mm
10 Aardvark
18 oolong
Quote:
Originally Posted by kasie
I think I said that I knew it wasn't.
To be fair, and not wishing to take credit I'm not due, I can't see what's wrong with Mick's 'baboon'.
Or perhaps I can. In which case, bill's right that it's 'aardvark'. Which would make 17 www.
Well done, folks - let's do a recap:
[QUOTE=kasie;1048667]CROSSWORD CLUES
1 a fish (3) eel
2 You're being watched! (abbrev) (4) CCTV
3 South American tylopod (5) llama
4 one of these is very short (abbrev) (2)
5 strange and disturbing (5) eerie
6 give out moisture (4) ooze
7 always poetic (3) e'er
8 with reference to the Pope (abbrev) (2)
9 very quietly (mus) (2) pp
10 leading African mammal (8) aardvark
11 sedimentary rock (6) oolite
12 given to an exceptionally brave soldier (abbrev) (2)
13 a very small volume (abbrev) (2) cc
14 study of birds' eggs (6) oology
15 for and on behalf of (abbrev) (2) pp
16 critical day of action (1,3) D Day
17 a very modern address (abbrev) (3) www
18 black Chinese tea (6) oolong
19 Manx races (abbrev) (2) TT
20 lots and lots (6) oodles
Well done everyone but - what's the pattern? Any takers for the last few? [QUOTE]
Double first letters.
Without looking it up, I'd guess that the Pope one is another pp. Or possibly pP. And bill suggested mm for 4.
Hang on. Who got e'er and how does that work?
Ah, a poetic ever. Bit slow there.
Just the brave soldier then. Is MM short for Military Medal?
I think the Pope's signiture is followed by pp for Papa.
That's it, Mark!
Apologies to Billl, I overlooked the mm solution.
Yes, Mick - Military Medal was the one I had in mind. You and Mark may be right about the pp (or pP) for the Pope but the one I found in the dictionary was HH - His Holiness.
Over to Mark, I think.
For this one, IM me your responses.
1. Request for gratification.
2. Accompanying the creators.
3. A dark passage of inflexible light.
4. Buggy retail.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
I don't want the answer to number 5 - I want a clue to it. When someone gives a clue that implies they know the answer, I'll update the list and everyone else can have a shot at coming up with a clue for 6. And so on.
I can't decide whether this is ridiculously easy or unjustifiably hard.
er....... or then again maybe... er....
Perhaps just a teeny clue, Mark?
Don't know about IMing, so have PM'd my clue for no.5
Like any puzzle, it's easy once you've twigged it.
Update....
Mick and Kasie have got it, so they're out. I've put in a clue to number 5.
Everyone else - PM me your clues for number 6.
1. Request for gratification.
2. Accompanying the creators.
3. A dark passage of inflexible light.
4. Buggy retail.
5. Mayday.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
No action. Shall I kill this one?
I would've asked for a clue, but... These are clues, right?
I think I might know number 1, but the next most promising was 4, and it's 3 away from one, so the sky's the limit. This is enticing, but I just had trouble getting it to click--hope it won't seem toooo obvious once I find out.
1. Request for gratification. Please Please Me
2. Accompanying the creators. With the Beatles
3. A dark passage of inflexible light. A Hard Day's Night
4. Buggy retail. Beatles for Sale
5. Mayday. Help!
...and so on.
Mick got it first. Over to him.
I have a little something prepared..er..copied if I'm honest.
Gudewife Judith returns from milking the goats with a 12 pint bucket brimfull of milk. She decides to use half to make cheese and half to make syllabub. She hunts about in her dairy but can only find her 5 pint earthernware pot and her 7 pint earthernware bowl. Undeterred she sets about pouring milk into and out of her 3 vessels and soon has exactly 6 pints in the bucket and 6 pints in the bowl. How does she do it.?
12 7 5 Receptacles
Can't get the columns to line up, but....
