January 29 2012
Secret Meetings [BB347]
We supply eighteen uncommon combinations, each of which makes up part of a relatively familiar word. EZV, say, nestles in RENDEZVOUS.
Prepare to meet the rest – with several owning alternative answers – and then tell us what other peculiar combinations are lying within everyday words.
- IAZ
- JUA
- SOGY
- ULIF
- PRYL
- GWU
- AMWE
- OCAC
- LBEI
- OSOS
- WIX
- HIBB
- ELDY
- CYO
- BIAG
- YNG
- ZK
- DDF
Any more covert clusters?
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB346 SOLUTION: Sublet, goblet, omelet, scarlet, triplet, singlet, mullet, skillet, billet (and tablet)
Comments
Nib — 29 January at 01:17PM
One of my options for #17, may I nominate 'buzzkill' for the 2012 Macquarie Dictionary? There is an MTV show, a movie and a CSI episode to the name, plus I believe it is rather common parlands by now.
19. CCLU
20. RDV
21. KAA
22. WWR
22. YPU
22. MQ
23. UJA
Nib — 29 January at 01:54PM
Did... did I just write parlands? -_-
AC — 29 January at 02:59PM
Love saying this word:
26. YZY
Lucasta — 30 January at 12:46AM
That sent my brain straight back to uni, AC.
27. PHTH
28. YGD
29. EIO
30. CDY
31. CHYD
Also LPHTH, from one of my personal favourites, though it's hardly an everyday word.
JT — 30 January at 10:03AM
32. BST
33. THH
34. TSW
Mauve — 30 January at 10:21AM
(twist) a subfamous person who sometimes surfaces at this time of year...
35. ARARA
Nib — 30 January at 10:55AM
Building on 34, "CHTSW" has to be a Googlewhack of sorts.
Nib — 31 January at 10:40AM
Hipocrisy is the only word that doesn't subscribe to the general '-cracy' suffix rule.
Nib — 31 January at 10:41AM
Hypocrisy is the only word that doesn't subscribe to the general '-cracy' suffix rule.
DA — 31 January at 10:55AM
Let's do some loose-ending, people:
26 SYZYGY (Richard Fidler put me on the spot with his ABC interview, asking for a syzygy definition without notice. Sheesh.)
27 DIPHTHONG
28 AMYGDALA - needed every grey cell for that one
29 ?
30 ?
31 PACHYDERM
32 Lots of examples here, according to an abstract substandard mobster I know
33 BATHHOUSE
34 OUTSWING
33 ?
34 YACHT SWING??
PS - Nib, I note your YouTube spoof has been yanked, with talk of (c) breaches. This true? It's a dang lampoon for Pete's sake.
One Wheel — 31 January at 10:58AM
33. WITHHOLD
AC — 31 January at 11:22AM
29. MEIOSIS
AC — 31 January at 11:22AM
29. MEIOSIS