CodyCross answers

Ancient Egypt

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Group 181




Puzzle 1

1. Intensely, profoundly
2. The .... Night, Van Gogh twinkly painting
3. To make marks by cutting, carving or engraving
4. Land of Pre-Columbian civilizations
5. Scuba .... is exploring underwater with air tanks
6. He flew too close to the Sun
7. .... coral or hammer coral
8. Small wax item placed on a cake for a party
9. Airplane inventors, Orville and Wilbur ....
10. Birthday month for Madonna
11. Bottom ....; fish that eats from the sea bed
12. Medical condition of severe chest pains
13. Latter Day Saints' position similar to a pastor
14. Flexible tissue found inside bones
15. The .... Game, 1992 British-Irish-Japanese thriller.
16. .... Dome, famous geodesic Japanese stadium
17. African fighting bracelet; larim
18. .... coral or hammer coral; it has bright colors
19. Austrian pastry roll that looks like a crown
20. Comma-shaped white nut that's actually a seed
21. Nearly, but not quite
22. Money paid for work regardless of hours
23. Soft, fatty tissue found inside bones
24. Official currency of Macau
25. Name of any stringed instrument of this family
26. Living autopsy; examination of tissue sample
27. Related to anything in the mind or the brain
28. 1790 French fairy tale, .... and the Beast
29. A person who makes custom-fitted clothes
30. Another word for the fall season
31. .... bag. It carries your portable computer
32. Panel with numbers on a telephone handset
33. Larry ...., starred in oil soap Dallas




Puzzle 2

1. .... Mets play at Citi Field
2. Chinese .... breed often wins ugly dog competitions
3. This person rules a ship
4. Secret hiding places for illegal goods
5. Extreme fear and worry of danger or problems
6. A table designed to be placed against a wall
7. Grace Kelly's Prince Charming
8. System for venting gas from a car
9. This person in charge of a ship
10. The Neapolitan .... is a ancient dog breed from Italy
11. Worker protests
12. Brown confectionery liquid made by heating sugars
13. Set of online pages that make one destination
14. Flounced, ruffled, furbelowed
15. Took no notice of




Puzzle 3

1. A protective head piece often worn by pirates
2. Philadelphia .... play at Citizens Bank Park
3. Clark Kent turns into him
4. The science and study of joining or fastening
5. Strong coffee typically served in a small cup
6. Clark Kent turns into this hero
7. An .... razor has a rotating or oscillating blade
8. Sport only debuted in the Summer Olympics of 1936
9. Cold ...., purposely ignoring someone
10. A worm-shaped pouch attached to the intestine
11. Car mirror allows driver to see behind him/her
12. 1985 European treaty to remove border controls
13. .... of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders, ancient
14. Small orange summer fruits with huge seed in middle
15. Moving in a circle, dancing with hips circling
16. Qin ...., the first emperor of unified China




Puzzle 4

1. Originally from Latin, it means “in disguise”
2. 1st day of Lent, as observed in the U.S.; Ash ....
3. Alfred, British director, the Master of Suspense
4. Knife with a detachable, self-propelled blade
5. For those passionate about archery
6. Not physically active
7. Emissary of rabbis, charity collector
8. Synonym reference book
9. Pain in the tummy or to moan continuously
10. Old term for a clerk, à la Melville's Bartleby
11. 1983 James Bond's film with marine-related title
12. Censoring, obscuring, editing
13. Rich Tuscan bread with rosemary and raisins
14. South China city once known as Canton
15. Individual bones protecting the spinal cord
16. British butler search engine
17. A little of it is a dangerous thing
18. Who, on his deathbed, said: I shall hear in heaven
19. Athenian citadel, including the Parthenon
20. Blue .... is a native sea chub from Australia
21. Alfred ...., British director




Puzzle 5

1. Lessen the impact of something
2. The .... File, thriller by Frederick Forsyth
3. Rowan Atkinson's awkward suit-wearing character
4. Teacher of All Saints, title for Sufi teachers
5. To attempt to counterbalance carbon footprint
6. First feature film in Native American language
7. Jewish baked good cut in diamond shapes
8. .... Hughes; DiCaprio's character in The Aviator
9. When water is solid
10. ....-mâché, soggy newspaper and glue, dries hard
11. Search engine, jargon term for Internet search
12. The most secure
13. Garth ...., top-selling solo artist of all time
14. Country where the Negev Desert is located
15. It makes sense
16. First D in the financial acronym DD, .... debit
17. Goods shipped to your country from another
18. White, kidney-shaped nut that's actually a fruit
19. Francisco ...., ruled Spain from the '30s to the '70s
20. Japan's third biggest island
21. Egyptian creature that poses unsolvable riddles

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Group 182




Puzzle 1

1. .... pie, stoned fruit tart linked to Twin Peaks
2. Car safety device that inflates on impact
3. Unter den ...., Berlin road meaning under the limes
4. Female superior of nun community
5. The ...., shouty painting by Edvard Munch
6. Greek god of darkness and shadow
7. .... wrap, packing material fun to pop
8. Yellow citrus fruits
9. Fan ...., air conditioning with opposite effect
10. Late 19th century Austrian composer, Gustav ....
11. Professional horse rider
12. Samuel ...., father of the Industrial Revolution
13. The sidewinder is a type of .... snake from the US
14. Little finger
15. To want or like something above other similar items
16. Using salt to preserve foods, especially meats
17. Overseas




Puzzle 2

1. Self-interest, narcissism
2. Sweet sauce made with milk, eggs and sugar
3. Baking soda is a general household ....
4. .... Khan, genocidal Mongol emperor
5. Humans produce carbon ....
6. Modern design style first in France before WWI
7. No man can serve two of them
8. Receptacles for boiled breakfast items
9. Cue sport which originated in Etawah, India
10. Metal or porcelain plug for a cavity
11. Widely spread apart, skewed
12. Blood-sucking beast, leaves two punctured wounds
13. Astrological sign represented by a scary arachnid




Puzzle 3

1. Caressing, gently brushing
2. 100-metre athlete
3. Scientific study of man's best friend
4. Official currency of Bhutan
5. Patron of workers in some religions
6. Queen who married Ferdinand and sponsored Columbus
7. Lake ...., is shared by four states in the US
8. Intentionally not giving attention to
9. .... Crusoe was all alone on an island
10. Triple ...., linked Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
11. Electronic device to store and work with data
12. Biting, poignant, sharp, burning
13. German term for wine from late-picked grapes
14. Stick of explosive made from nitroglycerin
15. Science of plants and soils
16. A lycanthrope




Puzzle 4

1. False ...., stick-on hairs for eyes
2. Colorful, big eyed bugs named after fire breather
3. Capital of Burundi
4. Brussels bread rolls, small and round
5. Wrestling type that has men's and women's events
6. The moon is a natural one
7. They'll keep you dry during storms
8. Language derived from old Norse
9. It is a homage that vice pays to virtue
10. Ape with much longer arms than a gorilla
11. Flat land subject to overflow by salt water
12. Former capital of Burundi
13. Female patron of musicians
14. Italian chemist and writer of If This is a Man
15. Pocahontas saved his life from Powhatan
16. Emergency vehicle equipped to treat people




Puzzle 5

1. Style of furniture named after US religious sect
2. These fruit were made for climbing
3. Curved blade favored by the Grim Reaper
4. Last day of the working week
5. Bible book of sacred hymns ascribed to King David
6. Islamic law from Quran and Hadith
7. Dreamy or vague, as if drugged
8. Pastis, pomegranate cocktail from France
9. Populus trees that tremble
10. Instrument played by Elvis
11. To subject to fire or intense heat
12. Astrological bull; Ford car model
13. Lucky keepsakes
14. Refuses with contempt
15. Addicted ....; 1985 hit for Robert Palmer
16. .... Africanus, Roman who won the Battle of Zama
17. Largest natural satellite of Neptune
18. Fish best known for its spawning practice
19. Author of "I, Robot": Isaac ....

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Group 183




Puzzle 1

1. Consents
2. French region between the Rhine and the Vosges
3. Glam metal band warned about thorny roses
4. Dryads are tree .... in Greek mythology
5. Large tropical lizard, popular pet
6. A hard felt hat with a rounded crown
7. Name of Serena Williams's first-born and husband
8. Sport played either on the field or ice
9. Gas gives you a high-pitched voice
10. Placing yourself by a fire or heater for ....
11. Fighting tool to defend blows
12. Dana ....; an FBI agent and doctor on The X-Files
13. I come to bury Caesar, not to .... him
14. Extrusive rock formed from cooling of basaltic lava




Puzzle 2

1. Part of a rocket that gives extra acceleration
2. A spike, as on a hedgehog
3. Union ...., major US rail company
4. Idle incessant chatter
5. Chemical element also known as Quicksilver
6. Unconventional, eccentric
7. Halloween apparel, monsters, ghosts, princess
8. Phyllosilicate mineral within the mica group
9. Greek sea named after mythical hero
10. Unlucky events, setbacks
11. To inhale and exhale through the lungs
12. Indoor caretaker and cleaner
13. Lowering the temperature
14. Theologian and missionary, brother of St Methodius
15. Shellfish eaten when there's an "r" in the month
16. Fleet of warships, historical term
17. Scapegoats
18. Shirt or dress without sleeves
19. Action taken to achieve a particular purpose
20. Small but strongly-flavored fish
21. Bovine that gives its name to mozzarella
22. A Deutsche Mark was made up of 100 ....




Puzzle 3

1. The Muswell Hillbillies led by a knighted singer
2. Inflammation of the nose
3. Board game played on a chessboard with discs
4. Dramatis ...., or a list of characters in a play
5. Prosodic foot consisting of four syllables
6. Spanish philosopher also known as Ibn Rushd
7. One who consecrates with oil
8. Common household fuel, used in oil lamps
9. Half man, half bull, son of the King of Crete
10. Trans-.... Orchestra, rock Christmas cover band
11. Building where French revolution took place
12. Tiny, frayed threads from raw seam edges
13. Center of a target
14. Obsolete, antiquated
15. .... and Tobago are located in the Lesser Antilles
16. Starchy vegetables; edible tubers; mashed ....
17. One of the twelve apostles
18. Dutch site of the International Criminal Court
19. Clint ...., world-wide known US actor and director
20. .... gown, medical apparel
21. A yellowish-brown pollen mixture by bees as food
22. Flame ...., military weapons that shoot fire
23. What laughter serves as best
24. First spring flower, sounds like wintertime
25. Another name for a ghost
26. Madonna ...., Botticelli painting
27. Someone who works with sheets of metal
28. Pole vault requires jumping with a .... pole




Puzzle 4

1. Extremists, activists
2. The rotating parts of a revolver
3. Flour-based food flavored with alcohol drink
4. Horror mastermind of Birds, Psycho
5. Judicial academy started Beirut in the 2nd century
6. UK science-fiction short stories by Eric F. Russell
7. Currency of Swaziland
8. Childish expression for standing on pointed feet
9. Holy ....; sharing of bread and wine in churches
10. Store's sale, when everything must go
11. Director of horror films like The Birds and Psycho
12. Musical instrument similar to the African marimba
13. Dutch province with protected North Sea islands
14. A stitch in time does this
15. Comes at the end of the joke, worth waiting for
16. Physical sports, games and exercises
17. Grumpiest
18. Biker moustache; goatee minus goat patch
19. The ...., Renoir painting of rain shields




