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

Allegation (n): The process of stocking up with large lizards (Tim Shulz)
Baroque (adj): In need of repair (Tim Shulz)
Bunny (adj): Like a cake (Simone Potter)
Carbon (n): An excellent Renault (Charlie Kennedy)
Delegates (n): A washing-machine setting (David Watts)
Displace (n): Here (David Watts)
Dollop (n): My little hospital (Nancy Sutcliffe)
Elbow (n): Spanish violinist (Nancy Sutcliffe)
Exfoliate (v): To weed (Nancy Sutcliffe)
Explain (adj): Having left the aircraft (Simone Potter)
Express (n): Former journalist (Nancy Sutcliffe)
Lieutenant (excl): The bathroom is occupied (Charlie Kennedy)
Microbe (n): Very small dressing gown (David Watts)
Penchant (n): Gregorian scribe (Charlie Kennedy)
Permission (n): Pleasant task for a cat (Simone Potter)

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