Surrealists v Verbivores

Series 12, Episode 26

Jump To: Connections Sequences Connecting Wall Missing Vowels

Round 1: Connections

𓇌 Two Reeds

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Missing identification

No number plate, no name of the band, no name of the soldier, no country of origin

Answer

𓃭 Lion

c = s

p = r

Clue 2

н = n

Clue 3

в = v

Clue 4

Cyrillic letters and Roman equivalents

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Gray

Waltz

Clue 2

Pleasence

Clue 3

Savalas

Clue 4

Blofeld actors

Diamonds Are Forever, Spectre, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Teenage

Teenage Idol by Ricky Nelson, Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus, Teenage Dream by Katy Perry, Teenage Kicks by The Undertones

Answer

𓈗 Water

James Watson’s Nobel medal

Holdings in Facebook

Clue 2

Russian mines

Clue 3

Shares in Arsenal

Clue 4

Bought by Alisher Usmanov

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

In A Lovely Place

Dank Passage

Clue 2

The Big Sheep

Clue 3

Capablanca

Clue 4

Humphrey Bogart films with one letter changed

In A Lonely Place, Dark Passage, The Big Sleep, Casablanca

Answer

Round 2: Sequences

𓇌 Two Reeds

1981 Louis Malle film

No, No Nanette’s duo song

Clue 2

Manet’s 1862-3 picnic scene

Clue 3

(e.g.) 1973 Kurt Vonnegut novel

Meals at different times of the day. My DINNER with Andre, TEA for Two, LUNCHEON on the Grass, BREAKFAST of Champions

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Brown

Green

Clue 2

Yellow

Clue 3

Red, in red

Snooker balls in rainbow colours

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Clue 2

Clue 3

(e.g.) Katie Derham

Names for UK storms. HENRY Kissinger, IMOGEN Stubbs, JAKE Gyllenhaal, KATIE Derham

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Jeannot Lapin

Le tailleur de Gloucester

Clue 2

Noisette l’écureuil

Clue 3

Pierre Lapin

Beatrix Potter titles in French. Benjamin Bunny, The Tailor of Gloucester, Squirrel Nutkin, Peter Rabbit.

Answer

𓈗 Water

Summer

Conference

Clue 2

November

Clue 3

Christmas

House of Commons recesses

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Going For A Song

Nationwide

Clue 2

This Is Your Life

Clue 3

(e.g.) Hive Minds

Antiques Roadshow presenters' other jobs. Arthur Negus, Hugh Scully, Michael Aspel, Fiona Bruce

Answer

Round 3: Connecting Walls

𓃭 Lion

Christabel

Emmeline

Emily

Annie

Campaigners for women's suffrage

Answer

Carrot

Dill

Cicely

Angelica

Members of the parsley family

Answer

Paradise

Parsley

Errand

Gold

Fool's ___

Answer

Riser

Tread

Nosing

Cap

Parts of a staircase

Answer

𓈗 Water

Flashing

Dormer

Gable

Eaves

Roofing terminology

Answer

Howard

Leigh

de Havilland

Rutherford

Gone with the Wind cast

Answer

Hawker Siddeley

Bristol

Vickers-Armstrongs

Shorts

UK aviation companies

Answer

Warwick

Didcot

East Midlands

Liverpool South

Parkway stations

Answer

Round 4: Missing Vowels

Books about books

SVNTY PSF MB GTY

SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY

GNS TNT RPR TTN

AGAINST INTERPRETATION

THS GN FYN GMN KY

THE SIGNIFYING MONKEY

STH RTX TNT HSC LSS

IS THERE A TEXT IN THIS CLASS?

A TV sports theme tune and its sports

SLLM BN DC RCKT

SOUL LIMBO AND CRICKET

THC HNN DFR MLN

THE CHAIN AND FORMULA ONE

PPL KSB CHN DS KNG

POP LOOKS BACH AND SKIING

CHS SDS HTPN DGLF

CHASESIDE SHOOT-UP AND GOLF

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