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Fun & Games
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Fun for all the family finding games that people play in this month’s crossword. And as for the rest of the clues? The
usual bag of bogus tricks! As ever, you’ll also find solutions to last month’s puzzles on this page. |
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CMB CROSSWORD #16, May 2008 |
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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD #15, April 2008: ACROSS 1: Queen, 5: Jam, 9: RYA, 11: LA, 12: Placebo, 13: Dee, 14: PN, 15 Humble Pie, 18: OS, 19: Suede, 22: Bonsai, 25: Europe, 26: AA, 28: Elms, 31: Prefab Sprout, 33: Eir, 34: Se, 35: Radiohead, 36: EP. DOWN 2: Erasure, 3: EYA, 4: NAE, 6: Al, 7: Madness, 8: Cream, 10: Do, 12: Pi, 14: Pioneered, 16: Elbows, 17: Escaper, 21: EU, 23: Op, 24: Instep 27: Aria, 29: Lo, 30: Muse, 32 ERD.
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ACROSS
1: Game invented in Montevideo
6: One swelling
9: Body in the library?
11: Illinois marching band
12: Torbay Astronomical Society
14: Small hatchet
15: Association of Noise Consultants
17: Pawns not prawns
19: Office for Radical Alternative Thinking (apparently)
20: Adolescent insect?
21: Composed
24: Expressionless game?
25: Frantically hunt for words
27: Asian flat bread
28: Sticky soil
29: French and golden?
31: UK car rescue agency
33: ….di dah?
34: Small road
36: Not generally worn at the beach
39: Continental local
40: Sports Illustrated
41: Get on the bus?
42: Counter strategy?
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DOWN
1: Cliché - ridden game?
2: Air con
3: Cuts like a knife
4: All dressed up
5: Automatic Elephants
6: Do not pass go….
7: Quite small
8: Game involving sketches
10: Half of the surreal?
13: Prejudiced about gender
16: Bird that likes corn?
18: Thermoplastic polymer
22: Shoot or twig used for grafting
23: Funk band from North Carolina
26: Boring?
30: Game for megalomaniacs?
33: Building blocks of life?
35: Old fashioned jacuzzi
38: National Health Service in Wales
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Logic Problem #16: May Balls |
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Four young ladies go to a May Ball with ‘dates from Hell’. Happily, by the end of the evening they have managed to ditch
their escorts and have met up with much more attractive suitors. From the clues below, work out who the original escort was,
what made the escort so unappealing, how the young ladies managed to get rid of their dates, and who they ended up with
instead.
Cordelia was mortified by her escort’s terrible imitations of John Travolta on the dance floor. However, she was not the person who pushed her escort into the river.
Hermione decided to climb a tree in order to escape her date. It was whilst doing this that she met Witty Walter.
Hairy Hubert’s arrogance drove his companion to distraction - this was not Phoebe, who hid under a table to escape from her
escort.
Jocasta’s evening improved once she met Jovial John, her original escort wasn’t Pompous Percy. Hooray Henry didn’t have
bad breath or overpowering aftershave. Droopy Derek’s replacement was Humble Harold. Phoebe’s date from hell had almost
certainly been eating garlic and had forgotten to brush his teeth.
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SOLUTION TO LOGIC PROBLEM #15, April 2008. 1: Baffin Boffin, Tip-Top Timer, Village Fete. Whistles, Collapsed. 2: Chemical Chaos,
Crafty Cup, TV Show, Magnetic, Flew Away. 3: Dr Ditz, Wonder Whisk, Agricultural Show, Self Cleaning, Dissolved. 4: Prof. Purple,
Perfect Poacher, Music Festival, Glows in the Dark, Exploded.
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