This week I have a lovely, but perhaps an easy skull for you to identfy from the Grant Museum:
Cryptic clues on what you think this is please, let’s see what creative gems you can come up with!
Zygoma
Adventures in natural history collections
This week I have a lovely, but perhaps an easy skull for you to identfy from the Grant Museum:
Cryptic clues on what you think this is please, let’s see what creative gems you can come up with!
Zygoma 
I can’t bear this pap! (mmmm! pap! more pap mother!)
You always get it right and get it first. If I didn’t envy you so much I’d hate you. 😉
Brilliant!
Hol[e]d on! I think I might have an idea here.
From some videos I’ve seen, in times of drought or wildfires these cuties imagine every human is a sort of Gunga Din.
And, of course, concerned locals often get together to donate mittens to them.
Popeye the Sailor, exhumed
Initially, I thought it could be a kind of awkward large anthropoid?
Is that a cryptic clue, because it is the one so far I haven’t come near to getting?
Yep. Keep working at it.
I fear you’re going to have to explain it to me come Friday. Am feeling awfully obtuse right now.
I have given up. Now that we all know what it is, any chance you could explain this clue to me? I am still stumped.
“Initially” – Kind Of Awkward Large Anthropoid
Oh wow! Very nice! Ta.
I rather liked that one Tony – should have done a shout-out about nice cryptic crossword type clues, since palfreyman’s anagram below was another good one!
The original Rough Riders Ursus
It’s in shadow, so not as visible as it could be (given the colour of the backdrop and my computer’s screen…), but look at the angular process of the dentary. Inflected angles are often said to be a hint at infra-class affinities of mammals, so…
If I interpret him right, then, I think I’m going with Chris.
Now I’d like to see a specimen with the flesh and skin, but with the hair shaved off: one thinks of these critters as having very wide, comparatively flat, faces, and I don’t think I would have guessed that they would have that particular stereotyped image from the skull. … Though I guess the relatively short rostrum could be a tip-off. Thanks, Paolo, for posting this!
OK! A la confused stuffed toy favourite.
(My attempt at a Graun style cryptic crossword clue.)
Tap, tap…plus it could be worse in French.
Hmm. It can’t be what I first thought – Less José and more Joey now.
Bear with me – and give me a purse…
“Hey fuzzball…can I have som gum? My sister, Myrtal, likes it. ”
Too obscure? Hmmm. It’s from a tough little ocker that I hear isn’t too bad to dissect since they smell like a hip pad from the 1970’s. And they like to go to the cinema with us.
UmmmM.. Wondering. (Batty thought.) Maybe we were mistaking a close relative for a … So searched web for skull of the cousin: different enough that I’m confident we had the right member of the family. But (mmm)… there is a distinct family resemblance: even the woeful windows at the back of the palate.
The Defenestration of Prague, eh?
Hope Paolo won’t feel the need to mod this, but the best story I heard about the cousin you speak of was from a New Zealand paper that reported a man (about six years ago?) called the police to report he had been raped by the cousin. They went over to his place and found him, how shall we say, tired and emotional.
It had a happy ending as he claimed he had no physical damage from the attack, but was now unable to speak in anything but a Strine accent!
True story.