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This month our crossword compiler has gone all musical, so expect to find some obscure bands (some of which should
maybe stay that way?) and rock references among the clues. As ever, you’ll also find solutions to last month’s puzzles on
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CMB CROSSWORD #15, April 2008 |
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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD #14, March 2008: ACROSS 2: TAM, 5: Pear, 9: Spermophiles, 10: IPN, 11: IDLL, 12: Skeg, 14: Loyal, 17: Megohm, 18: HS, 19: To, 20: OS, 21: Ace, 22: Fir, 23: Op, 24: Own, 25: Lemon 26: Semester, 27: HR, 28: Etape, 30: Ism, 31: Sqt, 33, Con, 34: Journalistic, 37: Nay, 38: Lockup. DOWN 1: Spokesperson, 2: Trigonometry, 3: Amp, 4: Monomaniacal, 5: Philhellenic, 6: Eidos, 7: Ally, 8: Relationship, 12: Smooth, 13: EG, 16: Lorn, 22: FM, 29: Polo, 32: Qua, 35: SK, 36: Tu.
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ACROSS
1: Bohemian champions?
5: That’s entertainment!
9: Boating organisation
11: Doors woman
12: Sugar pill
13: Dave … (along with Dozy, etc)
14: Maltese Conservative Party
15: Natural Born Bugie!
18: Austrian Airlines
19: Britpop band
22: Small tree
25: Location of dodgy song contest
26: Type of battery
28: Trees prone to disease?
31: Belgian vegetable band?
33: Norse goddess
34: Atomic number 34!
35: Great music from Oxford!
36: More than a single
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2: Vince Clarke and Andy Bell
3: Edinburgh Youth Choir
4: National Academy of Engineering
6: Call Paul Simon this?
7: One step beyond!
8: Sunshine of your love?
10: Take action
12: Greek constant
14: Blazed the trail
16: Between shoulders and Andes?
17: Someone who breaks out?
20: Hard of hearing
21: See 25 Across
23: Opus reference
24: Ballet dancer’s arch?
27: Nessun dorma is one
29: Genus of rabbitfishes
30: Devonshire rock band
32: Entity Relationship Diagram
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Logic Problem #15: Eggheads |
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Four mad scientists tried to invent devices to make cooking and / or eating eggs easier for Easter. They were so proud of their inventions that they demonstrated their prototypes in public, with unfortunate results. From the clues below, work out the name of each scientist’s invention, where it was demonstrated, what it was supposed to do and what went wrong.
Baffin Boffin tried to demonstrate his invention at the Village Fete. This was not the ‘Perfect Poacher’ which is supposed to glow in the dark.
Chemical Chaos tried to invent a magnetic gadget—unfortunately he got the physics wrong and his device flew away instead. Dr Ditz was showing off his ‘Wonder Whisk’, and Professor Purple’s creation exploded in a spectacular fashion at a Music Festival.
The whistling ‘Tip - Top Timer’ collapsed, and it was ‘Crafty Cup’ (the egg-cup to end all egg-cups) which was being demonstrated on a TV show.
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SOLUTION TO LOGIC PROBLEM #14, March 2008. 1: Cottontail, Boat, Fortezza, Trapped Tourist, Politics. 2: Flopsy, Bathtub, Town Hall, Tangled in Trumpet, Knitting. 3: Mopsy, Bridge, Cinema, Eaten by Goat, Brass Rubbing. 4: Peter, Bird, Minoan Cemetery, Burst into Flames, Tango.
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