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jenniferd | 09:58 Tue 14th May 2019 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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No. 21 Ducks and drakes used to bust the dam(8). I am still very undecided about an answer to this clue. Please don't refer me to all that has gone before as I've read it all several times. None of the answers seem really to fit. e.g. ricochet, bouncing, skimming and I think I've also seen squander and squadron.
Is the main "thing" the ducks and drakes or the bust the dam? Will have to make a choice soon
but it does seem as as if this question is a real poser amongst a lot of people!!

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Spotty Dog

The question does refer to the action of bouncing bombs. Answer is Highball.
(Google Highball bouncing bomb)
Good luck.

dannyk13

Spotty, what has that got to do with ducks & drakes?

elliemay1

'ducks and drakes' is a game where you skim stones over water so that they bounce

Spotty Dog

Ducks and drakes is the name given to the action of skimming stones over water, just the same as bouncing bombs do.
(Hope I'm right!)

elliemay1

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ducks_and_drakes

dannyk13

I know what ducks & drakes is.My question is how does 'highball' apply.

elliemay1

cos a highball is a bouncing bomb and 'ducks and drakes' bounce!

dannyk13

Just hope that someone will post the correct answer when it is known.

Mamyalynne

It will be on the website for those who don't send an SAE.

naomi24

But Highball wasn't the bomb that busted the dams. That appears to have been a bomb codenamed 'Upkeep'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb

I always do this quiz without help from other people but this question is really foxing me. I can't help thinking we're all missing something from the clue. I look forward to receiving the answer sheet!

naomi24

Mamyalynne, I don't think the answers are published on the website. The only way to get them is to send your £1 entrance fee and an sae.

Mamyalynne

Me too, as you say 'Highball' wasn't deployed operationally.

elliemay1

'Bombings' has also been suggested, silent B

Mamyalynne

I thought they were, sorry.

dannyk13

Discussed at length here:-
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Question1656182.html

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