Quiz Challenge

1. The Gulf of Bothnia separates which two countries?

2. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in which famous case?

3. In the Steven Spielberg 2021 remake of West Side Story, who played Maria?

4. What C is an orange-flavoured liqueur and the name of a Caribbean island?

5. Which of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas features the ghostly Murgatroyds?

6. Which Government department was set up in 1919 to guarantee Britain’s timber supplies?

7. Which country has won the most gold medals at the Winter Olympic Games?

8. What was the most successful single by John Lydon’s band The Sex Pistols?

9. Who wrote the novel Gravity’s Rainbow?

10. What is the common name for mineral iron pyrite?

Cryptic Crossword

Five Alive Equaliser

Cross Code

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.

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. Image doctor left in a spiritual meeting (9)

6. Equipment bagged by soldiers? (3)

8. Homer found aloft (7,6)

9. Strip in straight fashion for the king perhaps (5)

10. More than one circuit will partly coincide (7)

11. Turned to jeer my boy (6)

13. Great gun for the cleric, say (6)

16. Deadlock makes almost one thousand out of date (7)

18. Award for vehicle so revolutionary to begin with (5)

20. Preventing from succeeding (13)

22. Some prodding done with a cane (3)

23. Real boast about instrument used by astronomers (9)

QUICK CROSSWORD

Solutions

amyloid; campo; capo; ciao; clod; clomp; clop; cloy; coal; coaly; coda; coil; cola; cold; coly; coma; comply; copal; copy; diol; diploma; DIPLOMACY; doily; dolma; domical; dopa; dopily; dopy; idol; lido; limo; lipoma; load; loam; loamy; mayo; milo; modal; moil; mola; moly; mopily; mopy; myopia; myopic; oily; opal; placoid; plod; ploidy; ploy; policy; poly; polyadic; yomp.

EQUALISER:

1. Cutting worker off when dry (3)

2. Drink up, Al, underneath fresco (5)

3. Rile Tim about a county in Ireland (7)

4. Restricted northern shaft (6)

5. Former French island where Napoleon was sent (5)

6. King and Merlin lost in Russian citadel (7)

7. Can cricketer be found in the kitchen? (3-6)

9. About to connect the German answer (9)

12. Did more modelling in a relaxed position (7)

14. Cupid before midday permitted company to leave South American river (7)

15. Get the better of French achievement (6)

17. Girl’s turned up for some medicine (5)

19. Register Switzerland in a plate perhaps (5)

21. Give five less in Scotland (3)

Nonagram

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.

679 5

42 57 91 38 4

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:

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).

Serenade; 15 Teasel;

Across – 1 Observer; 8 Old man; 9 Tofu; 10 Rut; 11 Toilet; 12

QUICK CROSSWORD:

2 3 9 5 7 6 2 98 73 2 1 7 54 3 3 9

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD:

Ruddigore; 6 Forestry Commission; 7 Norway; 8 God Save the Queen; 9 Thomas Pynchon; 10 Fool’s gold.

Rachel Zegler; 4 Curaçao;