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July 03 2011

Corporate Reshuffle [BB317]

imagesCALB2DIQ Today’s list, as you can see, is arranged in alphabetical order, from bite through to tingle. With no scrambling needed, can you restore the same 11-word sequence from top to bottom? (As a clue, which you lot will hardly need, note how every words on the list is a verb.)

BITE
CATCH
DROP
REND
SLAP
SMACK
SPIN
TAP
TICKLE
TINGLE

SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB316 SOLUTION: Smith & Wesson, Hall & Oates, Black & Decker, Proctor & Gamble, Sonny & Cher, Hale & Pace, Marks & Spencer, Mills & Boon, Fisher & Paykel

Comments

RK — 03 July at 05:07PM

Ok, since nobody seems to be biting on this one, I'll have a go.

If you add -ing to all of the words, a body part can go in front of each one, eg nail biting, jaw dropping, heart rending, lip smacking etc. I'm thinking that DA's instruction to arrange from 'top to bottom' may have been an extra clue. But not exactly sure how to order them properly. Would heart rending go above or below spine tingling, for example?

Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree.

JPR — 03 July at 08:31PM

i think u r onto it as corporate = bodily

RM — 04 July at 06:49AM

I think I would order them top to bottom, as we first encounter them, so:

SPIN (h)
CATCH (e)
SMACK (l or g)
DROP (j)
TINGLE (s)
TICKLE (r)
REND (h)
BITE (n)
SLAP (t)
TAP (t)

Nib — 05 July at 07:30PM

^ ... I'm sorry, is that t for turkey?

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