The words in the table all have some astronomical significance.

Each may be slid up or down within the grid at will. By doing so you are to create a row which contains a phrase which is relevant to the subject.

How many such phrases can you discover?

		P
H		U				M
Y	C	L	P	E		E		S		M
D	O	S	L	N		R		P		A
R	R	A	A	E		C	P	E		T
U	O	R	N	R	V	U	H	C	L	T
S	N		E	G	E	R	O	T	E	E
	A		T	Y	N	Y	B	R	P	R
			S		U		O	U	U
					S		S	M	S

All at Sea contained a distractor from the solution, no such thing exists here.

There is more than one possible solution. The most obvious is:

      M    
H     EP   
Y    VRHS  
DC  EECOP  
ROPPNNUBE  
URULEUROCL 
SOLARSYSTEM <-- SOLAR SYSTEM
 NSNG   RPA
 AAEY   UUT
  RT    MST
   S      E
          R

Another is an astronomy term for the possible origin of the solar system:

        S  
H       P  
Y       E  
DC  E  PC  
ROPPNV HT  
URULEEMOR M
SOLARNEBULA <-- SOLAR NEBULA
 NSNGUROMET
 AAEYSCS PT
  RT  U  UE
   S  R  SR
      Y    

A third term, perhaps only a 'red herring', with the possibly intentional but common misspelling:

        S    
        P    
 C  E   E    
 O PNV  C    
 R LEEM T    
 OPARNEPR M  
 NUNGURHULA  
HALEYSCOMET <-- HAL^LEY'S COMET
Y ST  UB PT  
D AS  RO UE  
R R   YS SR  
U            
S            

Posted by Dej Mar on 2009-12-17 01:42:42