OT: Test #335B

[wire chief]

14..When is a mobster here a "hat" over there?

15..Across the "Atlantic" is us.

16..This(?) follows a traveling Brit, but we think of it as rainwear.

17..When Rumpole is in his office, he describes it as being in ________.

18..Public school

19..There our attorneys are split in two.

20..One may be "knackered", but not...

21...necessrily from being "bevvied".

22..On their plates may be "courgette" or "auburgene".

23..Kids play "naughts and crosses".

24..Weather determines use of an anorak(?).

25..MI6 over there; our counterpart?

Sadly wcbb is not too big over there, but carry on nonetheless.

 

[meyers7]

18. the Public schools are the upper class schools. Kinda like Private here. Eton. I think most are boarding schools.
20. I think knackered - inebriated, but not pissed - drunk??
23. I assume Tic-Tac-Toe
25. CIA or FBI. I think CIA.

 

[pinotbear]

15. pond?
19. lawyers and barristers?
23. tic-tac-toe?
24. pullover hat, perhaps that covers much of the face?
25. CIA?

I'm guessing ( a lot!) here.

 

[wallman]

15 the pond

 

[pap49cba]

19. solicitors and barristers

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

17. Chambers?

 

[OneTrickPony]

15. Jolly Olde England
16. Mac (?)
18. English Private School
19. Solicitors and Barristers
20. Exhausted
21. Pissed or drunk
23. Tic Tac Toe (?)
25. CIA

 

[VAUConnFan]

15. Expatriots
19. barrister and solicitor
20. Drunk
23. tic tac toe
25. Military Intelligence, DIA

 

[wire chief]

14...You were to have come up with a mobster synonym, "hood", which is also part of a car. To the British, it's a bonnet.
(I make no apologies for demanding mental gymnastics.)

15..Pinot & wallman with "pond".

16..A boot follows the traveler, cause it is part of the car that trails the driver, i. e. the trunk.
(See 14).

17..Rumpole of the Baily is in chambers. Thanks to Knights.

18..A private one, like Meyers & Pony say.

19..Split between solicitors(the investigator) and the barristers, who appears in court. Hats off to Pony, VAUC & pap.

20..Just Pony here with exhausted.

21..Drunk, like Pony & meyers& VAUC say.

22..Zucchini & eggplant.

23..Yes, meyers plus 3, tic-tac toe.

24..A parka

25..CIA, Pinot, meyers & Pony.

Next time we focus on Tajikstan