ABANDON | How to tell if a man is married |
ACUTE ANGLE | 36"-24"-36" |
ADVERSE | A nasty TV commercial jingle |
AEROSPACE | Quiver |
ALIMONY | Bounty on the mutiny |
ALIMONY | Check mate |
AMBIDEXTROUS | A sugar that is its own stereo-isomer |
ANALYZE | Structures used for hindsight |
ANTABUSE | Stepping on an anthill |
ANTACIDS | Produced by ants when they're stepped on |
ARCHAIC | What we can't have and eat too |
ASTRONOMER | Night watchman |
ATROPHY | Award for lack of exercise |
ATROPHY | Something won by the bowling team |
BANANA | First three notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony |
BANSHEE | Stag party |
BARBER | Someone who makes fishhooks |
BARRAGE | Anger in the pub when the beer runs out |
BASSINET | Worth two in the stream |
BERI-BERI | Pie filling |
BESPECTACLE | Second-rate epic movie |
BEWARE | Honey |
BITTERNESS | Female heron |
BROKER | What you get in the stock market |
BROTHER | Soup maker |
BROUHAHA | Beer joke |
BUDGET | Taxes chainsaw massacre |
BULRUSH | Stampede |
BURDEN OF PROOF | Hangover |
BUREAUCRAT | Person who cuts red tape lengthwise |
BUTTERFLY NUT | Lepidopterist |
CALL GIRL | Ma Bell |
CANNABIS | Mexican/Colombian joint space program |
CARDIOGRAM | Telegram to heart patient |
CARPET | What happens at drive-in-movies etc.. |
CARROT | Rust in your jalopy |
CHAMPAGNE | Hypochondriac's symptom |
CHICKEN FEED | A poultry sum of money |
CHILDHOOD | Juvenile delinquent |
CHRISTMAS ELF | Subordinate Claus |
CIRCULAR SAW | "A rose is a rose is a rose" |
CLAUSTROPHOBIA | Fear of Santa |
CLONE | Cell mate |
CORAL | Where sea horses are kept |
CUBE ROOTS | Rubik's autobiography |
CURATOR | Dog show judge |
CURTAIL | The south end of a dog heading north |
DAMNATION | The Netherlands |
DEBONAIR | She's just been asked to the ball by Prince Charming |
DELIBERATE | Put in prison |
DELIVER | The first stage of a liver transplant |
DEPEND | Best place to put the diving board |
DERANGE | Where the deer and the antelope play |
DIEHARD | Fossil |
DILATOR | Beats dying sooner... |
DIODE | Eulogy |
DOVE | Bird of pray |
DOWN | A terminal condition |
DOWNCAST | Performers in Swan Lake |
DRACULA | The first blood count |
EGGSHELL | Roeboat |
EGOIST | An eye specialist |
ELECTROCUTE | What R2-D2 is |
ELECTRON | 1984 US campaign slogan |
ENDANGER | What happens to a BARRAGE (qv.) when the beer arrives |
ENDOPHYTE | Knockout |
ENEMA | Not your friend |
EPICENTRE | Balancing point of a duelling sword |
EXAMPLE | Successful dieter |
EXCHANGE | Money spent |
EXORBITANT | Skylab |
FAKIR | Auditory prosthesis |
FARTHING | Andromeda galaxy |
FATHERHOOD | An heir-raising experience |
FAULT FINDER | Seismologist |
FELICITY | Static produced by stroking a cat |
FELONIES | Genuflected |
FEMALE | Iron man |
FIANCEE | Near Mrs |
FIBULA | Little white lie |
FINE PRINT | Clause for suspicion |
FISSURE | Certainly |
FLATTERY | Deferent strokes |
FLATULENT | Borrowed appartment |
FLYWHEEL | Propeller |
FORENSIC | Montezuma's revenge |
FORENSICS | Ten |
FORGE | To write a wrong |
FORTUNE TELLING | Seance fiction |
FRACTIONATE | 16/2 |
FRENCH LEAVE | Much adieu about nothing |
FRENCH TOAST | Bon appetit! |
GEISHA | Maid in Japan |
GEOLOGIST | A scientist who won't take Noah for an answer |
GEOMETRY | Here's looking at Euclid |
GLADIATOR | Henpecked cannibal's after-dinner comment |
GOBLET | Small turkey |
GOOGOL | Baby Einstein's first word |
GRAPEVINE | Medium for currant events |
GROUNDHOG | Sausage |
GUISE | Transvestites |
GUTTER | One who removes entrails |
HAMLET | Small piece of bacon |
HARMONISE | Effect of CS gas |
HAY FEVER | A sick crop |
HEATHER | What to do with a frigid woman |
HERO WORSHIP | What the galley slave does |
HERPES | What a woman should mind besides her q's |
HERRINGBONE | Hammer, anvil or stirrup |
HICCUP | What a yokel drinks from |
HIP JOINT | Popular bar |
HOMBRE | Senor citizen |
HORSE FEED | Oat cuisine |
HYMEN | Greeting to an all-male club |
