Passing the time

[LAT]

Loving the pictures!

[SparkOut]

That is brilliant! Utterly brilliant!

[chazzie]

Thank you!

My hall was always a bit of a non-descript/junk area - so this year - having painted it - decided to have a number of pictures in frames - that meant something to me - sort of discussion points....

currently have 4 new frames - that need filling and adding to the wall!

[Bunnylump]

Haha love the pictures!
Chazzie -swap you two? I'm really, really stuck now!

[chazzie]

I've found a few more now - and more than happy to swap. Happy to say which fruit goes with which number clue....to give you still a bit to sort out....

[Bunnylump]

Lovely, thank you. These are the ones I have so far... I've put the clue followed by the fruit each time.

25. The exact centre of our pub is to be determined by the official baiter. RHUBARB
26. If you’re thinking of moving into an old house, my advice is “Look before you lease!” APPLE
27. In India they charge snakes with musical trickery. MEDLAR
28. Whatever the regent does make a profit. SULTANA
29. The ship’s dog was a dark and noisy Labrador, and the sea was rough. I couldn’t sleep with that pitching all night. BLACKCURRANT
30. Holmes composed a violin piece: “The Mystery of the Red Sea" Sing to excite him! QUINCE
31. Hog ate date ton as we boys grew weary of school food. WATERMELON
32. The freight company sped coal to Tyneside. HIP
33. The table-tennis champion will be aping tonight. PEAR
34. Councillors shunted by vice scandal. PLANTAIN
35. Tonight on the South Bank Show we examine the work of Pablo Hernandez – a curt critic, an enigmatic playwright, and a major figure in the cultural life of his country. BANANA
36. The sow hoped to reach her hog before nightfall. MELON
37. Consider the effect of that McEnroe bravery – true American heart! TANGERNE
38. As I left the casino for my hotel room I was offered a dice cup of cocoa was what I wanted. RAMBUTAN
39. The sports master wanted to publish a school magazine at the parents’ expense, but he couldn’t make any one s printer. PAPAYA
40. Bees found, according to research by some Austrian Mendel "weiss” flowers more easily than coloured flowers. NECTARINE

[chazzie]

Oh - I had a different one for Tangerine - how does that fit in your answer? - I used it in 6, My darling, I cannot keep all my hearth alive to you
I also have different numbers for the clues as I think you resorted some.

Anyway: the ones I have that you are missing

3, It was a wonderful Balt, a man from Riga, who wanted to take me home to Latvia - LIME
8, Tonight I am wearing my slim dressing for warmth - HAW
9, We can see in the design of the airship with the extractor fan - PUMPKIN
11, The hug to associate with bears is a strong and fearless one - MANDARIN
23, Despite having a figure like a large - hi, Pa! - shop, which was popular with slimmers, she was a real character, my Aunt Margaret - POMEGRANATE
24 The boat with the lateen sailed down the river towards Yarmouth - SHADDOCK
2, I must pay off the loans. Harsh interest rates were not always so high - KIWI

[chazzie]

7, A common arson is seldom found at the Taj Mahal - GRAPE

[Bunnylump]

Oh - I had a different one for Tangerine - how does that fit in your answer? - I used it in 6, My darling, I cannot keep all my hearth alive to you
I also have different numbers for the clues as I think you resorted some.

Anyway: the ones I have that you are missing

3, It was a wonderful Balt, a man from Riga, who wanted to take me home to Latvia - LIME
8, Tonight I am wearing my slim dressing for warmth - HAW
9, We can see in the design of the airship with the extractor fan - PUMPKIN
11, The hug to associate with bears is a strong and fearless one - MANDARIN
23, Despite having a figure like a large - hi, Pa! - shop, which was popular with slimmers, she was a real character, my Aunt Margaret - POMEGRANATE
24 The boat with the lateen sailed down the river towards Yarmouth - SHADDOCK
2, I must pay off the loans. Harsh interest rates were not always so high - KIWI

Thank you. I had the tangerine one as
37. Consider the effect of that McEnroe braT ANGER IN Every – true American heart!

[chazzie]

Thanks - re the Tangerine one - makes sense!

[chazzie]

4 Tweedledum said he'd hidden the rattle in the jar, said Tweedledee. - UGLI

[chazzie]

I think I've got another....as not sure first spoiler is as before and second is what I think it should say

16, That fireplace is supposed to be as aid, my father - DAMSON

The fireplace is supposed to be Adam son, said my father

[chazzie]

22. I'd heard so much about Alvaro Mendoza the football coach that while in Central America I simply had to see the man - and Al's team - GUAVA

[Bunnylump]

Thank you for those, although I still can't work out how this one works...
I'd heard so much about Alvaro Mendoza the football coach that while in Central America I simply had to see the man - and Al's team - GUAVA

I honestly thought that with only 14 to pair up it would get easier. Sadly, that is not the case! How the heck we should be able to fit things like PINEAPPLE into a short phrase, yet STILL can't get it is beyond me!

[chazzie]

Yep - I thought that as we narrowed them down it would get easier...

re the one you queried - man and A;'s team becomes mana(gua va)ndal's team!!! spent a bit of time on google for that one - having thought it could be vandals!

was going to have another look this evening

[Bunnylump]

Several days later...
Every item of her clothing had a clear identification mark: “Cynthia Manners-Price, strip -o-Gram”. LEMON

[chazzie]

Well done. I now have another

Don’t spend all that money on prisons ...........LYCHEE

[chazzie]

And another

Since she was Irish I gave the thirsty mare whiskey...CHERRY

[Bunnylump]

Gosh, well done! Don't think I would ever have got the miserably bit!

I keep wanting the mysterious CUMQUAT one to be in
Switzerland and Holland, countries as different as chalk and cheese, are both celebrating the Emmentaler centenary this year.

something like Emmental cum quatre but that doesn't really quite work. Goodness knows where else it might go!

Also, keep wondering about
Rising from the mists in the eerie caverns, a frightful MAN GOod our – attention! - where, although the words make sense, the sentence doesn't, really!

[LAT]

Mango odour?

Says she who hasn't really been following these. I might have a go if/when I get a bit of free time.