Winter Wrap
15 September, 2010
Here they are – the answers to the 30 winter clues you’ve been “enjoying” this last while. The five sets of six appear below in the order of first appearance.
You’ll also notice the bonus words you need to clue. Namely UPWIND (or WIND-UP), COWARD, WHACKS, POMADE and AFFIRM. So don’t dilly-dally. You have till 6pm Friday to compose your best clues for each – with no more than two per player permitted.
(Post them here, by the way. Maybe piecemeal, so you get the suss the calibre of your esteemed rivals, with originality and concision – in that order – being the yardsticks.)
Don’t worry. I’ll include my own inklings, and later, in full impartiality, anoint the five best clues on the weekend some time.
So, the winter wrap:
Fixed rate? Mourn dividend = NUMERATOR
A measure of material for Peter? = DENIER
Unwise breaking limit – cop follows one = IMPOLITIC
Basic kinds of number, each without a point = PRIMORDIAL
Bend on road to Lancaster, say = WARPLANE
Wave adult off in marriage = UNDULATION
BONUS WORD: UPWIND [or WIND-UP]
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In comic, kapow suggests this = WITH IT
Seed new grape – 80% pinot = ORANGE PIP
Old convicts first to be released from behind bars = AGED
Very angry missing start of exciting sporting event = RALLYCROSS
Take away bottle as the diner ordered = DISHEARTEN
Husband cheats – a woman harbours bit of resentment = CONSERVE
BONUS WORD = COWARD
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Relief from dope, say = SUCCOUR
Fish withdrawing from the sound = KOI
First pair of knickers said to be hot stuff = CAYENNE
Measure of decay of lithium or iron? HALF-LIFE
Inclusion of demands of orthodoxy, etc = AND SO FORTH
Gas on for breakfast? = WAFFLE
BONUS WORD = WHACKS
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Live without monster when his job’s done? = EXORCIST
Stress in the evening rush hour = DRIVE HOME
Fish sauce served up with vegetable = PILCHARD
Buzz derived from tropical drink = ALDRIN
Tight-lipped guards work in exhibition centre = MUSEUM
Poet writing about primo donno? = OVID
BONUS WORD = POMADE
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Weak antenna almost receiving what BBC repeats? = FEEBLE
Male hanging around to enjoy festival = MARDI GRAS
Always go the wrong way, entering junctions = FOR KEEPS
Country singer not very popular at first = INDIA
Bond, spy carrying on with English maiden = AGREEMENT
Physicist’s routine for splitting mass? = RUTHERFORD
BONUS WORD = AFFIRM
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