A River Runs Through It [BB329]

1. T
2. D
3. T
4. G
5. M
6. M
7. H
11. O

An assorted mix to hopefully entertain.

12. SALA(8)NG
13. PIC(8)N
14. OR(8)NWARE
15. PAN(6)RNERD
16. SHA(7)QUE
17. B(7)SSUM
18. DEFU(6)ACULAR

And a not-entirely-kosher one:

19. HEAD(7)DEL

12 Missouri [lovely work]

15 You sure of that RNERD ending, Geoff?

17 Limpopo - beautifully camouflaged

18 Severn

20. EXCALI(7)LEBIRD

21: B(5)ING
22: FRI(5)LLY

*grins at DA* 15's second is an italicised example in the Macquarie for a prefix headword. Not great, but the alternatives weren't so hot either. Finding the river may leave you blue...

Oh, and some showertime thinking gave

10. H

22.UNRE(4)ANTASY [& lit?!?]

23. CHE(7)ION

20 Burnett

24 DIOR(6)ING (second word is an AFL term)
25 MAG(5)DAR
26 RA(7)UAL

24 Amazon [as appear in the examples]

25 Yarra

26 Darling [or No 2, Criseyde!]

Have yet to crack either of Sam's scalp-scratchers.

Oops, missed those two, sorry.

BACK(7)IC

27. BACK(7)IC

21. Indus
22. Volta

You may live to regret crossing 27

PS re 22 - what's a FRIVOL?

Looks like 23 and 27 are using the same river (thanks for the hint, DA). 22 might be found in an Olivia Newton-John movie...

@DA: Frivol as a noun is a frivolous thing or person. As a verb it means to behave frivolously or fritter away.

Now that you mention it, I can hear my Dad saying stop frivolling the day away. Clearly I didnt take his advice. Thanks RK. I dare say it's the only word to end in VOL as well.

Carvol and flavol are both chemical derivatives...

Thought I posted this before, but 9 M.
28 PO(4)N

29 ANA(9)RAL

30 BOW(7)TSE

Nice work on 30 there, Criseyde. Another word I've learned from this blog (and a variant spelling to accompany it).

For a little variety, here's a set that doesn't use rivers. The omitted words are all related, however.

X1. PIC(8)PECT
X2. PA(6)SDAY
X3. SYS(6)NARY
X4. QO(6)E
X5. LAG(7)URE

Two items are needed to complete the set, neither of which seemed particularly amenable to the format. The closest I could come to one of them required which operetta?

Brilliant detour, Geoff. I have the set, but will leave other Dabblers 'hanging' for a while.

As a clue, Geoff says two more members make the set complete. Bravo.

DA - yes, it was the only word I could find to provide the volta - well spotted RK -

Geoff, nice set - though still stuck on four - but guessing the others to be:

1: Colossus (of Rhodes)
2: Statue (of Zeus)
3: Temple (of Artemis)
5: (Hanging) Gardens (of Babylon)...

ah, a little more digging - Pharos!

Well done, Sam. But what's the operetta? :)

Die Fledermaus?

That's the one, Criseyde -- well done. I might have added it to the set if there was a better continuation of 'oleum' than 'oleums'. So close...

Solutions to my set (some already answered):

12. salaMIS SOURIng
13. picCOLO RADOn
14. orDAIN TREEnware
15. panDAN UBErnerd
16. shaZAM BEZIque
17. bLIMP OPOssum
18. defuSE VERNacular

Oh, and:

19. headACHE RONdel

Three new words for me Geoff: and interesting ones. Treenware, that stumped me, couldn't get which 'ware' that was. I'd never heard of Bezique either. Now I know it was Winston Churchill's favourite game does that make me an Ubernerd?

Thanks for your remarks, Criseyde. Glad you learned words from mine, given that I learned bowyang and tzetse from yours. *chuckles*

I thought treenware was interesting when I found it, which is my justification for it — somewhat too obscure, alas. Bezique will score you a lot in Scrabble if you ever get to play it, so worth knowing for those highly unlikely circumstances.

Ubernerd was essentially an act of desperation to avoid Übermensch; one to find by going through rivers rather than by word completion, I fear.

Chuckles back Geoff - the valid variant spelling was Yangtse.

Hmm. My word list had tzetse in it for some reason. Then again, it's a but unreliable. :)