January 10 2012
Huh 32
Been a while since we’ve handled a Huh post, with October in fact our last outing. Hence a juicy list of six clues, and perhaps why you’ve forgotten the drill. Fear not: it’s pretty simple. See if you can flesh out how any of the clues operate – and shed some light for all (or me at least) to see. Be in your debt.
Second, as a bonus challenge, a virtual garland to the Dabbler who can craft the best clue for any of the same solutions here. Though if you do, please announce which WORD you’ve selected, beside your original clue, instead of opting for the same clue’s number.
Pretty clear, I hope. Like next when I’m longing for some rural R&R. But clearing up these will make the sabbatical all the sweeter!
Get lost, Lorna! = DOONE [Yes, Arachne, I get the Doone, but lose the lost.]
Trump to live, excluded, away from home at first = OUTGUN [Trump is a versatile definition, but can’t follow Boatman into harbour.]
Treat this serpentine to make quartzite grill = QUIZ [Grill is definition, but how does Crucible’s wordplay work?]
Voiced stop press = MEDIA [Recent head-scratcher from a mixed American anthology I’m nibbling.]
Shameless rejection of dull choice of food including fish lacking weight = UNEMBARRASSED [Times 9201 gives us MENU reversed, and BASS…and…?]
Sometime around one, case in town court finished = EXTINCT [If court = CT, and finished is the def, how does the prelim gibe?]
Post your illuminations, and clue creations below. Thanks.
Comments
RK — 10 January at 02:45PM
5. DRAB MENU reversed, containing WRASSE - W
Geoff Bailey — 10 January at 02:53PM
1. Apparently (thanks to the Urban Dictionary for this) "Do one" is slang for telling someone to "piss off" (or marginally more politely here, to "get lost").
2. It looks like "away from home at first" is the OUT... but GUN eludes me.
3. "this" is referring to the answer, hence QUIZ. Thus "Treat quiz" serpentine makes "quartzite".
4. My Chambers defines "media" as "a voiced consonantal stop, or a letter representing it", amongst other definitions. That's a new one to me.
5. It's DRAB MENU, rejected, around WRASSE without the W.
6. I'm lost on this one at the moment.
Geoff Bailey — 10 January at 02:55PM
Ah... I think that 2 might be OUT + BEGUN - BE
Geoff Bailey — 10 January at 03:06PM
As for 6., with a suitable stretch "sometime" equals 'EX' ("one time" would be closer, I think), leading to "one" being I, "town" being T, and "case" being N (for nominative, I guess). Overall, I can't say that I like it.
6. is really the only one I don't like that much, so here's an alternative:
[EXTINCT] Over-measure dye (7)
AC — 10 January at 03:27PM
So for 2 we have 'to live'=BE and we take that away from BEGUN, but where does BEGUN come from? It seems like there's something missing if 'trump' is the definition. Maybe 'Trump has started to live...'
AC — 10 January at 03:54PM
For 6, I'm thinking that 'sometime' refers to (from a mathematical perspective) an arbitrary time labelled X; more appropriately this could be XT. then this surrounds 'town court'=TC, which in turn contains 'one'+'case'=IN. How to add the E in front I can't resolve, unless we do the X part phonetically.
SK — 10 January at 04:08PM
For 6, I'm wondering whether the def may be "sometime around" rather than "finished". But I still can't figure the wordplay.
Geoff Bailey — 10 January at 04:26PM
@AC: BEGUN is the "at first". So "away from home" = OUT, "at first" = BEGUN, "to live, excluded" = -BE.
RK — 10 January at 05:06PM
This one only makes sense if you're an ABC702 listener...
QUIZ: Perhaps Norman took a limited look?
SK — 10 January at 05:13PM
A loose idea linking two-
UNEMBARRASED: Barman uses Red Bull, assuming...
MEDIA: ...I need help knocking back nine or ten, say
SK — 10 January at 05:15PM
A loose idea linking two-
UNEMBARRASED: Barman uses Red Bull, assuming...
MEDIA: ...I need help knocking back nine or ten, say
One Wheel — 10 January at 06:04PM
MEDIA: Radio channels
DOONE: Half strip romantic Lorna
EXTINCT: Dead past love can court
DA — 10 January at 06:21PM
Thanks for the insights, and delights. That's a very cute DOONE, One Wheel. Well assembled.
RobT — 10 January at 08:04PM
OUTGUN: reveal bicep to beat
RobT — 10 January at 08:36PM
UNEMBARRASSED: render Mr Bean assured?
RobT — 10 January at 08:53PM
EXTINCT: Passed on Entertainment Tonight: heads TCN9 line-up!
Mauve — 10 January at 10:23PM
DOONE:
Lorna ends up holding the glasses
QUIZ:
Give up time for Zorro interview
MEDIA:
Vehicle papers
EXTINCT:
Ethnic text, with the missing version lost
OUTGUN:
overwhelm blooming expert
UNEMBARRASSED:
Assured (and reassured) boatman, regularly at sea
Lucasta — 11 January at 12:10AM
EXTINCT: Old stain over top of chair now gone
MEDIA: Channels of artistic expression?
QUIZ: Eccentric question
Boniface — 11 January at 12:20AM
MEDIA: We'll give you the news - comedians take no prisoners!
anax — 11 January at 02:18AM
EXTINCT
Sometime around one, case in town court finished
EX=sometime (just passable!), then around I (one) we have the 'case' (external letters) of T[ow]N + CT (court).
RobT — 11 January at 06:20AM
MEDIA: in the morning I'd rise last then turn around and read the papers
Mauve — 11 January at 08:40AM
Thanks for explaining the "case in" bit Anax - that's the bit I couldn't figure.
The 2 mehs I have with that clue is that "in" is playing a part in designating outer. Also "case of town", although it doesn't work for the surface, is the proper wordplay to indicate tn
And ex=onetime, never sometime