City Matters 164

TEST YOUR BRAINPOWER
No. 5493
Quiz Challenge
1. Profiteroles are made from
which type of pastry?
2. Who won Celebrity MasterChef
2023?
3. David Bowie changed his
previous name in 1966 to avoid
having the same name as
which other British pop star?
4. Footballer Hugo Lloris was a
goalkeeper for which Premier
League football club?
5. If you were looking at Edvard
Munch’s famous painting The
Scream, which city would you
be in?
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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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2 3
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QUICK CROSSWORD
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11
12
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SOLUTIONS
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EASY SUDOKU HARD SUDOKU
8 6 9 5 3 2 7 4 1 1 4 6 7 9 8 3 5 2
3 5 1 4 6 7 2 9 8 3 7 9 2 5 1 6 8 4
7 4 2 1 8 9 3 6 5 8 2 5 4 3 6 1 7 9
4 9 6 7 5 1 8 2 3 2 9 8 1 4 7 5 3 6
2 1 8 9 4 3 5 7 6 5 6 4 9 8 3 2 1 7
5 3 7 6 2 8 4 1 9 7 1 3 5 6 2 4 9 8
6 7 5 3 9 4 1 8 2 6 3 2 8 1 9 7 4 5
1 2 3 8 7 6 9 5 4 9 5 1 6 7 4 8 2 3
9 8 4 2 1 5 6 3 7 4 8 7 3 2 5 9 6 1
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L
26
13
C
R
25
12
S
I
24
11
Q
P
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10
D
B
22
9
J
W
21
8
3
15
4
18
27
30
33
X
N
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7
10
13
26
U
V
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6. Middlemarch, Silas Marner and
Daniel Deronda are classic
novels by which English
author?
7. Which character in the TV
cartoon series Wacky Races
had the catchphrase ‘Drat, and
double drat’?
8. The Golfe Du Lion is in which
sea?
9. Who directed the classic film
Some Like it Hot?
10. Which order of mammals is
classified as cetaceans?
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ACROSS
FIVE ALIVE
NL AE WT LI NY
IA OA EI
UC ON IM MO AN
EG EN TR
RH AU NT GC HS
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.
5. I had left the point, being
lazy (4)
7. Vague idea of a favourable
effect (10)
8. Mary upset a large number (4)
9. Builder, perhaps, in swindle
with farm vehicle (10)
12. Stuff for a heavy meal (6)
13. At height of activity large
number make a mark outside
South American capital (6)
14. Radioactive combination of
mud and air (6)
16. Tom will bite the mint-like
plant (6)
17. Glowing tin on the way
down (10)
20. Record and 1 Down make up
the design (4)
21. Skilled worker and a trainee
operating without thought
(10)
22. Actual existence in
essence (4)
NONAGRAM:
envier; envoi; erosive; even; ever; eversion; give;
given; giver; govern; grieve; grove; inverse; nerve;
névé; never; ogive; oven; over; ovine; reeving;
reive; renvoi; revise; rive; riven; rove; roving; serve;
serving; servo; seven; sever; severing; sieve;
soever; SOVEREIGN; veer; veering; vein; verge;
verse; versin; version; verso; vine; vino; vireo; visor.
CROSS CODE
ACROSS
1. Short
narrative (8)
6. Infant (4)
8. Pair (3)
9. Secretly (2,6)
10. Rotate (4)
12. Fill up (5)
14. Drills (5)
17. Dull pain (4)
18. Strand (8)
20. Data
processor (8)
24. Secure (4)
25. Surrender (5)
26. Pert (5)
29. Skin
condition (4)
30. Cause fear in (8)
31. Move quickly (3)
32. Burden (4)
33. Trodden
underfoot (8)
Across – Newly; Comma; Rungs.
Down – Nicer; Women; Years.
Across – Latin; Union; Hatch.
Down – Laugh; Taint; Ninth.
(2)
FIVE ALIVE:
(1)
Clockwise from top left – divide;
multiply; subtract; add. Total: 3.