Puzzle 5

1. Nico ...., chef of Chez Nico and Simply Nico
2. To cover with a thin coating of gold
3. .... Wilson, WWI president, League of Nations
4. Ocean where the uninhabited Baker Island is found
5. Scottish music genre; Piobaireachd, Ceòl Mòr
6. Newton's first law
7. Guglielmo ...., considered the inventor of the radio
8. Brought up as evidence in an argument
9. Chosen in place of or in preference to an original
10. A .... fan uses rotating paddles to circulate air
11. Fish in South America known for its teeth
12. Offensive to look at; visual hideosity or mess
13. Mary ...., the most famous nanny who can also fly
14. Uncle ...., "The richest duck in the world"
15. Small pitcher for dairy produce at breakfast
16. Enters a place uninvited, attacks with an army
17. Great Leap ...., Chinese economic reform in 1958
18. Person in charge of a department or team
19. Dense chocolate square treat popular in the US
20. The .... Falcon, Dashiell Hammett tale of Sam Spade
21. Book of ...., ancient Egyptian funerary text
22. Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the .... Olympics

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Group 184




Puzzle 1

1. Italian uni often named Silicon Valley of the Alps
2. English translation of the Spanish word “hermana”
3. Going ...., psychotic episode, public service
4. The .... Cometh, Eugene O'Neill play
5. Melted cheese dip, favorite of 70s dinner parties
6. Pixels described, bitmap
7. "Mean", loosely twisted tapestry yarn or fabric
8. Flying fish roe at a sushi restaurant
9. Sheena ...., sang Bond theme For Your Eyes Only
10. Egyptian cow goddess linked to fertility
11. Also known as pugilism
12. Sleep fantasies
13. Belly feature that comes in "innies" and "outies"
14. An .... coral has a resemblance with a deer
15. Crossed with a hammer on China's Communist flag
16. To anger or upset someone with words or actions
17. The only continent in all hemispheres
18. Melted cheese dip, seen at many 70s dinner parties
19. Indian motorcycle for ladies and girls




Puzzle 2

1. American printmakers, .... and Ives
2. Rowing ...., pretend to row a boat on this at gym
3. There's no time like this
4. The Baltic States are Latvia, Lithuania and ....
5. English Channel tunnel
6. Stop or transfer time between flights
7. A move in a board game to gain an opponent's piece
8. Diffusion through semi-permeable membranes
9. Warrior goddess from Syria
10. Room where babies sleep, play or get educated
11. Born, congenital
12. Subatomic particle with no electric charge
13. French pastry; thick enriched bread
14. Influenza caused by viruses adapted to poultry
15. Stop or transfer time in the middle of a journey
16. Violent riots aimed at a particular religious group
17. Small slender antelope with curved horns
18. Opening for ventilation in a closed space
19. Ultimate authority in any soccer match
20. Penny wise, pound ....
21. Large destructive ocean wave
22. Wuthering ...., 1939 film based on Bronte's novel
23. Angelica .... is the bossy spoiled Rugrat
24. African country, became an Italian colony in 1890
25. Copy, duplicate, fake
26. Missionary given an epistle by St Paul
27. .... Duncan, American dancer strangled by her scarf
28. The Chairman of the Board, Frank ....
29. Japan's smallest main island; linked to Honshu




Puzzle 3

1. Shops in an airport where goods are tax-exempt
2. .... can; spouted container for thirsty plants
3. .... societies lend funds for mortgages
4. Across the ...., Lennon song on Let It Be
5. The Invisible Woman from the Fantastic Four
6. Mythical women with fish tails
7. Tina Fey's 30 Rock character
8. French dept, capital is Versailles
9. Leader of the pirate haven of New Providence
10. French orator, Constituent Assembly president
11. Kickboxing and striking martial art from Thailand
12. Priest who translated the Vulgate in the 4th C
13. Highway you pay to use
14. Fit and sporty
15. Tough tissue that connects bones
16. First name of Dalí
17. Weather prognostication
18. French perfume brand, maker of Shalimar
19. Famished
20. Disease outbreak caused by pigs
21. Sherlock Holmes' nemesis
22. Defenders, saviors
23. Optical ...., eye's perception, not reality
24. The power to make use of as one chooses
25. Shaved flavored ice dessert, summer treat




Puzzle 4

1. Shelled candied Chinese New Year treat
2. System that helps control the aircraft
3. “The Truth is Out There” sci-fi TV series
4. Fragrance by Calvin Klein
5. Device that records waves of alternating currents
6. Field that covers man's need for personal space
7. .... crabs are considered the oldest living fossils
8. Blue-veined French cheese, matured in damp caves
9. Epic Roman film starring Russell Crowe
10. Hard Rock band led by Lemmy
11. .... the Great, created the largest Macedonian empire
12. State not recognized by the Israeli government
13. .... of Assisi, patron of animals
14. Someone who studies life and living organisms
15. Jump out of a plane with a parachute
16. Mafia film trilogy directed by Coppola
17. Dental operation that removes tooth contents
18. Skills, aptitudes




Puzzle 5

1. Chewed something noisy
2. Heat-makers, for heating houses
3. Fine shawls are made from it
4. Belief in something that is not real or true
5. Al Capone's nickname
6. Unsettled, irritable
7. Fuzzy fruit stone
8. Non-paying passenger who hides on a train
9. Fashion accessory worn on forearm or wrist
10. Steering a vessel away from the wind
11. They flare when you are angry
12. Ancient Roman couch
13. Swiss artificial canton defined by Napoleon in 1803
14. The French Revolutionary .... created new months
15. What the devil takes ....
16. Daughter of Icarius and Periboea, faithful wife
17. Genre of television program
18. Cheese and ....
19. Theatre of ...., Athenian site to the god of plays
20. Fashion accessory worn on the wrist
21. .... biking, sport that takes place off road
22. Undecided
23. Key used to scroll down a computer screen
24. .... shapes are for strength and life cycles
25. It means "brothers" in Spanish
26. Expression no longer in use, old-fashioned word
27. They flare when someone is angry
28. Long green salad fruit, mistaken for a veg
29. Type of money for a country
30. Two-dimensional geometric shape with seven sides
31. My ...., film about an Irishman with cerebral palsy
32. .... da Vinci, Mona Lisa painter
33. Of or related to rabbits or hares
34. Exciting, charged, exhilarating
35. Renowned author of the 1920s' Lost Generation
36. Not curved, bended or angled

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Group 185




Puzzle 1

1. Tooth having a single point, like a dog's fang
2. Hair cut at different lengths has these
3. .... LeZion, Israeli city founded by Russians
4. Term meaning "nobles", Indo-European people
5. Parish officer of the Anglican Church, archaic term
6. Farther than, outside or past the normal limits
7. Patriarch of the family, dad
8. Jane ...., Pride and Prejudice writer
9. Type of spread made from a legume, .... butter
10. Of or related to a primate; one went to the moon
11. Handing over money for goods or services
12. .... is the leader of the Gorgons
13. Spray of water used to clean yourself
14. Type of electricity that makes your hair stand up
15. To turn aside, flip, reverse or turn over
16. Reapplying the undersides of a shoe
17. Someone who .... taxes will face criminal charges
18. Swiss city, United Nations' headquarters
19. Number of maximum soccer players on field per team
20. French fashion house; singer .... Dion




Puzzle 2

1. Leisure interests
2. Capricorn and Aquarius are usually in this month
3. Jane ....; third of Henry VIII's six brides
4. Far from the .... Crowd, Thomas Hardy classic novel
5. The Lady of ...., Tennyson poem about Camelot
6. First book of the Old Testament
7. Right in the middle of everything
8. Area in the plane where pilot sits and commands
9. Brightest Star in the constellation of Leo
10. Someone following the realization of a personal deity
11. A varved .... can be found in non-glacial lakes
12. A municipality in the northeast of the Netherlands
13. Pablo ...., Guernica artist
14. Give a man enough rope and he will hang ....
15. Area in a plane where a pilot sits
16. Wicket and stump game huge in India
17. Feelings of fear that cause problems in the body
18. Newly enlisted; drafted member of the military
19. Yellow ...., peasant revolt in Han dynasty China
20. Cranial safety piece for construction site
21. The son of the wish
22. Two equilateral triangles joined at their bases
23. Robert ...., the Sundance Kid
24. Organized search to find a criminal
25. The .... web is a circus skill similar to corde lisse
26. Customer ...., where clients go for answers
27. .... Bulldogs have muscular build and a wrinkled face
28. Live musical performance; orchestra or rock
29. Layered pastry often made with apples
30. Large seismic ocean wave, causes great destruction
31. Metal fusers
32. Indefinitely many, very numerous
33. Pablo ...., Spanish artist who painted Guernica
34. Arabic math creation from 9th-century Syria




Puzzle 3

1. Nation's armed forces
2. Soaking tea in water
3. Smokey Robinson 1970 hit; The Tears ....
4. Home to Everglades has this nickname, .... State
5. .... Committee, Chinese government legislative body
6. Attractive, winsome, charming
7. Really fond of reading and studying
8. Second airport in Rome, with the code CIA
9. To mix with a spoon
10. Flip-flaps are .... handsprings done on the ground
11. Hugely popular frozen dessert
12. Material used in breast implants
13. Benedict ...., patron saint of Europe
14. The fairest rose is at last ....
15. The E in LED
16. It protects from the rain; bad luck to open inside
17. Vampire werewolf from Slavic mythology
18. United Arab ...., capital Abu Dhabi is vastly rich




Puzzle 4

1. Host of The Price is Right
2. Variety of pyrope; raspberry-colored gemstone
3. Succession from guru to disciple in Hinduism
4. A handsome Beatle
5. Leftover quantity
6. Muscular ...., disease causing weakening of muscles
7. Icy sled track near St Moritz in the Swiss Alps
8. Caesar's wife who supposedly foresaw his death
9. .... of Life, US movie with Lana Turner
10. An item of clothing you put on first
11. Flaming tool used by metalworkers
12. Australian nut used in desserts
13. .... snake eel has a red head and lower jaw
14. .... Dior, makers of the J'adore eau de parfum
15. Fab Four member Paul
16. The ...., David Bowie song recorded in 1972
17. Ukranian boxing brothers Vitali and Wladimir
18. Fairy tale character who tells lies
19. Document giving permission to go into a country




Puzzle 5

1. Me and Bobby McGee singer, Janis ....
2. 10 .... I Hate About You, Ledger's break out role
3. Not injured
4. The Robot series' author
5. Current Japanese period that started with Akihito
6. Sesame paste used in hummus
7. King .... VII Sea; Southern Ocean; Norwegian king
8. Italian title adopted by Benito Mussolini
9. Credo, dogma, doctrine
10. Of or related to wolves
11. 1984 arcade game with a blue bird character
12. Comport oneself well
13. .... Street, children's TV series featuring Elmo
14. Colored wax stick for drawing
15. Hardened skin on feet
16. Short romances; frisbee tosses
17. Bone that connects the shoulder and the sternum
18. Towards the back of the ship

