Our
JULY 2015 SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE
has the theme of CONSPIRACY THEORIES
There’s also a set of
JULY 2015 LOGIC & MATHS PROBLEMS
Seven new Picture Puzzles and twenty new Mixed Bag Questions have been placed at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE
Enjoy!
1. Honey (”Hunny”)
2. Praised
3. She had defected from a Russian Cruise ship by diving overboard.
4. Cats
5. Nine Days Old
6. Katherine Hepburn 1981; Sally Field 1984; Jessica Tandy 1989
7. Little Shop of Horrors
8. My Country, ‘Tis of Thee
9. Bendigo
10. C. Ethiopia
HARDER:
11. Bird of paradise
12. Damage from earthquakes
13. She sank herself with her own torpedo
14. J
15. St Paul Minnesota
16. Compete in 8 Olympic Games
17. Groundhog Day
18. A cria
19. It had a moveable jaw
20. Australian Grand Prix
1. Yellow opposite orange, red opposite green, pink opposite blue
2. A. Emily B. Colin C. Fred D. Irene
3. The hole will become larger.
4. Treble 13, Double 18, single 16
5. 3
6. The water level of the pool will fall (The cannonball is much denser than the water. Let the cannonball have a volume of x litre. Assume the cannonball is ten times as dense as the water. Its mass will therefore be 10x kg. When the cannonball is placed in the boat, the boat settles by an amount which displaces 10 kg of water or 10x litres of water. However, when the cannonball is taken out of the boat and placed directly in the water, it only displaces its own VOLUME of water or x litres. This will have the same effect on the water level of the pool as taking 9x litres out.)
7. There are no “E”s
8. Treble 18, double 4, single 13
9. 2519 prisoners
10. The rule is: double the first number then take away 8. The answer is therefore 20
1. They all pop
2. 25th century
3. Laurence Olivier
4. Nelson Mandela
5. I, Claudius
6. The Jordonaires
7. Rome
8. Labour, Conservative, Liberal-Democrats
9. 1968
10. French, German, Italian, Romansch
HARDER:
11. Published a September 31 issue
12. W.C. Fields
13. Teflon
14. The Twelve Apostles
15. He shorted out Glasgow’s electricity supply
16. Movies
17. Uranus
18. He was a Pope and was dead. The succeeding pope had him exhumed in order to put him on trial.
19. All attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria
20. Her body was grossly swollen due to gout
1. a = 44 , b = 19 , c = 10,
2. a. No b. Yes c. No d. Yes
3. a. fruit; b. bread; c. aisle 4
4. U, E, N
5. The pear is grown inside the bottle
6. Z – Set 1 contains letters composed entirely of straight lines
7. Option C. There is as much water in the milk/water mixture as milk in the water/milk mixture.
8. Looks like 88.
9. 9 metres [As one of two equal length diagonals of the rectangle, the dark blue line has length equal to the radius of the circle, which is (6 + 3) = 9 m]
10. 2.5 km [If Bill and Fred are 2km apart and approach each other at 10 km/hr each, their closing speed is 20 km / hr. They therefore meet in 0.1 hours (6 minutes). How far can Fido run in 0.1 hr at 25 km/hr? Answer: 2.5 km]
1. blunderbuss
2. Time flies
3. overextended
4. One man band
5. What goes up must come down
6. Honour Among Thieves
7. Foreign language lessons
1. Hygeine
2. All year round
3. Foreign language
4. Head in the sand
5. Arch rival
6. Square root
7. Don’t get around much anymore
1. All in all
2. About face
3. Death valley
4. Double agent
5. A little behind in my work
6. Trouble in paradise
7. I’m filled with anticipation
