Few more for you: 1. Ask a hippy to get down on his knees 2. Wealthy, strong, colourful bird 3. Steal the morning water from grass in a wood 4. Jesus's mate and dad 5. Correct the way someone mourns
Every single one of them I can see why the hately ones hately, but can't put the same practice to any others. Give me an example with one you've already sussed and tell me how you break it down and I should be able to cotton on, at the minute I don't know where to start at all!
bit like cryptic crossword clues a lot of them. you often need to twist words that sound like other words or bits of the words. you need to get inside the head of whoever set the questions. bit of practice helps along with knowing a history of city players. 1. Receptacle for womens under garments womens undergarments: possibles: pants bra knickers etc receptacle: box container (something shorter probably better) bin sack etc bra-bin 2. Plonker possibly with a Coxswain common use of word plonker from only fools and horses used by delboy talking to rodney coxswain - shouts orders to a rowing crew rodney rowe 3. Make intelligent remarks increasingly hmm... increasingly suggest more often intelligent remarks... i suppose wit could be this, at a stretch. but lots of this kind of thing are "at a stretch" if i do crosswords i often get an answer (just from what the letters already there allow) and then have to work out why it fit the clue. same here. anyway whitmore 4. Greeting to an Indian settlement red indian greeting, allegedly = how! a settlement - i went through things like reservation, camp, etc. maybe the word indian is better off with greeting rather than settlement. but the suffix -ton is one of many in english that denote a settlement so how-ton, which sounds like houghton 5. Blustery Donkey blustery - something to do with wind or other word for wind donkey - reference to mule ass etc wind-ass 6. Shake Gandalfs Stick gandalf carried a cane or a spear or a staff, i assume. shake it: rattle? wag? city player with staff in his name? wagstaff 7. Lancashire Bread cake attracts pollinators lancs bread cake = barm cake and we are almost there pollinators = bee barmbee 8. Your Mother Brothers Lad what relation to you? cousin 9. Soft Fruit based Ice Cream Dessert sorbet dunno, someone else can explain that 10. Jays Close Relation jay... first though is simpson. a son is a close relative but then they would have found a way round using jay so, other city player with similar name... simpkin. with kin on the end. simpkin 11. Dick possibly with more than one pair of new Trainers dick = richard trainers are sneakers in america not sure about new. maybe the more than one bit... not sure abhout that either 12. Shorty from a park off Bev Road ? 13. Bovine Cock Sure Scrapper bovine = cows cattle beef bull (uh oh...) the rest - stick hard on the end bull-'ard 14. Doorstep Noble doorstep? noble: lord earl baron duke (...) well you can see how matt relates to doorstep 15. Band Leaded Fuel in an East Hull Accent banned leaded fuel... back on stretching a point again... say "four star" in a different way and you could just about get forster. just. 16. Relaxed place that’s not quite a City place that;s not quite a city: town is nearest relaxed: chilled chil-ton 17. Exclamation of pain in a joint on Bransholme, argh… leaving this one to you. think it might require knowledge of bransholme that i dont have 18. He Had to Pick a Pocket or Two… this is partof a song from the musical oliver. it was sung by fagin. 19. HGV on Farmland covered with undetonated ammunition rounds hgv: lorry van truck can just about drag dudfield out of the rest and then convert lorry to lawrie 20. Bird of Prey spanning a river what spans a river? bridge. other things might bird of prey: eagle hawk falcon etc falcon-bridge 21. Purchase a Metric Weight ok its payton quibbles elsewhere about ton as metric weight but never mind pay and purchase not quite the same but related. bert vendgram i think. 3. Gangster's girl meets insect a gangster's girl is called a moll insect: fly ant bee moll-bee 5 Multiple excitement in rabbit home rabbit home: warren hutch multiple excitement: joys warren joys 6 The sound made by a goat running through leaves sound of a goat? sound of leaves? rustle another word for goat: billy kid nanny running? billy russell 1. Ask a hippy to get down on his knees dunno. why would someone get down on their knees? to prey? hippy: ? other word for hippy? is there a well known hippy? knees: get down on knees: kneel (sounds like neil so might help) ask: ??? order request demand require 2. Wealthy, strong, colourful bird wealthy: rich strong: hard? colourful bird? peacock rich hard peacock 3. Steal the morning water from grass in a wood steal: nick(?) pinch water from grass: dew grass: field wood: forest then we wonder about dew and look up hurst and it turns out to mean a wood so probably dewhurst but i dont know how the rest is worked into bob or rob... ah, there it is. rob = steal rob dewhurst 4. Jesus's mate and dad jesus's dad: god joseph (give away already) jesus's mate: pick one of 12 that goes with joseph marc joseph 5. Correct the way someone mourns mourn: grieve dont need to go any further. mark will do for correct mark greaves it is all a bit warped. often involves as you've seen breaking words down into parts, maybe syllables, that are other words. hope its some help.
Haven't seen the answer to these two yet though, plus I think there's still a couple of chantstiger's original ones that no-ones got. 1. Ask a hippy to get down on his knees 2. Queen's small south african barbecue Edit: they're both a bit **** / spurious - maybe the first one makes more sense as "What a hippy would say if he asked you to get down on your knees"
Right cheers x, think I've got it now, although I can't crack any of the remaining ones. So here's a quick one I just thought of tell me if I'm along the right lines: Face card on top of an oven
okay, just realised that number 17 (Exclamation of pain in a joint on Bransholme, arghâ¦) isn't about a place in bransholme, it's about pronunciation. joint could be an ending like -ney. the race is on... ouchney.... or something. cant quite shoehorn cairney to fit... delaney would have to be a late joint...
