September 26 2010

Silver Spoons [BB277]

untitled Spoonerise your two answers to create opposites. Eager/brain, say, is KEEN/MIND (mean/kind). Keen minds will conquer all twelve.

     1. fib/garden tool
     2. sense/garden tool
     3. crib/grip
     4. spiel/callow
     5. glum/chief
     6. schooled/cloak
     7. altitude/tax
     8. louvre/bumper
     9. moonlike/sleaze
   10. plunge/ushered
   11. plague/thump
   12. core/staff

SOLUTION NEXT WEEK BB276 SOLUTION: Ritz, Flag, Raffles, Peppers, Ibis, Sheraton, Holiday Inn, Clarion, Best Western, Four Seasons, Statler & Waldorf

Comments

Mr X — 30 September at 11:11AM

I think i've cracked them all but can't think of an elegant way to provide a hint. I'm not quite sure about number 9, pronunciation-wise. Is the sleaze in question a Classical/mythical one ?

DA — 30 September at 11:27AM

Agreed, a tad tricky to provide hints, or subtle proof of completion. Perhaps a puzzle in itself.

And yes, a louche Greek. Well done.

JS — 30 September at 05:30PM

I think I have them all except for 8 (although I wouldn't have worked 9 out without the hints and a good search engine). Still thinking...

Mr X — 30 September at 08:10PM

8 was the last one I got. For a while I was plumping for blind/boom & bind/bloom but then the true answer revealed itself.

JS — 30 September at 10:34PM

Thanks Mr X, that was just enough of a hint to broaden my horizon!