Cryptic Quiz

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
 
x said:
giz an example of one thats irking you and we can talk you through it.
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Every single one of them <laugh> 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!
 
midlands_tiger said:
Every single one of them <laugh> 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!
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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&#8217;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&#8230;
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&#8230;
this is partof a song from the musical oliver. it was sung by ***in.

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.
 
x said:
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&#8217;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&#8230;
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&#8230;
this is partof a song from the musical oliver. it was sung by ***in.

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.
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Bloody hell x, it looks like you know the way my brain works better than I do
 
x said:
yeah! beware! :evil:

:grin:
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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
 
Jimmy Graham's bald head said:
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"
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i'm trying to warp my brain just that little bit further.
 
Jimmy Graham's bald head said:
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"
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1. Neil Mann?
2. No idea
 
midlands_tiger said:
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
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grand. is it queen grill?




jack hobbs. aye, that's the ticket.
 
okay, just realised that number 17 (Exclamation of pain in a joint on Bransholme, argh…) 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...
 
x said:
okay, just realised that number 17 (Exclamation of pain in a joint on Bransholme, argh&#8230;) 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...
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Your along the right lines
 
Finally

12. Shorty from a park off Bev Road

is it midge orchard?
 
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