1. a. Basic / sick bay; b. Welfare / farewell;  c. Zero / rosy d. Germaine / manger

2.  a. 6 Strings on a guitar; b. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover; c. 4 Suits in a deck of cards;  d. 1 Giant Leap for Mankind; e. 9 Lives of a Cat

3. Keeps an eye out for police

4. a hermit

5. John Stonehouse

6. Barbara Cartland

7. Prince Charles

8. Pnom Penh

9. Holding / storing liquids (oil or wine)

10. Jimmy Carter

11. Jimmy Hoffa

12. Fear of the number 13

13. Phar Lap (Australia’s most famous race-horse)

14. The Harbour Bridge

15. Wooden Heart

16. Five

17. Calculus

18. Aluminium

19. Octavian a.k.a Augustus

20. The Melbourne Cup

21. 1966

22. A free shot which your opponent allows you after you’ve made a bad shot

23. Bravo

24. Belgian

25. Tyro