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Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

Well, you're right that there's one step from the remove clue and two steps from the slate clue :-)

I thought this one might be tricky

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby SnookerEd25

Prop wrote:
chengdufan wrote:Not Barry. What's your rationale?


Barry (the town in Wales) > Welsh slate
Pinches > removes


Very good. I think you’re correct retrospectively <ok>

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

Not McCulloch I'm afraid. What was the logic?

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

I’m going to put Steve Davis in the mix.

Davis was the last winner of the Mercantile Credit Classic, before it was ‘removed’ from the calendar.

There are a couple of links to ‘slate’. A slate is another word for a tab, or credit (Mercantile Credit).

And a roof tile (MercanTILE) is often called - and composed of - slate.

I know it’s wrong, but I’m just pulling at a few loose threads <laugh>

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

I like the logic, but it isn't Steve Davis.

Like a number of the recent clues, we're just looking for a current player's family name.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Scott Donaldson?

One of Donald Trump’s sons is called Barron. If you bar someone, you remove them from an invitation. Not sure how the remaining ron/Ron relates to slate, but thought it was worth a go.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Iranu

Andrew Pagett?

A clean slate could also be a new page, and you could remove something from somewhere else by getting it

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

Not Donaldson.

Sorry, seems this clue is a bit too hard.
Remove gives you a prefix.
Slate, along with its most common collocation, gives you another word. Put the prefix and the word you get from slate together for your answer.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Prop wrote:Scott Donaldson?

One of Donald Trump’s sons is called Barron. If you bar someone, you remove them from an invitation. Not sure how the remaining ron/Ron relates to slate, but thought it was worth a go.


I’ve got it!!!

Ron always slates venues. That must be it. Right…? <laugh>

But no, I’m a bit stuck. I’ve done the usual routine of reading through the current ranking list. Struggling to find anything that really jumps out.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

So the prefix could be ‘de’?

Peter Devlin?

Or ‘un’…

Theppy Un-Nooh?

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Or maybe Yu Delu, although Delu isn’t the family name in this case, I believe :chin:

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

Iranu wrote:Andrew Pagett?

A clean slate could also be a new page, and you could remove something from somewhere else by getting it

Ooh, we're getting very close with the slate clue :-) A gnat's hair from the solution I'd say.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

Prop wrote:So the prefix could be...

Or ‘un’…

Theppy Un-Nooh?

By jove, he's done it <ok>

Un-new admittedly being something of an invented verb :-)

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Iranu

That was a good, crafty clue!

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

chengdufan wrote:
Prop wrote:So the prefix could be...

Or ‘un’…

Theppy Un-Nooh?

By jove, he's done it <ok>

Un-new admittedly being something of an invented verb :-)


Wow. I admit, I wasn’t really sure of that. Just throwing sh*t and seeing if any stuck <laugh>

I’ll have a new clue ready shortly <ok>

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Halloween bear

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby McManusFan

Could Halloween give Jack-o-lantern?

Lets go Jack Lisowski, not sure how bear fits in.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

McManusFan wrote:Could Halloween give Jack-o-lantern?

Lets go Jack Lisowski, not sure how bear fits in.


Not Jack.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Iranu

Jamie Burnett

Jamie Lee Curtis was in Halloween

Bear Grills > burns > Burnett

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

LDS wrote:Fraser Patrick or Patrick Wallace, for Pa bear & trick?


Nope.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Iranu wrote:Jamie Burnett

Jamie Lee Curtis was in Halloween

Bear Grills > burns > Burnett


Nope. But getting closer.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Iranu

Michael White?

Michael Myers from Halloween

Polar bears are white

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

Kacper Filipiak

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby chengdufan

chengdufan wrote:Kacper Filipiak

Friendly ghost
POLEar bear

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Not White or Kacper.

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Iranu

Jamie Curtis-Barrett

Re: 2 Word Clue

Postby Prop

Iranu wrote:Jamie Curtis-Barrett


Nope. But again, you’re on the right track.