Word games for April 2013 | Onnicles

Onnicle: Buried in it, is his pick…um, arguably not his best tactic.
OnniClue: He’s thinking about it, from a.m. to PM.

Onnicle: Word of the day: Ravin = Dramatic art of preying by turning the victim into a Raja. Deja vu?
OnniClue: What’s your favorite joke about the knighted one?

Onnicle: The partisan jaywalkers would utter slogans in support.
OnniClue: Justice delivered or denied?

Onnicle: The vet tells the spider, ‘Go back to your web. Berating now won’t help.’
Onniclue: Not a formula driven approach.

Answers to Onnicles word games from March 2013
- Vettel / Webber (Malaysian Grand Prix controversy)
- Anil Ambani (Indian businessman)
- Shane Warne (dropped from the team)
- Kim / Kanye West

Word games for March 2013 | Onnicles

Onnicle: The vet tells the spider, ‘Go back to your web. Berating now won’t help.’
Onniclue: Not a formula driven approach.

Onnicle: With a nil bank balance, I am banishing my money problems.
OnniClue: The CAs and Munimji agree.

Onnicle: Push a new toy for them to gnaw at, so no one complains.
OnniClue: Feeling the Axe effect.

Onnicle: Skim through the brochure. Pick any earphone. Lowest price guaranteed.
OnniClue: Odd couple?

Answers to Onnicles word games from February 2013
- Daniel Day Lewis (Oscar for the movie ‘Lincoln’)
- David Cameron (UK Prime Minister’s India visit)
- Pope Benedict (Resignation)
- Tina Fey (Comedienne)

Word games for February 2013 | Onnicles

Onnicle: Did a Nielsen report predict the day this able, wistful performance would win?
OnniClue: Now Dubya hopes to shine on the silver screen too.

Onnicle: Before his plane could land, avid fans came, rondlets were read, promises were made.
OnniClue: Are Indians ‘conservative’ by nature?

Onnicle: Popeye discovered terebene. Dictionaries say it’s a mixture made from turpentine.
OnniClue: Rome wasn’t built in a day…doesn’t mean it was built at night.

Onnicle: Ever spent Saturday night in an office when wifey had dinner plans?
OnniClue: Comedy of errors.

Answers to Onnicles word games from January 2013
- Kamal Haasan (Vishwaropp movie ban)
- Lionel Messi (Football)
- Lance Armstrong (Cyclist, doping controversy)
- Honey Singh (Indian rapper under fire for lyrics)

Word games for January 2013 | Onnicles

Onnicle: Pick a mall where the brouhaha (as an illogical protest weapon) is ineffective.
OnniClue: Any other screening advice for him?

Onnicle: The Lion elegantly warned his cubs against messing with their life goals.
OnniClue: Getting a kick out of it?

Onnicle: The talk show host glanced at his arm, strong but quivering.
OnniClue: Beware of the vicious cycle.

Onnicle: With the honeymoon phase over, he’s nursing his bruised ego now.
OnniClue: Cut the (c)rap!

Answers to Onnicles word games from December 2012
- Damini (Tribute to Delhi rape victim)
- LeBron James (Miami Heat | NBA)
- Rehman Malik (Pakistan – Interior minister)
- Pandit Ravi Shankar (Sitar maestro)
- Ricky Ponting (retires)

Word games for December 2012 | Onnicles

Onnicle: Saluting the fearless one who triggered a mini revolution.
OnniClue: Her battle might’ve ended, but the real war has just begun.

Onnicle: The belief – In the grand finale, bronze medals are like bread without jam – eschews logic.
OnniClue: The heat is on.

Onnicle: Planned to far, eh? Man…far it sure was, from a likely truce.
OnniClue: Wrong man for the sensitive job?

Guest Onnicle Contributed by Achyutha Anantha Murthy
Onnicle: When the cops rounded up the stoned Travis, Hank, Arun and Pandi, they recovered a few bootleg tapes along with the weed.
Onniclue: A sitara among the music stars!

Onnicle: It’s tricky to give up on tingling feelings.
OnniClue: “Aaila! Now the press will hound me to do the same.”

Answers to Onnicles word games from November 2012
- Arjun Rampal (40th birthday)
- Ajmal Kasab (hanging)
- Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar leader’s India visit)
- James Bond (Skyfall)

Word games for November 2012 | Onnicles

Onnicle: By far, June is when those on the ramp also move on.
OnniClue: Role model or model with roles?

Onnicle: In the British Raj, malnourished convicts wouldn’t last a week, as a biryani fan revealed.
OnniClue: Getting the hang of it?

