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3iff
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 12:12 pm    Post subject: 1 Reply with quote

My colleague brought in a puzzle and we're stuck on the last 3...unfortunately it's a picture...not text and I don't have time to type it all up.

As usual, the answers are in alphabetic order but I'm only listing the ones we haven't got...I'll indicate the likely range of answers in brackets. All the answers refer to tools (Tools of the Trade is the title)

Dairy product in front of cupboard (B-D)

Rotating direction gets part of the body (S)

Right in drier (T) (but could be T-W if we have a wrong answer)

...should take some of the experts about 15 seconds to get these...


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 12:46 pm    Post subject: 2 Reply with quote

"Dairy product in front of cupboard" - hmmm I'm thinking of something like Box cUTTER or Bolt cUTTER, but can't get anything to fit.
"Rotating direction gets part of the body" might be SEAT (i.e. anagram of EAST)
"Right in drier" - T(R)OWEL
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:00 pm    Post subject: 3 Reply with quote

TROWEL fits...nice one.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:07 pm    Post subject: 4 Reply with quote

Do you have word lengths?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:21 pm    Post subject: 5 Reply with quote

No...just the clue and the knowledge that the answers are in alpha order (like many of the puzzles here...). I think I'll type up all the clues then everyone can have a proper go at it.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:25 pm    Post subject: 6 Reply with quote

Why not post the picture?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:32 pm    Post subject: 7 Reply with quote

Here is the full puzzle. The picture(s) are a mess...easier to type it all up...Presented here as it appears...hopefully typo free.

Tools of the Trade

1. A northern village
2. In Warsaw live many people
3. Second missile
4. And second gets some mix up
5. Unpleasant smell with 500 relations
6. Father gets in fight
7. Dairy product in front of cupboard
8. One ball bearing in the German
9. Physician is not well
10. BOY DREAMER
11. Compel with additional information
12. Fluorine or potassium
13. A five in hair mousse
14. Keep your nose to this
15. Precedes clause, toe or horror
16. Banish to Ireland, finally
17. Used for all trades, perhaps
18. Eight coming in after time
19. Require the French
20. TURBAN SHIP
21. Allow into crown of head
22. Black item of cutlery
23. 16th Irish lake
24. One direct debit in three directions
25. Found at the beach in hesitation
26. Token of victory goes to the Spanish
27. Southern workforce
28. Listen in two directions
29. Rotating direction gets part of the body
30. Ghost on a par
31. Large viper follows backward favourites
32. One megabyte left in the revealing answer
33. Right in drier
34. Twenty lies on the floor
35. Bird with central heating
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:11 pm    Post subject: 8 Reply with quote

9. [DRILL]
33 [trowel]
34. [scoreboard]
35. [wrench]
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:24 pm    Post subject: 9 Reply with quote

I assume 35 is WENCH + R, but where do you get the R from?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:34 pm    Post subject: 10 Reply with quote

2) AWL
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:38 pm    Post subject: 11 Reply with quote

Suspence wrote:
I assume 35 is WENCH + R, but where do you get the R from?
WREN + CH
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:39 pm    Post subject: 12 Reply with quote

Suspence wrote:
I assume 35 is WENCH + R, but where do you get the R from?

Try WREN + CH
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:41 pm    Post subject: 13 Reply with quote

12. [FORK]
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:41 pm    Post subject: 14 Reply with quote

Ah, yes. That makes sense.

I like SCOREBOARD, but assume it's wrong given the alphabetical order.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:42 pm    Post subject: 15 Reply with quote

14. GRINDSTONE - or is that too simple?
16. HOD - I'd never heard of this, but it appears to be a tool
17. JACK?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:48 pm    Post subject: 16 Reply with quote

13. [gavel]
23. [plough]
27. [screw]

Ahh, forgot about the alphabetical order thing. I guess scoreboard is wrong then.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:02 pm    Post subject: 17 Reply with quote

Suspence wrote:
HOD - I'd never heard of this, but it appears to be a tool
I used one as a labourer in London. There's quite a skill to loading it and negotiating ladders and scaffolding etc. Of course it's all mechanised now.
The plasterers had a much bigger one to use, since the plaster was not as heavy as bricks and it was always given to the new-comer to use as initiation high-jinks. I was given it and I'd been using it for the day before someone complained on Health & Safety grounds and I was told it was all a joke. I really felt the pain in my calves and shoulder that night, but got a lot of kudos from my workmates for sticking with it so long without complaint.
Dominic Behan, in a song I liked to sing at that time wrote:
McAlpine's God was a well filled hod, your shoulders cut to bits and seared,
And woe to he who looked for tea with McAlpine's Fusiliers

Good times Felicitous
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:16 pm    Post subject: 18 Reply with quote

23) 16th Irish lake - PLOUGH

This puzzle is very British...
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:20 pm    Post subject: 19 Reply with quote

15. Precedes clause, toe or horror - HAMMER
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:34 pm    Post subject: 20 Reply with quote

It is British I suspect...it came to me via a couple of people and they were stuck on most of them, but I'm not at all responsible for creating the puzzle. I'm just stuck on 3.

SCOREBOARD is not what I have.
HOD is a device for carrying a quantity of housebricks...

