h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's Friday Quiz time again

Below you will find 15 clues to words or phrases, and 15 part-solutions which are listed in a random order. You need to do the following:

1. Solve each clue and match it to one of the part-solutions.

2. Rearrange the letters of the solution indicated by an asterisk to get a themed word.

Clues:

1. someone who shops around
2. tenement garden
3. superficial injury
4. catering trolley
5. miner's lunch
6. in the manner of a benevolent spirit
7. platitudes
8. fumble
9. dogs of a particular breed
10. tactless qualities
11. gift distributor
12. WWI affliction
13. soothing
14. careless
15. incomplete


Part-solutions:

AN * LLY
B * ES
B * TER
BAC * N
COR * TY
D * N
F * OUND
I * ES
M * LE
PO * S
RE * G
S * D
S * US
T * OOT
U * ED

* * *

12 must be t RENCHF oot.

(anagram of French?)

6 might be an GELICA lly

(anagram of Gaelic)

1 b ARGAIN HUN ter -- Hungarian

2 bac K GREE n doesn't look convincing, but does give Greek

I forgot to say that you'll find the solutions in the Collins Online Dictionary:

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/

Well there it is!

u NFINISH ed -- Finnish

(That was 15)

3 is f LESHW ound -- Welsh

For 5. I had COR *NISHPAS* TY

Spanish!

applesauce

8 m ISHAND le --Danish

Would 11 (gift distributor) be dole?

Then the breed of dog is po ODLE s ...

But that's not how they work

It's hard to anagrammatize dole into the name of a country, though.

(and, yes, I thought of poodle too)

No - the distributor of gifts is

s ANTA CLA us -- Catalan

Which leaves us with


1. someone who shops around - HUNGARIAN
2. tenement garden - GREEK
3. superficial injury - WELSH
4. catering trolley
5. miner's lunch - SPANISH
6. in the manner of a benevolent spirit - GAELIC
7. platitudes
8. fumble - DANISH
9. dogs of a particular breed
10. tactless qualities
11. gift distributor - CATALAN
12. WWI affliction - FRENCH
13. soothing
14. careless
15. incomplete - FINNISH


Part-solutions:


B * ES
D * N
I * ES
PO * S
RE * G
S * D



Although none of these solutions has yet been confirmed by our honourable quizmaster.

Platitudes: b ANALITI es

Italian

Soothing - Re ASSURIN g

Russian

Some amusing connections here.

You ca never have too many amusing connections.