EQUALISER:
DOWN
DOWN
2. Not any (4)
3. Pure (6)
4. Singular
occurence (3-3)
5. Dutch cheese (4)
6. Lowest part (6)
7. Sterile (6)
11. Decorative (5)
12. Dishonour (5)
13. Ball game (5)
14. Rotten (3)
15. Pass along (5)
16. Precipitous (5)
19. Unopened
flower (3)
21. Container for
lubricant (6)
22. Gripping tool (6)
23. Basket-making
material (6)
24. Stint (6)
27. Rave (4)
28. Clarified
butter (4)
EQUALISER
12 4
15 5 1
6 2
4 7 8
1 5
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. Record that one note is the
same as the previous (4)
2. Sign inviting entrance to
shop (4)
3. Prisoner’s welcome break? (6)
4. Nothing in part I see, say,
relating to living organisms (6)
5. Despite lacking skill in school
subject, one’s to get right
mark almost (10)
6. Left copy of restriction (10)
10. Atrocious violation is nothing
to us (10)
11. Presumably one will not get
into a financial mess with it
(4,6)
15. Chess pieces getting over
one threat (6)
16. Somehow cares about
including a Roman (6)
18. Fruit quietly left for
everyone (4)
19. Cultivate source of money in
shop (4)
NONAGRAM
G I N
S V E
R O E
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 Anecdote; 6 Baby; 8 Duo; 9 In camera; 10 Turn;
12 Stuff; 14 Bores; 17 Ache; 18 Filament; 20 Computer; 24
Safe; 25 Yield; 26 Saucy; 29 Acne; 30 Affright; 31 Run; 32
Onus; 33 Trampled.
Down – 2 None; 3 Chaste; 4 One-off; 5 Edam; 6 Bottom; 7
Barren; 11 Fancy; 12 Shame; 13 Fives; 14 Bad; 15 Relay; 16
Steep; 19 Bud; 21 Oilcan; 22 Pliers; 23 Raffia; 24 Scrimp; 27
Rant; 28 Ghee.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD:
Across – 5 Idle; 7 Impression; 8 Army; 9 Contractor; 12
Stodge; 13 Climax; 14 Radium; 16 Catnip; 17 Candescent;
20 Logo; 21 Mechanical; 22 Esse.
Down – 1 Disc; 2 Open; 3 Escape; 4 Biotic; 5 Inartistic; 6
Limitation; 10 Outrageous; 11 Tidy income; 15 Menace; 16
Caesar; 18 Each; 19 Till.
QUIZ CHALLENGE: 1 Choux pastry; 2 Wynne Evans ; 3 David Jones, of the Monkees; 4 Tottenham Hotspur; 5
Oslo; 6 George Eliot; 7 Dick Dastardly; 8 The Mediterranean; 9 Billy Wilder; 10 Whales, dolphins and porpoises.
EASY
HARD
CROSS CODE
14 24 25 1 13 1 26 5 12 5 26
1 10 12 8 1 12 3 26 17
4 13 11 10 3 14 13 26 11 11
6 13 11 24 26 1 26 11 25
22 14 24 14 20 14 24 13 18
11 12 11 24 24 17 5 14 25 1 7
24 2 14 5 22 13 14
1 12 14 7 14 8 24 25 19 10 24
10 23 7 19 25 13 14 19 24
10 5 12 5 19 24 3 1 9
14 1 11 26 14 3 19 15 13 11
1 9 21 19 12 14 14 24 11
12 1 14 3 14 12 15 14 7 25 16
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
M
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
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
11 12 13
I
24 25 26
Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9,
and so must each 3 x 3 box.
8 6 9 3 7
3 1 7 9 8
1 3 6 5
9 7 1
4 5 7 6
7 2 8 9
6 7 5 1
1 4
4 2 5 3
3 9 2 1
2 3
9 8 7 5
4
7 6 4 8
3 2 8
5 6 3
4 2 6 1
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