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Group 186




Puzzle 1

1. .... Island moai that European traders came across
2. Tool for cutting wheat
3. Large flat surface to watch movies on
4. Swiss canton between Lucerne and Zurich lakes
5. Of or related to bears
6. .... Distribution, probability theory, statistics
7. Conspicuous device used to attract attention
8. The feeling of having done something before
9. Ancient Chinese hexagram text, Classic of Changes
10. Classic movie, The .... of Oz
11. Transparent lemon and lime carbonated drink
12. Organ in the mouth that helps you eat and speak
13. To capture someone's attention; to involve
14. Unfilled space within a mass; a hollowed-out space
15. French pastry filled with cream, chocolate on top




Puzzle 2

1. .... Destiny, belief US had divine right to expand
2. Study of living cells
3. Children are afraid of them
4. Was a representative example of
5. Excited, frenzied, hectic, hyperactive
6. They may be hiding under your bed at night
7. A land mammal that cannot jump
8. Infamous Prohibition era firearm
9. Sea that lies between Italy and the Balkans
10. The Murder at the ...., Miss Marple's first mystery
11. It is a sin as well as commission
12. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. ....
13. Someone with very creative skills
14. Type of font being used
15. Bodily outgrowth or process, sometimes removed




Puzzle 3

1. Colorful minerals used in bracelets, tiaras, etc
2. Furniture in a living room for putting items on
3. Set up and organize or to found
4. Instrumental music in middle of opera/play
5. 4th American Idol: country singer Carrie ....
6. Indian bat sword also used as a tool
7. Number of Olympic swimming events
8. Art of constructing catalogues
9. Heretic, non-conformist
10. Nobody wins when a game of chess ends this way
11. Flight attendants who look after passengers' needs
12. Device used to open a tin
13. Forwards mail to a new address
14. Overalls made of thick cotton cloth, often blue
15. Person or animal in a book, movie or play
16. Month between August and October
17. .... Candler, business tycoon who founded Coca-Cola
18. Gianni ...., FIFA president elected in 2016
19. A device that lets us view distant space objects
20. Art technique usually done in pottery or clay
21. Zeal without .... is a runaway horse
22. Referred to as the Lion City or the Little Red Dot




Puzzle 4

1. Catcher in the Rye author
2. Scientist/politician on US $100 bills
3. .... Report, report to shareholders on net benefits
4. The capital of Saint Barthélemy
5. Italy's airline carrier based out of Rome
6. Ornithorhynchus anatinus, semiaquatic mammal
7. Novice male monastic in Buddhism
8. Closed tightly again
9. A great city, a great ....
10. Luxurious French food made of goose liver
11. An open wound that is beginning to heal
12. Game with bats, a ball and four bases on a field
13. Refreshing summertime beverage treat
14. Marked by abundant inventiveness or productivity
15. Red-skin fruit with hooked hairs and whitish flesh
16. Quick burst of plague conditions
17. Astrologically wet sign
18. Silicate minerals removed from buildings




Puzzle 5

1. The bobsled team in Cool Runnings is from ....
2. Easy peasy for a cheating card dealer: .... of hand
3. Open display surfaces for books
4. .... oxide, ancient weapon aka quicklime
5. Indonesian sword with protruding notch
6. John Dory is a .... fish with black marks
7. Butch ...., played by Paul Newman
8. Balls-and-cord device thrown to bring down quarry
9. Open storage surfaces for books/ornaments
10. The way one laughs when he does it last
11. Many use it to carry groceries
12. George .... Shaw, Irish who won the Nobel Prize
13. Country where the singer Bjork is from
14. Passengers who do not turn up for a booked flight
15. Ancient Greek
16. Organs that help cleanse your system
17. Potato pasta
18. Banksy's little girl lets go of a heart-shaped ....
19. Cousin of the tornado
20. When the seaside waters recede
21. The ...., Warsaw ghetto movie by Roman Polanski
22. George ...., actor of Ocean's Eleven

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Group 187




Puzzle 1

1. Shortened term for Situation Comedy
2. Restrained by a police officer's kit
3. The given name of The Barber of Seville
4. Communities of plant or animal species
5. .... of the Jedi, the end of Darth Vader
6. “Signed, ...., Delivered” 1970 hit for Stevie Wonder
7. Deeply angered, openly furious
8. Strongest muscle in the human body
9. Female Islamic spiritual leader
10. French writer who took his lobster pet for walks
11. Xanthophobia is the fear of the color ....
12. Fantasy novel by J. K. Rowling, Harry ....
13. Wide-mouthed pipe; it makes it easy to pour liquids
14. .... Planet, travel advice website
15. Official currency of Malawi
16. Air ...., aerial motorsport
17. Soft and furry, like a newborn chick
18. Spina ...., birth defect prevented with folic acid
19. January birthstone; deep red
20. It has tastebuds
21. Long curved yellow fruit; plátano
22. .... Lang, Austrian fashion designer
23. Ruthless dictator Roman ruler; Julius ....
24. Representative of someone else, interest of
25. Autochthonous, domestic, endemic
26. Soft, porous artist's tool from undersea
27. They pump blood
28. Type of cheese pulled into filaments
29. Toulouse-Lautrec's preferred venue, .... Rouge
30. Largest of Mars' moons
31. Skilled shooter concealed from the enemy
32. Lebanese capital city on the Mediterranean Sea
33. Collision of two items together; strike
34. Wood or plastic stick used to move a boat




Puzzle 2

1. This sea mammal can be bottle-nosed
2. Sidney ...., first Bahamian Oscar winner in 1964
3. Group of people who work in a ship
4. Event that causes public outrage
5. Hugo ...., considered Mexico's best soccer player
6. A region in central Italy, Florence is its capital
7. It holds the aircraft engine
8. French Impressionist painter, Jules Robert ....
9. .... is the best policy
10. Cauldron-stirring magic women
11. Comparison of two things
12. Black ...., Ozzy's band
13. A .... arch is a rock formation with an opening
14. Ancient Egyptian monarch; ruler of the dynasties
15. Product for washing the hair
16. God of wisdom and remover of obstacles in Hinduism
17. Symbol Li, silver metal used in batteries
18. John the ...., beheaded upon Herodias' request
19. Often confused with debt; costs exceed revenue
20. Someone who writes online articles
21. Twenty Thousand .... Under the Sea, J. Verne's novel
22. Popular painkiller; can help prevent heart attacks
23. The Chinese .... is a breed of hairless dog
24. Small cake with icing on top
25. Month between September and November
26. Acrophobia is the fear of ....




Puzzle 3

1. Moving, but not backwards or forwards
2. This bowl game was first ever played in 1902
3. .... in Blue, Gershwin classic
4. Like urea, but with sulfur atom
5. In this country, people speak Lao dialects
6. Subversion of a constitution, major crime
7. Bloodsucker, leech, freeloader, hanger-on
8. Knee-length male skirt, it comes from ....
9. They make rings, bracelets and custom pieces
10. Nicknamed soundless dogs
11. Buses that go to and from
12. City that's home to the Hagia Sophia
13. Where fliers wait for the fly bar in circus
14. Acts of the ...., book about founding of church
15. Picture of a person usually showing the face
16. .... sulphate, was used as rat poison, symbol Tl
17. A .... key opens all sorts of doors




Puzzle 4

1. Historical account; name of newspaper
2. Can get you hooked
3. Volcanic Canary Islands isle with Fuego mountains
4. Coercion, using incriminating knowledge to extort
5. Song word aids for congregations
6. Diplomatic residences
7. Champers, shampoo
8. "Flea" pepper aka Chiltepins
9. He plays Gale in The Hunger Games movies
10. .... Gorgeous, villain on Jimmy Neutron
11. Ceres, Roman goddess of ...., agriculture
12. Revolutionary French republican grouping
13. Elevated, level area of land
14. Arrangement where two airlines operate a flight
15. Warhammer is a table top .... game
16. .... Square, Beijing site of Mao's Mausoleum
17. Fizzy drink used to toast while celebrating
18. Nocturnal mammal with a leathery armour shell
19. Bed and ....
20. Bat these little hairs when you like someone
21. Beaten eggs, folded while cooking




Puzzle 5

1. 1571 naval battle between Ottomans and Christians
2. Former NBA player: Clyde the Glide ....
3. Separating lumps in flour
4. Second-largest city in China (and in the world)
5. Permanently gone, like the dinosaurs
6. Room where the Last Supper happened
7. Cafe .... at Night, Van Gogh's evening piece
8. Transition zone, where tides meet streams
9. Country whose capital city is Kiev
10. Definitely gone
11. Irish saint whose day is celebrated on March 17
12. The eyes are the .... to the soul
13. It makes a hard copy of your computer documents
14. Asthma treatment, reliever or preventer
15. The knight of the sorrowful countenance
16. Whole number, not a fraction
17. General seating area of a circus
18. Greek stallion with wings
19. Number after fourteen
20. Ask someone to marry you
21. Albrecht ...., creator of the William Tell legend
22. A miss is as good ....
23. Frayed shorts made from jeans
24. Aircrafts designed to attack by dropping weaponry
25. Cat with non-retractile claws
26. A near fall
27. Frozen sweetened water, usually fruit flavored
28. To run a ship onto the beach or on land
29. Digits in the hand
30. Disposable utensils are made out of this material

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Group 188




Puzzle 1

1. .... root, number multiplied by itself
2. Wheel cover
3. Main choreographer and member of Jackson 5
4. Along with waning describes the Moon's phases
5. DVD format for high definition video
6. Commercial brand name for adhesive tape made by 3M
7. Traditional Japanese flooring, sitting mat
8. Western Sahel sword with a tapering tip
9. Indonesian sea between Bali and Java seas
10. Criminal ...., also known as an indictment
11. Trophies given at the Academy Awards
12. St Jude, patron saint of lost ....
13. .... snapper is a large red fish with huge teeth
14. Papier-mâché animal containing sweets
15. .... straw, perfect for hat-making
16. Livestock food made from plants; cheap resources
17. This fast bird simply said "beep, beep," Road ....
18. .... Boat Festival, China's Double Fifth celebration
19. Meghan .... married Prince Harry
20. .... flaw, trait that leads to protagonist's downfall
21. Meryl ...., one of the greatest actresses in the US
22. HTML: HyperText .... Language
23. Fiat sports car named after an arachnid
24. "Volcanic" chocolate cake, souffle like
25. Sandy flat floor of a ....; basin that is dry
26. Dark or badly lit place; feeling pessimistic
27. Developed wings and flew too close to the sun




Puzzle 2

1. Short and informative
2. Michael ...., ran for U.S. President in 1988
3. Origin of something
4. Largest river system that flows to the Arctic
5. Flavius ...., first king of Italy
6. Drinking glass with no stem or handles
7. Hobby of making all different types of foods
8. Venus, Roman .... of love
9. Excess ...., luggage over the allowed amount
10. Harrison Ford Star Wars character
11. Boating sport requiring understanding of wind
12. .... Gogol, writer related to surrealism and grotesque
13. Who .... not his gutters .... his whole house
14. Fat layer between skin and muscle in whales
15. A device for connecting two parts of an apparatus
16. Esteems, respects, thinks highly of
17. To regard with displeasure, antipathy or aversion
18. A partial or total loss of memory




Puzzle 3

1. San Jose State .... play at Spartan Stadium
2. Oldest rugby stadium in South Africa
3. Lagoon shared by Poland and Germany; on the Oder
4. Italian last name that symbolizes "womanizer"
5. Toadstool
6. The Black ...., stranded on island with horse
7. Describes wines from Australia, South Africa, US
8. Deliberately running a ship aground
9. Small cabbage looks like Sputnik
10. Tube connecting lungs to throat, trachea
11. Priests and clergymen study this
12. Anything relating to ships, sailors or navigation
13. Greek yogurt and cucumber sauce for gyros




