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Fun & Games
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For this we mean ‘themeless’. We’ve given you a fair few jolly good words, though, even though we say it ourselves. And yet again we’ve been merciless with the acronyms! As usual, you’ll also find solutions to last month’s puzzles on this page. |
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CMB CROSSWORD #24, January 2009 |
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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD #23, December 2008: ACROSS 1: Straitjacket, 7: Melodramatic, 10: Facilitation, 14: Ibis, 15: Executorship, 18: Tea, 19: Xylo, 21: Briki, 22: Brie, 23: Sari, 25: Ethnocentric. DOWN 1: Semi Flexible, 2: Relic, 3: Indol, 4: Aim, 5: Kit, 6: Technophobic, 8: Actionable, 9: Anti Sexist, 11: ILC, 12: ABR, 13: Ish, 16: Enrich, 17: Ultimo, 20: Year, 24: RI.
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ACROSS
1: Picture of chemical colours
8: Champions on Ice
9: Hungry insect
12: Fluorescent red dye
14: Hillock
15: Latin American marinade
16: Big antelope
17: Partial blues in Las Vegas
18: Jake the Peg?
19: Standard
20: Cleaning a car, inside?
21: Earth Interactions
22: National Australia Bank
23: Mistakes
26: Clearly not a mistake
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DOWN
1: Friendly world view?
2: Saturday Night Jamboree musicians
3: Silly enterprise
4: Deep student
5: Johnny should be more than OK?
6: Italian unification movement
7: Bit of a word that only has one bit?
10: University, Northumbria, Newcastle
11: Very, very small wigwam?
17: Big long posters
24: Rotten Tomatoes
25: Either?
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Logic Problem #24: Pantomime Crimes |
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For reasons that are far too complicated to go into right now, four misguided amateur thespians cast as pantomime characters end up on stage in the wrong theatre on the opening night of a ‘serious’ play. From the clues below, work out which person was cast as what pantomime character, what party trick they were performing as they entered from the wings, which play they disrupted, and the lines they uttered to startle the audience.
Geoff was originally cast as one of the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella; however, he was not the misfortunate who burst into the production of Waiting For Godot shouting ‘He’s behind you’.
Harry was the tap dancer who invaded The Cherry Orchard. Ignatius was the front end of a pantomime horse, but was not the person who disrupted Macbeth’s ‘Is this a dagger….’ speech with the lines ‘Oh no it isn’t’. Jasper, who was not cast as Buttons, played the accordion at a critical point in Hedda Gabler.
Widow Twankey recited the lines ‘Ooh Duckie’, and Geoff was not the juggler.
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SOLUTION TO PROBLEM #23, December 2008. 1: Alf, Theme Park, Grotty Grotto, Kidnapped Reindeer, Computer Game. 2: Bert, Leisure Centre, Rude to Elves, Itching Powder, Drum Kit. 3: Colin, Department Store, Drunk on Sled, Bound and Gagged, Bicycle. 4: Derek, Public Library, Sang Rugby Songs, Superglue on Beard, Football.
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