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Clothing Quiz help please......

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HRHQoQ · 16/11/2005 00:38

I've got a quiz here which is a fundraiser for our church - it cost £1 for it, and the prize is a £20 M&S voucher.......they've extended the closing date by 2 weeks (to the 1st Sunday in December) as NO-ONE has managed to finish it yet - they're all finidng it really hard......I only found this out tonight.....and thought perhaps my wonderful MN'er friends could help me out. All answers are items of clothing........ and the numbers in brackets are how many letters. It's a long one I'm afraid.......and I'm completely stumped on the majority......but I'd love a £20 M&S voucher to treat us to something.

  1. A Serviceman's effects (3)
  2. Feminine, but worn by both (5)
  3. A dwelling's highest point (4)
  4. A spanish dance (6)
  5. Groans (Anagram) - SARONG?
  6. A dead heat below the head (3) - TIE??
  7. Pursuing Rudolph (11)
  8. Snakes (9)
  9. Seen regularly in T.V.'s Dallas (7)
  10. A police request (8)
  11. This snake cannot fly (9-3)
  12. Legal documents (6)
  13. Was an American film star (3-4)
  14. But did this make the change any lighter? (8)
  15. Shore birds (6)
  16. Found in the bathroom (8)
  17. This East End character wasn't alive around 1800! (7)
  18. An Innuit word (6)
  19. You need an "in" to make a profit (4)
  20. Embarking with G and 2 (8)
  21. Baggy breeches from America (14)
  22. A jacket for the afternoons (7-4)
  23. Lost by three little ones (7)
  24. Biblical smalls (4-6)
  25. Member of a very English team (6)
  26. Does it make you feel more religious? (6-4)
  27. A waterproof (9)
  28. Worn by the idle workers (7)
  29. These could be royal or legal (5-5)
  30. Not a signal of distress around 1970 (6)
  31. Heroine of a novel 1893 (6)
  32. Crimean wooly (9)
  33. Served in a pub (6)
  34. Not and edible covering (4-3)
  35. Picture Julie in it, on a hillside (6)
  36. An old time youngsters' fleece (7-6)
  37. A mathematical addition (4-5)
  38. A (wasted) symbol of rank (4)
  39. A tight fit for clerics (3-6) - DOG COLLAR???
  40. A sunny covering made of plaited leaves (6-3)
  41. Not for business, worn on a path (5-4)
  42. Pcutre a woman driver in it (4) - MINI????
  43. Stringshed (anagram) NIGHTDRESS??
  44. A pastoral cut of beef (5-5)
  45. A peninsula (4)
  46. Ankle length and black (7)
  47. Not worn only on a pacific atoll (6) - BIKINI???

I'm not very good at 'cryptic' stuff

OP posts:
HRHQoQ · 16/11/2005 10:42

ooops sorry nighty - didn't see that one

OP posts:
Bozza · 16/11/2005 11:04

11 feather boa?

HRHQoQ · 16/11/2005 11:50

Nearly there

  1. Feminine, but worn by both (5)
  2. A dwelling's highest point (4)
  3. A spanish dance (6)
  4. Snakes (9)
  5. A police request (8)
  6. This snake cannot fly (9-3) - somthing Boa??
  7. But did this make the change any lighter? (8)
  8. This East End character wasn't alive around 1800! (7)
  9. You need an "in" to make a profit (4)
  10. Embarking with G and 2 (8)
  11. Does it make you feel more religious? (6-4)
  12. Served in a pub (6)
  13. Not and edible covering (4-3)
  14. Picture Julie in it, on a hillside (6) - we've got wimple or dirndl - votes please
  15. A (wasted) symbol of rank (4)
  16. Not for business, worn on a path (5-4)
  17. A pastoral cut of beef (5-5) - something dress???
  18. Ankle length and black (7)
OP posts:
Bozza · 16/11/2005 11:52

Is it feathered boa?

Bozza · 16/11/2005 11:53

Isn't there a cut of beef that is skirt?

HRHQoQ · 16/11/2005 11:55

yay that'll be it bozza - feathered boa

sorry meant to put something skirt not dress for that one.

OP posts:
Nightynight · 16/11/2005 12:09

I think 35 is dirndl.

could 38 be belt? or sash, but why should that be wasted?

Nightynight · 16/11/2005 12:22

41 is track suit!

Nightynight · 16/11/2005 12:26

17 - can anyone see a Spencer connection?
long shot.

GREATauntymandy · 16/11/2005 12:29
  1. kit
  2. skirt
beep · 16/11/2005 12:29

26 sunday best ?

GREATauntymandy · 16/11/2005 12:31

are they all clothes?
3) Attic..loft..
4)Flamenco
9) shoulder pads?
8) garters

GREATauntymandy · 16/11/2005 12:32

what numbers do you still need?

GREATauntymandy · 16/11/2005 12:35
  1. bolero
GREATauntymandy · 16/11/2005 12:37
  1. something Cape?
HRHQoQ · 16/11/2005 12:43

all items of clothing. How is a skirt worn by both???

we still need

  1. A dwelling's highest point (4)
  2. A spanish dance (6)
  3. Snakes (9)
  4. A police request (8)
  5. This snake cannot fly (9-3) - somthing Boa??
  6. But did this make the change any lighter? (8)
  7. This East End character wasn't alive around 1800! (7)
  8. You need an "in" to make a profit (4)
  9. Embarking with G and 2 (8)
  10. Does it make you feel more religious? (6-4) - sunday best????
  11. Served in a pub (6)
  12. Not and edible covering (4-3)
  13. A (wasted) symbol of rank (4)
  14. A pastoral cut of beef (5-5) - something dress???
  15. Ankle length and black (7)
OP posts:
Lonelymum · 16/11/2005 12:46
  1. is bolero - several people have said it!
beep · 16/11/2005 12:47
  1. bolero
34.pith hat? 38.sash
HRHQoQ · 16/11/2005 12:47

duh - sorry - I have already written it down

OP posts:
Lonelymum · 16/11/2005 12:47
  1. Garters
11. Feathered boa 46. cassock
HRHQoQ · 16/11/2005 12:49

number 8 has 9 letters - so Garters doesn't fit [frown] (oh I do with we had a frown emoticon......)

OP posts:
Lonelymum · 16/11/2005 12:50

oh sorry, didn't see that! This is a bggr of a quiz isn't it? No wonder they have extended the date!

GREATauntymandy · 16/11/2005 12:51

some men where skirts...kilts?

Nightynight · 16/11/2005 12:52

Cape is the answer to 45, surely.

JackieNo · 16/11/2005 12:52

33: shorts
34: pork-pie?

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