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Fun & Games
Garden Gnomes |
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If it isn’t broken, don’t try to fix it, or so they say. So the first crossword of 2008 continues in much the same vein as the dodgy ones of old 2007. We kick off the New Year with a gardening theme. Enough said. |
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CMB CROSSWORD #12, January 2008 |
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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD #11, DECEMBER 2007: ACROSS 2: Coaming, 9: Ephahs, 12: IBI, 14: Boat, 16: Stun, 17: Asea, 18: Lulu,
20: BH, 21: Mooring, 23: Ka, 24: Galley, 26: Flares, 29: Riot, 30: Yacht, 32: To, 34: Bread, 35: Ion, 37: MBE,
39: Appeaser, 41: Elect, 44: Lr, 45: Rudder, 46: Pier. DOWN 1: Kebab, 2: Catamaran, 3: OH, 4: AS, 5: If, 7: Git,
8: Dinghy, 10: POSH 11: Hae, 13: BU, 15: Burg, 16: Sunlit, 18: Lo, 19: Liar, 22: Doldrums, 23: Kayaked,
25: ET, 26: Fender, 27: EC, 28: Ship, 31: Topi, 33: Ferry, 36: Ne, 38, Belt, 39: Ate, 40: Ale, 42: LU, 43: CD.
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ACROSS
1: Crazy paving?
4: In your hair in San Francisco?
7: Back of an insect
9: Crackers union representation?
10: Dental Admissions Test
11: One of eight divisions
14: Upper layer of earth?
15: Jeans, but not Levis
17: Poor excuse?
19: Slang for ‘random guy’
21: Near to Tijuana
22: Instituto di Radioastronomia
23: Petit Jean Yves
24: Grass stem above ground
25: Kind of blue
26: Hostelling International
28: East Midlands Today
29: Are you texting?
30: Not a professional?
31: Received Pronunciation
32: Allium
34: Loss of leaves
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DOWN
1: Tadpole paradise?
2: Stains the skin
3: Diffusion of water
4: Promotes growth
5: Went with daub to build houses
6: Alpines look good here
8: From the genus Avena
12: Internet country code for Columbia
13: Old fashioned fright
16: Full of fruity trees
18: Any time, any place, anywhere?
21: Speech hesitation
23: ‘In-group’ terminology?
27: Enthusiasm
32: Occupational Therapy
33: One of the moons of Jupiter
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Logic Problem #12: New Year Resolutions |
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In terms of logic, this might be a bit of a stretch, but here goes…. Four people have been told to take up hobbies for the New Year as ‘displacement therapy’ by their psychiatrists. From the clues below, work out what each of the neuroses are, what the hobby is, and why it was destined to fail.
Alvin, who had decided to take up the didgeridoo, was not the person who was in the Vatican when there was a power cut. Dylan suffers from arachnophobia, he wasn’t the person whose New Year activity was scuppered by loose elastic.
Floyd made the mistake of going to Mount Athos, he doesn’t suffer from vertigo, and he wasn’t trying 0ut bungee jumping. Jarvis, on the other hand had been told that taking up ballroom dancing would be a good way of overcoming vertigo. The person with commitment phobi did not take up macramé or bungee jumping, and the hurricane was at the Eiffel Tower.
The person sitting in the bathtub (neither Dylan nor Alvin) when the neighbours burst in to continue their extraordinary vendetta wasn’t the person who suffers from claustrophobia.
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SOLUTION TO LOGIC PROBLEM #11, December 2007: 1: Lala, Prancer, Subscription, Vegan, Sneezed. 2: Dingbat, Donner, Slippers, Re-Gift, Fainted. 3: Muppet, Blitzen, Shellfish, PTSD, Burped. 4: Prannet, Dancer, Sweater, Allergy, Farted.
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