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Group 241




Puzzle 1

1. Under ...., sports clothing company
2. Harry ...., title character of a series by JK Rowling
3. Islamic mysticism
4. Slightly louder than a whisper
5. Cured Italian meat, popular cold cut
6. Waterway larger than a brook, smaller than a river
7. Elinor ...., economics Nobel Prize winner
8. French for goat and goat's cheese
9. Currency of the Czech Republic
10. Sweet hummable musical arrangement
11. You put this on dogs and horses
12. San Jose (Calif.) professional hockey team
13. “A problem shared is a problem ....”
14. Book of instructions
15. Mark Antony's wife
16. Very energetic person




Puzzle 2

1. States, gets the meaning across
2. Cunningly outwitting
3. First transatlantic solo flyer, Charles ...., Jr.
4. Estadio Olímpico Joao ...., Rio de Janeiro
5. Italian opera composer of Lucia di Lammermoor
6. Describes a petite nose turned up at the tip
7. Mary ....; she saw Christ after his Resurrection
8. Wooden puppet who lied a lot
9. Stages in from birth to death
10. Usually, mammals give birth to ....
11. Avocado-based dip
12. UK 1983 robbery, gold bullion remains unrecovered
13. Attracted to all people regardless of their gender
14. Harmless, inoffensive
15. Outlaw turned folk hero Ned Kelly's country
16. Calculated
17. The place behind the performance area in a play
18. Canadian comedian, Uncle Buck, Space Balls
19. Seaside toy




Puzzle 3

1. Londoner who speaks rhyming slang
2. Met with, colluded
3. Copland piece, .... for the Common Man
4. Small ax with short handle, tomahawk
5. .... Parts, biographical comedy about Howard Stern
6. KFC's mascot, .... Sanders
7. Jewish holiday also known as Feast of Weeks
8. Half-goat half-horse creature with one horn
9. Effeminate
10. Modus ...., way of living
11. .... Jordan, legendary US basketball player
12. Asserted that something belongs to you
13. Stieg ...., crimewriter of the Millennium trilogy
14. Terminator...., US film from 2015
15. Gray and white aquatic bird that lives by the ocean
16. Prehistoric cave paintings found in France
17. The eighth Avatar of the god Vishnu
18. Wheel guards on a car or bike to prevent splashing
19. Space in front of your plane seat
20. Popular smoking product is illegal in Bhutan
21. The period for gathering crops
22. Swedish band that recorded "Listen to Your Heart"
23. Science that studies rocks
24. Congo's National park with mountain gorillas
25. To free someone from blame, forgive
26. To attack with explosives, repeatedly




Puzzle 4

1. Actor refused his Oscar for The Godfather in 1973
2. Ship vacation with periodic stops
3. A line that separates two nations or states
4. Jane Porter in The Legend of Tarzan 2016
5. Notre-Dame has a famous rose one
6. The "e" in e =mc2 as posited by Einstein
7. Australian city known for its "Coathanger" bridge
8. Miss ...., Agatha Christie's spinster detective
9. Soft corals that look like feather pens
10. Car that pulls a train
11. Author of "And Then There Were None": .... Christie
12. Cross between a doughnut and a croissant
13. Decorative wheel cover on a car
14. Joseph ...., British inventor of reinforced concrete
15. Endures without yielding or bears patiently
16. Extensive territory ruled by one group or person
17. Salt and ....; condiments found on restaurant tables
18. Second book of the Old Testament
19. Fred Flintstone's best friend, Barney
20. To penetrate or enter unexpectedly or violently




Puzzle 5

1. American Idol host, Ryan ....
2. A shed or other external storage building
3. In the open air
4. A queen's daughter
5. Flat bread used to wrap tacos
6. Another name for the Holy Grail
7. Bottle gourd with pale green skin and white flesh
8. Blenniidae and Clinidae fishes, scaled or scaleless
9. Look inwards and study oneself in this field
10. Milan's international airport, with the code MXP
11. Waterproof overshoes
12. Mexican flat bread used to make tacos
13. The official national sport of Cuba
14. Literary festival
15. Guerlain famous perfume, inspired by Mumtaz Mahal
16. Cabinet or shelves for storing bound publications
17. Tight-lipped, disinclined to talk
18. Michelle ...., Frankie and Johnny star
19. Term for a papal election
20. It would take a tiny jockey to ride one
21. Place with no light used to develop photographs
22. Eating disorder involving loss of appetite
23. The queen's daughter
24. Butch Cassidy and the .... Kid, famous duo
25. Important study centered on viruses
26. Botswana delta, popular with safari tourists
27. Area between the Earth and the sun

