Quiz Challenge

1. The monkey-puzzle tree was discovered by Europeans in which country?

2. The chapel in Windsor Castle is dedicated to which saint?

3. What is the German word for the pleasure derived from someone else’s misfortune?

4. American singer Irene Cara, who died in November 2022, was best known for which hit song?

5. In the English Civil War, which Bohemian prince commanded the royalist cavalry?

6. A narrow strip of land with sea on either side which connects two larger areas is called a what?

7. Academy Award-winning director Pedro Almodóvar comes from which country?

8. What is the ‘nineteenth hole’ on a golf course?

9. Which Pacific island was colonised by the mutineers from HMS Bounty?

10. Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to which famous novel?

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. Cashier at dance is the energetic type (8)

5. Sword is put back in deeper (4)

8. Public figure who has not been identified (8)

9. Unable to say why it is silent (4)

11. Run sail out when away from the mainland (7)

13. A road in New York is unpleasant (5)

14. Happening at the same time to make money with detectives in French church (11)

18. University left revolutionary art to extremist (5)

19. Pendant allowed to be put on part of the bottle (7)

21. There’s nothing about a fastener (4)

22. Crack made by vicar next to fool in church (8)

24. Need to rearrange the garden (4)

25. Fail to notice finished appearance (8)

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. Cover ship in silver, perhaps, when preserved in rock (6)

2. Uncle’s a twin (5)

3. Youngster left working with Scottish lad, one from an ancient city (10)

4. Cover most of the swimmingpool (3)

6. Acid used to put boy in the picture? (7)

7. Achieve more by reorganisation in the first stage (6)

10. Secretly insured (5,5)

12. Work to rule (5)

15. Sketch of the escape route? (7)

16. Child of five with this French fruit (6)

17. Move quickly – like lightning? (6)

20. Girl has nothing at the end of a long rope (5)

23. Turn for the clergyman (3)

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.

Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9, and so must each 3 x 3 box.

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.

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