12 0 0
5 7 0
5 2 5
10 2 0
10 0 2
3 7 2
3 4 5
8 4 0
8 0 4
1 7 4
1 6 5
6 6 0
I really ought to do some work soon.
faultless.
Thank you. But really a lot easier than that explanation makes it look.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Yes it is, all you need do is make sure you never repeat yourself and it works automatically.
In the grown-up version, the containers are held by two sheep and a wolf, who have to cross a river in a canoe that can hold only two at once.
(To be clear, actually, that was a great puzzle, wish I had gone after it right away... Maybe just plugging away, half-asleep, would've won me the prize! Anyhow, both of you have been an inspiration...)
Literary 'and's... Again, they aren't any old 'and'. They're either intrinsic to the answer or, at the very least, indicative of how to figure it out.
The convention here is that titles are in caps and quotations aren't, regardless of how they'd be set if they were printed in full...
1. O&L
2. Lugt,y&i...
3. TP&TG
4. TM&S
5.J&TP
6. Itbww,&twwwg,&twwg.
7.GE&H
8. D&S
9. DS:OHILTSW<B
10. TH&HB
11.TTLG,&WAFT
12. F&Z
13. DJ&MH
14. Z&TAOMM
15. Ouat&avgtiwtwamcdatr...
16. DL&TLG
17. TS&TF
18. Iwad&sn...
19. Iwabcdia,&tcws13.
20. Iyrwthai, tftypwtkiwiwb, &wmlcwl, &hmpwo&abthm, &atdckoc...
Recognised 14 straightaway.
Zen and the art of Motercycle Maintainance.
8. Dombey and son.
Will try harder tomorrow.
2. Let us go there, you and I (?)
18. It was a dark and stormy night.
...'then', rather than 'there' - but close enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
19 "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen".
5. Josie and the Pussycats
9. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
12. Franny and Zooey
Update...
1. O&L Oscar and Lucinda
2. Lugt,y&i... Let us go then, you and I....
3. TP&TG The Power and the Glory
4. TM&S
5. J&TP
6. Itbww,&twwwg,&twwg. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and so on and so forth....
7.GE&H
8. D&S Dombey and Son
9. DS:OHILTSW<B Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
10. TH&HB The Horse and His Boy
11.TTLG,&WAFT Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
12. F&Z Franny and Zooey
13. DJ&MH Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
14. Z&TAOMM Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
15. Ouat&avgtiwtwamcdatr... Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down the along road...
16. DL&TLG
17. TS&TF The Sound and the Fury
18. Iwad&sn... It was a dark and stormy night...
19. Iwabcdia,&tcws13. It was a bright cold day in the April and the clocks were striking thirteen.
20. Iyrwthai, tftypwtkiwiwb, &wmlcwl, &hmpwo&abthm, &atdckoc... If you really want to hear about it... And so on. The (long) opening sentence of Catcher in the Rye.
3. The Princess and the Goblin
11. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
13. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (shouldn't this be 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde'?)
15. Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moo cow coming down the along road...
17. The Sound and the Fury
J
10. The Horse and His Boy
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack of Hearts
I've never heard of your number 3 - it's not the one I had in mind, which I'll hold out for.
Yeah - you're right about Jekyll and Hyde.
3 The Power and The Glory.
Have you missed a 't' out of number 6, ie- In the beginning was the word.?
Er, yeah. Sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Wouldn't it be intriguing if I'd said 'no', and you had to find a completely different answer?
1. Oscar and Lucinda.
20. If you really want to know about it, ect.. Catcher in the Rye
Scroll down a bit for the update. Only three or four left, which are (to give further clues) an Irish play referring to an exotic bird, a London novel in which many real people appear, a novel that moves from London to Tahiti via Paris and a children's book with culinary associations.
takethemick is on a roll.
J
4 The Moon and Sixpence.
5 Juno and The Paycock.
7. Green Eggs & Ham (thanks to the clue...)
The last one - DL&TLG - is set in the Victorian era: a music-hall star appears in the title, as does a district of London and a kind of zombie. I think that the book might have been given a different title in America - for which I apologise.