Onnicle: The leprechaun gets a new masseuse for shiatsu…uses bulky index fingers.
OnniClue: Looking for some desi support.

Onnicle: Loved the traffic jam, especially bonding with irate drivers.
OnniClue: Chicken Little had also warned that it would fall.

Answers to Onnicles word games from October 2012
- Ang Lee (Director – Life of Pi)
- Nitin gadkari (Dam controversy)
- Psy | Gangnam Style
- Sharon Stone

Word games for October 2012 | Onnicles

Onnicle: Strangle egos, explore spirituality.
OnniClue: The wild side of 3.14159

Onnicle: Remember the controversy igniting Ad Karishma did?
OnniClue: Dammit!

Onnicle: Ok, I ran obediently, but what’s up for me next?
OnniClue: Her mentor ends the party & her colleague launches another one.

Onnicle: Psychotic gang names Tyler as their leader.
OnniClue: Just horseying around

Onnicle: She’d wish a rondelet (poem) created for her was the best one.
OnniClue: So she’d keep her fingers (and legs) crossed, basically by instinct.

Answers to Onnicles word games from September 2012
- Kareena Kapoor (wedding)
- Ganpati Bappa (Ganeshotsav)
- Andy Murray (coached by Ivan Lendl)
- A.K. Hangal

Word games for September 2012 | Onnicles

Onnicle: The bulk are enamoured fans, but not enough to ink a poorly placed tattoo.
OnniClue: Got the wedding invite?

Onnicle: He began patiently on the job. Apparently humor yardsticks weren’t set.
OnniClue: Sukhakarta dukhaharta

Onnicle: And you see the exotic lemur, ray-ban-like eyes and zebra-like tail.
OnniClue: “I won, Ivan” he might’ve said after winning.

Contributed by Achyutha Anantha Murthy
Onnicle: A king said to his minister “you who did hang all those criminals barely blinking an eye, why does your eyes shed so many tears to order your son lashed a few times for his crime?”
OnniClue: Shaukeen Insaan

Answers to Onnicles word games from August 2012
- Ayn Rand (Author: Fountainhead)
- Mary Kom (Boxer)
- Vivek Arora (Actor)
- Travis Tygart (Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency)

Word games for August 2012 | Onnicles

Onnicle: Say no to grand epics.
OnniClue: Philosophy best served without getting your head in the fountain.

Onnicle: In summary, leukoma can cause visual impairment.
OnniClue: Ditto for an incorrectly aimed punch.

Onnicle: Revive kissing roles & probe RoI (return on investment).
OnniClue: Any other ideas to give his career + finances a CPR?

Contributed by Pratyush Rohatgi
Onnicle: Whenever she had extra visitors in her flat, her mother complained about her dirty garter belts.
OnniClue: He says it really wasn’t just the bike

Contributed by Achyutha Anantha Murthy
Onnicle: The Nusrat song ‘mangte hain karam’ blared from the horn speakers. Somewhere the transistor was screeching “MC Hung Nei jangled his bangles”. Folks passing by were jolted by the sudden fierce megaphonic bellow of a ayurunaniherbalhomeopath in the roadside tent advertising the benefits of thyme, sage, rosemary in his medicines while the medical rep was hardselling kom-vit to the pharmacy nearby.
Onniclue: Magnificently embedded within the onnicle [:-P]

Answers to Onnicles word games from July 2012
- Dara Singh (played the role of Hanuman in mnay movies/serials)
- Jon Lord (Deep Purple Keyboardist)
- Ram Gopal Verma
- Mitt Romney (Presidential candidate)

Word games for July 2012 | Onnicles

Onnicle: He would spend a rather generous amount of time epitomising Hanuman roles.
OnniClue: The original He-man.

Contributed by Amol Hatwar
Onnicle: On that Black Night, at Dijon, his Lordship breathed his last.
OnniClue: Purple is good when it is of the deeper kind.

Onnicle: For a man on the go, pale-skin fetish is over, ma’am.
OnniClue: Mixing business with pleasure?

Contributed by Poyni Bhatt:
Onnicle: He came, he uttered, he embarrassed! They wished he is remitted back home from the gala. He was as if at another Harvard prom! NE yankee probably thought so!!
Onniclue: In blunderland enroute to prez-land!

Answers to Onnicles word games from June 2012
- Vishy Anand (World champion)
- Sunny Leone (Porn star)
- Rohan, Leander, Bhupathi (Olympic Tennis team controversy)
- Ronaldo (team lost in the penalty shootout)

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