Puzzle 4

1. Secretary of State under Nixon: Henry ....
2. Mucho in Mexico: the whole ....
3. Upset the ....; spoil someone's plans
4. 2015 sci-fi thriller directed by Alex Garland
5. Genghis Khan's subdivisions of the Mongol Empire
6. Disgusting study that examines vomiting
7. German composer; went deaf in his later years
8. A crypt, full of tombs
9. Despondent, forlorn, hopeless
10. Municipal station ready to help buildings in flame
11. The opposite of flat shoes
12. Folk ...., traditional form of this grappling sport
13. The best is ....
14. Sleeveless aprons
15. Theologian and missionary, brother of St. Cyril
16. Italian car brand with flag and snake on its badge
17. Related to the organization of sounds in language
18. Plant, legume; can be used as food
19. Longest reigning British monarch to date, .... II
20. Protective garment worn by astronauts
21. Engaged in conflict
22. Device used in submarines to see above water
23. Steel that does not rust or corrode
24. It protects cars, homes and lives against loss




Puzzle 5

1. Exclamation of surprise: Geez ....
2. A dragon in Chronicles of Narnia: Eustace ....
3. Multi-Oscar winning film starring Charlton Heston
4. Lung disease
5. Peter ...., South African World Cup stadium
6. Whistler's ...., grey and black oil painting
7. Accidental clumsy fall, not disastrous
8. Chinese philosophy known as "The Way"
9. .... crabs are small Mediterranean crustaceans
10. Amazon's eReader
11. Type of hat taken from a George du Maurier book
12. Where your umbilical cord was attached, belly ....
13. Woodworking is the skill of .... wooden items
14. They fear to tread where fools rush in
15. Preferably; .... you than me
16. Space ...., portable warmer for enclosed areas
17. To state that something is true
18. Rescues a dog that needs a home
19. Peninsula shared by Italy, Croatia and Slovenia
20. To force someone to do something
21. "Evil Eye" is an example of this protection
22. Brass, trumpet-like instrument
23. Stubs of harvested trees

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Group 189




Puzzle 1

1. The least wet, with a “y”
2. Julia Child in the film Julie and Julia, Meryl ....
3. The O in UFO, unidentified flying ....
4. .... al-qadr, holiest night for Muslims
5. Pungent layered veggies; you cry when you chop them
6. Edible layer on Japanese candies
7. Bowed stringed instrument having four strings
8. The capital of Lebanon
9. Burns are .... caused by heat or chemicals
10. System that warms up the inside of a car
11. To trade goods instead of paying with money
12. Cleopatra star Elizabeth ....
13. Provision, rig, furnish
14. Holding straight, not moving or giving
15. Pungent layered veggies that make you cry
16. Relative to King Arthur's people
17. Soak up, like a sponge




Puzzle 2

1. A reversal in your progress
2. Sherman ...., real life George Jefferson
3. Atmospheric pressure lines on a weather map
4. Estadio Monumental de ...., in Venezuela
5. .... Duncan, famous US dancer from 1900s
6. Extremely stupid or foolish
7. To make artwork available for people to see
8. Quick break from driving on a road trip
9. Versatile bean, can be turned into imitation meat
10. Travel to and from work, e.g. from the suburbs
11. Playwright who wrote Look Back in Anger, John ....
12. You catch fewer flies with it
13. Easily damaged, broken, shattered, flimsy, frail
14. An allotrope of carbon like the graphite
15. Courtesy title added to a male name on an envelope
16. Female deity




Puzzle 3

1. Squeaking from an infinite loop
2. Glinda's palace is in .... Country
3. Clark Kent
4. Hard working at learning
5. Beethoven, for example
6. Country that Robert The Bruce led to freedom
7. Spanish artist famous for painting The Farm
8. .... Webster, film character involved in labor union
9. Fee paid in advance
10. .... moons, orbit within Saturn's rings system
11. One after January and three before May
12. Bartail ...., or Indian ...., lies on mud to hide
13. Australian director of the movie Romeo + Juliet
14. The sting of a .... is the truth of it
15. The .... Festival, annual summer festival in Ontario
16. Small fish with an equine-like head
17. Witch-hunting US senator of the 1950s
18. Flattened spaghetti pasta strands
19. Sprawling, untidy
20. End of Christmas; the Three Kings arrive
21. People or animals who like to be with others
22. Claudia ...., German supermodel




Puzzle 4

1. Bad-tempered, like a hooked knitting craft
2. Savage, rude, uncivil, uncultivated, wild
3. .... of the Two Holy Mosques, Mecca, Medina
4. ...., stadium of rugby's Central Cheetahs
5. A perpendicular descent of a water stream
6. Savage; uncivilized
7. Heavy animals; Dalí made them light with stick legs
8. Development or incubation in the womb
9. Subatomic particles
10. Bibi ...., Swedish actress of Persona
11. .... Revolution, Portuguese "flowery" coup of 1975
12. Site of the original Royal Observatory in S London
13. From December to January, tenth zodiac sign
14. .... Dior, French fashion house
15. Tool used to beat, whip, and combine ingredients
16. Artificial sweetener made from aspartic acid




Puzzle 5

1. The bubbling of water .... in a pan
2. The moon does this around Earth
3. European country, home to Csabai spicy sausage
4. Designates a duty or task
5. .... Brite, colorful doll, 80s cartoon show
6. Closing one eye then opening it again (quickly)
7. Very stupid
8. French department and estuary, Bordeaux wine area
9. Flat bread, its wedges are known as scones
10. It means "the snows" in Galician
11. Frame on which car body is mounted
12. Someone who owns, manages a bar
13. Aba-daba is any .... served at the circus
14. United ...., worldwide organization with 193 members
15. Seth Mac...., actor, director
16. New .... is called "The Birthplace of Jazz" in the US
17. Blackbird that lives on, by herds of cattle
18. Film series with boy marked with demonic number
19. "Colorful" women's magazine
20. Baby ...., two-way radio to watch over baby
21. Game where players build words moving letters
22. Distributes, places, arranges
23. Hang ...., flying a human paper airplane
24. Basin-like depression in the center of a volcano
25. For ...., acorns protect against lightning
26. .... Manet, French realist/impressionist painter
27. Stormily or threateningly
28. Long bone in upper arm, shoulder to elbow
29. 70s singing clan of Crazy Horses

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Group 190




Puzzle 1

1. Are we .... there yet? Common road trip question
2. Artful ...., youthful leader of Fagin's gang
3. SNL alumni, Wayne's World co-star, Dana ....
4. Completely ridiculous
5. Organic compound used as fuel gas
6. Large sea which divides Australia and New Zealand
7. Sultan Mizan Zainal .... Stadium, Malaysia
8. El ...., luring golden metropolis
9. Japan is known as the Land of the .... Sun
10. Andy and Jamie ....; Scottish tennis brothers
11. Slow-moving animal, can breathe through its rear end
12. Tradesperson, specializes in fusing things together
13. Freedom from danger or harm
14. Famous centaur in Greek mythology
15. Skoda car sounds like an Alaskan brown bear
16. Someone who locates things
17. Tooth .... makes up the visible part of a tooth
18. Food related; sort of gore, harpoon or jab
19. Long sickle; death's tool
20. Heavy, patterned table-linen fabric
21. Los ...., National Security lab in New Mexico
22. Buildings where monks or nuns live




Puzzle 2

1. Heating appliance for browning bread
2. Breathing tube for swimming under water
3. Animals studied by entomologists
4. Large lively party
5. 184 pounds satellite launched in 1957: .... I
6. Children don't want to stop doing this
7. Expression of regret
8. A place on the coast where vessels find shelter
9. Biancabella and the Snake is an .... fairy tale
10. Altered granite with pink feldspar
11. Pairc Ui ...., Gaelic sport arena in Cork
12. Tool thrown in the works to cause delay
13. Game played on a special mat with colorful circles
14. Warm and friendly
15. Aristocracy, A-list, corps d'elite
16. Parchment in Ancient Egypt
17. Ancient type of flute
18. Planet; one of two gas giants in our solar system
19. Ingrid ...., Swedish actress
20. Mediterranean resort between Cannes and Nice
21. Albino traits are a lack of .... in the body
22. Invented jeans for miners in California
23. Old piece of furniture
24. Building where goods are made
25. Ghost
26. Expression of regret, to say you're sorry
27. Horus, major god of ....
28. Clearly
29. The Rat .... is a short-haired breed of farm dog




Puzzle 3

1. Oceans at the Cape of Good Hope: Indian and ....
2. Sweet ...., sing along song by Neil Diamond
3. Like-minded groups who buy discounted vintages
4. A killer
5. Inflammation of lymph glands in the body
6. Study of smells and olfactory processes
7. Everybody's .... is nobody's ....
8. Made unclean; contaminated
9. Zoo.... are eggs, larvae and animals drifting
10. When two or more elements are chemically bound
11. A woman who serves food or drinks to people
12. Fictional monster that resembles a giant gorilla
13. Clover sprig used to explain trinity to Irish
14. Stretch of sea between Italy and Balkan peninsula
15. Honorific style of Christian clergy
16. George ...., Canadian MMA fighter
17. Swiss-German surrealist "Fish Magic" painter
18. Loch Ness is in this country
19. Les .... Dangereuses, novel on Revolutionary France
20. Horse riding foot supports invented in 4th century
21. Hardened into bone; or in Ireland, plastered drunk
22. Christ the ...., famous statue in Rio de Janeiro
23. .... English, dialect native to the United States
24. Opposite of negative
25. Legal process of taking parental responsibility




Puzzle 4

1. Daytime TV story continued over years
2. Most frequently covered Beatles song
3. Defensive players field short hits in baseball
4. Practitioner of alternative, plant-based medicine
5. Pyrotechnics in the sky
6. The fee or money you pay to enter a place
7. Use this to smooth out rough surfaces
8. The Big .... of 1938, "Thanks for the Memory"
9. Green mineral, not actually from rainforest river
10. Austrian crystals company with swan logo
11. Amateur radio is the private use of radio ....
12. Asian state won independence from Portugal in 1975
13. Incomparable, no rivals
14. Abrasive sheet used to smooth out rough surfaces
15. Dutch Golden Age painter of The Night Watch
16. Under a spell
17. Wooden board for walking into or out of a ship
18. Ancient African reptile with giant chompers
19. Crescent-shaped French pastry
20. Pope Francis' Surname
21. Italian volcano bread filled with cheese and herbs
22. Plays the kettledrums
23. Birthplace of literary greats, Doyle, Stevenson
24. Lounge where those about to fly wait
25. Setting off on a voyage by boat




