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Re: Rhyme game

#781 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Aug 06, 2022 7:17 pm

About time one of my wishes came true! 🤣

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Re: Rhyme game

#782 Post by SparkOut » Mon Aug 15, 2022 7:17 am

Best idea so far is grower glower but not convinced
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#783 Post by Bunnylump » Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:02 pm

TBH that might work better for my really rubbish hint!

Maybe I should have said sweltering vase-maker?
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Re: Rhyme game

#784 Post by SparkOut » Mon Aug 15, 2022 1:37 pm

Ah, or the Hogwarts alumnus getting closer to the fire then.
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#785 Post by Bunnylump » Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:17 pm

Yes! Sorry, first clue was the result of me having just got in from potting up some plants in the scorching heat! (It was hotter potter.)
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Re: Rhyme game

#786 Post by SparkOut » Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:48 pm

OK try working this out. It's two different answers that are the same, but different.
Confused? You'll see what I mean when you get it. Just a bit of silliness.

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Re: Rhyme game

#787 Post by LAT » Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:08 pm

Aha! Very clever. :lol:

I shall give others a chance to think about it before I post an answer but I believe I might know what it is. :D
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Re: Rhyme game

#788 Post by SparkOut » Mon Aug 15, 2022 10:21 pm

They is, or it are :lol:

Don't give too much time to think, it/they isnae that puzzling, it was just a little problematic to explain
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#789 Post by Bunnylump » Mon Aug 15, 2022 10:23 pm

Ah, me too - are we talking heteronyms? :D Scurra, puzzle potential? :lol:
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Re: Rhyme game

#790 Post by SparkOut » Wed Aug 17, 2022 7:48 am

Of course there's nothing new about the puzzling potential for heteronyms - how many times have you seen "flower" in a cryptic crossword clue?
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#791 Post by Bunnylump » Wed Aug 17, 2022 10:38 am

...Although, recently the setters seem to be doing a double-bluff and making flowers actually flowers! :lol:
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Re: Rhyme game

#792 Post by SparkOut » Wed Aug 17, 2022 7:39 pm

OK so someone provide the answer and set the next then please
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Re: Rhyme game

#793 Post by Scurra » Wed Aug 17, 2022 8:57 pm

It's a TOWER SHOWER, or, alternatively, a TOWER SHOWER.

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Re: Rhyme game

#794 Post by SparkOut » Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:07 pm

This one is still puzzling
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Re: Rhyme game

#795 Post by SparkOut » Tue Aug 30, 2022 10:35 pm

If you'd put Maid of Orleans I could forcibly wrangle that into French Wench but nothing like the proper answer. And that still would have been quite brutish.
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Re: Rhyme game

#796 Post by Scurra » Wed Aug 31, 2022 9:58 am

You're on the right track. Here's a different one that will possibly give it away.

Macron's second eleven?
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Re: Rhyme game

#797 Post by LAT » Thu Sep 01, 2022 3:20 pm

Hmmm, not sure that helps much. :?

A second eleven is usually known as the B-team, which is 5 letters but I can't work out the connection to the original clue at all. :(
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Re: Rhyme game

#798 Post by Bunnylump » Fri Sep 02, 2022 1:08 am

I don't get it either. Wondered about French Bench but mainly because it rhymes! :lol: No idea why for either though.
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Re: Rhyme game

#799 Post by SparkOut » Fri Sep 02, 2022 3:18 am

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! You're right Bunny. :lol:

siège fr. => bench

The second eleven (reserves) may make the Substitutes' Bench
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Re: Rhyme game

#800 Post by Bunnylump » Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:05 pm

SparkOut wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 02, 2022 3:18 am

siège fr. => bench

OK so never knew that! :lol:

Assuming that's right....

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