“Mixed Bag” August 2014 – Answers
1. Ireland, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy
2. False. Sherlock Holmes was banned in the USSR
3. Ben Lexcen
4. 14th century
5. Porridge
6. 55
7. Mickey Rooney
8. treason
9. Hey Jude
10. Argentina
HARDER:
11. Running Backwards
12. Survived a fall from a plane without a parachute?
13. Became youngest ever F1 champion to that date
14. Four
15. Briseis
16. They were underage
17. Fingernail
18. 96
19. 1935 To control the cane beetle
20. 1928
December 2014 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1 For ever and ever (heifer and heifer)
2 Bottomless pit
3 Candle in the wind
4 Computer backup
5 Foot loose and fancy free
6 Hi definition TV
7 Higher Purchase
November 2014 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1 Long ago and far away
2 retrograde
3 shallots
4 Back passage
5 substantially
6 No way Jose
7 Bend over backwards
October 2014 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1 Offering
2 Tax break
3 efficiency
4 Take it from me
5 sublime
6 Eldorado
7 dogmatic
September 2014 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1 Back door
2 Seventy-six trombones
3 I Ran
4 Incandescent
5 Pause to reflect
6 Reduce waste
7 Back to school
August 2014 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1 I pod
2 Ensign O’Toole
3 Endless love
4 eminent
5 indeterminate
6 Pasteurised milk
7 Card Shark
Collected Logic & Maths Puzzles
Our monthly LOGIC & MATHS PUZZLES are proving popular. Here are shortlinks to every set of L&M puzzles published so far: August 2012 , September 2012, October 2012, November 2012, December 2012, January 2013, February 2013, March 2013, April 2013, May 2013, June 2013, July 2013, August 2013, September 2013, October 2013, November 2013, December 2013, January 2014, February 2014, March 2014, April 2014, May 2014, June 2014, July 2014.
July Puzzles
There are seven new Picture Puzzles and a new set of “Mixed Bag” Questions at the top of the PUZZLES PAGE
The JULY 2014 SKEPTICAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE has ASTROLOGY as its theme.
There’s also JULY 2014 LOGIC & MATHS PUZZLES
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