L13

Question 1

辶

Answer 1

ROAD // for traffic, or perhaps a path. approaching from the entrance, turn right, face a junction, then choose the longer road to the left and enjoy one of the world’s best freeway roads.

Question 2

道

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WAY // when companies complain about malpractise, the upshot is that “heads will roll”, and here they are rolling onto the road. mean, but it is the way forward - truly the only way.

Question 3

达

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REACH // driving along a hairy road in the alps, an enormous st bernard with a tommy gun waits for you in the tunnel. “reach for the sky” he barks, while stealing the gold

Question 4

远

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DISTANT // three quarters through the ultra-marathon, somewhere in wyoming, you think you are finally about to rejoin the beginning of the road. but… is it the beginning? It’s too distant to see properly.

Question 5

适

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SUITABLE // washing dirty mouths with soap was outlawed as “unsuitable” by the early 1900s. luckily, with an ever-expanding road network, there was a much more suitable surface to lick. suitable for the punishers, rather than the naughty ones.

Question 6

过

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CROSS (v.) // Why didn’t the chicken cross the road? Because its feet were glued to the pavement.

Question 7

迈

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STRIDE // a canny gentleman, on hearing that 10,000 steps along the roads per day were necessary for good health, did tiny tiny strides down the central reservation, so everyone could see his success. everyone else thought the little strider a cheat.

Question 8

迅

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SPEEDY // Speedy Gonzales has left TV for new work in LA’s underground grand theft auto organisation. This time, though, the police have left nails and needles all over the highway. Not so speedy now!

Question 9

造

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CREATE // In the creation story, God makes stuff by simply declaring “let there be this / that”. Wouldn’t that be handy for the highways agency, “let there be a road”

Question 10

逃

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ESCAPE // the portent in the clouds pointed you down this road, so it is this road you must take… but now there comes an iron fence, and there’s no escape… escape…

Question 11

巡

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PATROL // Bored with simply washing the speeding cars, today’s highway patrol have flooded the entire M1. Why patrol for law-breakers when you can flood the lot of em?

Question 12

选

Answer 12

CHOOSE // “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” begins Robert Frost’s poem. At this point, before taking either road, one has a choice. Think carefully before choosing.

Question 13

逊

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MODEST // To get down the road to the post office, nana’s grandson is dragging her in the waggon. It’s a rather more modest offering than her usual Rover.

Question 14

逛

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STROLL // woah!! who the heck was that?? That crazy man in his dressing gown was just out taking a stroll in the middle of the motorway. Only a crazy old codger would take a stroll there.

Question 15

车

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CAR // Note the back and front axels, both connected to the drive shaft. Oh yes, this pictograph car is no less than four wheel drive, folks.

Question 16

连

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ONE AFTER ANOTHER // at this crosswords, right of way is given to the tiny dirt road, but there’s a convoy, and one-after-another, trucks are streaming past. it’s been 15minutes without a gap.

Question 17

莲

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LOTUS // forming a perfect floral symphony, the monks enjoy a morning of lotus flowers popping open one after another on the lake. lotus flowers kick ass.

Question 18

刖

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> BUTCHER // the new chef at Tony Roma’s used to work in a butchers, so he brought his old sabre. so good was he, that he sabred all the flesh off the meat and created their infamous ‘sabre tooth sandwich’

Question 19

前

Answer 19

IN FRONT // the new butchers in downtown new york didn’t know what to put in front of his shop to make the passers by notice. so he got a collosal pair of rams horns, and put them infront of the window, literally pulling people off the street.

butcher’s shop //

Question 20

剪

Answer 20

SHEARS // the butcher’s shop recieved a massive shipment of sheep on tuesday. to make it into lamb chops, they need a super-speedy tool. the head butcher suggests welding together two daggers, and hey presto - sheep meat shears

Question 21

俞

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SLAUGHTERHOUSE // butchers rarely see each other, but once a year, these meat men meet together in the slaughterhouse, and have a massive piss up with the soon-to-be-steak animals.

Question 22

输

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TRANSPORT // “Crap it” said the farmer, “the refrigeration truck will never make it here in time for the supermarket opening. There’s nothing for it, I’ll just have to tug the entire slaughterhouse by car”. Not the most efficent of transportation methods, but it did the job.

Question 23

逾

Answer 23

EXCEED // The road to the slaughterhouse is a one-way, two-lane thoroughfair, but since the smaller chickens can’t go too fast, there’s a strict 2mph limit. A speed camera punished anyone who exceeds the limit… with death.

Question 24

夂

Answer 24

WALKING LEGS // In a swishing motion, Morecambe and Wise criss cross their legs as they descend the steps. It’s a sublime movement, until Ernie crosses his too far and tumbles. [Note the first strokes of this is like a stylised 7]

Question 25

条

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STRIP (n.) // the big trick in the big top, is the man who walks over a suspended wooden pole suspended 60ft in the air. but the audience aren’t to know about the strip of velcro on the pole!

Question 26

处

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LOCATION // water must be found, but where is it. A dowser is called, and he waves his magic rods, walking to and fro, before finally finding the right location.

Question 27

各

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EACH // “Suum cuique” latin “To each his/her own”. Each person carries a little mouth between their legs, each talking a different talk. Each to their own upper-leg mouth.

Question 28

格

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PATTERN // true, trees have their own pattern. but to distinguish each individual tree, growers in hawaii dress them in hawian shirts - now the patterns are impossible to confuse

Question 29

略

Answer 29

ABBREVIATION // each field has its own abbrv.s (chemistry, philsphy, sprt). field each, it should be, but then the dominant field would be in the wrong place.

Question 30

客

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GUEST // guests should feel at home in each house. truly welcoming hosts make each individual house on your trip a home.

Question 31

额

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FOREHEAD // One should not look an important guest straight in the eyes, the head maid told the manor’s new recruit. But don’t slouch either, look them in the forehead.

Question 32

夏

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SUMMER // in summer, it’s best to kill many birds with one stone. olympic training athletes need a cool gym, but also need to run. so here they’ve had their noses stuck to the ceiling, and their running motion creates a fan

Question 33

洛

Answer 33

L.A. // in this sprawling megacity, each drop of water finds its own pollutant, creating a smoggy haze

Question 34

落

Answer 34

FALL // flowers in LA, well, with all that smog, they are naturally bound to fall. and with the fall of flowers, brings the success of crappy artificial flower factories. it’s a never-ending cycle that will end in overall downfall

Question 35

备

Answer 35

PREPARE // rocky XIII or whatever, this time he’s in china. walking the walk all the way through the epic rice fields of yunnan. go rocky, go rocky!