HYPERTENSION | Stress in four dimensions |
ICBMs | What the Eskimos have always had |
IMPLORE | Fairy stories |
IN | Every direction of travel possible near a black hole |
INCEST | Sibling ribaldry |
INDECISIVE | Under the whether |
INFANTRY | Sapling |
INFERNO | What to do when your girlfriend slaps your face |
INGEST | Only kidding |
INHERITANCE | Dead giveaway |
INSECTICIDE | Lettuce spray |
INSECTICIDE | The bug stops here |
INTERN | Waiting in line |
INVOICE | Conscience |
ISINGLASS | On the rocks |
IVY | What the Romans said when playing golf |
KALEIDOSCOPE | Collision viewing device |
KELP | What to yell when tangled in seaweed |
KERCHIEF | Top dog |
KHAKI | What you need to start your automobile |
KILOGRAM | Letter bomb |
KILOWATT | Answer to question "Did you ever kill a qzertxl?" |
KINDRED | Fear of visiting relatives |
KITTENS | Cat litter |
KNAPSACK | Sleeping bag |
LAGOON | Pierre Sellers |
LEGALISE | 20/20 vision |
LEGEND | Foot |
LEGERDEMAIN | Accountants office |
LEMONADE | Rock concert to help fruit growers |
LEOPARD FOR SALE | Sign on a dotted lion |
LIABILITY | Salesmanship |
LICENCE NUMBER | Best thing to take when you're run down |
LICHEN | Compare to moss or algae |
LIGHTNING | Fire from a madding cloud |
LIQUIDATE | Rendezvous in a bath |
LOCOMOTIVE | Insanity plea |
LOGARITHM | Canadian forestry music |
LOGGERHEADS | Toilets for lumberjacks |
LOOKING | A royal flush |
LOWER | A cow |
MACHO | Zero miles per hour |
MADAGASCAR | What Ford did |
MAGICIAN | Super duper |
MALIGNANT | An evil termite |
MANAGER | Someone who makes you feel old |
MARTIX | Procrastinator's April Fools pranks |
MEANDER | Colloquial form of "she and I" |
MENDICANT | Someone who is no good at DIY |
MENTALLY | Nymphomaniac's address book |
METRONOME | Parisian underground dwarf |
MICROCHIPS | Small fries |
MIDRIFF | Halfway through a jazz solo |
MINIMAL | Feeling slightly ill |
MISTLETOE | Plant one must under-stand to appreciate |
MORTICIAN | Engraver |
MOTH | Green thtuff on the north thide of treethe |
MUSHROOM | Where they train huskies |
NAIVE | Dusk |
NAVAL ATTACHE | Umbilical cord |
NECROMANCER | Giraffe |
NECROMANCER | Vampire |
NEGLIGENT | Knightgown |
NEPOTISM | Putting on heirs |
NEUROLOGICAL | Replacing old logic |
NEWFANGLED | Baby rattlesnake |
NEWSPRINT | The 143 yards dash |
NOVICE | He must be a saint |
NUANCE | Sisters of a new mother |
NUCLEAR FALLOUT | Fission chips |
NUGGET | A flash in the pan |
NURSERY | A bawl park |
OBESITY | Surplus gone to waist |
OCTOPUS | Cat with one life left |
OHM | Electricians mantra |
OLD-TIMER | Sundial |
OPINION | Irish wrestling hold |
OSSIFY | To become Australian |
OVERCAST | People hired as film extras |
OZONE | Region of alphabet between N and P |
PACIFIST | Cannibal's dinner request |
PATERNITY TEST | Pop quiz |
PEER | One who urinates |
PLANKTON | Microfiche |
POLARIZE | Cold stare |
PREACHING | Just before it hurts |
PRINCE CHARMING | Reignbeau |
PROTEIN | Someone who favours adolescents |
PROTEST | In favour of England/Australia competitions |
PURSUIT | Cat's pyjamas |
QUADRANT | Four-sided argument |
QUINTESSENCE | Chanel No.5 |
RAMPAGE | Vellum |
REGALE | Second wind |
REPAIR | Try to bring Chi-Chi and An-An together again |
SARCASM | Quiplash |
SAVOIR FAIRE | The Last Supper |
SCARLET | Sign of a small injury |
SCROTUM | Small planet near Uranus |
SHAMROCK | Cubic zirconia |
SHARKSKIN | Brother shark, father shark etc.. |
SIGNIFICANT | You can sign if I cannot |
SPANKING | Bum rap |
SPOKESPERSON | Bicycle mechanic |
STYLUS | Pig pen |
SUIT OF ARMOUR | Knight gown |
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY | Plight of the ohmless |
SUPERVISOR | A really good mask |
SURFACE | Someone really handy on the waves |
SURFER | Man overboard |
TEARING | What you get if don't wash your cup out |
URINALYSIS | Different from my analysis |
UTERUS | Gift from your family to ours |
VASELINE | An ornamental line on a Greek urn |