Cluesmiths v String Section

Series 11, Episode 25

Jump To: Connections Sequences Connecting Wall Missing Vowels

Round 1: Connections

𓇌 Two Reeds

Little

Petite messe solennelle by Rossini, Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart, Dream a Little Dream of Me by the Mamas and the Papas, Reet Petite by Jackie Wilson

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Temporal alienation forbidden

No special lighting

Clue 2

No brought-in props

Clue 3

Cameras must be hand-held

Clue 4

Dogme 95

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

.se ↔ .dk

Jon. ↔ Nah.

Clue 2

FL ↔ ID

Clue 3

As ↔ Ni

Clue 4

Overlapping names

SweDenmark, JoNahum, FlorIdaho, ArseNickel

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Names mean peace

IRENE Handl, MIR, SALOME, La PAZ

Answer

𓈗 Water

Bird

Little Dyer

Clue 2

Angelic Brother

Clue 3

Little Barrel

Clue 4

Italian Renaissance painters

Uccello, Tintoretto, Fra Angelico, Botticelli

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Tom Thumb

The Jack of Hearts

Clue 2

Judas Priest

Clue 3

Woody Guthrie

Clue 4

Bob Dylan titles

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie

Answer

Round 2: Sequences

𓇌 Two Reeds

Total pips, standard domino set

Uranus year in full Earth years

Clue 2

Answer to Ultimate Question

Clue 3

(e.g.) Adele's second album

168, 84, 42, 21

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Sb, As

Al, Se

Clue 2

H and O

Clue 3

N and Re

Tom Lehrer's "The Elements"

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

“Brethren, pray for us” (17)

“Remember Lot’s wife” (16)

Clue 2

“Rejoice evermore” (15)

Clue 3

"Jesus wept" (9)

Shortest verses in the New Testament. "In the beginning" (14) accepted as an alternative sequence of Quotes from the Bible.

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

(e.g.) Israelites by Desmond Dekker

Alliterative names. The Bee Song by Arthur Askey, Harley Davidson by Brigitte Bardot, The Twist by Chubby Checker, Israelites by Desmond Dekker

Answer

𓈗 Water

4th: Abyssopelagic

3rd: Bathypelagic

Clue 2

2nd: Mesopelagic

Clue 3

1st: Epipelagic

Layers of the ocean

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Clue 2

Clue 3

(e.g.) Kleve (known as Cleves)

Wives of Henry VIII. ARAGON, BOLEYN Ground, SEYMOUR Skinner, CLEVES

Answer

Round 3: Connecting Walls

𓃭 Lion

Bryn Mawr

Smith

Barnard

Vassar

Seven Sisters colleges

Answer

Lamb

Temple

Primrose

Wellesley

Noble Prime Ministers

Answer

Occiput

Crown

Scalp

Mandible

Parts of the head

Answer

Nose

Mid-palate

Chewy

Finish

Terms from wine tasting

Answer

𓈗 Water

Graham

Bakker

Swaggart

Falwell

Televangelists

Answer

Naxos

Manor

Angel

Edna

British Isles people

Answer

ECM

Phillips

Hyperion

Decca

Classical labels

Answer

Slot

Robertson

Hex

Posidriv

Screw recesses

Answer

Round 4: Missing Vowels

UK number-one acts of the 2010s

SCT NGF RGR LS

SCOUTING FOR GIRLS

R TR

RITA ORA

NY

NE-YO

R HN N

RIHANNA

Islands of Japan

HNS H

HONSHU

S HKK

SHIKOKU

KN W

OKINAWA

HKK D

HOKKAIDO

Italian football teams

JV NTS

JUVENTUS

D NS

UDINESE

NT RN ZNL

INTERNAZIONALE

FRN TN

FIORENTINA

Settlements of Roman Britain and their modern equivalents

QSL SNDB TH

AQUAE SULIS AND BATH

Tie-break

FS TSTF NG RFR ST

FASTEST FINGER FIRST

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