City Matters 162

CITYMATTERS.LONDON February 14 - March 12 2024 | Page 23
No. 5485
TEST YOUR BRAINPOWER
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PUZZLES
Quiz Challenge
1. The successful regional brewer
Greene King is based in which
English county?
2. Who captained The Lionesses
for the 2023 FIFA Women’s
World Cup?
3. Common, Mirror and Leather
are types of which freshwater
fish?
4. In the 2023 live-action Barbie
movie, who plays the character
of Ken?
5. ‘It’s a God-awful small affair, To
the girl with the mousy hair’ is
the opening lyric to which
David Bowie song?
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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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17
23
2
23
11
10
QUICK CROSSWORD
12
2
18
SOLUTIONS
3
20
3
15
25
31
EASY SUDOKU HARD SUDOKU
7 2 1 4 3 6 5 8 9 6 1 5 4 7 2 8 3 9
9 6 5 2 7 8 3 4 1 4 2 3 5 8 9 1 6 7
8 3 4 1 5 9 6 2 7 9 8 7 6 3 1 2 4 5
4 5 9 3 1 7 2 6 8 5 6 8 2 4 3 9 7 1
2 7 3 8 6 5 1 9 4 3 9 1 7 5 8 6 2 4
1 8 6 9 4 2 7 3 5 7 4 2 1 9 6 3 5 8
5 9 7 6 8 3 4 1 2 2 5 9 8 6 7 4 1 3
3 4 2 7 9 1 8 5 6 1 3 4 9 2 5 7 8 6
6 1 8 5 2 4 9 7 3 8 7 6 3 1 4 5 9 2
U
N
26
13
V
L
25
12
P
S
24
11
R
I
23
10
G
W
22
9
Y
Z
21
8
11
15
22
10
16
22
Q
C
20
7
4
15
4
8
13
23
30
33
B
J
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6
13
15
16
5
6. The painting Portrait of an
Artist (Pool with Two Figures),
which sold at auction in 2018
for £70 million, is by which
artist?
7. The famous Iditarod Trail Sled
Dog Race takes place each
year in which US state?
8. In chemistry, what is Millon’s
reagent used to detect?
9. Manzanilla is a grade of
sweetness for which alcoholic
drink?
10. The Tagus and the Ebro are the
two largest rivers in which
country?
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19
D
E
18
5
12
14
20
5
10
20
26
M
A
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4
5
8
18 19
O
K
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6
27
T
F
15
2
6
X
H
21
14
1
7
12
7
28
ACROSS
FIVE ALIVE
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.
1. French non-runner in the
garden (7,4)
7. I laid log out for some
flowers (8)
8. Back prime minister and us to
find the reservoir (4)
9. He gives member a drug (4)
11. Wayward, according to the
poem (8)
13. It is obvious there is one in
the plot (5)
14. I’d gone first, having wasted
time (5)
16. Drew with one’s
thumbnail? (8)
SF IT RE LA WD
LI OX AU
NO AL IM VE ES
OU SA TL
RS IO TN AG SE
18. There is said to be additional
heathland (4)
21. Small child? About time! (4)
22. Statesman is prudent, but
nothing more (8)
23. Member of lower house in a
car factory? (11)
NONAGRAM:
agape; agar; agate; agent; agnate; anergy; angary; anger;
angry; argent; gantry; gape; gaper; garnet; gate; gayer;
gean; gear; gent; gentry; gnat; gran; grant; grape; grapey;
grate; gray; great; grey; gyrate; gyre; naga; pagan; page;
pageant; PAGEANTRY; pager; pang; panga; parang;
parget; prang; raga; rage; rang; range; rangy; tanager;
tang; tanga; tangy; targe; trepang; yagé; yang.
CROSS CODE
ACROSS
1. Bitter (7)
5. Colonial term of
respect (5)
8. Primate (3)
9. Peaceful (7)
10. Move to
music (5)
11. Proportion (5)
13. Gift (7)
15. You (archaic) (4)
17. Pure (6)
19. Feeling of
sickness (6)
22. Against (4)
24. Small round
boat (7)
26. Endures (5)
29. Russian
revolutionary (5)
30. Trembling
(mus.) (7)
31. Female deer (3)
32. Narrow lane (5)
33. Draw back (7)
Across – Straw; Names; Singe.
