September 01 2011
Stowed Load
Soon to hit your telly screens, a teaser before the ad break on Letters & Numbers, is the viewer’s Word Mix: PEAK/SEEK. And your clue: Something to help retain your memory.
No shock the answer is KEEPSAKE. But for me, the real souvenir of this anagram is the coupling of rhymes. During the next few games, I was chewing on other examples, where a pair of rhymes is melded into one word.
This post, for example, began with SOON (no/so) elegantly STOWED (do/stew) inside. While in ARCHERIES, heir and scare is your pair. Catchy, right? There must be gems out there.
So ruling out the bleeding obvious – like handstand or backpack – what covert couplings can you unearth? Bearing in mind, this is prime Wordwit fuel, meaning the best of the quest will win a berth in the Herald come October.
To keep all brains clicking, maybe best if we present Comments as puzzles to solve. Such as 1 ROOSTER. There’s your first to uncover. Dabblers, begin your anagram engines…
Comments
ML — 01 September at 07:55AM
Easterner (near/steer)
ML — 01 September at 07:56AM
Disabled (Said/Bled)
ML — 01 September at 08:11AM
Sorry - up to early.
2. MISALLIED
SK — 01 September at 08:23AM
3. DOUBLE
Mauve — 01 September at 08:25AM
1: sore tor
4: TROOPER
Mauve — 01 September at 08:34AM
5: DIARRHEA
Mauve — 01 September at 08:42AM
6: AESTHETES
DA — 01 September at 09:05AM
1 Or - or/store
5 dare/hair
Mauve — 01 September at 09:13AM
7: ENDEARED
2: dial smile
3: do blue
Boniface — 01 September at 09:16AM
7. Hebrides
Boniface — 01 September at 09:17AM
Sorry Mauve:
8. Hebrides
RobT — 01 September at 10:25AM
9. SCABBARD
Mauve — 01 September at 10:41AM
10. NEURON
11. STERNEST
12. BADDIES
13. LADDIES
Mauve — 01 September at 10:44AM
8. debris he (nice)
9. scab drab
DA — 01 September at 11:05AM
10 one/run
11 nest/rest
12 said/bed
13 said/led
14 COP-OUT
Mauve — 01 September at 11:10AM
14. to coup
RobT — 01 September at 11:41AM
15. REAPPEAR
RobT — 01 September at 11:44AM
16.INGRAINED
RobT — 01 September at 11:47AM
17.ADRENALIN
DA — 01 September at 12:35PM
15 pare/pear [if not the rhyme, then a homophone stowage: impressive]
16 ?
17 lane/drain
18 AGITATE
19 ALKALINE
Criseyde — 01 September at 12:50PM
18 gait/ate
20 TOWPATHS
JD — 01 September at 12:50PM
16. Deign, Rain
Criseyde — 01 September at 12:53PM
19 kale/nail
RM — 01 September at 01:16PM
21. HERBARIA
Criseyde — 01 September at 01:30PM
21 bear/hair;bare/hair
RM — 01 September at 01:31PM
22. DEFENDEE
RM — 01 September at 01:39PM
Get out your medical dictionaries!
23. ERYSIPELAS
Criseyde — 01 September at 02:33PM
22 need/feed
23 What a word, RM. Aka St Anthony's Fire.
Repays/leis?
RobT — 01 September at 02:51PM
24. Mightiest. [A tad lame, in hindsight]
Criseyde — 01 September at 03:08PM
6 seat/sheet
DA — 01 September at 03:27PM
25 DRY ICE
RobT — 01 September at 03:31PM
25 Cry/die
DA — 01 September at 03:38PM
25 - there's a second solution too
One Wheel — 01 September at 03:43PM
24. might/site or mite/sight
26. SWOON
27. PROCTORS
28. EINSTEIN
29. ROOFERS' ROOMER
30. HARDBACK
RobT — 01 September at 03:44PM
25 - die/cry ;)
Criseyde — 01 September at 03:45PM
25 decry/I
Criseyde — 01 September at 03:47PM
26 won/son
Criseyde — 01 September at 03:49PM
26 oops, no it's not
Criseyde — 01 September at 03:50PM
26 no/sow
Criseyde — 01 September at 04:01PM
27 corps/tor .. crossie favourites.
RM — 01 September at 04:12PM
23: I was thinking of praise/leys, but yours works, too.
RobT — 01 September at 04:13PM
28. Tine/sine
DA — 01 September at 04:48PM
29 WAGONER
Boniface — 01 September at 04:51PM
29 Gnaw ore
DA — 01 September at 05:15PM
Too quick
30 INVEIGH
31 REPAIRED
32 CHICKPEA
RobT — 01 September at 05:31PM
30 Nigh/vie
Criseyde — 01 September at 05:40PM
31 dear/pier
Criseyde — 01 September at 05:43PM
32 peak/chic - very good! (naturellement)
Has anyone got my #20 TOWPATHS?
Criseyde — 01 September at 05:44PM
32 peak/chic - very good! (naturellement)
Has anyone got my #20 TOWPATHS?
DA — 01 September at 05:50PM
20 what/spot - that's a neat one, Criseyde
And just as archeries does the trick, so does:
33 ARTERIES
Criseyde — 01 September at 05:54PM
33 sear/tier? Is that where you sit during the Boxing Day Test Match>
Criseyde — 01 September at 06:07PM
Or better, the seating for the
34 RETIREES
DA — 01 September at 06:14PM
Amazingly, ARTERIES has tow solutions. One is SEAR/TIER. The other...?
Meanwhile 35, DREARILY
RobT — 01 September at 06:24PM
35. Dyer/liar
Criseyde — 01 September at 06:58PM
33 (ii) Stare/ere?
Criseyde — 01 September at 06:59PM
33 (ii) oops wrong
RobT — 01 September at 07:00PM
34 seer/ tier
Criseyde — 01 September at 07:03PM
Yeah RobT
33(ii) Stair/ere
Criseyde — 01 September at 07:06PM
Actually I was thinking of sere/tier
Em — 01 September at 09:22PM
36. VERIFY (VERITY works the same way)
37. SOOTHE
38. FLOUT
Nib — 01 September at 09:58PM
Tsk, I had a list of rhymes that anagrammed into other rhymes a year or two ago but can't find it.
ewe + woo = owe + woe
meet + meat = teem + team
etc.
36. HYGIENE
Anyone able to execute a 'beaux'-related anagram rhyme, I tip my hat to you. (Bonus points for working in something akin to 'bowsexual'.)
Nib — 01 September at 10:02PM
Make that 39. HYGIENE
36. F/TRY/VIE
37. TO/SHOE
38. TO/FLU
DA — 01 September at 10:20PM
39 nigh/eye - nice
40 CHARITY
Sam — 01 September at 10:46PM
40 - try chai
41: FERROUS
Em — 02 September at 08:41AM
41. for sure!