TLW66 - Nomads Results

ELOINED: Conveyed to a distance; perhapsvaguely like Eurovision Broadcasting Unionjoint broadcasts of... things.ERODENT: Something that erodes things,like caustic soda and that sort of generaldoodah.EROSION: In similar vein, the end resultsof an ERODENT.ETALONS: Oh dear, oh dear. Umm... OK.An ETALON is an incredibly clever gadget formeasuring wavelengths, which I suppose isquite helpful since Ken Bruce and his likesonly deal in frequenaes these days. I couldbe wrong. [You're wrong - Ed]ET1OLJN: If you leave a plant in the darkfor ages, it'll go all yellowed and wimpy. Andwhen you've etiolated it in that fashion, thesubstance that colours it yellow is ETIOLIN.I feel like Alan Coren on a bad day!EUGENIA: The clove plant - well, one ofmany - of the myrtle family. I know themwell.EVIRATE: A tiny, tiny Middle Easterncountry under the rule of a guy named Ev.Well, perhaps not! Actually it's to makeunmanly, amongst other things - which Iprobably shouldn't go into here.ISOTONE: An A-Level Chemistry-ey typething with the same number of neutrons asanother one and a different number ofprotons. Or something. I would haveunderstood that 10 years ago.LADRONE: A robber, from the Spanishladron meaning ... erm ... "robber",presumably.LENTOID: After a reasonably long trawlthrough cross-references, it actually justmeans "lens-shaped".LINEAGE: Either ancestry or the number oflines in a piece of printed textLOONIER: Prowadz mnie gdy swiatlo drzy ipada den. Przytul mnie i polam I6(o-acute)dw oplatki kry. Any arguments7 [Yes. That'slooniEST. By quite some distance ■ Ed]MATINEE: An afternoon performance of amovie or show, like the wonderful "MammaMia" currently playing in London, a musicalwoven around the important, nay seminalworks of... [Shut up - Ed]NAIVETE: The belief that I'm going to getaway with the previous two definitions.NEONATE: Newly bom, or a newborn child.So it takes an -S. Hmm, I bet I forget thatfact at a significant moment in the next sixmonths or so.NEROUS: NEROLI is an oil that comesfrom orange flowers, or - I suspect - theflower itself. So NEROLJS, much to mysurprise, is actually a plural.NORTENA: Let me take a run up here - afemale European North American, asdescribed by a Mexican. If it were a bloke,it would be a NORTENO.ODORATE: Past tense of odoreat, backformedfrom odor-eater. Oh, If only! It'sreally just a description of something smelly.Generally pleasant smelling, but needn't be.OE5TRAL: To do with a particularly strongfrenzy of (guess what?) one kind or another.I'm just too coy for my own good, me.OLEATES: OLEATE is another of thesechemically things that I have so manyproblems with these days - a salt of an oilyacid. Sounds like what I put on my chips,but I'm sure it isn't.ORATION: A speech, after-dinner orotherwise, but powerful with it. I've alwaysthought that spoken English is at Its mostpowerful when it has rhythm, and rhyme -which I'm afraid can only be leading in onedirection...'While waiting at Peterborough StationI admired the announcer's orationHe Doomed "There's no seatsOn the 5:10 to Leeds'So I gave him a standing ovation'