City Matters 158

CITYMATTERS.LONDON October 11 - November 07 2023 | Page 23
No. 5477
TEST YOUR BRAINPOWER
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PUZZLES
Quiz Challenge
1. Market Rasen racecourse is in
which county?
2. What M is a word containing a
sequence of letters used as a
memory aid?
3. What is the French name for
the English Channel?
4. In 2023, football club
Manchester City won the
Premier League title for a fifth
time in how many seasons?
5. Grantley Adams International
Airport serves which West
Indian island?
1
7
9
13
17
21
22
24
24
1
9
10
16
19
26
32
34
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
2
18
2 3
19
QUICK CROSSWORD
12
2
20
13
23
SOLUTIONS
3
8
14
18
3
14
21
24
30
31
EASY SUDOKU HARD SUDOKU
8 5 4 3 2 1 7 9 6 1 5 2 8 7 6 9 3 4
2 9 6 4 8 7 3 5 1 9 6 7 3 4 1 2 8 5
7 3 1 6 5 9 4 2 8 8 3 4 9 2 5 6 7 1
3 4 2 1 9 8 5 6 7 2 4 1 6 3 9 8 5 7
6 1 7 5 4 3 9 8 2 6 9 5 7 8 4 1 2 3
5 8 9 2 7 6 1 4 3 7 8 3 5 1 2 4 6 9
1 7 8 9 6 4 2 3 5 3 7 9 4 6 8 5 1 2
4 2 3 8 1 5 6 7 9 5 2 8 1 9 7 3 4 6
9 6 5 7 3 2 8 1 4 4 1 6 2 5 3 7 9 8
O
D
26
13
L
P
25
12
M
C
24
11
G
F
23
10
Z
S
22
9
Q
V
21
8
13
20
14
17
22
35
I
U
20
7
10
4
11
25
27
33
T
X
19
6
4
14
20
12
18
22
Y
W
6. The Daphne du Maurier novel
Jamaica Inn is set on which of
England’s moors?
7. What is tested using a Snellen
Chart?
8. ‘City girls just seem to find out
early, How to open doors with
just a smile’ is the opening
lyric of which Eagles song?
9. The 2023 BBC TV drama series
Blue Lights is set in which UK
city?
10. June Osborne is the main
character in which dystopian
novel by Margaret Atwood?
18
5
15
16
21
23
5
8
10
15
28
K
E
17
4
5
5
10
23
24
B
J
16
3
11
6
29
N
R
15
2
6
H
A
15
14
1
12
7
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ACROSS
FIVE ALIVE
RO IA SL EP DS
CE EM PU
AC LH OA NS ME
DU PK EP
YR AI ET LE SD
Here are two miniature five-square
crosswords using the same grid –
but the letters have been mixed up.
You have to work out which letters
belong to which crossword.
3. Praise for gran who left
National Guard in disarray (9)
7. Final letter discovered in
some garbage (5)
8. Quality of nylons in Kent? (9)
9. Sailor to return card (5)
10. Two articles first appear to
create a non-believer (7)
13. Mother and child finding one
at the lodge (5)
14. Group of antelopes around
the east (5)
16. Demand that one shellfish be
brought round (5)
17. Course for pedestrians (7)
21. Make a note of the said
religious observance (5)
22. Coastline breaks up in
parts (9)
23. Rene and I removed this
man (5)
24. Visitor may drop off here
(4,2,3)
NONAGRAM:
cedi; cert; cider; cite; cited; city; code; coder;
coir; cord; cordite; core; cored; corer; corrie; cote;
coyer; cred; credit; creditor; credo; cried; crier;
crore; cyder; decor; decoy; decry; dice; dicer;
dicey; dicot; direct; director; DIRECTORY; edict;
erotic; iced; otic; record; recto; rector; rectory; rice;
riced; ricer; torc; toric; trice.
CROSS CODE
ACROSS
1. Roomy (8)
5. Net (4)
9. Absence of
sound (7)
10. Predict (5)
11. Objective (3)
12. Overshadows
(6)
15. Portion (5)
17. Ancient harp (4)
19. Pass (6)
22. Assert (6)
24. Fruit (4)
26. Shinbone (5)
27. Niche (6)
30. Scarlet (3)
32. Periods (5)
33. Lofty (7)
34. Respiratory
organ (4)
35. Accentuates (8)
Across – Rasps; Alone; Yield.
Down – Ready; Smoke; Speed.
Across – Oiled; Chasm; Rates.
Down – Occur; Leapt; Dumps.
(2)
FIVE ALIVE:
(1)
Clockwise from top left – multiply;
subtract; add; divide. Total: 2.