Puzzle 5

1. Sporting fixture without travel
2. Undecided, to be in ....
3. Programs and operating system used by computers
4. Ancient wonders found at Giza
5. Height above sea or ground level
6. Attempt to discredit someone by underhanded means
7. Paper container for a letter
8. Joseon era molded, 35 in sword from Korea
9. Bright green substance, discredited mineral
10. The ...., 1935 film, Irish War of Independence
11. Central Asian river, Aral Sea basin
12. .... Gums Murphy, a musician in The Simpsons
13. Secretary, cabinet member of monetary issues
14. To move someone down to the next division below
15. Book that features annual world's records
16. Harvest month of the French Revolutionary calendar
17. Water activity with double-sided paddle
18. Paper container for a letter, found in offices
19. Keith ...., worst case for anti-smoking campaigns
20. Wooden "legs" to help the injured walk
21. Out at sea, account used as a tax haven
22. What every law has
23. Wind systems with circular, swirling motion
24. Small spoon, measurement, not tablespoon
25. Profusion, over-abundance
26. .... Gums Murphy, a sax player in The Simpsons
27. Arc-eye .... has bright body and bluish tail
28. To remain in a country after your visa has expired

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Group 191




Puzzle 1

1. Keep your ....; stay positive
2. Followed, happened next
3. ...., Tramps & Thieves, 1971 hit for Cher
4. Three-striped tennis shoes, trainers, sneakers
5. Japanese military dictators
6. Atlantic African gulf heavy in oil deposits
7. Itemized plan for spending money
8. Massive migration, second book of Torah, Bible
9. Marvel's espionage and law enforcement agency
10. Hat made of strips of fabric wound around the head
11. Item used to give a shot with; adds to a syringe
12. Tropical fruit, orange flesh, tiny black seeds
13. Renault car with picturesque name
14. Sage teeth in the back of the mouth
15. .... of Lima, patron of the Americas
16. To move upward, climb to a higher point
17. Someone who moves their body for a living
18. Greek goddess of compulsion and necessity
19. Barry ...., Kubrick's Irish period drama
20. .... Munch, painter of The Scream
21. Longest measure from end to end
22. One of the ice giants
23. To add data to a computer or online




Puzzle 2

1. Orange-yellow food dye from crocus
2. Chicken, beef, fish
3. A person who educates others
4. Items to enhance vision
5. Quality or ability to be honest to others
6. Main component of natural gas
7. Lancôme mascara brand that's mesmerizing
8. Deadpan comedian starred in self-titled TV series
9. Two hues
10. Orange-yellow flavoring; food coloring
11. Bulgarian city with millennial old ruins
12. Korean tech brand behind the Note and Tab
13. Not man-made
14. Standing yoga pose, like a soldier
15. 80's Queen of Pop
16. Act of beating, thrashing, whipping




Puzzle 3

1. “In a ....”; in a neat summary
2. Escaped one country to join another
3. Temperament, behaviour
4. Merrie ...., cartoon series including Tweetie Pie
5. Talk show host, Jerry ....
6. This guy was stranded on an island
7. Spanish travel agency offering low-cost excursions
8. Like a cloud; vague concept
9. 1942 battle, the first involving aircraft carriers
10. Barcelona monument to an explorer, on the Ramblas
11. Pacino film about fictional Cuban drug lord
12. Holes in the outer layer of your teeth
13. Spiky plants often with purple flowers
14. Little ones have big ears
15. Cured beef found in many deli sandwiches
16. Largest land mammal hunted for its ivory tusks
17. With an abnormal appearance
18. Either the Martyr or the Confessor
19. Latin phrase acknowledging guilt or blame
20. .... Wheel, device used on thread, Indian origins
21. Chocolate ...., flowing chocolate fondue maker




Puzzle 4

1. Lord ....; title for the regent of a British monarch
2. US actor starred in Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone
3. “Why don't you use it?” hit for Duran Duran
4. Science of surveying
5. Enormous WWI mine crater on the Somme battlefield
6. Braggart
7. His feast day is the day after Christmas
8. Encyclopaedic, user-generated article website
9. Large board behind the basketball net
10. Emporiums that sell reading material
11. French painter of Liberty Leading the People
12. Wafer of semiconductor material
13. Tetherball tennis for gardens
14. Being bewildered aka puzzlement
15. An exciting or remarkable experience
16. Woody Allen's movie named after his neighborhood
17. Of or relating to tortoises or turtles
18. Long and thin green vegetable




Puzzle 5

1. Tending to plants in a home's outdoor space
2. One of America's top home improvement retailers
3. A party after a wedding
4. .... System, irrigation to keep lawn green
5. Change to the constitution
6. Anti-proverb created by Dickens
7. Flight ....; invented in Canada for pilot training
8. Areas where "black gold" is found
9. Lower house of parliament in German government
10. The act of loosing threads of cloth or rope
11. He/she helps people achieve personal goals
12. Crescent-shaped French breakfast pastry
13. Pianos, organs, synthesizers
14. Serbian secret group that backed a Greater Serbia
15. Italian mountains, they run along the nation
16. Addition or change to a law or bill
17. One promised in marriage to someone
18. Light rail vehicle, also called trams or trolleys

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Group 192




Puzzle 1

1. Slang term for a native of Australia
2. Steve ...., from the US sitcom The Office
3. Shaft, device for lifting and carrying
4. Country where Prince Rainier ruled
5. Lindsay Wagner sci-fi series, The .... Woman
6. Country directly to the south of the US
7. Batman's butler
8. .... base, running bases sans a hit
9. Looking at the stars
10. To be on a ship or train
11. Sea that stretches from Denmark to Netherlands
12. A .... Frise is a toy breed descended from a poodle
13. Violet ...., survived three ship disasters in 6 years
14. Mechanical model of the Solar System
15. Showing gentleness
16. Flowering branches
17. Tobacco pipe with multiple flexible tubes
18. Large, soft bag perfect for sports or travelling
19. Fred and ...., gave Harry the Marauder's Map
20. Shape-shifting water seal from Scottish folklore
21. A hound and a tec
22. Sculpted representation of person
23. US-Canadian cartoon, The Ren & .... Show
24. .... copy; something that is almost identical
25. Something material that you can touch or see




Puzzle 2

1. Korean company, Apple's smartphone rival
2. Another name for Thomas the apostle
3. One .... and One Dalmatians was released in 1961
4. Device used for credit card fraud
5. Really wanted
6. Agga Maha ...., honorific title in Theravada Buddhism
7. Most portrayed horror blood-sucking movie villain
8. Traveling on surfaces by dancing or racing
9. Type of obsidian, cracking volcanic glass
10. Back of the stage, away from the audience
11. Tree nymphs protect .... and trees
12. Knowledge of past events
13. Monte ...., prolonged WWII battle at Italian abbey
14. Capital of Indonesia
15. .... swimming crab feeds on trash
16. Bartender or mixologist's wooden pestle
17. Dull and overcast with no solar warmth
18. Bram Stoker's famous vampire
19. Picture cut or scratched into a metal surface
20. Donatella ...., Italian fashion designer
21. Official headquarters for an ambassador
22. First comes lightning, then comes ....
23. The beautiful rock.... jumps over rocks
24. Philip .... Hoffman, American actor
25. English poet of the modernist movement




Puzzle 3

1. Harmless flying insect that looks like a wasp
2. Law and Order spinoff, .... Intent
3. Two-word term for the larynx
4. Picked something from a range of options
5. Marta ....; creator of Friends TV series
6. .... Stadium, famed Turin home of "youth" team
7. Omega-7 fatty acid found in dairy products
8. The Walls of ...., French criminal falls in love
9. A comedy writer or performer
10. Baby mohawk, no shaved sides
11. Derbyshire pudding, erroneously called a tart
12. Gnomes turn to stone in the ....
13. Material in the middle of a pencil
14. British royalty abode in Scotland
15. Single-track transport system, usually elevated
16. "Orient Express" murder victim: Samuel ....
17. Wonderland cat whose smile remains
18. Powdered seasoning aka pimenta, like cloves/nutmeg
19. Study of places and their natural features
20. Person who makes people laugh for a living
21. Rhetorical ...., you know the answer already
22. .... Geographic, science magazine founded in 1888
23. Bone structure that supports an organism
24. .... lotion is a treatment for itching
25. Compiled teachings and sayings of Confucius
26. This sort of gate hangs the longest
27. .... or Dorado, fish with long fin from head to tail
28. In architecture, border, edging or baseboard




Puzzle 4

1. Small and malevolent imaginary being
2. Disseminated a message on Twitter
3. Measures changes in sea level
4. Collectors pick them up from coastal sands
5. Defensive player between second and third basemen
6. A notebook for artists
7. .... National Stadium, of SE Asian nation
8. Siliceous sedimentary rock, can crumble into powder
9. Anna ...., Russian modernist poet in the Soviet era
10. Canada has the world's largest ....
11. Espresso coffee liqueur from Italy
12. A person who directs the route or course of a ship
13. Web-spinning spider
14. Art style, rejected realism during late 19th C
15. Someone who underwrites a project with money .... it
16. Monopoly is one of them
17. A .... Orange, movie with Malcolm McDowell
18. Western Plains Native Americans
19. Large flat case for carrying drawings, papers
20. Freefalling out of a plane




Puzzle 5

1. Simple rope lifting mechanism
2. Female folk duo, the .... Girls
3. Point of orbit where something is farthest from Earth
4. Committee of Public ...., French Revolutionary group
5. Key used to scroll up computer
6. Season opposite to summer
7. Not successful; did not pass an exam
8. Amidships means the .... section of a ship
9. Dawn ...., early morning singsong for birds
10. Musical tones combined together
11. Colloquial rather than classical Latin
12. You can have it cold, hot, with milk or ice
13. Opiate that is injected; extremely addictive
14. Aromatic flower bud used in cooking
15. Reflective invention found first in 400 BC Lebanon
16. Colorful, one-of-a-kind Japanese clothing label

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Group 193




Puzzle 1

1. Placed at end of word to change meaning
2. International, around the world
3. City in Europe where St. Paul's Cathedral is
4. California desert, home to the Death Valley
5. Gianluigi ...., longtime Italian goalkeeper
6. Wealthy landowner who later became a pirate
7. .... Fire, indie rock band based in Montreal
8. Robin Hood's maiden
9. Dealer, usually in expensive fabrics
10. Coiffure
11. Device to capture photos; most cellphones have it
12. Peter's epistles were written while he was ....
13. Snails can sleep for three ....
14. Using physical or mental energy; making an ....
15. Heavy ...., dug deep, changed European agriculture
16. Draft drawing to represent chief features
17. Marilyn ...., blonde bombshell
18. AOC French brandy from the Charente region
19. In a foreign country




Puzzle 2

1. Mountain with a crater
2. Roman mode of transport, especially during races
3. Avoiding negative financial news, the .... effect
4. Decisive battle of the Chinese Civil War in 1940s
5. Large flat pan used to fry foods
6. Family of Italian Renaissance painters
7. Of poor moral character, disobedient
8. .... Vega, Tom's Diner folk singer
9. Final period of calendar, often used in finance
10. Kate Middleton is married to Prince ....
11. Medicine patented by Bayer in the early 1900s
12. Female opossums have 13 ....
13. Leafy vegetable, eaten raw or cooked
14. Open-toe footwear usually held by straps
15. Large body of ice moves slowly or spreads outward




Puzzle 3

1. Salad sauce
2. An introduction or preface at the start of a book
3. Brand of stain fighter
4. Berry plants that can be red, black or white
5. To abhor, loathe
6. Tomb-.... Day, a national holiday in China
7. Traditional culture communicated orally
8. Woven textile art
9. Place used for recreation, inside
10. Small metal object used to remove unwanted hairs
11. Feline anti-hero associated with Batman
12. Italian crispy breadsticks
13. Sweet melon, sounds like moist nectar
14. This person will take the devil out of you
15. Marcus ...., Roman emperor, writer of Meditations
16. A negative turns out positive as a .... in disguise




