Scribes v Draughtsmen

Series 6, Episode 16

Jump To: Connections Sequences Connecting Wall Missing Vowels

Round 1: Connections

𓇌 Two Reeds

Head: Meissa

Belt buckle: Alnilam

Clue 2

Left leg: Rigel

Clue 3

Shoulder: Betelgeuse

Clue 4

Star positions in Orion's "body"

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Marty Feldman’s last film

Captain of Queen Anne’s Revenge

Clue 2

Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I

Clue 3

Wife-murdering Perrault character

Clue 4

Coloured beards

Yellowbeard, Blackbeard, Barbarossa, La Barbe Bleu

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Told through letter writing

Dear Gable by Judy Garland, Letter Duet (The Marriage of Figaro) by Mozart, Stan by Eminem, Hello Muddah! Hello Fadduh! by Allen Sherman

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

The images have been flipped

Answer

𓈗 Water

Champion of 1981 Grand National

It told of Pennywise the clown

Clue 2

Town where Battle Abbey lies

Clue 3

Had a 1974 hit with Killer Queen

Clue 4

The answer is in the clue

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

England: Wales

Brazil: Scotland

Clue 2

Scotland: Trinidad and Tobago

Clue 3

Holland: Republic of Ireland

Clue 4

Footballers and their playing countries

Answer

Round 2: Sequences

𓇌 Two Reeds

5: Marylebone Old Church

6: White’s Club, Soho

Clue 2

7: Fleet debtors’ prison

Clue 3

8: Bethlem hospital (Bedlam)

Locations in A Rake's Progress

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Disposable cigarette lighters

Hot air balloons

Clue 2

Production of ethylene

Clue 3

(e.g.) Main component of natural gas

Butane, Propane, Ethane, Methane

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Clue 2

Clue 3

Tamar

Lose one letter from the end. Tamarind, Tamarin, Tamari, Tamar

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

A = Azure a saltire argent

D = Sable a cross or

Clue 2

G = Argent a cross gules

Clue 3

P = Argent a saltire gules

UK patron saints' flags

Answer

𓈗 Water

NNNE

NEENE

Clue 2

EESE

Clue 3

SESSE

Pairs of compass points

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Kendal Mintcake

Miss Money-Sterling

Clue 2

Lord Snot

Clue 3

Lord Monty

Footlights' College in The Young Ones

Answer

Round 3: Connecting Walls

𓃭 Lion

Fry

Smolt

Alevin

Codling

Terms for young fish

Answer

Levin

Martin

Rushton

Percival

That Was The Week That Was regulars

Answer

Mormon

Ketch

Frost

Sprat

Metaphorical Jacks

Answer

Snow

Brigantine

Buss

Yawl

Two-masted sailing vessels

Answer

𓈗 Water

Eight Ace

Mr Logic

Tinribs

Black Bag

Viz comic strips

Answer

River City

Landward

Burnistoun

Sportscene

BBC Scotland programmes

Answer

Coast

Employment

Data

Consumer

___ Protection Act

Answer

Graffiti

Opera

Agenda

Candelabra

Plural used as if singular

Answer

Round 4: Missing Vowels

Things that good children do

KPTH RLB WSFF THT BL

KEEP THEIR ELBOWS OFF THE TABLE

SYPL SNDT HNKY

SAY PLEASE AND THANK YOU

RSP CTT HRL DRS

RESPECT THEIR ELDERS

TT HRGR NS

EAT THEIR GREENS

Wooden objects and their traditional wood

CRC KTB TNDW LLW

CRICKET BAT AND WILLOW

LC T RCC HRN DK

ELECTRIC CHAIR AND OAK

TT MP LNDC DR

TOTEM POLE AND CEDAR

L NG BWN DYW

LONGBOW AND YEW

Three consecutive months

DC MB RJN RYF BRR Y

DECEMBER, JANUARY, FEBRUARY

JNJ L TT

JUIN, JUILLET, AOUT

PR RLM SS DRT HRMD R

PRAIRIAL, MESSIDOR, THERMIDOR

MR ZBR LMY

MARZO, ABRIL, MAYO

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