Most of the answers supplied so far are what I have.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:18 pm    Post subject: 21 Reply with quote

3iff wrote:
Rotating direction gets part of the body (S)


Spine - Spin + E
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:24 pm    Post subject: 22 Reply with quote

novice wrote:
3iff wrote:
Rotating direction gets part of the body (S)


Spine - Spin + E


Or actually, Spinning W+Heel.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:00 am    Post subject: 23 Reply with quote

Nice one, novice. I thought it began with SPIN but could only get to SPINDLE which didn't fit the clue.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:44 pm    Post subject: 24 Reply with quote

Aggregating, and adding one - 28. Listen in two directions - S + HEAR + S

Tools of the Trade

ANVIL - 1. A northern village
AWL - 2. In Warsaw live many people
BARROW - 3. Second missile
4. And second gets some mix up
5. Unpleasant smell with 500 relations
6. Father gets in fight
7. Dairy product in front of cupboard
8. One ball bearing in the German
DRILL - 9. Physician is not well
10. BOY DREAMER
FORCEPS - 11. Compel with additional information
FORK - 12. Fluorine or potassium
GAVEL - 13. A five in hair mousse
GRINDSTONE - 14. Keep your nose to this
HAMMER - 15. Precedes clause, toe or horror
HOD - 16. Banish to Ireland, finally
JACK - 17. Used for all trades, perhaps
18. Eight coming in after time
NEEDLE - 19. Require the French
20. TURBAN SHIP
21. Allow into crown of head
PITCHFORK - 22. Black item of cutlery
PLOUGH - 23. 16th Irish lake
24. One direct debit in three directions
25. Found at the beach in hesitation
26. Token of victory goes to the Spanish
SCREW - 27. Southern workforce
SHEARS - 28. Listen in two directions
SPINNING WHEEL - 29. Rotating direction gets part of the body
SPIRIT LEVEL - 30. Ghost on a par
31. Large viper follows backward favourites
32. One megabyte left in the revealing answer
TROWEL - 33. Right in drier
34. Twenty lies on the floor
WRENCH - 35. Bird with central heating
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:01 pm    Post subject: 25 Reply with quote

19 NEED +LE
22 PITCH+FORK
30 SPIRIT LEVEL
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:09 pm    Post subject: 26 Reply with quote

1. A northern village - A + N + VIL = ANVIL
3. Second missile - B + ARROW = BARROW
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:17 pm    Post subject: 27 Reply with quote

6 BRA(DA)WL
7 BUTTER CUP ???
11 FORCE + PS
21 PA(LET)TE
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:12 pm    Post subject: 28 Reply with quote

32. One megabyte left in the revealing answer
TH-1MBL-E
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Quailman
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:15 pm    Post subject: 29 Reply with quote

31. Large viper follows backward favourites
STEP L-ADDER

8. One ball bearing in the German
D-1BB-ER

25. Found at the beach in hesitation
SAND-ER?

26. SCALP-EL
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 6:46 am    Post subject: 30 Reply with quote

5. BO+D+KIN
18 LAT(H)E
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:30 am    Post subject: 31 Reply with quote

4. B-esom
24. R-idd-l-e
34. T-rug

and I think #7 is probably Cheese Press

No idea on the other two (although I did note that 'turban' is an anagram of Nut bra) - is there any reason they are both capitalised?
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3iff
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:43 am    Post subject: 32 Reply with quote

Trug...it fits the clue...but I'm doubtful it's a tool (but I didn't create the puzzle so it might well be right. I certainly have nothing better to offer). It might be considered a tool of the trade...

The capitalised clues are exactly as they appear in the original form. They certainly don't need to be capitalised. Perhaps it's to differentiate them from the other clues.

All the other answers I've seen here are the same as I have...with the exception of Q7 which is the only other one we're not sure of. Cheese Press sounds pretty good though.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 1:21 pm    Post subject: 33 Reply with quote

They're capitalized because they're anagrams of EMERY BOARD and PAINTBRUSH.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 1:53 pm    Post subject: 34 Reply with quote

True.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 2:32 pm    Post subject: 35 Reply with quote

Aggregating again...I think we are done...

Tools of the Trade

ANVIL - 1. A northern village
AWL - 2. In Warsaw live many people
BARROW - 3. Second missile
BESOM - 4. And second gets some mix up
BODKIN - 5. Unpleasant smell with 500 relations
BRADAWL - 6. Father gets in fight
CHEESE PRESS - 7. Dairy product in front of cupboard
DIBBER - 8. One ball bearing in the German
DRILL - 9. Physician is not well
EMERY BOARD - 10. BOY DREAMER
FORCEPS - 11. Compel with additional information
FORK - 12. Fluorine or potassium
GAVEL - 13. A five in hair mousse
GRINDSTONE - 14. Keep your nose to this
HAMMER - 15. Precedes clause, toe or horror
HOD - 16. Banish to Ireland, finally
JACK - 17. Used for all trades, perhaps
LATHE - 18. Eight coming in after time
NEEDLE - 19. Require the French
PAINTBRUSH - 20. TURBAN SHIP
PALETTE - 21. Allow into crown of head
PITCHFORK - 22. Black item of cutlery
PLOUGH - 23. 16th Irish lake
RIDDLE - 24. One direct debit in three directions
SANDER - 25. Found at the beach in hesitation
SCALPEL - 26. Token of victory goes to the Spanish
SCREW - 27. Southern workforce
SHEARS - 28. Listen in two directions
SPINNING WHEEL - 29. Rotating direction gets part of the body
SPIRIT LEVEL - 30. Ghost on a par
STEP LADDER - 31. Large viper follows backward favourites
THIMBLE - 32. One megabyte left in the revealing answer
TROWEL - 33. Right in drier
TRUG - 34. Twenty lies on the floor
WRENCH - 35. Bird with central heating
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 2:50 pm    Post subject: 36 Reply with quote

That's what we had...except for 7 and 34 which defied our solving abilities.

Thanks...and well done everyone.
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