September 05 2010

Unfit to Print [BB274]

UNFIT

If DIT is ‘out of condition’, and RIN is ‘out of print’, how many more common ‘out of’ phrases can you elicit out of this dozen?

SOLUTION NEXT WEEK BB 273 SOLUTION: Watch, credit, key, bed, road, flight, turning, free, court

Comments

PRS — 05 September at 12:03PM

Re BB273

Also had
8/ over

PRS — 05 September at 12:59PM

Assuming brevity is the objective, I offer my first, if not there are few of the longest I’ve found. I leave others to decide whether they are good or otherwise to be “out of”.

1. VOU: bivouac, endeavourings
2. CUL: faculty, ejaculate
3. TIC: stick, politicians
4. NTR: entry, concentration
5. LTE: alter, schoolteacher
6. ACH: yacht, encroachments
7. CKE: McKew (!), ocker, thickener
8. DLO: wedlock, deadlocks
9. URT: yurts, discourtesies
10. HIO: thiol, unfashionable
11. ONE: bones, commissionerships
12. HAR: charm, surchargers

Mr X — 06 September at 10:19AM

XXX WARNING - SPOILER ALERT XXX
Here are my offerings for the FINAL letters of the necessary words:
1 R
2 N
3 E
4 L
5 R
6 H
7 T
8 K
9 T
10 N
11Y
12 Y

MR X — 06 September at 10:20AM

And a couple of my own:

13 RIC
14 REA

DA — 06 September at 10:29AM

Hmm, PRS. Not sure if you're being arch, or just OOP - out of the loop.

You do realise each fragment will lead to a fmailiar out-of phrase, yes? Like Mr X's offerings, my added hints:

13 think movie
14 inaccessible

Another:

15 RSH

Mr X — 06 September at 11:50AM

### WARNING - SPOILER ALERT ###
It seems my previous set of hints/uesses didn't post. (Maybe the triple xs caused the spam filter to kick in). Here they are again:
1 R
2 N
3 E
4 L
5 R
6 H
7 T
8 K
9 T
10 N
11 Y
12 Y

Mr X — 06 September at 11:51AM

my No. 14 was a tad ambiguous - allowing 2 answers. Let's make it:

14 ATH

Mr X — 06 September at 11:52AM

Hmm - My hints/spoilers/guesses keep failing to appear. Probably in the spam filter somewhere.

DA — 06 September at 12:15PM

That's odd. Not that I can confirm or deny your theory, as I've yet to gain deeper access into the website's catchment system.

(These domain makeovers won't happen overnight, but they will happen.)

As for 14, urrh-uhh-phew!

JD — 06 September at 12:22PM

Yes, I've lost a few entries into the black hole too.
But on the upshot, I have just noticed that my details have been recorded so I don't have to keep re-entering the same information.

Mr X — 06 September at 02:10PM

Ok, no Spoiler alert message this time. Here are my guesses at the FINAL letters of the missing words:

1 R
2 N
3 E
4 L
5 R
6 H
7 T
8 K
9 T
10 N
11 Y
12 Y

Mr X — 06 September at 03:08PM

and there they are. WIth the addition of ...

15 T

DA — 06 September at 03:10PM

Yep, I just freed them from their net, clicking the Legit button. (Soon I'll know this site like handy side of my back.)

PRS — 07 September at 12:03AM

DA: not arch, more bent, but definitely oop (or in many oops) - missing the boat completely (with wet sails no dis/advantage).

Still on a semi-nautical theme, although
Lordship Astle = IS HARD TO SPELL, I've read enough to know, like clues, you must read it all!