ShopAsleep on the job – MEGA 3 Contests
January 15, 2010 by The Judge
Filed under The Judge Sums Up
The Mega Stinker was as smelly as usual in issue No. 3. It was enough to keep some of you awake especially at 47dn where ‘Wakefulness’ was INSOMNIA and not IMSOMNIA.
As you saw the sun come up you may have been tackling 134ac ‘Solar radiation (1,1-1)’. This was UV-B not USB or UBB. Ultraviolet means beyond violet in Latin. Violet has the shortest wavelength of visible light and UV is shorter again. We need UVB for vitamin D but it can also cause skin damage. To avoid this we all need to take care on sunny days.
If you’re lucky enough to be enjoying a sunny day on a beach holiday abroad, you might spot a whale passing by. At 61ac ‘Rorqual’ needed SEI Whale (not SKI or SHI). Rorquals are a group of whales including some of the largest, such as the Blue Whale and Humpback Whale. The Sei is the third largest of the group.
A POMANDER is a ‘Scented ball’ 12dn. The word comes from the French for ‘apple of amber’. Pomanders were used in the Middle Ages to counter bad smells and to try and ward off infections. A couple of misspellings included POMADDER and POMANDOR.
