Ice Cube Clues
25 November, 2014
It's a rare clue that deserves its own post, and brainstorm. But that honour falls to The Guardian's Enigmatist from a few weeks back (26043) when he presented this novelty:
Mass of cold meat from skinned ribs succeed fantastically (3,4)
Only thanks to a few cross-letters did I suspect ICE CUBE, but how. Then I spotted the devilry, with 'ribs succeed' successively losing their 'skins'. The fantastic upshot of IBUCCEE, of course, is ICE CUBE.
Wow. That's one rare reductive anagram technique, in a stylish seamless clue. In tribute, can we duplicate a similar feet, even using a single fodder-word to strip. Like this:
Cat suffered vertigo endlessly = TIGER
Trying a weaker two-word version:
Cat stirs legs, bare and free
Jeez it's a tricky recipe. No wonder it's rare. Kudos to John Henderson (aka Enigmatist) for daring to dream such mischief. See if we can add to the marvel.
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