Puzzle 4

1. The ...., best-seller by Paulo Coelho
2. Orange branded liqueur, a triple sec from France
3. Type of crab
4. Field takes closer look at rocks
5. German candy made of chocolate and coconut oil
6. They make for wavy nights
7. Shoes that make a person look taller
8. Personal driver
9. Dorset model town developed by Prince Charles
10. To cleanse, sanitize or kill germs
11. A Winter Olympic sport
12. Ghanaian diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
13. Famous 1969 US music and art festival
14. Boat that travels over water with underwater wings
15. A temporary suspension of hostilities in a war
16. Strong carnivorous mammal of the weasel family
17. Taking action to correct previous wrongdoing
18. In the other direction to descending




Puzzle 5

1. “For better or ....”, wedding vow
2. Lonely Boy, Ottawa-born crooner
3. Street toughs
4. Manufacturer of sandwich toasters
5. Body of water in Indonesian Maluku Islands
6. They help neurons talk to each other in the body
7. Influential, mighty, potent
8. Pictionary is a .... game where you draw the word
9. Tax-exempt shopping areas at airports
10. .... Interest, interest on top of interest
11. Disinfectant soap
12. To plan appointments at certain times
13. Romeo's last name in Shakespeare's play
14. One shouldn't make a mountain out of this
15. Open car for two persons
16. Leaps out of a plane for sport
17. Picasso and Michelangelo were .... and much more
18. It holds something in place
19. Reply or reaction
20. Includes bologna, turkey aka lunch meats
21. Most obvious star cluster seen on the night sky
22. "Pregunta" means this, in Spanish
23. Substance that is breathed into the lungs
24. Influential, mighty
25. .... Christmas is celebrated on January 7
26. Not yet a sapling
27. Country freed from Italian rule at Battle of Adwa
28. To cut, tear; to hurt
29. Clothing worn to get into the water

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Puzzle 1

1. Inability to speak or vocalize
2. The G in GPS
3. Retailer of scented candles and accessories
4. Space telescope that expanded our universe
5. Agreement preceding marriage
6. Cheese-filled Catalan pastries
7. Camels are .... animals
8. Legal agreement signed before marriage
9. Since 1917, a Virgin Mary pilgrimage center
10. Mislaying, misplacing, not winning
11. Tool with pointed end used for writing/engraving
12. Renault Van range; sounds like a boss
13. Green or black, small, savory fruits used for oil
14. Javier ...., won an Oscar for No Country for Old Men
15. Washington ...., author of Rip Van Winkle
16. Sport played on a court with rackets
17. To give someone a job, to have them work for you
18. Northern Swiss canton where German is spoken
19. White ...., savior bidder of hostile takeover bid




Puzzle 2

1. Jocelyn Bell ...., discoverer of pulsars in 1967
2. Oscar and ...., Carey on an Australian glass church
3. .... hounds, a cross-country paperchase
4. Heavy Metal group .... Sister
5. Director Sofia's Oscar-winner dad, Francis Ford ....
6. Popular political club during French Revolution
7. Not in a wishy-washy way
8. Status of peasants under the feudalistic system
9. A vacuum .... keeps carpets clean
10. Avoid a questioner, for he is also a ....
11. Fine spray or mist, hair spray, odor spray
12. The art of making an image, not with paint
13. Never tasted by those who suffer defeat
14. Someone responsible for counselling others
15. If you can't escape, then you're ....
16. Short pointed knives
17. Huldrych ...., Swiss religious reformer
18. Fellowship, club, group of people
19. Charles ...., film industry icon




Puzzle 3

1. A hole in a vehicle's tire
2. Bragging
3. Winding thread onto a spindle
4. Hand-held canopy protects in the rain
5. .... acid, only acid excreted as gas from the lungs
6. Dead ball restart situation after foul in soccer
7. Officially ranked as the "City of Spas" in 1934
8. In a .... = concisely
9. Flights to and from places in the same country
10. Unbelieving
11. Belgian battle pitted Napoleon against Wellington
12. Call for entire ship's company
13. .... expressionism, conceptual art style
14. Selecting goods to be delivered
15. Place de la ...., execution site of Louis XVI
16. Done quickly and badly
17. Largest city in Europe, Turkey's cultural capital
18. Polish WWII leader set up a government-in-exile
19. .... Holmes, character by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
20. This September Song singer was born in November
21. To steal money from one's workplace
22. Protestant churches that follow Calvin's teachings
23. Garnish of almonds or Romanian dessert




Puzzle 4

1. French stew pot ? and the dish cooked in it
2. John ...., Founding Father, Penman of the Revolution
3. Cases containing magnetic tape for music storage
4. Reptile organ found in a witch's brew
5. 1922 German movie about a vampire
6. Variety of grossular, cinnamon-colored gem
7. It means "Sign of Allah" in Arabic
8. Booking a table at a restaurant in advance
9. Large crocodilian with short snout
10. Irish fashion designer known for retro prints
11. Carbon ....; impression left on the environment
12. Japanese city hit by a nuclear weapon
13. Italian who wrote The Decameron
14. World's smallest continent in area
15. Act of infiltrating somewhere to acquire secrets
16. Medical term for lung-related issues
17. Teacher in a university or faculty
18. To add a dash to join two words
19. .... system, software directing computer actions
20. Shine a light on this banknote security feature
21. Sugary garnish for cakes, cupcakes or ice-cream




Puzzle 5

1. Language ...., e.g. Altaic, Romance, Semitic
2. Number 2 .... used on standardized tests
3. Brazilian cocktail, fruit juice, national alcohol
4. Wax containing a wick and burned to give light
5. No holds ...., no restraint
6. Bodies of 12 people who decide on legal evidence
7. Hard, mottled, white stone used by sculptors
8. ....tooth, doggy-broken check fabric pattern
9. Soft and delicate; Elvis' song "Love me ...."
10. Former name for the Chinese city of Guangzhou
11. William ...., superb Irish storyteller
12. Not private
13. Only .... mosquitoes bite you
14. Green stems of allium used in salads
15. Avenue, boulevard, road, highway

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Group 195




Puzzle 1

1. Little House father, Highway to Heaven star
2. Someone who's into culinary delights
3. Person who buys and sells things
4. Rigid material used to stabilize a broken bone
5. .... Rogers, governor who ended piracy in Nassau
6. Dhirubhai ...., founder of Reliance Industries
7. Stockholm is the capital of the Kingdom of ....
8. Chinese-American tech brand behind the ThinkPad
9. Blondie single from 1980, "Your Hair is Beautiful"
10. Owls can .... their heads as much as 270 degrees
11. To quit
12. Personal place to keep valuables safe
13. Regal waistline that starts under the bust
14. .... C. Clarke, British Sri Lankan writer
15. Formal order, judicial order
16. Pedal used to change gears on a vehicle
17. Breakfast bread cooked in dimpled irons
18. A Bigger ...., Hockney pool painting




Puzzle 2

1. Personal physical attack
2. Irish golfer Rory, found success at young age
3. Something designed for temporary use only
4. Election decides Democrat, Republican candidates
5. Will ...., Merry Men's skilled swordsman
6. A .... squid has webbed legs and light-emitting spots
7. Normally, habitually
8. Dewey's pre Internet book categorizing system
9. Frugal with money
10. The Murder of Roger ...., Agatha Christie mystery
11. These funds invest in "dead" companies
12. Historical Czech land, state of Holy Roman Empire
13. Crusading king of France, who was later sainted
14. Canada's Prime Minister in 2016, Justin ....
15. Spicy red/orange powder made from chili peppers
16. Island nation by Greenland, capital is Reykjavik




Puzzle 3

1. .... and cheese
2. Trans-...., railway with Vladivostok at end
3. Store in a museum or art gallery
4. Means of starting a car or a fire
5. One of four Jewish holy cities, Sea of Galilee
6. .... sulfoxide, colorless liquid, solvent
7. An imp is a goblin creature in English ....
8. .... carriers allow planes to take off in the ocean
9. Conical hat students were made to wear
10. Mall activity
11. Large, long-haired cat breed from Russia
12. Queen Elizabeth's only sister
13. Typically blue gemstone that is a mineral corundum
14. Floating above ground like a helicopter
15. A place where you can take a shower
16. Little girl hairstyle, hair divided in two
17. Programs on a computer; removable
18. A kind of man who will clutch at a straw
19. Solanum melongena, aubergine
20. Professional who designs structures and systems
21. To predict the future
22. Official language of Indian Assam state




Puzzle 4

1. Horse-drawn vehicles
2. The daughter on “All in the Family”: Sally ....
3. Revolving shaft on a boat or an early aircraft
4. Turning a movie back to the start
5. Lively and vivacious
6. This chair helps you stand up
7. Magnesium-rich chamosite
8. Bast, Egyptian protection goddess, .... of Bubastis
9. Fashioned like a hood
10. Separating liquids from solids
11. Bones that make up the spinal column
12. Patron saint of France burned at the stake
13. End of year sweet bread loaf
14. "Colonel" who managed Elvis Presley's career
15. An imaginary elephant in Winnie-the-Pooh
16. Military dictatorship in Japanese history
17. German supermodel, designer, Project Runway host
18. Anna Karenina for her occupation
19. Air transport agreement for international flights
20. Type of park with rides and games




Puzzle 5

1. Loan to delay payment of an invoice
2. Per ...., Latin phrase meaning monthly
3. Object-tossing party game, Hot ....
4. Glided over ice
5. To some extent, not totally
6. Soak in
7. Stone ...., Italian brand with a compass logo
8. "Whitened" Filipino sword, guava wood handle
9. Iranian flour bread cooked in clay oven
10. The Reverend Mother Superior, Eastern Orthodox
11. .... Bonnard, French artist
12. Macbeth murder victim who reappears as a ghost
13. The .... sea snail is purple, lives in the tropics
14. A dash, a crumb, a tiny part of something
15. Female sibling
16. Chemical element found in the Sun, stars & comets
17. .... Baiul, Ukrainian won '94 Olympic gold
18. Hamid ...., president of Afghanistan, 2004-2014
19. National airline of Spain
20. Duplicate version, in case of damage
21. To have the ability to pick one of two things
22. Large Belgian coastal city and port

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Group 196




Puzzle 1

1. Dumb and .... with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels
2. Istanbul is the largest city in ....
3. Sleeve style created for a British army officer
4. .... the dog; hangover remedy
5. Mother .... of Calcutta, Albanian-born nun
6. .... boat; inflatable water sports ride
7. Severely criticized
8. Regards with disgust
9. .... crater, in the Phaethontis quadrangle of Mars
10. Borg ....Stadium, Africa's second largest
11. Mr ...., Oscar-winner for Luxembourgish short film
12. Highly prominent Khatri surname found in India
13. Something adding a zestful flavor; a condiment
14. Charlie ...., the golden ticket winner
15. Grandiose, powerful, all ....
16. Italian-style ice cream
17. Jorge Luis ...., famous Argentine short-story writer
18. Scarcely, only barely, little likelihood
19. .... Virgins, in ancient Rome, priestesses of Vesta
20. Shortform of grandfather
21. Another name for nerve cell
22. Ottoman sultans' groups of wives, helpers, eunuchs
23. Loyal, ambitious Musketeer with Athos and Porthos
24. One rotten apple spoils the whole ....
25. Central European river, flows through Bratislava
26. French high-end brand; No. 5
27. Feminine courtesy title
28. Scullions did this sort of task
29. "About" means to .... course of the ship by tacking
30. Stick this spice in oranges at Christmas' time
31. .... jack, a game fish, same family as yellowtail
32. Edina's effervescent assistant
33. Died down, like a storm




