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RE: To alleviate the boredom - SaltergateBorn - 19-03-2020
God, this takes me back to when I used to do the quizzes; there was always one who bloody argued!
(And who`d have thought it would have been you, Dancing?)
I`m not going to put up the answers yet so as to give Dev a chance; he said he was going to have a go at them today so it really wouldn`t be fair to post them before he has the chance. For the record, though, Chesterfield and Morecambe are WRONG. They are INCORRECT. They are ERRONEOUS. And the editor`s decision is final on that.
My game, my rules!
RE: To alleviate the boredom - Dancingwilldoit - 19-03-2020
In that case I'm taking my ball back.
RE: To alleviate the boredom - Devongone - 19-03-2020
1. I thought Port Vale (from carry?)
2. PNE
3. Crystal Palace
4. Exteter?
5. Chelsea
6. Barnet/s?
7. Brighton (and no hove into view?)
8. Wolves
9. Spurs
10. Leicester
11. Stoke
12. Bury
13 Middlesboro????
14, Orient
15 NOT A SCOOBY
16. Is it us, Chesterfield?
17. Fulham (that one's Pointless)
18. Blackpool
19 Running out of brains now ….
20 Berwick (they're not a league team now are they?)
21. Motherwell
22. Aston Villa
23. If it is about Sheaf for sheath then it be the Blades.
24 Everton
25. Raith Rovers - now that one's right!
26. Watford
27. I wanted to put Port Vale but I already used them
28, Elgin, yes!
29. Crewe?
30. Reading
31 West Ham?
32. Swansea
33. Morecambe (more =add?}
34 Monkey Hanging Hartlepool (le surrounded by water, that's too crossword for me if it is right!)
35 QPR
36 Oldham
37 Hearts (of Midlothian, literature, more my style)
38. Wrexham
39. Cowdenbeath (well its either them or Oxford, from bovine)
40. Wimbledon
Hope I got my scribbled answers against the right numbers. Liked it, except when I couldn't do it at all. It took ages we need more, the incarcerated that is!)
RE: To alleviate the boredom - SaltergateBorn - 19-03-2020
Right, then. Presumably everybody who`s interested has had a go.
There are 5 that nobody has worked out / guessed so to drag out the fun (pain?) a bit longer I`ll give you some hints on those 5 so you can have another go at them if you wish. I`ll put the full answers up tomorrow unless otherwise instructed.
6. It`s not Barnet; yer barnet`s yer `air, not yer `ead. (Barnet fair = hair.) Much bigger club than that.
Hint: Think of `heads` as a verb, not a noun.
16. I`m amazed that nobody got this. It`s much simpler than the convoluted thinking you need to go through to get to
Chesterfield as an answer.
Hint: Think of Robin Hood (or Daniel Day-Lewis, if you prefer.)
23. Slightly embarrassed to include this one (no I`m not; I don`t embarrass that easily) but it`s local to me and I first
used it at a quiz down here some years ago. To be fair, I didn`t say that they were all EFL or SFL teams. This one
never has been and almost certainly never will be.
Hint: Larry Grayson`s home town.
26. This one did reach dizzy heights some years ago after a famous run in the FA Cup before returning to obscurity
again. No longer in the EFL.
Hint: The Bulls.
34. Again, I`m surprised nobody got this. There are much more obscure clues that you all seemed to twig easily
enough.
Hint: The Lewis of the first half was a great athlete, but he`d have needed to master the water jump to get off the
second half.
RE: To alleviate the boredom - Lord Snooty - 19-03-2020
34. Carlisle
26. Hereford
RE: To alleviate the boredom - Dancingwilldoit - 19-03-2020
6. Liverpool
16. Lincoln Bloody City
23. Nuneaton
26. Bradford Park Avenue
34. Carlpool Athletic
RE: To alleviate the boredom - SaltergateBorn - 20-03-2020
1. Carrying an old guitar Luton (Town)
2. Stuck on the top of the map Preston North End
3. Clear Buckingham Crystal Palace
4. Leaver Exeter (City)
5. Pensioners` bun Chelsea
6. Heads Leeds (United)
7. Brilliant when worn Brighton (& Hove Albion)
8. They blow houses down Wolves
9. Riding boots have them Spurs
10. Firstly, he rode plenty of winners Leicester (City)
11. Feed a steam engine Stoke (City)
12. Inter Bury
13. The P in Peter Peterhead
14. Found dead on the express Leyton Orient
15. Reynolds, perhaps, on Olde Englande Burton Albion
16. President Green Lincoln (City)
17. The complete bacon joint Fulham
18. Murky waters Blackpool (or Blackburn)
19. Londonderry on a g-string Ayr (United)
20. Uncover part of a candle Berwick (Rangers)
21. A parent no longer ill Motherwell
22. A classy car in front of a Roman house Aston Villa
23. An untouched plate Nuneaton (Borough)
24. Weight for a long time Everton
25. Wandering ghosts Raith Rovers
26. This is the place for a river crossing Hereford
27. Left a cover over the face Port Vale
28. Marbles metropolis Elgin City
29. Ship`s company Crewe (Alexandra)
30. Sitting down with a good book Reading
31. The new stadium rebuilt West Ham United (anagram)
32. Spinning cricketer`s water Swansea (City)
33. Add to Bolton (Wanderers)
34. Lewis, say, surrounded by water Carlisle (United)
35. HM`s greenkeepers Queen`s Park Rangers
36. Don`t let `em go! Oldham (Athletic)
37. That`s novel, Sir Walter! Heart of Midlothian
38. Destroys things Wrexham
39. Bovine model T Oxford (United)
40. Anyone for tennis Wimbledon
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There we are, then. I hope that helped to pass a bit of time whilst some of us are slammed up.
RE: To alleviate the boredom - Lord Snooty - 20-03-2020
Very good. Just a couple I don't quite understand. Luton and Raith Rovers.
RE: To alleviate the boredom - SaltergateBorn - 20-03-2020
Both of those are a play on words, Snoots. A lute is a string instrument similar to a guitar and a wraith is another word for a ghost.
RE: To alleviate the boredom - Lord Snooty - 20-03-2020
Lute. Yes of course. There is an old make of guitar called Vale and port is another word for carry. That was one I was sure was correct.
Never heard of a wraith before though. Every day's a school day. Well not after today.