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Group 242




Puzzle 1

1. Black-and-white bird, one for sorrow
2. Capital and largest city of Germany
3. Illness that did in George Harrison of the Beatles
4. Songs rarely heard in U.S. long after Christmas
5. Device to remove dirt particles
6. .... Sports Stadium, Ghana's largest, Baba Yara
7. Ferdinand and Imelda, Filipino dictators
8. Ancient Russian town on Lake Nero, in Yaroslavl
9. Home to ancient Senegal site and holy sites
10. A long car for carrying the dead to funerals
11. Large blunt sewing needle
12. Groups of stars and matter found in the universe
13. Grand ...., large covered market in Istanbul
14. French port where the country's navy was scuttled
15. Tropical yellow fruit with black seeds in center
16. Native American peoples like Cochise and Geronimo
17. To outline, trace, delineate, silhouette
18. .... Takei plays Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek
19. It means "dawn" in Spanish
20. United ...., birth country of Brad Pitt
21. Relating to or situated near or on the back
22. Believer in a god or gods
23. Scribe of the written work




Puzzle 2

1. They mark the outer boundaries of a football field
2. Imprisonment
3. Iron carbide found in most steels
4. Statue of Athena that protected Troy
5. Spanish cocktail, Calimocho, Rioja Libre
6. Buddhist female lay renunciant in Myanmar
7. Successful female Swedish golfer, Annika ....
8. Festival marking the beginning of Lent in Italy
9. Famous US tractor company
10. Pan's ...., dark fantasy about the Spanish Civil War
11. Person who helps treat mental or emotional problems
12. Much sought after Last Supper's goblet
13. Similar to an Embassy, but not in a capital
14. Lightweight hand-held air wafting devices
15. Antonym of the end
16. North African city with bustling Djemaa el-Fna
17. Medical term for the inflammation of veins
18. Last name of TV'S Shameless family
19. Non-compliant, opposing; reluctant
20. Process that affects structure of Earth's crust
21. Venustraphobia is fear of .... women




Puzzle 3

1. Uncovered, made visible
2. Robert E. Lee is celebrated in this southern state
3. Soppy, tearful
4. Capital of China's Jiangsu province on the Yangtze
5. Roger ...., Swiss genius on the court
6. Yuri, Lara love story filmed in Spain, Doctor ....
7. Lightest solid created
8. Hungarian stew; assortment of different things
9. Dustin ...., Rain Man
10. Head with prolongation in various animals, weevil
11. Author of Britain's most famous spy
12. Franco's former royal palace, near Madrid
13. Late night host who loves car, distinct chin
14. Language that has 18 vowel phenomenons




Puzzle 4

1. Murder She Wrote actress Angela ....
2. Flowing wet earth caused by heavy rain
3. Syrupy fruit preserves
4. Fast powerful stroke in ice hockey
5. Coating food with crumbs, flour or seasoning
6. Exhibition held every two years such as in Venice
7. .... slice, uncooked, layered brownie
8. Food coating from crumbs, flour or seasoning
9. Sacred Hindu language
10. Number with 12 zeros
11. Valley of ...., Luxor's ancient royal burial site
12. Motoring route that must be paid for
13. Don't .... Ice is a children's game for ages 3 and up
14. Process of administering calming drugs
15. In this movie Al Pacino plays a drug dealer
16. Gothic Revival cathedral in Madrid
17. Players don't move the round object with their feet
18. Thought expressed with symbolic fictional figures




