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Culinary Quiz
Our crossword compiler has gone down a foodie route this month, so many of the solutions are edible, if you see what we mean. As most of you know by now, yet again we have also come up with a couple of really unfair definitions, which we hope will keep you entertained. Solutions to last months puzzle are also on this page.
 CMB CROSSWORD #7, August 2007  
SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD #6, JULY 2007
ACROSS 2: Moat, 6: Chap, 9: Atmosphere, 12: HI, 13: Tune, 15: Rain, 17: Pooh, 19: Cloud, 20: EU, 21: Ei, 23: Ha, 25: Ra, 26: Oar, 27: Etched, 31: Ether, 33: Tan, 35: Weird, 36: PT, 38: Me, 39: Hurricane. DOWN 1: Fahrenheit, 2: Moonlight, 3: OS, 5: Thunder, 6: Crepe, 7, He, 8: Pi, 10: Tia, 11: EN, 14: Foe, 16: Ice, 18: Hurricane, 22, Bounder
 
Across
1: Useful in coleslaw
6: Big bun
8: Hot!
9: Citrus Lawn
11: Amphitheatre organ?
12: Point on Mariner’s compass
14: Big Greek TV
15: On Stockings?
16: Treat for a squirrel?
18: South American pick-me-up
19: In batter?
20: Tut was here
22: Word slicing?
23: One bull, many cows?
24: Equine root?
26: Somewhere over the rainbow, weigh a …?		 Down
1: Rebel
2: Before firing
3: A good flower does this
4: Where dust goes
5: How to curry favour?
7: Spicing up Budapest
8: Needs a reed
10: Prawns and friends
13: Couldn’t be more English!
17: Soy sauce without yeast
21: Alpine wind
22: Give out
25: Short theatrical?

Logic Problem #7: English Disasters!
Four ex-pats living on Crete fly back to the UK, each to attend a special event. Unfortunately, each event turns out to be a bit of a catastrophe. From the clues below, work out which relative each of the ex-pats was visiting, what and where the event was, and what went wrong.
 

Lily was glad she hadn’t eaten any of the Cornish pasties that gave so many people food poisoning. The runaway cow was last seen heading up the High Street in Oxford.
Billy was pleased to see his grandma again – this was not at the birthday party in Whitby. Willy, who wasn’t at the Elvis Convention in Swindon wasn’t surprised by the punch – up
Milly wasn’t with the drunken Morris Dancers who gate-crashed the celebration in Totnes, nor was she going to a graduation party. Lily couldn’t believe the outfit her uncle was wearing. The cousin who was being visited wasn’t getting married.
SOLUTION TO LOGIC PROBLEM #6, JULY 2007
1: Beryl, Research, Moving house, Painting, Lake. 2: Gladys, Accounts, Head hunted, Yoga, River. 3: Robin, Human Resources, Hates Boss, Reading, Sea. 4: Warren, Marketing, Bored, Music, Pool.
    Socrates and the Gerbil