Puzzle 2

1. Gambling activity happens in these establishments
2. Brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb
3. A tiny ball of liquid
4. Arthur's court
5. .... brooks are noisy.
6. Malicious imp
7. To agree, endorse, support
8. Country in southern Africa, capital is Windhoek
9. Fear of wasps is ....phobia
10. Spurge plant with starchy root, tropical
11. Vessel formerly used in distilling
12. Opposite of western
13. To keep your teeth from getting damaged
14. Undead creature who feeds from live people's blood
15. Reaches, accomplishes, achieves goals
16. Estates ...., French political system pre-1789
17. World's fastest land animal
18. A chewy anagram of Pinchas
19. This character greatly underestimated David
20. Princess taken by Achilles as a war prize
21. Rio de Janeiro tourist attraction; beach




Puzzle 3

1. .... the bride, groom's new female relative-in-law
2. Smooth elegance
3. Miami Heat plays at the American .... Arena
4. Naturalist Steve Irwin was killed by one of these
5. Self-righteous and superior
6. Sticking, attaching to something
7. Unit that equals one million gigabytes
8. Gulf space across Banks, Victoria islands
9. The .... has twice the bathrooms it needs
10. Altogether, absolutely
11. Titanic is a romance .... film from 1997
12. Puts a new boat in water
13. One hot pepper
14. The ...., oil-on-canvas of a kitchen maid, by Vermeer
15. The ling is a long thin fish from the North ....
16. Prosperous Qing emperor, grandson of Kangxi
17. Patron of Scotland, his feast day is November 30
18. Unscrupulous seizers
19. A shape with five sides
20. Confection of ice cream, espresso and cream
21. Upholstered chair that leans back
22. Author of Interview with the Vampire




Puzzle 4

1. The Vicar of ...., Goldsmith's novel on austerity
2. Early domestic computer, .... 64
3. Leg coverings, also called nylons
4. Iconic film studios in Rome
5. Another name for the Prime Minister of Ireland
6. A fighting sport
7. Closing statement of a book
8. Where the ocean meets the land
9. First novel written on a typewriter
10. Dental replacements discovered in Etruria 750 BCE
11. Superior to a navy captain, below a rear admiral
12. Battlestar ...., popular science fiction series
13. Your head won't stay wet after you use this
14. Traditional children's song of English origin
15. First writing systems in this ancient period
16. Traders, storekeepers, business dealers
17. Bullock won an Oscar for this feel good movie
18. Strings of Italian pasta, with Bolognese sauce
19. Stage of development before birth or hatching
20. Very dangerous dog's parasite
21. Impasse




Puzzle 5

1. Lavish and luxurious
2. Communist Manifesto rally: “.... of the world, unite”
3. Ringo Starr's actual birth name: Richard ....
4. To attack and injure someone
5. Red sauce made of tomatoes, used on foods
6. Nazi secret police force founded by Hermann Göring
7. Title of the king of France's eldest son
8. Italian tire makers, with red and yellow logo
9. Plant that eat insects, Venus ....
10. Charge incurred on a business trip
11. Grandstand, the .... area facing the circus center
12. King of the gods in Roman mythology
13. Calligraphy is an elegant way of ....
14. These glands produce a baby's first meal
15. They speak louder than words
16. Female patron of young girls and chastity
17. Abrahamic monotheistic religion; the Quran
18. Clara ...., Mussolini's mistress, died by his side
19. To be given a prize

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Group 197




Puzzle 1

1. Old fashioned childish speak for a horse
2. Dave ...., actor, younger brother of James
3. .... & Lacey, 80s TV detective show
4. Central French dept, capital is Nevers
5. Holds baby at Brit Milah ceremony
6. .... Aba, third King of Hungary from 1041 to 1044
7. Walt .... was scared of mice
8. Neo, from The Matrix
9. Song by Duran Duran: .... Like the Wolf
10. While George Harrison's .... gently weeps
11. Unlawful killing of another human
12. Coffee-flavored liqueur
13. .... Fox was the nickname given to Erwin Rommel
14. Winter sport, not snowboarding
15. Old-fashioned term for the flu
16. French for "cake"
17. To get something with effort




Puzzle 2

1. Made witty remarks
2. Creature with the head of an eagle, body of a lion
3. Pipe cleaner
4. Modifies slightly
5. Insulin device from Eli Lilly
6. Country in North Africa, capital is Rabat
7. Placed on the side by the axis, stem
8. Appliance with slots to cook bread
9. Follicle cleansing liquid
10. Birth surname of Pope John Paul II
11. 90s Star Trek TV series, NASA space program
12. Netted holes on a pool table
13. Long, thin with elongated jaws and sharp teeth
14. Willpower and commitment
15. To turn a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
16. With Gibson, developed industrial polyethylene
17. It cannot change its spots
18. Suitable arrangement of parts, colors or sounds
19. The .... of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
20. Interpretation, rendition, account
21. Louis ...., 1st pilot to cross the English Channel
22. It holds the guts
23. Cotton-like, fluffy clouds
24. Paris ...., the city's government, 1789 to 1795
25. Homer's two major epic poems: The Iliad and The ....




Puzzle 3

1. Savage staple grown in paddy fields
2. Novel and film about an orphaned fawn, The ....
3. Epic poetry muse, musical instrument at circus
4. The .... starred Eva Gabor as Miss Bianca
5. A rough figure or estimate
6. Cleric of secular institution, prison or hospital
7. .... biking, extreme sport performed in nature
8. Waifish British supermodel and Rimmel London face
9. Berlin Hauptbahnhof is a famous German .... station
10. It never did anyone any good
11. Those who enter to conquest or plunder
12. Long sled made of wood slats
13. Small, drop-shaped edible seeds of a cone tree
14. Ocean divides the Americas from Europe
15. Hot tubs
16. Method called pot roasting when using meats
17. Nocturnal arachnid, elongated body and a stinger
18. A small cooking measurement, not a table
19. Document giving permission to leave a country
20. The meaning of the Spanish word ‘negativo'”




Puzzle 4

1. Long drinking vessel measured in imperial amounts
2. Most populous city in Victoria, Australia
3. “scared the living .... out of…”
4. Amiable and warm
5. Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Ryan's Daughter
6. Lacking refinement or artistic or literary culture
7. Swedish tennis player with underwear empire
8. Common European sword with cruciform hilt
9. Yes, this is the study of bird's nests
10. Wassily ...., Russian abstract artist
11. First-class, bonny, superb, outstanding
12. Oceans are filled with this type of liquid body
13. Lotion protects against ultra violet rays
14. Tibetan Buddhist Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th ....
15. Bearing is the .... between two objects
16. Eldest of the Brontë sisters
17. Christian ...., shoe designer known for red soles
18. Albert Einstein was a world-known ....
19. NASA rover that is conducting a mission on Mars
20. Martha's backing singers
21. Some suggest not to ask too many of these
22. First to make mainland America landfall in 1497
23. Large garrison town in Lower Saxony, NW Germany
24. Spiny .... are poisonous and ray-finned
25. Mimicry of someone or something
26. Archipelago that served as Darwin's lab
27. Buckwheat-based bread from Slovenia




Puzzle 5

1. Graphic novels
2. Claim that someone has done something wrong
3. Bridal ...., a gift-giving party for the bride-to-be
4. Written record of job history, used to apply
5. Countries bordering on the Dead Sea: Israel and ....
6. .... 5, ESA's launch rocket for satellites
7. To make wet with large drops of water
8. .... sulfate, white crystals used in paint pigments
9. Spanish city, three cultures: Christian, Arab, Jew
10. Gianni ...., Italy's "golden boy", 1960s and 1970s
11. .... Shepherd, Taxi Driver actress once dated Elvis
12. To agree upon, close out an account
13. The floor of a fireplace
14. Olde English pub or inn
15. Time you are supposed to come home
16. The Sahara is one of them
17. Carpal .... syndrome is in the hand and wrist
18. Colombia claims to grow some of the best
19. Public house
20. Reflexive pronoun, first person singular
21. Medical personnel wear them
22. Shape-shifting water horse from Scottish mythology
23. A small church
24. Still life fruit painted by Cézanne
25. .... belly is a storage box under a wagon in circus
26. Boga is known as piapara in ....
27. Sony brand of smartphones and tablets from 2012

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Group 198




Puzzle 1

1. Like a pigeon, able to find its safe place again
2. Wispy high-altitude clouds
3. Created from two different breeds or species
4. A Russian ruble is made up of 100 ....
5. To hear more than you want to hear: get an ....
6. Knitted woolen hat like a skullcap
7. Line showing atmospheric pressure on a map
8. Badger-like yokai from Japanese mythology
9. Piercing, typically in the center of the lower lip
10. Descendant of Muhammad through daughter Fatima
11. Greeks and Romans lounged and dined while on them
12. Churchill's ...., WWII propaganda made in Canada
13. Italian county with no coastline or country border
14. Water ...., flowers painted by Monet
15. Look for
16. The opposite of male
17. Percussion instrument, produces sound when shaken
18. Predominant language of the Dead Sea Scrolls
19. FC .... Munich, successful Bavarian football club
20. Someone who annoys others by persistent criticism
21. Michel...., Sistine Chapel painter
22. Winning country in the Hundred Years' War
23. Another name for a violin
24. Burning the .... at both ends
25. Small, docile hound with a great sense of smell
26. Codified the three laws of robotics
27. The power of recalling what has been learned
28. The Fourth .... or Power, today "the press"
29. Rick ...., sang Never Gonna Give You Up
30. Two businesses coming together as one
31. Entertained
32. Kidney-shaped drupe; tasty nut treat
33. to cause to stop sleeping




Puzzle 2

1. Captain ....; shield-wielding comic book character
2. A popular brand of hot tubs
3. French phrase meaning chic or “in fashion”
4. Low-cost Spanish airline, merged with ClickAir
5. .... To War, first of Capra's propaganda films
6. .... Echeverría, Argentine writer, cultural promoter
7. Study of medical remedies
8. Upbeat hit for Madonna in 1989
9. Inhale and exhale
10. Woman with a ...., Monet's sun umbrella
11. Province in western China famous for food
12. Nottingham official, Robin Hood´s nemesis
13. The Torah is the book of this religion
14. Bruce Springsteen's support, the .... Band
15. Sweet roulade, Christmas dessert looks like wood
16. The Dalmatian is known for its .... coat
17. Terror of Asians, Genghis Khan's people
18. Xavi and ...., Barça and Spain soccer duo
19. To finally find a wanted person
20. Where hockey games are played




