More detours from the well-signposted highways of the English language on to the rutted cart tracks of our contributors’ imaginations ...

Account (n): Central European aristocrat (Tim Shulz)
Acute angle (phr): Adorable corner (Tim Shulz)
Adore (n): Entrance of which you’re particularly fond (Tim Shulz)
Cauterise (v): To have attracted her attention (Jon Muller)
Depending (adj): Diving into a swimming pool (David Watts)
Fibula (n): A small lie (Jon Muller)
Forces (n): Words spoken between 3 and 5 (Tim Shulz)
Impotent (n): A powerful pixie (Jon Muller)
Meringue (v): Bob Marley just phoned (Charlie Kennedy)
Morbid (v): To win an auction (Jon Muller)
Moustache (excl): I have to leave immediately (Charlie Kennedy)
Regulate (adj): Often misses appointments (Charlie Kennedy)
Remit (v): To put one’s glove back on (David Watts)
Scarcity (n): Frightened metropolis (Tim Shulz)
Tumor (n): Another couple (Jon Muller)

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