A different kind of clue

Published 10 December 06 09:55 PM | robyn.owens 

Here's my favourite clue from this weekend, and it falls into another category (so far, we've had the anagram signalled by a word that hints at mixing up the letters (for example, "cooked", "could be", "wrongly" etc), and the clue that has the word hidden as the first letters of some of its words (signalled by "starts with" or "initially" or "first" etc). So what's the answer to this one?

Soundly disapproves of liquor (5) 

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# robyn.owens said on December 14, 2006 11:45 AM:

No takers this week? Well, the answer was BOOZE, since this sounds like BOOS (and thus disapproves).

These types of clues are signalled by words such as "sounds like", "hears", "reportedly", etc. within the clue.

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I started my academic life doing a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics at UWA before going to Oxford to complete an MSc and a DPhil, also in Mathematics. I then spent three years in Paris at l'Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, continuing research in mathematical analysis and going to lots of movies before returning to UWA to work as a research mathematician. I have lectured in Maths and Computer Science at UWA, as well as for short periods at Berkeley, The University of Canterbury in Christchurch, and Prince Songkla University in Thailand. My research has focussed on computer vision, including feature detection in images, 3D shape measurement, image understanding, and representation.