GOVENDE - a game of wordplay, puns, leaps of thought and trivia - GAME 3

Harold Shipman used the cover of a kind and caring doctor to conceal a guilty secret.

What is a secret?

Cri me a river!!- it's one of those songs which has made loads of cover versions like Justin Timberlake or Barbara Streisand!!!

What's a cover?

Excited is when your ex is named as a person of interest in a crime.

What is a crime?

Historical is an over-excited person who shouts a lot... a combination of the words 'hysterical' and 'oral' .

What is excited?

A adjective much used in historical novels to decribe someone who is ill or dying.

What is historical?

One (wan) is to to look sickly, with a pallor.

What is a pallor?

A blessing is received when one sneezes.

What is one?

Prayer is asking the supreme being for a favour or blessing in the hope that they will listen.

What is a blessing?

"Ah-men" is what is said at the end of a prayer, or sometimes in agreement.

What is a prayer?

Teachers are makers of whiskey, that men seem to enjoy drinking.

What are men?

This is a resort where teachers of philosophy go for their vacation.

That are teachers?

Vulgar behaviour is doing something lacking in sophistication (according to some people).

What is sophistication?

Common is an older expression used to imply someone is vulgar and noisy.

What is vulgar?

Leather is tanned hide, common on Benidorm's beaches.

What is common?

Fashioned is just an upmarket snobbish way way of saying you used materials to manufacture something like leather to make shoes and boots.

What is leather?

Hymn rhymes with "him" and is an old fashioned way of pointing out a male person.

What is fashioned?

Embarrass sing is me when I don't know the words to the hymn.

What is a hymn?

Smoothing out the embarrassing wrinkles is something the government are constantly trying to do.

What is embarrasing?

It's a gadget for smoothing out pieces of wood.

What is smoothing?

Well some people think that free-falling out of a plane is fun but its not my idea of enjoyment.

What is a plane?

Effete is a fun day in the home counties, as in ' we are having ef fete'.

What is fun?

A buffet is a seriously buff man who is also effete.

What is effete?

A seating is when a number of people are served a meal at tables rather than buffet style.

What is a buffet?

When someone won't commit to whose side they are on - they said to be sitting on de fence!!

What is sitting?

Defence of the realm is a phrase which excuses many hidden and nefarious deeds.

What is a defence?