Puzzle 5

1. Well-mannered
2. Warmly, dearly
3. Spherical Christmas tree ornament
4. Rowan Atkinson's naive and mute alter ego
5. Describes foaming milk on coffee
6. Pick something
7. Headgear used to control a horse attached to reins
8. Atlanta .... play at SunTrust Park
9. Bluish gemstone aka cordierite
10. Warcraft villain, ...., played by Daniel Wu
11. Decryption code
12. Mutiny on the ...., where Bligh got his comeuppance
13. Penguin species with loud trumpeting call
14. W. G. ...., wrote Austerlitz novel
15. A bee performs a .... dance to show where food is
16. .... and Clyde, US criminal couple from the 1930s
17. Male first name; Middle Eastern kingdom
18. .... Richards, makers of kettles and irons
19. Richard Strauss' tone poem, Also .... Zarathustra
20. Janggi, .... chess, is a board game from Korea
21. Direct collision with the front of another vehicle
22. Box that is lowered six feet into ground
23. .... Elvis, Warhol painting of three
24. Situation marked by errors or confusion, muddle
25. Salt ...., part of a cruet set
26. Christian title can be held by women
27. Tropical fruit, orange inside, black round seeds

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Group 243




Puzzle 1

1. George Washington ...., inventor who loved peanuts
2. Arm joints left off the table in polite circles
3. English layered dessert of cake, jelly, custard
4. Spanish dance and a short sleeveless jacket
5. Bigger than double
6. .... over; fainted, fell down
7. Help yourself to this meal
8. Large lake on the border of Estonia and Russia
9. .... Goose, 1964 WWII romantic comedy, codename
10. A superhero power: to .... to another dimension
11. A knight's personal assistant
12. Astronomical measurement from parallax and second
13. Berber .... are always traveling
14. .... Krabs is SpongeBob's boss
15. Region where Westminster Abbey is located
16. Thick tissues that link muscles to bones
17. Catch butterflies blown from an elephant's trunk
18. It means "dove" in Spanish
19. .... tang are popular bright fish
20. Grouchy or ill-natured
21. US desert state that is home to Area 51
22. In boxing, to hug an opponent to avoid blows
23. More saturated
24. Mushroom that sounds like seafood
25. Ian ...., Atonement's author
26. Ottoman sultan's highly decorative robe




Puzzle 2

1. What magicians do with a deck
2. Cargoes sent by sea
3. High class and selective, only for a certain few
4. The birth name of Cambodian dictator Pol Pot
5. A sequel to a sequel; third film in a series
6. Dome ...., gold-roofed shrine in Jerusalem
7. Severe storm with categories 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
8. Bridge on the ...., war movie with Alec Guinness
9. The name for the three-banded Italian flag
10. Second biggest selling video game (as of 2017)
11. Flat dough pocket eaten with Indian meals
12. Shopping by post
13. German term meaning spirit of the age
14. Swimming stroke a canine uses
15. If you have this you giggle longest
16. Giant 'evil' crater in Siberian forest
17. HTML: .... Markup Language




Puzzle 3

1. Paid money to finance a project or trip
2. Magical man with a pointy hat
3. Glider-builder and pioneer of aerodynamics
4. Banquets, vast multi-course meals
5. Jennifer ...., 13 Going on 30 actress
6. Stroked (e.g. a dog or a cat)
7. My Sister's .... by Jodi Picoult
8. Metal vessel for boiling water for beverages
9. A swing and a miss on a perfect baseball pitch
10. Rajiv .... International Cricket Stadium
11. Indian dagger, fist blade
12. Severe gluten intolerance, .... disease
13. What Euphrosyne, Aglaea and Thalia were
14. 1994 short film about a Diana Ross fan with a crush
15. Elusive Scottish lake monster's nickname
16. Women to be married
17. Felines love this herb
18. Capital and largest city of Cuba
19. French term for thick sauce made from fruit
20. Lord Peter ...., detective of Dorothy Sayers' novels
21. Group of related people, sometimes in one household
22. Well-mannered, courteous, civilized
23. Saudi ...., Middle East country with no rivers
24. Charles ...., King of the Franks
25. Upholstered bench, couch, sofa
26. Strip for landing airplanes on
27. Country where the dance called Hasapiko is popular
28. Band player
29. Concert...., Amsterdam opera house
30. Formed, delineated
31. Music style in no key, sounds controversial




