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  • Brainy sorts – help me decrypt these clues
  • neilthewheel
    Full Member

    Ok, we are looking for things you can wear:
    “Let it stand, boy”
    “In common with Holly and Ivy”
    “Snog a leader”
    “Strike at the golfer”
    “Found in a Tulsa riding school”
    “Take the back of rifles”
    “The pink lady novelist less a pub”
    “Miss a catch”

    There are 79 like this and these last few are driving me nuts. There’s £25 at stake!

    algarvebairn
    Free Member

    “Found in a Tulsa riding school” SARI

    muddy_bum
    Free Member

    “Snog a leader” Neckerchief

    willard
    Full Member

    “In common with Holly and Ivy” – A beret perhaps?

    stealthcat
    Full Member

    The pink lady novelist less a pub – Bra (Barbara Cartland – a bar)
    Take the back of rifles – Stock?

    MrSalmon
    Free Member

    “Strike at the golfer”- a dress?

    algarvebairn
    Free Member

    “strike at the golfer”: cufflinks? To “cuff” is to trike and links is a seadside golf course. Tenuous at best, I appreciate.

    muddy_bum
    Free Member

    “Let it stand, boy” Stetson

    Stet is a Latin word (meaning “let it stand”)

    algarvebairn
    Free Member

    “miss a catch” Slip?

    thejesmonddingo
    Full Member

    Well done muddybum,I type too slow.

    neilthewheel
    Full Member

    You lot are blardy amazing. Wait til I show Mrs Wheel.
    algarvebairn, I thought of slip for this one, but I thought slip had more to do with a position on the field than dropping a ball? Or am I still wrestling with the wrong end of the stick??

    midlifecrashes
    Full Member

    Holly and the Ivy carol is maybe crown?


    The holly and the ivy
    Now are both well grown
    Of all the trees that are in the wood
    The holly bears the crown

    neilthewheel
    Full Member

    We thought of crown too but that came up as the answer to another question (worth five shillings)Like willard we also thought of beret; though the Ivy has a flower, not a berry, in the song.

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