Round Blogworld Quiz Special – Part 2

Posted by Guest in Round Blogworld Quiz Aug, 31 2011 13 Comments

In our special two-part quiz, Brit the Elder has supplied 15 cryptic clues: see part 1 for the first 7 clues (but don’t read the comments if you don’t want to know the answers); the rest are below.
Don’t forget that to make it extra tricksy, the answers are all connected. Who will claim the imaginary cream bun by getting the connection… in detail…?

8. Houses which disorderly pair lament. (10)
9. Hesitation after Greek god and fiend (Roman one) cause chaos.(11)
10. Praise explodes into a form of worship. (10)
11. Rate “not sound”. (4)
12. Delivery workers? (6)
13. Guard, guards, lookout, lookouts. (5)
14. “And his _________ may defeat my life”. (Othello) (10)
15. Sounds like Bilbo’s golden treasure, but actually it’s wooden. (4)

Solution to follow….
Tags With:
Share This Post

About Author Profile: Guest

guest@thedabbler.co.uk'

13 thoughts on “Round Blogworld Quiz Special – Part 2”

  1. law@mhbref.com'
    jonathan law
    August 31, 2011 at 13:21

    8 = parliament.

  2. law@mhbref.com'
    jonathan law
    August 31, 2011 at 13:46

    12 = labour.

  3. law@mhbref.com'
    jonathan law
    August 31, 2011 at 13:51

    9 = pandemonium.

  4. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    August 31, 2011 at 14:16

    14 = unkindness

  5. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    August 31, 2011 at 14:23

    13 = watch (?)

  6. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    August 31, 2011 at 14:25

    I think 10 is exaltation.

  7. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    August 31, 2011 at 14:58

    15 is yoke!

  8. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    August 31, 2011 at 15:31

    And 4 is knot.

  9. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    August 31, 2011 at 15:32

    So, the overall answer is that they are all collective nouns.

  10. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    August 31, 2011 at 15:41

    Today’s answers were:
    A parliament of birds/owls (anagram)
    A pandemonium of parrots (Pan + demon + i + um
    An exaltation of larks (though I wasn’t totally sure about that one)
    A knot (rate, sounds like not) of frogs/snakes/toads
    A labour of moles
    A watch of nightingales (means all of them)
    An unkindness of ravens (straight quote)
    A yoke of oxen (Bilbo’s golden treasure was the yolk of an egg, sounds like wooden yoke)

  11. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    August 31, 2011 at 15:50

    Yesterday’s answers were:
    A bellowing of bullfinches (Bell + owing)
    A crash of rhinos (c + rash)
    A muster of peacocks (straight cryptic)
    A shrewdness of apes (straight cryptic)
    A murder of crows (Red Rum backwards)
    A charm of goldfinches (means both words)
    A clamour of rooks (clam +our)

  12. law@mhbref.com'
    jonathan law
    August 31, 2011 at 15:55

    Smart work Adelephant.

    I was wondering if the answer to 10 could be ‘observance’ — form of worship and collective noun for hermits?

  13. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    August 31, 2011 at 15:57

    Hmm. Could be – still unsure about that one.

Comments are closed.