EQUALISER:
DOWN
DOWN
1. Waistband (4)
2. Radiant (5)
3. Interior (5)
4. Anxious (6)
6. Avenger
(anag.) (7)
7. Inured (8)
8. Young girl (6)
13. Swiss mountain
(3)
14. Take flight (4)
16. Abstaining
completely (8)
18. Uncommon (4)
20. Egg white (7)
21. Thin (6)
23. Caustic
solution (3)
25. Fervent (6)
28. Rub (5)
29. Locates (5)
31. Appends (4)
EQUALISER
3 7
3 4 10
4 6
1 1 1
6 1
Place the four signs (add,
subtract, multiply, divide)
one in each circle so that
the total of each across
and down line is the same.
Perform the first calculation in each
line first and ignore the mathematical
law which says you should always
perform division and multiplication
before addition and subtraction.
1. Smell the first cat to drink a
toast (7,2)
2. Stand for soldiers here (9)
3. The French are smart and
enduring (7)
4. Lived and spoke at length
about it (5)
5. Get in another shade (5)
6. In which one might arrange
flowers in the wilderness (5)
10. Pester any small number
inside (5)
11. I’m one undergoing treatment
and not willing to wait (9)
12. One of the band of
elephants? (9)
15. Looked gloomy when barge
went first (7)
18. Engagement ring? (5)
19. Had included note that was
very much disliked (5)
20. Unfriendly Alfred hides a pair
of spectacles (5)
NONAGRAM
D O T
R C
I
Y E R
How many words of four
letters or more can you make
from this Nonagram? Each
word must use the central
letter, and each letter may be
used only once. At least one
word using all nine letters
can be found.
Guidelines:
25 Good; 29 Very Good;
34 Excellent.
Any word found in the Concise Oxford
Dictionary (Tenth Edition) is eligible
with the following exceptions: proper
nouns; plural nouns, pronouns and
possessives; third person singular
verbs; hyphenated words;
contractions and abbreviations; vulgar
slang words; variant spellings of the
same word (where another variant is
also eligible).
QUICK CROSSWORD:
Across – 1 Spacious; 5 Mesh; 9 Silence; 10 Augur; 11 Aim;
12 Dwarfs; 15 Share; 17 Lyre; 19 Elapse; 22 Allege; 24 Pear;
26 Tibia; 27 Recess; 30 Red; 32 Times; 33 Exalted; 34 Lung;
35 Stresses.
Down – 1 Sash; 2 Aglow; 3 Inner; 4 Uneasy; 6 Engrave; 7
Hardened; 8 Damsel; 13 Alp; 14 Flee; 16 Teetotal; 18 Rare;
20 Albumen; 21 Sparse; 23 Lye; 25 Ardent; 28 Chafe; 29
Sites; 31 Adds.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD:
Across – 3 Laudation; 7 Omega; 8 Sheerness; 9 Tarot; 10
Atheist; 13 Mason; 14 Genus; 16 Claim; 17 Pathway; 21
Write; 22 Sectional; 23 Ernie; 24 Land of nod.
Down – 1 Bottoms up; 2 Represent; 3 Lasting; 4 Dwelt; 5
Tinge; 6 Oasis; 10 Annoy; 11 Impatient; 12 Trumpeter; 15
Scowled; 18 Arena; 19 Hated; 20 Aloof.
QUIZ CHALLENGE: 1 Lincolnshire; 2 Mnemonic; 3 La Manche; 4 Six; 5 Barbados; 6 Bodmin
Moor; 7 Eyesight ; 8 Lyin’ Eyes; 9 Belfast; 10 The Handmaid’s Tale.
EASY
HARD
CROSS CODE
12 2 4 19 22 4 25 9 9 3
1 14 11 7 9 4 10 7 25
9 19 26 5 14 26 12 21 15
20 1 26 12 25 7 15 23 4
13 26 26 2 16 4 25 25 20 25
7 15 20 19 4 13 18 26 15 13 4 2
24 17 1 7 2 26
16 4 9 20 13 4 26 11 19 1 8 26
6 15 1 25 12 14 1 16 4 19
3 26 20 9 19 9 4 9 15
19 19 20 26 15 9 14 26 4
13 20 8 20 13 4 25 4 7
11 25 2 26 18 1 25 20 9 19
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14
15 16 17 18
N
Each number in our Cross Code grid represents a different letter
of the alphabet. You have three letters in the control grid to start
you off. Enter them in the appropriate squares in the main grid,
then use your knowledge of words to work out which letters
should go in the missing squares.
As you get the letters, fill in other squares with the same number
in the main grid and control grid. Check off the alphabetical list of
letters as you identify them.
SUDOKU
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
T
Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9,
and so must each 3 x 3 box.
3 1 6
6 4 8 7 5 1
3 6 9 4 8
4 2 9 5
6 7 5 8 2
5 2 7 6 4
1 8 4 3
8
2 4
5 9 3
7 2 8
7 1
2 4 6 9 8
9 7 8
1
3 4 1
8 1 6
5 3
26
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