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[Closed] Brainy sorts - help me decrypt these clues

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Ok, we are looking for things you can wear:
"Let it stand, boy"
"In common with Holly and Ivy"
"Snog a leader"
"Strike at the golfer"
"Found in a Tulsa riding school"
"Take the back of rifles"
"The pink lady novelist less a pub"
"Miss a catch"

There are 79 like this and these last few are driving me nuts. There's £25 at stake!


 
Posted : 05/12/2012 4:24 pm
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"Found in a Tul[b]sa ri[/b]ding school" SARI


 
Posted : 05/12/2012 4:31 pm
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"Snog a leader" Neckerchief


 
Posted : 05/12/2012 4:32 pm
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"In common with Holly and Ivy" - A beret perhaps?


 
Posted : 05/12/2012 4:32 pm
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The pink lady novelist less a pub - Bra (Barbara Cartland - a bar)
Take the back of rifles - Stock?


 
Posted : 05/12/2012 4:33 pm
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"Strike at the golfer"- a dress?


 
Posted : 05/12/2012 4:37 pm
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"strike at the golfer": cufflinks? To "cuff" is to trike and links is a seadside golf course. Tenuous at best, I appreciate.


 
Posted : 05/12/2012 4:39 pm
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"Let it stand, boy" Stetson

Stet is a Latin word (meaning "let it stand")


 
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"miss a catch" Slip?


 
Posted : 05/12/2012 4:40 pm
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Well done muddybum,I type too slow.


 
Posted : 05/12/2012 4:40 pm
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You lot are blardy amazing. Wait til I show Mrs Wheel.
algarvebairn, I thought of slip for this one, but I thought slip had more to do with a position on the field than dropping a ball? Or am I still wrestling with the wrong end of the stick??


 
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Holly and the Ivy carol is maybe crown?

[i]
The holly and the ivy
Now are both well grown
Of all the trees that are in the wood
The holly bears the crown [/i]


 
Posted : 05/12/2012 4:54 pm
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We thought of crown too but that came up as the answer to another question (worth five shillings)Like willard we also thought of beret; though the Ivy has a flower, not a berry, in the song.


 
Posted : 05/12/2012 5:21 pm

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