January 22 2012
Think Small [BB346]
This week we deal in nanotechnology. If a small pig is a piglet, does that make a pikelet a tiny pike? Or a baby bull, a bullet? Playing with the suffix LET (or ET as in the last example), can you intuit what common words are being punnily (and punily) defined?
(And can you add any more to this streamlet of consciousness?)
- Midget U-boat
- Mini-mouth
- Cockney’s ’ovel?
- Weeny old wound
- Short journey
- Karaoke-lite?
- Brief think
- Nano knack
- 2 micro-totals
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB345 SOLUTION: Hobart + MO (bathroom), Adelaide + SNL (desalinated), Sydney + TER (dysentery), Perth + OLA (plethora), Darwin + GF(dwarfing), Canberra + FOE (forbearance), Melbourne + WH (whole number), Brisbane + SC (crabbiness)
Comments
Criseyde — 22 January at 01:11AM
Not sure of 3 and 7 and have two possibilities for 9. Like 6 and 8.
10. politician's 30 second grab (variant spelling)
11. minor complaint
12. tiny cloud
13. momentary lapse
RobT — 22 January at 09:10AM
14. Thin red line
JPR — 22 January at 10:59AM
15, Small taxi for the boy from Oz?
JPR — 22 January at 11:02AM
16. Short half-dance
SK — 22 January at 12:43PM
3 is made with eggs.
15 CABRIOLET, 16 CHALET
17. A little pale
18. A small victory
Criseyde — 22 January at 02:14PM
17. GAUNTLET
18. WINSLET? INLET?
19. Contact lens?
20. A bit of rubbish
21. Undertoned
SK — 22 January at 02:37PM
Correct on GAUNTLET. 18 is COUPLET.
Nib — 22 January at 02:43PM
22. Sliced Piglet?
RobT — 22 January at 03:00PM
My 14 is the same as 17...:(
SK — 22 January at 03:45PM
Nice clue RobT...picks up both "before" and "after".
In a similar fashion-
23. Minor barrier to maintaining wealth?
Criseyde — 22 January at 04:51PM
22 HAMLET
23.CUTLET?
24 Microdot .. (can think of 2 possibilities)
25 Low trick
Lucasta — 22 January at 11:54PM
23. WALLET
26. Short story?
27. Little chit (two possibilities)
DA — 23 January at 08:35AM
26 ?
27 BILLET/TABLET [nice double]