December 28 2011
News Clues 5
Before 2011 disappears in a puff of smoke, let’s have a dip at some of the zeitgeist names, turning each nominee into a cryptic clue.
No prizes here – just licence to say to any doubters that you still got it. And please, for ease of everyone’s enjoyment, present your clues beside the person’s initials, rather than using the list’s numbers. Just makes the gag, or deceit, more instantaneous that way. Over 2U.
- Kimbra
- Kim Jong Un
- Ed Cowan
- Christopher Hitchens
- Fletcher Jones
- Myf Warhurst
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Comments
Criseyde — 28 December at 04:41AM
K: Kardashian's supporter is a key performer.
Criseyde — 28 December at 05:58AM
FJ: Defunct trademark of arrow-maker and his common name?
Criseyde — 28 December at 07:26AM
EC: Debutante success - played,aced,won.
EC: Indian opposition leader cowed beaten and gutless Australian.
Timbo — 28 December at 07:54AM
MW: Why rum farts hurt radio host
Criseyde — 28 December at 07:54AM
Correction:
EC: India's opposition leader cowed beaten and gutless Australian.
Criseyde — 28 December at 07:55AM
MW: Music buff upset "Clash" publisher in the audience.
Timbo — 28 December at 08:34AM
Not quite working perhaps, but the gist is nice...
ASSK: Freed from house, hear you help to reveal sun in sky again.
Perhaps needs to be
ASSK: Freed from house, hear you help to reveal sun, sky again.
Criseyde — 28 December at 08:35AM
KJU: New banner for Korea's Kipling novel,"Young". Japanese cover replaces unknown version.
SK — 28 December at 09:01AM
EC: We can do stuff all about his unfair dismissal
EC: Dean worried about Hector, but he did okay in test
Criseyde — 28 December at 09:14AM
ASSK: She was liberated at the Suky Sun Iguana dance. (Shame there's one too many u's.)
ASSK: She refused to unsay using Auk translation?
JPR — 28 December at 09:17AM
MW: "Spicks specks sister" says Spooner "smell soccer's sixty-six stars"
JPR — 28 December at 09:20AM
KJU: I'm Kong Jun.
Criseyde — 28 December at 09:33AM
CH: The critic departed and the singer reported missing son. Mistake three ways.
RobT — 28 December at 09:53AM
K: Kiwi object of Lion King's fast shuffle: about right.
RobT — 28 December at 10:13AM
KJU: New fat idol junking "Om" crap
RobT — 28 December at 10:26AM
EC: Principled first-timer Edith Cowan loosely hit out
SK — 28 December at 11:14AM
MW: She announces that my offending assault hurts badly
RobT — 28 December at 11:25AM
CH: Rich atheist ponce: even churches miss a beat!
RobT — 28 December at 11:37AM
FJ: Jan and Dean: 'Port to Paradise'
RobT — 28 December at 11:52AM
MW: Surf-war myth carried on by hardy predecessor
RobT — 28 December at 11:59AM
ASSK: Housed sauna using yuk rocks
PRS — 28 December at 02:13PM
FJ: Clothier now twisted on reject shelf
SK — 28 December at 03:16PM
Nice PRS/FJ and RobT/MW!
This next one needs a bit of knowledge of her recent album and singles...
K: She made vows with good intent, but within a week I'm brainwashed
SK — 28 December at 04:08PM
KJU: Youth dictates as Kimbra gets naked for Bon Jovi piece?
KJU: We heard his career is about to launch?
Mr X — 28 December at 04:31PM
FJ Christian Dean was a pants man.
RobT — 28 December at 07:01PM
K: Intones Jack, "I'm Brabham - famous Aussie soloist"
PRS — 28 December at 11:06PM
ASSK: I sunk sauna guy damaging Nobel winner
EC: Played Ace down, but still lost
One Wheel — 29 December at 09:30AM
EC: Note duck towards mid on, lastly about current batsmen
EC: Get duck or whop no second batter
K: Singer first kissed in minx-y lingerie
FJ: Store gutted final drawer with hook
Mauve — 29 December at 09:34AM
FJ: Crazy John Cleese - raft retailer
EC: Ocean dawn, without an aberrant bat
MW: Surf myth develops over battle for TV whiz
One Wheel — 29 December at 09:37AM
CH: Writer enciphers short novel without delay
One Wheel — 29 December at 09:40AM
Sorry, Mauve, your 'Crazy John' gave me this idea.
FJ: Crazy Johns erect elf in store
SK — 29 December at 10:15AM
CH: Hijacks Porsche, then hits rich famous author (fatally)
One Wheel — 29 December at 10:30AM
KJU: May half a monster Spoonerise a French leader
RobT — 29 December at 10:43AM
5. Retail therapy for arrow-maker addition?!
RobT — 29 December at 10:44AM
FJ: Retail therapy for arrow-maker addition?!
RobT — 29 December at 10:51AM
K: North Korean puppy raiser?
RobT — 29 December at 11:00AM
K: North Korean puppy raiser recites vows?
Mauve — 29 December at 11:16AM
No problem. I like it, One Wheel!
CH: Church hen-house protects Irish novel writer
K: This singer’s a Beasley supporter
KJU: “New king” nuking! Most of Japan’s leadership devastated
One Wheel — 29 December at 11:34AM
MW: Radio host broadcast upset Vietnam Hotel on city street
ASSK: She was freed with gold for nuking us, say
One Wheel — 29 December at 12:31PM
EC: Then welcomed a batter without helmet!
K: Smirked with bras about no dress for singer
KJU: Goddamn! I junk on crap like fatherless idol
Criseyde — 29 December at 12:36PM
Like your CH Mauve.
Boniface — 29 December at 01:49PM
MW Strewth! Turf wars erupt over heroin
RobT — 31 December at 12:41PM
It's not Eat Love Pray tonight.
It's Hype Reap Yawn (5,3,4)
KM — 03 January at 01:01PM
K: Kiwi openers have mega support for New Zealand singer
KM — 03 January at 01:11PM
KJU: Spooner's beam ape joined by United Nations' up-and-coming despot
KM — 03 January at 01:27PM
MW (down clue): When spoken, Spooner's slag snag supports my loud music brain