Puzzle 3

1. Indoor greenery
2. Unstable due to weight distribution up high
3. Hotel chain owners of Residence Inn and Courtyard
4. Martha's ...., vacation place of the Kennedys
5. Relating to a line of rulers
6. Device to whip up an omelet's raw ingredients
7. Weighed up the pros and cons of two or more items
8. Lothar ...., captain of 1990 German WC winning team
9. Moon of Saturn identified by its chaotic rotation
10. Field focuses on mummies
11. Relating to the season after summer
12. The legislative capital of South Africa
13. Private path connecting the street to a house
14. Song recorded by the Beatles
15. A rooster not yet one year old
16. Emotions through different elements, .... art
17. Plan of procedure, series of planned events
18. Women's undergarments
19. The Lady from ...., movie with Rita Hayworth
20. White wine and carbonated water chilled drink
21. Liqueur cream dessert from Tudor times
22. Spanish dance with clapping and stamping
23. Aker, .... earth god of the horizon
24. American singer who sang Cornflake Girl
25. These blood vessels carry blood away from heart
26. Every horse thinks its own pack ....
27. Father of the theory of relativity
28. Tooth .... is used to make your smile paler




Puzzle 4

1. She wrote a best-seller called Longitude
2. Combative couples fight like these animals
3. Term for when all the children have moved out
4. Raining, but not heavily
5. Study of the origins of words
6. Persuades someone not to do something
7. Arcade game with flying saucers and boulders
8. Business partner, colleague; comrade
9. No syllable in the last line of a verse
10. ....: The Golden Age, sequel to the 1998 film
11. Study of origins of races or peoples
12. Direct competitor of Atari 2600 in the late 1970s
13. UK housebuilders who sound like an exotic fruit
14. Take .... Me, Abba song
15. Strong item to keep someone out
16. Counterattack with numerical advantage
17. Firefighter 101 spotted helper
18. Woodwind instrument invented by a Belgian designer
19. He/she is worth twenty pressed men
20. Violet-blue gem named after an African country
21. Founder of Friars Preachers, patron of astronomers
22. Swiss mountain, second-highest in the Alps
23. Has more money
24. The study of space and the universe
25. To sew a design on a piece of cloth
26. Bottom round cut cooked in crock pot
27. .... Goya, Spanish Romantic painter
28. A musician .... a guitar
29. .... Desert; Great Basin arid ecoregion
30. Conflagration such as visited on Dresden in 1945
31. A close business partner or colleague




Puzzle 5

1. Busiest time of day for traveling
2. A medical procedure with no physical discomfort
3. University known for its proximity to Silicon Valley
4. Big orange Halloween fruits
5. Halting, coming to a standstill
6. German sweet roll filled with Powidl jam
7. Cartoons are .... movies or shows
8. British actor who played Kenobi in Star Wars
9. Violet quartz, used as decoration or jewelry
10. Related to the father and/or mother
11. Miracle of ...., servant art by Tintoretto
12. Anything pertaining to the bones
13. Sudden attack into hostile territory
14. Financial institute's promise, 7th century China
15. It is ill .... against the stream
16. Found in light-bulb filaments, metal with symbol W
17. The .... hydroid is in the family of fire corals

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Group 199




Puzzle 1

1. Well-preserved ancient animal or plant remains
2. Michael ....; plays obnoxious ghost in Beetlejuice
3. Cast an evil spell on
4. I Am ...., Will Smith post-apocalyptic movie
5. Focused rehearsal
6. Beatles-inspired haircut, like a floor cleaner
7. Kansas City .... play at Arrowhead Stadium
8. Muhammad's daughter's lineage title
9. Goat Simulator is a popular third-.... video game
10. .... Sport, square chocolate blocks
11. Someone who plays tricks or deceives others
12. Range of Huawei smartphones, launched in 2010
13. Small, not big
14. .... wheel boat, Mississippi boat from Rome
15. Home is a 2015 film where .... come to Earth
16. Protects the front and back of a car
17. Hard, glossy substance applied to ceramics
18. Area in a yard for growing fruits and vegetables
19. National dish of Barbados: cou cou and .... fish
20. Historical name for Indian soldiers
21. Playboy's founder, notorious bachelor
22. Gets a coin for each soul he brings to Hades
23. Anatomical term for womb




Puzzle 2

1. Nickelodeon show about toddlers
2. Antonym of wealth
3. Shorten a book; anagram of brigade
4. .... acropora coral forms large plates
5. Persian hard candy
6. The L in YSL, French fashion house
7. Willem ...., Dutch navigator discovered Spitsbergen
8. Your mother and father
9. Small vessel moved with oars
10. .... in Arles, Van Gogh's sleeping quarters
11. To bring together, attach
12. Appliance that can be found in a kitchen
13. Soybeans in the pod, steamed and salted
14. Wailing woman's spirit heard when someone dies
15. Closest planet to the sun
16. Anything relating to the skull
17. Jewish patriarch asked to sacrifice his son




Puzzle 3

1. Notre Dame .... Irish are from Notre Dame, IN
2. Separated part of a road for pedal cycles
3. Extramarital sex, often grounds for a divorce
4. Hägar the ...., Viking comic strip character
5. Periodic table of ...., Mendeleev's creation
6. Countries fighting over Kashmir: India and ....
7. Teacher of Sunnah, title for Pirs
8. Moved clumsily
9. .... DiCaprio, star of Titanic and The Great Gatsby
10. William Osler is known as the Father of Modern ....
11. Scottish screeching wind instrument
12. The capital of Norfolk Island
13. Bald
14. Islamabad is the capital of this country
15. Forming or entertaining thoughts or images
16. Periodic table of ....
17. German artillery cannon, such as Big Bertha




Puzzle 4

1. 90210 Star
2. Apple's video media viewer
3. Topple a regime or ruler
4. Reverend ...., or Father; Abouna, Pappas
5. .... Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, British Army
6. Austrian Formula 1 champion on three occasions
7. Small nut with two halves of shell; green color
8. Dante ...., writer who gave us the Divine Comedy
9. .... snapping turtle is one of the heaviest
10. Bakeware, e.g. casserole dishes
11. Resistance fighters causing deliberate destruction
12. Instruments, cylindrical tube of wood or metal
13. Chairs, tables, bed frames, bookcases
14. Italian starter comprising meats and cheeses
15. .... Le Pen, Marine's father and French FN head
16. Time when someone is a kid; usually a memory
17. Surname of Jedi Knight to defeat Darth Vader
18. Loathsome, extremely unpleasant
19. Someone who travels from place to place to work




Puzzle 5

1. Singer, I Kissed a Girl
2. Remarkable, often unexplained occurrences
3. Hand-held filming device
4. A flat flexible case for carrying papers or books
5. Chaplin is hungry, cops think he is pickpocket
6. Italian city "of two seas", capital of Calabria
7. Final century of the second millennium
8. Cofounder of Microsoft with Allen
9. US music genre; Irish, Scottish and English roots
10. Professional wine taster and steward
11. Insect with two sets of wings, beautiful colors
12. Kidnapping
13. Peaceful people
14. .... Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer
15. Acerbic, snarky, biting, pungent, satiric
16. Another name for spring onions
17. Astronomical instrument from Hellenistic world

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Group 200




Puzzle 1

1. Record company founded by Berry Gordy Jr.
2. India ruler slain by her own bodyguards: Indira ....
3. .... Rowe; married Michael Jackson in 1996
4. Governor of the Bastille when it was stormed
5. A combustable petroleum distillate used as fuel
6. Fruit with a yellow peel that grows on trees
7. To apply oil to, usually in a rite
8. Cartoon hero from Gotham City
9. .... Terrier is known for markings and a short nose
10. Kid responsible for baseball equipment
11. A .... in time saves nine
12. Wall ...., Douglas shines as Gordon Gecko
13. Water spirit misleading travellers to drown
14. M. C. ...., optical illusion artist
15. Type of paper invented in Sui Dynasty China
16. To reach your destination




Puzzle 2

1. Doris .... on Everybody Loves Raymond
2. Alexander's .... Band, early hit for Irving Berlin
3. Record of past significant events
4. Father of Isaac in the Old Testament
5. Famous cave paintings in southwestern France
6. They play the shawm
7. To praise or idolize
8. Czar, sovereign, king, sultan
9. Large goblet used for wine drinking
10. Areas below your shoulders; they produce sweat
11. Unyielding attitude or opinion
12. Portuguese wine named after an island
13. Unit of measurement; 10,000 square meters
14. Spike the .... always was on Jerry's side
15. Small explosive usually thrown by hand
16. To launch a book
17. .... come back to life after they die
18. Ali Baba and the forty ....
19. Electrics hub for the house
20. Louis ...., luxury brand well-known for handbags
21. The state of being overweight
22. A .... bat is known for sucking blood




Puzzle 3

1. Employer's token for services rendered
2. Typical weather conditions after the summer
3. Pulsating light, can affect epileptics
4. The Bay Bridge is shown in this NBA team's logo
5. The Royal Academy of Arts' first president (1768)
6. What nutritionists study; dietetics
7. Cavity from which a hair grows
8. Formal dress
9. Utensil that keeps solid pieces and not liquid
10. US mountain home to presidential faces
11. Wake not a .... lion
12. Glossy black gemstone
13. Rita ...., US actress, 1940s icon
14. Grabbing, capturing
15. Greek god of the sea
16. Arachnid with large pincers and stinging tail
17. Comic book hero born on Krypton and sent to Earth
18. A large pile of grass; used in farms
19. Main character of Homer's The Iliad
20. Alpine Winter Olympics resort, home of Cresta Run
21. 90s song and dance from Los Del Rio
22. These numbers were created in China during 2nd C
23. Kind of food used in snacks and hors d'oeuvres
24. Catholic saints, .... of Antioch and .... of Loyola




Puzzle 4

1. Outfield area behind 3rd base and short stop
2. Can be pinched or taken by thieves
3. Returning something to its former glory
4. Early Italian rulers who lost control to Romans
5. Dish that is cooked in an oven; green bean ....
6. A sort of derivation of a clarinet
7. Large seabirds with narrow wings
8. .... Deneuve, French actress and cinema icon
9. Strict observance of formalities
10. National airline of Germany
11. Area in a yard for planting
12. ...., teeny weeny, yellow polka-dot bikini
13. Generic, global
14. Forest site of historic Germans vs. Romans battle
15. Steven ...., US director of E.T.
16. Can be a chamber, a symphony or a philharmonic one
17. During the Holy Week it is called Spy .... in Ireland
18. Minor bodies without atmosphere that orbit the Sun




Puzzle 5

1. Something covered, concealed, secreted
2. Willy Wonka character, .... Salt
3. US writer played on film by Philip Seymour Hoffman
4. First Indian Nobel Lit laureate, Rabindranath ....
5. Nickname for flash (and shiny) car wheels
6. Digging tools used by children on beaches
7. Edward ...., US realist painter and printmaker
8. Italian chestnut flour
9. Mao ...., founder of Chinese Communist Party
10. Gym ...., half pants used for exercise
11. A computer user does this seven times a minute
12. Roland ...., French fighter pilot of WWI
13. Keanu ...., main actor of The Matrix movies
14. Viva ...., 1952 biopic of Mexican revolutionary
15. Over, athwart, through
16. .... skating, ice dancing; individual and pairs
17. Secretion in the mouth, helps digestion
18. Left one's country for political reasons
19. Off the .... track, destination for adventurers
20. Mount ...., highest peak in the Caucasus
21. The .... Spaniel is known for its luxurious coat
22. Once known as Saul, patron of missionaries
23. Condiments, seasoning and herbs