the name of the man whose tomb has just been shielded from over-kissing: Oscar "Wilde", leading excitingly to the solution WILD. "Coax", when mentioned, is a soundalike for some COKES.Īnd a Sunday Telegraph clue that involves a name. To pet, when it's not a cute old American term for advancing to first base, is to coax. To your ear, it's the same as the answer, a musical work: the SUITE.
The wordplay here is "melodious to the ear", and Chifonie wants you to think about how your ear receives a word meaning melodious, namely "sweet". Let's roll.ġ2ac Musical work that's melodious to the ear (5) And remember: part of the clue is a definition, the other part is wordplay. That is, they'll be easier than they might seem. In the examples that follow, beginners should bear in mind that if they met them in an authentic puzzling context, they will probably be reaping the benefit of working from letters entered from other answers. With a soundalike, the setter suggests words to you, you say them aloud in your head - or out loud, if you don't mind looking odd - and you hear the answer. It's often a moment of comic relief - though, as we'll see below, not everyone agrees.
With soundalikes, it's about the listening rather than the seeing. Put another way: most solving involves working out a bunch of letters and arranging them to see the answer. Anagrams are coming up, but the soundalike more often provides what this blog is all about: fun.
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