cryptic quiz 47

For the instructions to the following, please see cryptic quiz 1.

1. Operated diamonds	a) Charade	(i) UK counties	
2. Hoodwink attempt	b) Anagram	(ii) Novelists	
3. Barrister, nearly	c) Hidden reversal	(iii) Bodies of water	
4. Alien crash	d) Odds/evens/heads/tails	(iv) Constellations	
5. Cruise Iran	e) Spoonerism	(v) English Premiership teams

And what are the connected films the following connected movie quotes are from? (For example: “This deal is getting worse all the time! / Silence, earthling! My name is Darth Vader” would be from The Empire Strikes Back to the Future)

  1. You can’t handle the truth! I make this look good.
  2. Well, nobody’s perfect – you ain’t seen Bad Boys 2
  3. Frankly, my dear, poop, poop!

And finally, a couple more slightly different ones:

4. Play it, Sam. Play, We’ll always have Paris.
5. Why so serious? They’re coming to get you, Barbra! Carpe diem. Seize the day.

3 thoughts on “cryptic quiz 47

  1. Solutions, part two…

    1. Operated diamonds could be defined alternately as Ran Ice, and if you spoonerise that you get a famous author’s first and last name.
    2. Similarly, Hoodwink attempt could be defined as CON GO, and no spoonerising is required.
    3. Every other letter in bArRiStEr, NeArLy spells out a Premiership football team.
    4. If you mix up the letters of Alien crash, you might just find LANCASHIRE.
    5. If you flip the letters of Cruise Iran, and take a look within, you might see nARI ESiurc

  2. Solutions, part three…

    1. A Few Good Men in Black
    2. Some Like it Hot Fuzz
    3. Gone with the Wind in the Willows
    4. A couple of quotes from the same film gives us: Casablancasablanca
    5. And a triple quote: The Dark Knight of the Living Dead Poets Society

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