Thrifters v Also Rans

Series 19, Episode 28

Jump To: Connections Sequences Connecting Wall Missing Vowels

Round 1: Connections

𓇌 Two Reeds

Loser

Fine by me!

Four

Clue 2

Call me

Scout salute

Clue 3

Rock

Paper

Clue 4

Inverted hand signals

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Dactyl = D

Anapest = U

Clue 2

Trochee = N

Clue 3

Iamb = A

Clue 4

Morse feet

Poetic feet with the corresponding letter in Morse. Long-short-short, Short-short-long, Long-short, Short-long

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

John Travolta dance scenes

Chain of Fools by Aretha Franklin (Michael), All Shook Up by Elvis Presley (Look Who's Talking Too), You Can Never Tell by Chuck Berry (Pulp Fiction), You Should Be Dancing by the Bee Gees (Saturday Night Fever)

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

From a Rita Hayworth poster: RITA

In a directory: Bill CLAY

Clue 2

Under a mug: KOBAYASHI

Clue 3

In a newspaper: Police DOUBT FIRE Was Accidental

Clue 4

Names made up in a hurry

Mulholland Drive, Die Hard, The Usual Suspects, Mrs. Doubtfire

Answer

𓈗 Water

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

One provides goods for the other

Henry NAYLOR/Karen CARPENTER, Keith FLETCHER/Jeffery ARCHER, Pat BUTCHER/Peter COOK, Ben MILLER/Tom BAKER

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Yoko Tawada

‘Das nackte Auge’

Jhumpa Lahiri

‘Dove mi trovo’

Clue 2

Vladimir Nabokov

‘Lolita’

Clue 3

Samuel Beckett

‘En Attendant Godot’

Clue 4

Exophonic writers

Answer

Round 2: Sequences

𓇌 Two Reeds

London St Pancras International station

Prestwick International Airport station

Clue 2

Rhoose Cardiff International Airport station

Clue 3

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch station

Longest railway station names

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Clue 2

Clue 3

Hugo Drax

B.O.N.D. villains. Blofeld, Oddjob, Nick Nack, Drax

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Queen Elizabeth II on coins

Clue 2

Mona Lisa

Clue 3

(e.g.) King Charles III on coins

Direction faced by the subject. Back, left, front, right.

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

21. Nepal

231. Serbia

Clue 2

4231. Slovenia

Clue 3

41352. Mozambique

Countries with increasing numbers of vowels

Answer

𓈗 Water

1st of 26: A

2nd of 26: H

Clue 2

3rd of 26: R

Clue 3

4th of 26: B

Letters in alphabetical order

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

67:

Harold Wilson

71:

Margaret Thatcher

Clue 2

73:

Tony Blair

Clue 3

79: Rishi Sunak

"Prime" prime ministers

Answer

Round 3: Connecting Walls

𓃭 Lion

Modest

Spartan

Humble

Plain

Unshowy

Answer

Eye of Horus

Two Reeds

Horned Viper

Lion

Egyptian hieroglyphs

Answer

Water

Heart

Industry

Metal

Heavy ___

Answer

Twisted Flax

Dabney

Frugal

Bumptious

Begin with novelty dances

Answer

𓈗 Water

Lion

Pass

Ash

Rescue

Mountain ___

Answer

Eye of Horus

Anthem

Southey

Marlowe

End in plural pronouns

Answer

Twisted Flax

Two Reeds

Horned Viper

Water

Egyptian hieroglyphs

Answer

Pope

Clare

Blake

Housman

English poets

Answer

Round 4: Missing Vowels

Events from US history that didn't take place in a state

BRT HFGR GWS HNG TN

BIRTH OF GEORGE WASHINGTON

SSSSN TNFBR HMLN CLN

ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

TTC KNPR LHRBR

ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR

FR STMNL NDNG

FIRST MOON LANDING

Titles of songs where something is replaced by their rival

MDN GH TTT HBLR

MIDNIGHT AT THE BLUR

LN GHRDL VRF RMV RTN

LONG HAIRED LOVER FROM EVERTON

THBT MN

THE BATMAN

JNC RW FR DYS

JOAN CRAWFORD EYES

Demonyms and what else they can be

THS CT SMNN DNW SP PR

THE SCOTSMAN AND NEWSPAPER

THR SH MNN DF LM

THE IRISHMAN AND FILM

THM RCNN DNV LN DFLM

THE AMERICAN AND NOVEL AND FILM