October 10 2011
Eat Tea
A few things to report. The first relates to the idiot box, where a show like Letters and Numbers does its best to defy that idiom, giving you the finals of Series 3 this week. The regular games run till Wednesday, making way for the proven gladiators on Thursday. Keep an eye out. Some white-knuckle games are coming your way.
Second, comb the brain for some obscure words lingering in your cortex, as tomorrow sees a vocab Storm with a twist. And yes, there’s a prize up for grabs to reward the best wordsmith. (Though don’t anticipate too much – I did say with a twist!)
Third, in the vein of three, I thought it might be fun to keep with 3-letter words, and throw you a different sort of puzzle. If dine = eat tea, and dye = ink kin, can you figure out these other solutions. (And if you wish to make your own, see if you can stick to one-word clues, just to keep things tidy.
U-ie
Lapping?
Scores (NY)
Proterozoic
Dencorub
Scrimshaw
Blab the answers below. And can you add your own one-word clues?
Comments
Boniface — 10 October at 07:29AM
Not quite one-worders but adhering to a theme anyway:
7. Crazy Horse
8. Circuit diagram
Criseyde — 10 October at 08:59AM
5 leg gel
6 tar art
7 mad dam
9 carpentry101?
10 chihuahua
11 Lawsie's $$
Sam — 10 October at 09:09AM
4: One eon
Sam — 10 October at 09:42AM
1: Yaw way?
Nib — 10 October at 10:37AM
My guesses:
3. End den
11. Yap pay
12. Order eggs?
13. Swooper
14. Score a strike
Criseyde — 10 October at 11:14AM
12 AVO ova
DC — 10 October at 11:37AM
4. old age (as an alternative to Sam's)
14. get ten
JD — 10 October at 12:33PM
Shouldn't 14 be 'net ten'?
15. Le Creuset
16. Deflower.
8. Amp map
Sam — 10 October at 01:17PM
15: Top pot
17: Milo
Criseyde — 10 October at 01:37PM
17 god dog
Sam — 10 October at 01:51PM
13: Low owl?
so close for #17 Criseyde!
DA2 — 10 October at 02:42PM
18 Derringer
19 Sit-up
20 Co-driver?
21 Cremates?
And a super surreal offering for gurus and/or clairvoyants:
22 Match?
Sam — 10 October at 02:42PM
earlier post didn't get through...
18: Landfill
19: Love-handles
20: Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
— 10 October at 03:44PM
18. Gnu gun?
21. Has ash.
JD — 10 October at 03:45PM
Sorry, that was me above.
Sam — 10 October at 03:47PM
19: Gut tug?
20: Van nav?
Tried to post these earlier:
23: Landfill
24: Love-handles
25: Body-Snatchers?
Criseyde — 10 October at 04:29PM
Sam, #17 Milo not god dog! :( Has me foxed.
23 tip pit? (getting tentative now)
DA2 — 10 October at 04:32PM
Not van nav, but nice stab.
Not one word, but familiar:
26 Memoirs of a Geisha
Criseyde — 10 October at 04:41PM
20 lap pal? (also my #10 chihuahua)
Sam — 10 October at 05:19PM
Criseyde - Otis is better suited to your answer, think of his partner - and yes to tip pit!
Criseyde — 10 October at 05:40PM
Oh, hadn't seen it but knew there was a dog.
So Milo's a cat act? I like it.
Criseyde — 10 October at 05:41PM
25 orb rob??
Criseyde — 10 October at 07:38PM
26 Gol log
24 depending on where the love-handles are: aft fat
27 inmate
Sam — 10 October at 08:59PM
Yes for #24 Criseyde - otherwise portly I guess? Had something else in mind for #25 but it is a bit of a stretch - along the lines of the old film... pods... doppelgangers...
Sam — 10 October at 09:25PM
So (if the above are correct) the unsolved are:
2: Lapping? (DA)
9: Carpentry101? (Criseyde)
16: Deflower (JD)
22: Match? (DA)
25: Body-snatchers (Sam)
27: Inmate (Criseyde)
JD — 11 October at 07:34AM
Is 9. Was saw?
Everytime I look at no 2, I come up with sip something, and then it all turns nasty.
Sam — 11 October at 08:39AM
JD - I have the same trouble, except with 'sup'
Another thought for #9 - awl law?
And was #16 - bed deb?
Criseyde — 11 October at 03:30PM
#9 Yes, Sam "awl law". Thought about the possibility later, JD, with "saw".
Me too about #2.
22 DA's clairvoyant - was thinking about ESP, but couldn't get something that worked.
27 inmate was "lag gal".
KM — 11 October at 03:35PM
2. Cat act
KM — 11 October at 04:00PM
16. Dub bud?
DA2 — 11 October at 04:07PM
Lap pal x 2. Nice
Has my geisha been solved?
KM — 11 October at 04:22PM
I've got two possibilities for 22, but I fear neither is correct.
Oud duo
Two owt
KM — 11 October at 04:31PM
Now it has, DA2!
26. Obi bio
DA — 11 October at 07:00PM
Well done, KM - obi bio (my DIY fave). So what's left?
2: Lapping? (DA) = cat act
9: Carpentry101? (Criseyde) = awl law
16: Deflower (JD) = deb bed [surely?!]
22: Match? (DA) = ??? [think verb]
25: Body-snatchers (Sam) = ????
27: Inmate (Criseyde) = lag gal
Two to go?
Sam — 11 October at 09:46PM
DA, is your match 'set EST'?
Criseyde — 12 October at 08:47AM
Or is 'match' vie EvI (England versus India)?
Criseyde — 12 October at 08:57AM
And is Sam's body-snatchers pod (from the movie) OPD (Outpatients Department)
Sam — 12 October at 09:07AM
Nice try Criseyde, but no. There is a picture of it in the TV dinner above!
RobT — 12 October at 11:44AM
28. Half-supported?
A Seinfeld-ism.
DA — 12 October at 12:07PM
28 For fro?
And Sam, not set EST, but I'll give that the kewpie for the closest. Good stab. So if you'd rather not know my MATCH answer, then avert your eyes:
X
X
X
X
X
X
22. Ape pea (to imitate any other in the pod.)
Answer looks a little shabby in the cold light. Told you it was surreal. The clairvoyant reference was your need to see where my mind was going. I've come to like Sam's answer more now!
JD — 12 October at 12:26PM
I'm glad we got those sorted out. And yes, 16 is bed deb.
Sam — 12 October at 12:53PM
Doh! What is even stranger is that 'pea ape' was the answer to my body snatchers clue! The aliens arrive like peas in a pod, and copy, or ape, humans!
RobT — 12 October at 01:46PM
28. Nup pun.
It is a Kramer thing, tho'.
RobT — 14 October at 06:56AM
28. ORB BRO