Clothing Quiz help please......

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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

Hey well done! I haven't come up with a single idea on this one so far

It makes sense to me

Well it begins with g and they come in a pair - it could be as simple as that?

what's with the embark bit though... how does that fit with galoshes?

embark with a G and 2

so presumable we're adding the G... which leaves us with ALOSHES or ALOSH if there is only one... how does that tally with embark????

oh sorerry i see what you're saying

embark as in starts? and it starts with G

god i am slow today!

The reasoning is that "embarking with G" just means that the answer begins with G, not that it has anything to do with boats necessarily.

hmm galoshes is sounding good......it's the only one we've had that fits so far too LOL.

And the "2" part of the clue refers to no. 2 "feminine but worn by both" which is where the "she" bit comes in.

Blimey - clear as mud - not

Hope you see what I'm getting at

Mmmm. Don't know what the answer is but that doesn't convince me.

I kmow WWB but We're clutching at straws here I feel. I think it was a good idea tho'.

We need to brainstorm

Ohhhh - yesyesyes Mercy, it's a cryptic!!!

G + also (alos) + she (hes)

ie G + and + 2

I think you have the most crypic minds I have ever come across! How do you get galoshes to fit that clue? I only mentioned it as a joke!

Lonelymum, I sat here for ages the other day with various forms of "embark" ("enter" "begin" "start") "and" and "2" (to, two, too etc) on a scrap of paper!

I didn't come up with anything so may be clutching at straws here but at least it's a word, it's clothing and it's decodable (is that a word?)

Fantastic JanH!!

Were you really joking Lonelymum?

it's gotta be galoshes!

I can't see it myself, but if I were QofQ, I would write galoshes just to have something to write! I mean, what have galoshes got to do with embarking?

BTW QofQ, I keep meaning to tell you this, I did a similar quiz last Christmas and I got 3 our of 100 questions wrong and yet I still won or came second I forget which. Anyway, I won £15! So, you don't have to get every single question right to still win. Remember, not everyone doing this quiz has access to so many brains!

I agree Lonelymum, it's tenuous to say the least. But we are clutching at straws here as I said

Any thoughts QoQ??

ps Can't wait to find out the answers!

pps Did someone say Christmas quiz?!

Galoshes don't have anything to do with embarking but we are interpreting "embarking with G" as "beginning with G".

because

embark=start

start with G and 2

and= also... turn into alos

and there are 2 of themn, plus 2 was to do with women (shes)

you end up with galoshes

No Starlover, I think that is too tenuous!

If I have to go along with it at all, it will be as Janh argues: embarking just means starting so the clue means a word starting (embarking) with G and plural.

I can't wait to find out what the real answers are. I do hope QofQ lets us know. I am going to copy this so as to be able to offer it as a fund raiser for school/playgroup. But I need to know the correct answers and the reasoning behind them before I can do that!

but that's exactly what i said LM! i just added the bit about and meaning also

and the she's bit

i got the answer from Janh so I don't see how mine is tenuous and hers isnt

Right thanks for your help -think I'm just going to put Galoshes so there's an answer there.

apparently someones mum has got 3 questions left to answer - but I'm the closest to finishing so far - of course it doesn't mean that I (or she) have got them all right LOL.

The closing date is next Sunday - so if anyone has any sudden brainwaves let me know

whats left?