January 08 2012

Yours Initially [BB344]

images Last week, for Birdbrain 343, you played with puzzles built from HEAD. Which makes sense that today’s puzzle looks at initials. If the Z in ANZAC stands for Zealand, what acronyms own letters that signify the fifteen words below? (PS – we avoid initialisms such as PS that aren’t pronounced as words.)

At first glance, this puzzle may seem out of reach. Though the easiest way to tackle the list is to think of any word that is created from initials – like ANZAC – and see if one of the entries can be recruited.

Absent
Breathing
Cultural
Deficiency
Exporting
Get
Keep
Loud
Mobile
Not
Only
Personal
Stimulated
Tactics
Up

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BB343 SOLUTION:First light, phone line, restroom, homeland, set shot, upstart, strong wind, long way, Cold Case

Comments

Geoff Bailey — 08 January at 01:11AM

Well, I've got a matching set, but I'm sure there's plausible duplicates for several of the shorter ones, particularly 'not' which has a host of computing ones (GNU, XINU, WINE, etc.).

I'll just append another 'U' option that Sydneysiders of a certain age may recall:

16. Unhealthy

Criseyde — 08 January at 09:13AM

I found 11 I'm confident of, but as Geoff said, there may be multiple possibilities for some.

'Get' got me. (Did find GUGOGA - get up, get out, get active, but have never heard it. Sounds awfully uninspiring, more like drowning.)

My guess for 'not' is a phrase which sounds like a northern NSW hippie who doesn't want Macdonald's,say, in town.

16. Dunno. Am a Sydneysider of a certain age, but may not have been resident when the term was in vogue.

AC — 08 January at 09:52AM

Don't know about 16, but here's a technological 17 that I thought should be in the list:

17. Design

— 08 January at 10:15AM

Chriseyde - I think Get is the final part of a 7 letter computer term.

Criseyde — 08 January at 10:46AM

Ah, yes know that term, thankyou. Funny that didn't come up either in my head or a search. As the phrase suggests .......

17 sounds like a bounder who draws boundaries?

Criseyde — 08 January at 11:26AM

18 and 19 Kids +/- $+/-

AC — 08 January at 11:51AM

Does anyone have a sketch to show how to navigate to the answer for 9?

Geoff Bailey — 08 January at 01:13PM

Criseyde: Sounds like we're in agreement about 'Not'. For 'Get', on the other hand, I'm thinking of a cheap meal for two.

AC: To link in some of DA's other activities, #9 might be considered a Radar Trap...

JPR — 08 January at 02:00PM

this may be 15's answer, well its one of them anyway, if not categorise under:
20. Situation

Geoff Bailey — 08 January at 02:07PM

JPR: That was my guess for #15, although there's a similar one that would also fit for that.

Criseyde — 08 January at 02:31PM

JPR, GB. I must have led a sheltered life. If I have the acronym you're referring to in #15 and #20, I've now learned of its origin. Previously thought it was just a kerfuffle! (Now, I'll have to look that up.)

Anyone got my 'kids'? They're pretty common I must admit.

AC — 08 January at 03:26PM

Criseyde, I can only think of an insignificant, (unburdened) rich couple for kids. Was that 18 or 19? :)

JPR — 08 January at 04:55PM

DA has no more than one for each beginning letter ..... so if #15 is a different 'up' we have our F...
still looking for H, I, J, Q, R, etc. suppose Q can be Queensland as in an airline name

DA — 08 January at 06:08PM

Like your thinking JPR - those overlooked letters can be tricky to fill.

Z can be Zone, if you know your addresses abroad...

And Geoff B is right - the answers are not unique, just as IT and SMS can probably help us complete the set. Though the more popular the better, of course. (And no initialisms of course.)

Criseyde — 08 January at 06:29PM

In light of JPR and DA's comments I'm a bit confused. Or need to find other words for #1 and #4. Do the answers not both start with A?

18,19 Kids

Yep, AC that's one of them.

The other is a term that brings a smile. 3 letters sounding like a sport, most unlikely, or 4 letters sounding like flesh, probably wrinkly, and could be a slogan for reverse mortgagors.

JPR — 08 January at 09:19PM

why is Hannibal Lecter like an acronym?

"dneirf a gnitae ma" yas nac htob esuaceb

Criseyde — 08 January at 10:40PM

Reverse psychopathy?

And thanks to JPR, and Urban Dictionary, have discovered 'mynorca', which this isn't.

Criseyde — 08 January at 11:01PM

PS. Love the clue JPR. Very funny. Can we quote you?

JPR — 09 January at 07:14PM

no worries

Geoff Bailey — 11 January at 12:27PM

Since this thread is sinking into obscurity, for future reference my intended answer for 'Unhealthy' was BUGA UP.

Criseyde — 15 January at 09:44PM

Oh yeah, Geoff. BUGA UP's a beauty. 32 years ago now, had forgotten the acronym.