MM Links June 2012 Week 3

gen2 | 08:45 Sat 16th Jun 2012 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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[Posted by gen2 on behalf of deecee131 – (He had to see a man about a dog, or was it a horse's head?)]

This is 'Don Corleone' back again.

I am sure that I told you all in my first time in this seat, that I have been sports mad from a very early age. My first sports books were Stanley Matthews annuals. How I wish that I still had them - to sell, probably. I supported his team, Blackpool, in the same way that the youngsters of recent years have supported Liverpool and Manchester United, the most successful teams with many of the top players.

I have been interested in football statistics since I purchased a Penguin book '60 Seasons of League Football', in the late 1950's. In my Civil Service career, I was a member of one of our Departmental sports quiz teams, that met every week in winter in competition. It was claimed to be the biggest sports quiz league in the world, with several divisions. A Department or Ministry could have more than one team, usually comprising six members, of whom any four played at one time. This covered London, with a few teams from just outside London. We always beat one team that had Kevin Ashman (the Egghead) as a player. He was unable to answer every question as the majority went to individual team members. The only sport I have never been attracted to is greyhound racing, where I have attended only one meeting. You could say that 'I did not go to the Dogs'.

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i Prize Cryptic Crossword No 422

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According to normal practice, for the everyday running of MM, I shall follow this rule on word length, in that each of my pre-selected link words contains at least four letters and at most eight letters. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one of your attempts!

Each of the selected link words may go in front of, or behind my challenge word to make a new longer word or to make a well-known phrase or saying. The combination will never be a person's name.

The competition will officially close on Sunday Evening at 7.00pm, when gen2 will declare my pre-selected words and then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past. My set of four words to have their links predicted should appear below at 9.00am.

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I, deecee131, challenge you to predict my set of four links to go with these four challenge words:-

PENGUIN
BOOK
EGG (I am allowed 3-letter words – you are not)
DOG (I am allowed 3-letter words – you are not)

Good Luck everyone!