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

Rob is the name of my cleaner who tends to tidy away stuff in unexpected places.

What is unexpected?

Don't worry Ali, it's fine ☺️

Haste is when people rob a bank and pronounce the word "heist" phonetically.

What is a rob?

Marry is something you do in haste and repent at leisure.

What is haste?

Law is what you get when you marry, ie, mother-in-law!

What is marry?

I'm so sorry, Retread, I totally forgot! 😢

Time is something you do at His Majesty's Pleasure when you break the law.

What is law?

Could be a long time coming.

What is time?

Ali we need a "what is..." from you

Natural is nothing you'd expect to happen on Friday the 13th....

An unaffected person is natural and not false or pretentious.

What is natural?

Ali

Passengers are when a situation that someone has deliberately engendered to upset you, passes you by and you are unaffected by it.

What is unaffected?

Involved is passengers in a Volvo that sped off to its destination.

What are passengers?

If something (for example a game) is quintessential it means that a team of five people must be involved in order to play.

What is involved?

What is quintessentially Scottish is anything Tunnocks.

What is quintessential?

Drama , - dram ma - is a word/words used by a young Scottish lad begging his mother to let him have a wee dram of whisky when he is still too young. She often gives in.

What is Scottish?

Character is an actor playing the part of a char in a period drama.

What is a drama?

Captain Birdseye was a TV character who encouraged us to eat fish fingers

What is a character?

He is the Pirate Captain in Peter Pan!!

What is a captain?

Wriggle is what worms do when caught on the hook - just like corrupt politicians when found breaking the rules.

What is a hook?

Policy is what organisations sometimes strictly apply so that they can wriggle out of a situation.

What is wriggle?

Gastric (or gas trick) is a policy used by unscrupulous fuel suppliers to con consumers into overpaying by direct debit.

What is a policy?

They are elastic, sometimes called gastric, to help you eat less.

GASTRIC

Sparkly outfits were worn by bands during the glam rock era and look really silly now.

What are bands?

It's one of the stage outfits for the pop group Sclub7. ( Although I think they are just SClub now). They wear beautiful sparkly capes for one of their routines on stage.

What's sparkly?

A shave, especially a close one means you just escaped having an accident and not just with a razor!

What’s escape?