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I'm stuck on two plant quiz questions (no prizes, it's just for fun). Any
ideas?

Tipple for a fostered bird (10 letters)
Light hearted caper & sir gained it (8 letters)

Up to now, the other answers have all been common names of plants.

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On 5/7/04 2:01 pm, in article ,
"Joanne" wrote:

I'm stuck on two plant quiz questions (no prizes, it's just for fun). Any
ideas?

Tipple for a fostered bird (10 letters)

Tropaeolum? The common name for one is canary creeper and I think there was
a 18th c (?) drink called Canary.

Light hearted caper & sir gained it (8 letters)

Up to now, the other answers have all been common names of plants.




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"Joanne" wrote in message
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I'm stuck on two plant quiz questions (no prizes, it's just for fun). Any
ideas?

Tipple for a fostered bird (10 letters)

Cuckoopint?

Light hearted caper & sir gained it (8 letters)

Larkspur?


HTH

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"Joanne" wrote in message
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I'm stuck on two plant quiz questions (no prizes, it's just for fun). Any
ideas?

Tipple for a fostered bird (10 letters)
cuckoo pint

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"Joanne" wrote in message
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I'm stuck on two plant quiz questions (no prizes, it's just for fun).
Any
ideas?

Tipple for a fostered bird (10 letters)

Cuckoopint?

Light hearted caper & sir gained it (8 letters)

Larkspur?
I recon this is an anargam of the last 2 words 'gained it'

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"Joanne" wrote in message
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I'm stuck on two plant quiz questions (no prizes, it's just for fun). Any
ideas?

Tipple for a fostered bird (10 letters)
Light hearted caper & sir gained it (8 letters)

Up to now, the other answers have all been common names of plants.


Thank you all and well done. Cuckoopint fits the bill perfectly, and
Larkspur is definitely correct (a knight gains his spurs).

Hurrah!!

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On 5/7/04 4:12 pm, in article ,
"Just Molly" wrote:


"BAC" wrote in message
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"Joanne" wrote in message
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I'm stuck on two plant quiz questions (no prizes, it's just for fun).
Any
ideas?

Tipple for a fostered bird (10 letters)

Cuckoopint?

Sounds right - I was trying to be far too clever!

Light hearted caper & sir gained it (8 letters)

Larkspur?
I recon this is an anargam of the last 2 words 'gained it'


I think Larkspur is right, because a 'lark' is a caper and sirs (knights)
gained their spurs.

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"Just Molly" wrote in message
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"Joanne" wrote in message
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I'm stuck on two plant quiz questions (no prizes, it's just for fun).
Any
ideas?

Tipple for a fostered bird (10 letters)

Cuckoopint?

Light hearted caper & sir gained it (8 letters)

Larkspur?
I recon this is an anargam of the last 2 words 'gained it'


You may be right, but a 'lark' can mean a 'light hearted caper' and a 'sir'
is a knight - when a person was knighted, he was said to have 'won his
spurs', 'it' implies singular, hence 'spur'.

Larkspur is the common name for plants of genus consolida, so the answer
fits the pattern.

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Light hearted caper & sir gained it (8 letters)

Up to now, the other answers have all been common names of plants.

Think this will be an anagram of caper & sir, but can't yet work it out.

Mike

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"Just Molly" wrote in message
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"BAC" wrote in message
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"Joanne" wrote in message
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I'm stuck on two plant quiz questions (no prizes, it's just for
fun).
Any
ideas?

Tipple for a fostered bird (10 letters)

Cuckoopint?

Light hearted caper & sir gained it (8 letters)

Larkspur?
I recon this is an anargam of the last 2 words 'gained it'

There is no doubt that Larkspur is the right answer.
Spurs are what knights won at joustings.

Franz

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Light hearted caper & sir gained it (8 letters)

Up to now, the other answers have all been common names of plants.

Think this will be an anagram of caper & sir, but can't yet work it out.

Mike

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I am a keen cross-word solver and I do the ones where you just get one,
two, or thee clues.
I use a hand-held Oxford "Concise Thesaurus" and please do not say I am
cheating, I don't see it that way. I see it as a learning/teaching device,
just like at school where the Teacher asks you a question and you don't know
the answer. In the event you are told the answer and thus your vocabulary is
enhanced.
I consider that leaving the problem unanswered is not good for you because
you suffer frustration.
Given the answer, it keeps you calm and increases your word power because
you remember it.
And that's my excuse and |I am sticking to it.
I am hopeless at those complicated cryptic crosswords. I have tried hard
but I just haven't got the sneaky brain required to cope with it. I don't do
too badly with the anagrams, though.
Doug.
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Light hearted caper & sir gained it (8 letters)

Up to now, the other answers have all been common names of plants.

Think this will be an anagram of caper & sir, but can't yet work it out.

Mike

******
I am a keen cross-word solver and I do the ones where you just get one,
two, or thee clues.
I use a hand-held Oxford "Concise Thesaurus" and please do not say I am
cheating, I don't see it that way. I see it as a learning/teaching
device,
just like at school where the Teacher asks you a question and you don't
know
the answer. In the event you are told the answer and thus your vocabulary
is
enhanced.
I consider that leaving the problem unanswered is not good for you because
you suffer frustration.
Given the answer, it keeps you calm and increases your word power because
you remember it.
And that's my excuse and |I am sticking to it.
I am hopeless at those complicated cryptic crosswords. I have tried hard
but I just haven't got the sneaky brain required to cope with it. I don't
do
too badly with the anagrams, though.
Doug.
******

I'm useless at crosswords. I saw someone scribbling madly at one last Sunday
on the Tube, whilst returning from The Art of the Garden exhibition (Tate
Britain, Milbank). (quite wonderful experience, err... the show, and not
necessarily the northern line)
Just by way of example, the op had stated;
"I'm stuck on two plant quiz questions"
& there I was wondering what kind of equipment (plant) might have 10 and 8
letters respectively.
Curiously, Rotovator, Scarifier, lawnmower,& Strimmers, all have 9, whilst
Wheelbarrow, scaffolding & cementmixer all have 11

Patrick

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"tuin man" wrote in message
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& there I was wondering what kind of equipment (plant) might have 10 and 8
letters respectively.
Bulldozers gigantic?

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On 6/7/04 9:31 pm, in article , "Just
Molly" wrote:


"tuin man" wrote in message
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& there I was wondering what kind of equipment (plant) might have 10 and 8
letters respectively.
Bulldozers gigantic?


Gardener has 8. ;-)
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On 6/7/04 9:31 pm, in article ,
"Just
Molly" wrote:


"tuin man" wrote in message
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& there I was wondering what kind of equipment (plant) might have 10
and 8
letters respectively.
Bulldozers gigantic?


Gardener has 8. ;-)
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Very cute (-;
much better even than Clippers, Chainsaw, or Shredder

Patrick