Secret Sound #5 = Picking Up & Dropping a Cone on Concrete
ACCEPTABLE RESPONSES
- NOT REQUIRED: Picking Up
- ACCEPTABLE: Looper Tube, Delineator, Parking Cone, Traffic Cone, Orange Cone
- ACCEPTABLE: Concrete, Ground, Pavement, Floor, Sidewalk, Walkway,
- ACCEPTABLE: Dropping, Releasing, Letting Go, Placing, Setting, Positioning
CLUES
- Steve Irwin may NOT be a fan (Great Barrier Reef…Cones create barriers)
- I was never a great pupil. That’s why I’m in radio (pupil..cones & rods in your eyes)
When batting right handed, players will watch the ball with their left eye (Left Eye. She put a rubber in her glasses. Cones are made from rubber. - You can find me at Target (for closing off wet floors and stuff like that)
- Police like DNA because it’s great evidence (concrete evidence)
- This is something that people hit. (the highway)
- Primary education escaped me. (Orange is not a primary color)
- Football players need all the protection they can get (hard hats in construction zones)
- This never helps your mood in the morning (road construction)
- When you’re exhausted (tired. Tires are made from rubber)
- You might see me in Hawaii! (cones are shaped like volcanos)
- This has been a key strategy in the fight against COVID (distancing. They keep you distanced from construction and are also spaced out)
- I start soft and end hard (concrete or asphalt)
- Something that you sometimes have to do (let it go)
- Almost all potato chips are the same (except Pringles will stack. Cones stack)
- Not everything that doubles is good (fines double in construction zones)
- You might find me at a gas station (they put the cones out when fuel truck is there)
- I’ll take “Famous Nathans” for $500, Alex. (Nathan Lane. Stay in your lane.)
- You’re guaranteed to see me on the way to Tiburon (life vests. Construction crews wear vests)
- You might see me at the top of a ramp (do not enter)
- Some movies are nothing short of miracle. (In “Miracle” there was the Conehead line)
- This is something that a car might throw (a rod. Rods and cones in your eyes)
- Okay class…it’s time for math. 2 minus 1 equals…? (One lane)
- When you create a new path, you (blank) the way (pave)
- People hate it when you do this at the gym (drop the weights)
- When you are just zeroed in and focused (you’re in the zone)
- Some types of snacks come with their very own special dust (the orange stuff that ends up on your fingers with Doritos and Cheetos)
- In the 1970’s, your parents might have said “Solid!” as a positive affirmation (solid lines, do not cross)
- Sometimes I’m preceeded by a de (deconstruction)
- This is something that will stop play in a basketball game (out of bounds or boundary)
- A verb that is associated with your eye (drop)
- Frost will sometimes affect prices (oranges)
- I’m a type of band (rubber)
- Dog’s don’t like this (cones)
- There a very uplifting theory in this clue (what goes up must come down)
- If life is going too fast for you, you might want to consider this.
- Remember to always pick up after yourself at work.
- How you measure a diamond (karats. Carrots are orange)
- This is something that will move you (into another lane or around something)
- 2021 has been a good year for new music on 99.7 NOW-FM (Goodyear, rubber)
- Concerts are back and so are the big ticket prices (for speeding in a construction zone)
- Mail carriers can be weighed by the pound (they pound the pavement)
- Songs and drinks aren’t the only things you can mix (you mix concrete)
- I’ve been to the Indy 500
- I may not look like one but I’m a bowl. (Orange Bowl)