This month we let Roy off the leash to provide his magnificent CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
The Picture Puzzles and “Mixed Bag” Questions are at the top of our PUZZLE PAGE. There are a larger than usual number of “Mixed Bag” questions; consider them a practice set for Trivia Night at Skeptics Café on May 20.
Your Logic and Maths Problems for May are HERE
Enjoy!
1. 17
2. 2
3. wraparound
4. 10
5. 8 kg
6. 12
7. 1st: Eight of Hearts; 3rd: Ace of Hearts; 5th King of Spades
8. a. They overlap to make four triangles / b. Set d shares this feature
9. “I am answering questions on Vic Skeptics website”
10. 58
1. TW is the odd pair. In all the other pairs, the two letters are the same distance apart in the alphabet. T and W are much closer together
2. All start with a vowel.
When you drop that vowel, they each form a different English word.
3. Indian Ocean
4. “Nelson”
5. blue
6. Jeff Kennett
7. Courtroom
(A tipstaff is a Judge’s Clerk)
8. The gift of eloquence
9. stream
10. A wind blew all the other applicants away
11. GM Holden
12. The Hours
13. A gold coin used in Europe from mediaeval times
14. 1981
15. South Australia
16. Whooping Cough
17. Horton
18. Smersh was a Russian anti-spy organisation, Spectre was an international criminal ring (Also, Smersh was real, Spectre is fictional)
19. How to Win Friends and Influence People
20. A. Light green
21. San Francisco
22. The Vulcans
23. The Phillipines
24. Victoria and New South Wales
25. 4 million
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(The shaded squares link multiple-word answers.)