Can I please ask for help on my last five so that I can get this quiz away !!! I do not have a Chamber's Dictionary so have added difficulty, nevertheless have enjoyed the challenge.
10 Bound to get a period of time---for an awayday (4,4)
42 -----by ranting on & giving the pulpit a heavy blow (3,8)
48 Tanks appear when drowned valley is reshaped with water on both sides (7)
64 Inferior---in contrast to dear Jill? (5,4)
84 Put money on the English before the last test to hold the Ashes (6)
Thanking you all in anticipation.
10. A period of time that happens regularly. 2008 was one. Bound does not mean tied.
When you get the answer, the first word has an alternative meaning of basket. I've only seen this in Chambers, not in other dictionaries. If you continue doing Rainbow quizzes, it would be very helpful to have a copy as you find secondary meanings of words in there that you would never imagine. Have you got a birthday coming up?
Thank you so much for all you help vegasmad,I thought it could be Cheap Jack or John this is where I need the Chambers Dictionary.
Thanks also mamyalynne & FoxLee2 for the helpful clues unfortunately I don't have a birthday due until next year, will have to search the net for the cheapest one, is the 21st century one the one I need?.
It's a dictionary not a general knowledge book. I bought a new one recently as my previous one was only a paperback version and was falling apart. It's the 11th Edition - my husband actually ordered it for me online, possibly from Amazon, and it was about £21 as opposed to £35 in W.H Smith.
Thanks for your help & advice FoxLee2 & magog, Will look into both albeit a little late for this quiz which I shall send anyway despite not having all the answers & probably several incorrect ones. I shall be interested to receive the answers when they arrive.