PUZZLES - CRYPTIC CLUES AND ANSWERS

[Stanley]

Plant one and you'll get dozens.....

[PanBiker]

True but it's not the answer, think QI.

[Stanley]

Can't be arsed..... I have enough puzzles in the shed!

[chinatyke]

True but it's not the answer, think QI.

Go on then. Give us the answer.

[Tizer]

One less than six?

[PanBiker]

Ok, how many beans make 5?

A bean and a half and a bean and a half and half a bean and a bean and a half.

Well you did ask.

[Tizer]

Did you get that off a Penguin bar wrapper by any chance!

[chinatyke]

[PanBiker]

Did you get that off a Penguin bar wrapper by any chance!

No, it came to me from my grammar school educated elder brother.

[Stanley]

[plaques]

Not sure where this one fits. On saturday morning I was ambushed by someone much younger than myself who looked at the clock and said " ten to ten, Cowboy Time". Totally lost and still confused I had to ask for and explanation which covered the theme was still a bit open. Any Ideas???

[PanBiker]

Ten to ten, ten ten.... Listen to the rhythm. Cowboy Time.

[Tizer]

Are we playing bingo?

[Julie in Norfolk]

Reference above beans question, my dad's answer to how many beans makes 5 was: Two beans, a bean, a bean and a half and half a bean. He reckoned it was from the Beano circa 194something.

[Marilyn]

Ten to Ten...Cowboy time. Picture a Cowboy with a gun in each hand, pointing them up to the sky and shooting. His arms are in the Ten to Ten ( or Ten past Ten position)
Yeeeeha!
Two thirty is Time to go to the Dentist ( tooth hurty)

[plaques]

Cowboy Time. Everybody could be right. Six gun shooting (Marilyn) and repetitious sounding of the words ten to ten (PanBiker) horses galloping all feature in various explanations. I got a very fair rendering of 'Bonanza' theme tune when it was explained to me. Am I getting old??

[PanBiker]

From my shiny new GCHQ puzzle book, an easy "training" puzzle:

Three's a crowd.

Arrange into pairs:

WISE, WHIP, TURN, RING, RACE, POINT
MONKEYS, MILE, MICE, LINE, LEGGED, ISLAND
HENS, FRENCH, EVENT, DAY, CIRCUS, BLIND

[plaques]

Right, done that, Now what? Make up a short story to incorporate all the pairs?

[PanBiker]

If you want.

[plaques]

It was on the Three Mile Island that the Three ring circus arrived. They had quite a menagerie of animals including.......But for the more competitive there was the Three legged race.

[PanBiker]

It was a three day event including a three point turn competition. Our MP couldn't be bothered to turn up as he was enforcing a three line whip and there was no photo opportunity.

[PanBiker]

This one is vexing me:

Does your mother know why:

Ring + Money = I Do ?

[plaques]

Married??

[PanBiker]

Why though? It's not just finding the answer it's how you solve it. I have tried Married (the obvious answer) and cant make it fit, neither will Dowry or Vows, well not using number substitution anyway.

[PanBiker]

The title of the puzzle, sorry, forgot to put it is

A gimme

Penny has just dropped and I think I have got it.