March 27 2011

Conundrummm [BB303]

untitled Triple M may seem this week’s Birdbrain sponsor. At least every answer to today’s ten holds the letter M thrice. A pyramid resident, for example, is a MUMMY, while vast is MAMMOTH. And to make things more mind-mushing, the solution lengths are not supplied. Have you got the right mmmojo?

Big Love faith
When the living is easy?
Mecca baby
Reminder
Decalogue unit
Pungent chemical
Mass + velocity
Fulham’s fringe
Dylan originally
Hypnosis

Can you add to the mayhem?

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Comments

Boniface — 27 March at 08:18AM

11. Compound eye
12. Pantomime actor
13. Bubbly

dg — 27 March at 08:25AM

1 M.r........
2 S
3 M.h.......?
4 M.m.......
5 C
6 A
7 M.m.......
8 ?
9 Z
10 M.s......

Sam — 27 March at 08:34AM

and if 8 is H, then:

14: You can't touch this

dg — 27 March at 08:42AM

15 Must be this tall to ride
16 Dead alternative?
17 Tight squeeze!
18 Restless leg syndrome?
19 Glass specialty
20 Ad nauseum?

dg — 27 March at 08:45AM

mmm scrap 17..... instead

17 Platypus surprisingly

DC — 27 March at 08:50AM

I'm guessing the Triple J sponsored competition will be somewhat more exclusive. Although I can see an Aboriginal tribe, a town in India and a recently famous volcano.

Better music though :-)

12. Mu ?
14. I

DC — 27 March at 08:56AM

Looks like my answer to 14 was too hasty. I confirmed my 12 at least.

Sam — 27 March at 09:44AM

DC, no wasn't thinking of an I

13: magmatism????

RK — 27 March at 09:47AM

14. M.H.....

RK — 27 March at 09:55AM

21. Red school
22. Gekko's god?

PRS — 27 March at 10:16AM

23. Control freak(s)
24. 37 weeks...
25. ...and later
26. "A long, long time ago...

PRS — 27 March at 10:18AM

8. H...h

Sam — 27 March at 12:41PM

11: ommatidium

Boniface — 27 March at 07:43PM

27. Taking apart

DA — 27 March at 07:51PM

27 Dis...

(How hard are some of these offerings? Blink twice if you've ever hear of OMMATIDIUM. I love visiting my own blog to get edified.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ommatidium

RK — 27 March at 08:32PM

16. imm...m?
23. micro....t?

28. Hanson hit

dg — 27 March at 10:03PM

no , RK. That's not #16.

DA,

I can assure you that any above-average high-schooler would know most of mine. Im sure you and some other of our fellow word nerds would know all of the words.

PRS — 27 March at 11:06PM

@RK

re 23, I see where you're at, but there is a set of four other solutions

Boniface — 28 March at 01:26AM

Ommateum was the correct answer to #11. An ommatidium is a structural unit within an ommateum, but I have the feeling it's better not to split hairs here :)

Mummer was #12 (on point, there's a great Loreena McKennitt song called the Mummers' Dance).

Mumm was the bubbly (#13). Champagne stuff!

DA is spot on with #27.

dg — 28 March at 01:01PM

Me answers.....

15 Must be this tall to ride MINIMUM
16 Dead alternative? COMMUNISM
17 Tight squeeze! MAMMOGRAM (Oop that's 4)
18 Restless leg syndrome? SOMNAMBULISM (Sleep walking)
19 Glass specialty (Phillip Glass) MINIMALISM
20 Ad nauseum? COMMERCIALISM

17 Platypus surprisingly MAMMAL

Rupert — 28 March at 01:07PM

16. MUMMIFICATION?

dg — 28 March at 01:52PM

A mummy would still be dead, yes? (BETTER DEAD THAN RED)

PRS — 28 March at 02:01PM

RK — 28 March at 02:30PM

I thought 23 could have been micromanagement.

Answers to mine were:

21. communism
22. mammon
28. Mmmbop (If you haven't heard this song perhaps it's best kept that way. If you have, I'm sorry if it's now stuck in your head)