I've been emailed by the in-laws to help with a quiz ...

"A local Scout Group are running a cryptic quiz on Capitals of countries.e.g;

Check in at a Health Spa -------------------Bucharest Father gets a motor-----------------------------Dakar

We have got 14 out of 20. Can you help with the remainder:-

Ring for a rating Sad down under Performers not rich Rodent at the gate----------------probably Amsterdam? The lion-tamer will Make Oliver fall "

I'll try and get the other 14 to keep you from working later in the week.

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001

Answers

Answers page !!!!!

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001

Singapore..performers not rich

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001

Belgrade ...ring for a rating

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001

Tripoli ..make Oliver fall

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001

The lion-tamer will ... Kathmandu?

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001

Sad down under?

Beirut... has the root bit for "down under" but 'bay' = sad???

Seoul??

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001

Sad down under...Oslo

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001

Utter f**king sh*t-heap - London?

Ok, but how about these teasers...all capital cities

1. Dodge Pierre's attack
2. Sailor weighs out
3. The lady's bovine
4. Holder of drink receptacle
5. Vehicle cemetery
6. Naughty Muslim
7. Loud knob
8. Gallic sweetener
9. Devil on unlucky ship
10. Battle viewed

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001

1. Dodge Pierre's attack 2. Sailor weighs out ..Anchorage? 3. The lady's bovine ..Moscow 4. Holder of drink receptacle ... 5. Vehicle cemetery ...Khartoum 6. Naughty Muslim ..Islamabad 7. Loud knob ... 8. Gallic sweetener ...Sucre 9. Devil on unlucky ship ...Helsinki 10. Battle viewed ...

Busy ?..me?...this near Christmas?

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001

1. Dodge Pierre's attack
2. Sailor weighs out ..Anchorage?
3. The lady's bovine ..Moscow
4. Holder of drink receptacle ...
5. Vehicle cemetery ...Khartoum
6. Naughty Muslim ..Islamabad
7. Loud knob ...
8. Gallic sweetener ...Sucre
9. Devil on unlucky ship ...Helsinki
10. Battle viewed ...

Busy ?..me?...this near Christmas?

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001

Battle viewed - Warsaw?

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001

Canberra, Bangkok

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001

re No.2 - Anchorage is not a capital city (I think it's a state capital)

And as Jimmy Cricket might say, there's more...

11. Take the girl
12. Iberian mooring
13. Dragons' feared enemy
14. Boiled vegetables
15. Wander
16. pre-DVD Hill
17. Toilet trained semi-aquatic mammal
18. Bunny town
19. Monarch's manor
20. Monarch's pebble

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2001