Down – Sinus; Roman; Waste.
Across – Field; Olive; Rotas.
Down – Floor; Exist; Duels.
(2)
FIVE ALIVE:
(1)
Clockwise from top left – divide;
add; subtract; multiply. Total: 9.
EQUALISER:
DOWN
DOWN
1. Loathe (5)
2. Brilliant
display (5)
3. Refuse to deal
with (7)
4. Hors d’oeuvre (6)
5. Grass-like
plant (5)
6. Impedes (7)
7. Nutritious drink
(4,3)
12. Burnt remains (3)
14. Hire charge (4)
16. Cure (4)
17. Part of the ear (7)
18. Endocrine
gland (7)
20. Illness (7)
21. Newt (3)
23. Tureen (anag.) (6)
25. Confectionery (5)
27. Radial strut (5)
28. Brusque (5)
EQUALISER
6 5
8 4 7
2 6
4 4 7
3 2
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. Mountaineer’s great
ambitions (4,5)
2. Right to have meal out in the
kingdom (5)
3. Kenneth left the bird in some
style (4)
4. Counter assistant in a
financial institution (6)
5. Capital stream diverted over
the embankment (9)
6. English novelist has friends in
France (4)
10. Trying to write with such a
pencil would be (9)
12. I wondered about a cover for
the bed (9)
15. Better to put in another
class? (6)
17. In the kiosk risked using a
dagger (4)
19. Widespread disapproval of
duo I’m replacing (5)
20. William presents his
account (4)
NONAGRAM
T A N
A G E
P R Y
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:
28 Good; 33 Very Good;
39 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 Acerbic; 5 Sahib; 8 Ape; 9 Halcyon; 10 Dance; 11
Ratio; 13 Present; 15 Thee; 17 Chaste; 19 Nausea; 22 Anti;
24 Coracle; 26 Lasts; 29 Lenin; 30 Tremolo; 31 Doe; 32 Alley;
33 Retreat.
Down – 1 Abhor; 2 Eclat; 3 Boycott; 4 Canapé; 5 Sedge; 6
Hinders; 7 Beef tea; 12 Ash; 14 Rent; 16 Heal; 17 Cochlea;
18 Adrenal; 20 Ailment; 21 Eft; 23 Neuter; 25 Candy; 27
Spoke; 28 Short.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD:
Across – 1 Haricot bean; 7 Gladioli; 8 Sump; 9 Hemp; 11
Perverse; 13 Plain; 14 Idled; 16 Sketched; 18 Moor; 21 Mite;
22 Politico; 23 Assemblyman.
Down – 1 High hopes; 2 Realm; 3 Chic; 4 Teller; 5
Amsterdam; 6 Amis; 10 Pointless; 12 Eiderdown; 15 Reform;
17 Kris; 19 Odium; 20 Bill.
QUIZ CHALLENGE: 1 Suffolk; 2 Millie Bright; 3 Carp; 4 Ryan Gosling; 5 Life on Mars?;
6 David Hockney; 7 Alaska; 8 Soluble proteins; 9 Sherry; 10 Spain.
EASY
HARD
CROSS CODE
22 16 12 18 2 10 11 1 7 23 16 9
4 16 23 15 16 26 1
13 16 9 1 5 23 5 2 4 19 12 5
22 5 5 17 2 19 23
2 23 16 8 5 18 5 25 10 7 5
5 5 13 15 5 23 11 25
14 23 4 21 6 16 19 15 1 5 5
24 20 24 16 5 15 11 23
12 16 26 18 12 21 11 17 10 12 5
16 4 4 1 16 5 26
18 10 23 15 21 5 11 3 10 17 16 11
5 10 11 23 5 16 5
18 26 4 12 24 5 4 11 4 13 15 11
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
F
L
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
O
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
Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9,
and so must each 3 x 3 box.
7 4 3 8 9
9 6 4
5 6 7
4 3 7
3 1 9
8 2
5 9 7 8 3 4 2
7 9 1 6
8 5 2
1 5 7
4 9 6
9 7 5
8 2 3
9 8
6 3 5
5 6 3
4
7 1 4
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