Comments on: Enigmatic Variations No.988 – Pairs by Oxymoron

By: Mister Sting

Mister Sting — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:16:04 +0000

Ah-ha! Mystery solved! Thanks kindly, D Reynolds. No bluffing – I’d been thinking of the shoegazing type of mooning.

By: D Reynolds

D Reynolds — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:56:25 +0000

….and of course ‘can’ is u.s. slang for buttocks.

By: D Reynolds

D Reynolds — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:51:18 +0000

this is the rude one – ‘moon’ as in, to expose one’s backside through a car window on a public thoroughfare in america = ‘on Broadway show’[or were you bluffing with that hmm?].

By: Mister Sting

Mister Sting — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:53:36 +0000

Thanks, Cap’n. I see how MO (tick) + ON (over) works, but how does ‘On Broadway show can’ mean ‘moon’? Hmm.

By: Cap'n P'ng'n

Cap'n P'ng'n — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:03:42 +0000

Tick == Mo
over == on
and Moon over Broadway
was my reading of the clue for Moon, but I’ll be happy to be corrected.

By: Mister Sting

Mister Sting — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:00:07 +0000

Oh dear. I was about to blame the mobile Chambers app for its incompleteness, but apparently I liked the unlikely possibility that the Telegraph would use offensive language so much that it affected my ability to look up words. *Entry redacted*!

By: Phi

Phi — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 06:01:31 +0000

Try the second meaning of ‘mother’ in Chambers for a politer interpretation!