Contents
           
 
|
Fun & Games
Random House |
|
The main theme of this month’s crossword is ‘Book titles’ but you will find several idiosyncratic clues littered along the way. There are probably even more senseless acronyms than usual, too! As usual, you’ll also find solutions to last month’s puzzles on this page. |
|
CMB CROSSWORD #20, September 2008 |
|
 |
|
SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD #19, August 2008: ACROSS 1: Schmoozing, 8: Trailer, 12: Kirkwood Gaps, 14: IM, 15: Escot, 16: SED, 18: Meteorite, 19: Oo, 20: RV, 21: Zodiac, 22: Icon, 24: Oaf, 26: Nan, 27: Star, 30: Lux, 31: Gree, 32: Syphon. DOWN 2: Hydria, 3: Optometrists, 4: IRADE, 5: Galactic Halo, 6: Airstream, 7: Skylarking, 9: Ro, 10: IGS, 11: EPO, 13: Wise, 17: Deva, 18: Moon, 19: Ozone, 23: Car, 25: Fun, 28: Ay, 29: RP.
|
|
ACROSS
1: Victorian petty thief
6: Duckie?
8: Give back (again!)
12: Not you
13: Small musical work
14: Advanced Packaging Tool
15: Build Up Roofing
16: Touting for trade?
17: Climbs every mountain?
18: Novel scent?
19: French mountain
20: Monty Python knights….
21: Salty, sea….
23: Poison
25: Silicon-oxynitride-oxide
26: Horses eat them
27: Beckett novel
30: Incorporated Society of Musicians
32: Music for the sofa
34: Programming language
36: No longer poisonous?!
38: Controversial, Nabokov nymphet
39: Nottingham postcode
|
DOWN
1: Rage
2: World according to….?
3: Herman Hesse was Born to be Wild!
4: Atomic Number 81
5: Organic matter in soil
7: Height horrors
9: Rain and lots of it….
10: Comes before a storm
11: Former BERR
15: WWI Nightingale?
16: Part of Herod’s Kingdom (!)
17: Gold!
18: Crucial
22: Essential gas
24: Open Source Software
28: Not quite a gift
29: Breathtaking
31: Small multi-disciplinary team
33: Town in Sweden
35: Be active in some way?
37: Electronic Arts
|
Logic Problem #20: Harvest Festival |
 |
|
This year the village harvest festival was one with a difference.. Four groups from the parish church made very special performances, each designed to symbolise an abstract concept. From the clues below, work out what each group brought as a harvest offering, what they sang, where they performed, and what each performance was supposed to symbolise.
The bell ringers brought plums as a gift to the festival. They were not the group who performed ‘I will survive’ on the Bouncy Castle. The brass rubbers’ performance symbolised justice.
The flower arrangers who did not bring marzipan as a gift, sang ‘Jailhouse Rock’. The grave diggers performed in the sandpit. The group who sang ‘Poison Ivy’ performed in the duck pond, and the group who represented truth performed in the beer tent. The group who brought quinces did not represent infinity.
|
|
SOLUTION TO PROBLEM #19, August 2008. 1: Bruce, Embassy Reception, Batman, Wrong Invitation, Nobody Noticed. 2: George, Military Parade, Chicken, Practical Joke, Round of Applause. 3: Nathan, Vicar’s Tea Party, Penguin, Wrong Address, Forcibly Ejected. 4: Rupert, Charity Ball, Banana, Wrong Date, Stunned Silence.
|
|
|