Puzzle 4

1. They are formally entered as candidates for awards
2. Thin unleavened cornbread from Central America
3. Detroit .... played at Joe Louis Arena
4. Chemical element with the symbol N
5. Sea ...., edible marine creature aka bêche-de-mer
6. Lord Protector of the Commonwealth
7. Sounding of notes of a chord in rapid succession
8. Surroundings
9. El ...., Maya step pyramid at Chichen Itza
10. That's how the cookie ....
11. Flat plastic discs, such as in Snakes and Ladders
12. Heavenly virtue of self-discipline by reason
13. Beavis' pyromaniac friend
14. Educational entertainment company, kid's game
15. Strips of cloth for healing sprains
16. The .... of the Sierra Madre, US film from late 1940s
17. Box for holding pet piscines
18. Squat, very hot chili pepper from green to orange
19. Fear or dislike of bisexuality or bisexuals




Puzzle 5

1. A close-fitting garment of neoprene
2. Motherland, nation
3. Finger or thumb protector for sewers
4. Hand covers, especially for babies
5. Light rain
6. Home to Texas Tech University
7. Layered pastry popular in Austria
8. Largest moon of the planet Uranus
9. Developed the 1st blood transfusion service
10. Competition
11. Goblin who lures children to the land of the dead
12. .... Arnault, French billionaire
13. Oldest living former French president, 1970s
14. Great musician or composer
15. Small power source with positive and negative ends
16. Müller-...., white grape created by Swiss botanist
17. Making clay items in a wheel and firing them
18. The way one who gives twice does it
19. Warmest; with the highest temperatures
20. Nancy Drew's genre
21. Another word for tournament or competition
22. Large North American brown bear
23. Dog made a vocal and hostile sound
24. Robin Williams film about supernatural board game
25. .... chronology, backwards time in story
26. This Croydon singer's real name is Michael Omari
27. Tidal wave caused by an earthquake
28. Capital of Thailand
29. Repurpose items, creating more value

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Group 244




Puzzle 1

1. Authorize medical treatment
2. Legally binds or compels
3. Bravo Scripted Drama
4. Map of the constellations of the night sky
5. Not-guilty verdict, exoneration
6. Sega's sixth generation video game console
7. Staple food of Central Asian herders
8. Hermann ...., creator of the inkblot test
9. Von Trier's comedy film from 1998
10. Discovery channel's annual deep sea event
11. Controlling a situation by taking action, being ....
12. Cover for a light
13. Outside the allowable area
14. A female horse chiefly used for reproduction
15. The world's constructed auxiliary language
16. Ancient rock temples in southern Egypt
17. Natalie .... had a hit song called "Torn"
18. Touristy viewing wheel by the River Thames
19. Financial situations of regions
20. Light in a concentrated line
21. Nationality of long-distance runner Gebreselassie
22. Roundabouts for luggage
23. Musical instrument of bellows and keyboard




Puzzle 2

1. Said of someone who is very clumsy: “all ....”
2. Madame Emma ...., adulterous wife in Flaubert's book
3. A deep valley with water running through it
4. Eric Knight's novel about a collie: “.... Come Home”
5. Domestic cattle, bison, buffalo, yak and antelope
6. Fruit used to make spaghetti sauce
7. River horses, semiaquatic mammals from Africa
8. .... gingerbread, named after former Polish capital
9. A folding case used to carry money
10. Members of secret society organized into lodges
11. Crouching Tiger, Hidden ...., film by Ang Lee
12. Dam on the Zambezi shared by Zambia and Zimbabwe
13. Frida Kahlo's husband, Diego ....
14. Toy weapon with a cork down the barrel
15. French wine named for blackbird
16. Plump and round
17. Herbal garden also known as apothecaries' garden
18. Largest Bavarian city, home to Bayern's soccer team
19. A place for the sale of goods, store
20. A small leather case used to carry money in
21. Carl Orff's O Fortuna cantata, Carmina ....
22. Submerged




Puzzle 3

1. A teacher or a guide in a museum
2. Distressing experience
3. .... Redford, actor, director, producer
4. .... Darko, cult sci-fi movie with Jake Gyllenhaal
5. Honest and upstanding
6. .... del Fuego, archipelago of South America
7. Ma ...., blues singer, the “mother of the blues”
8. Name of the cartoon Martian voiced by Mel Blanc
9. “As mad as a ....”, a reference from Lewis Carroll
10. Ingrid Bergmann and Goldie Hawn film, .... Flower
11. Geoff Love's adopted name for music for mountains
12. Fat-burning hormone found in muscle cells
13. Swift-...., a comet that last visited in 1992
14. French fashion house of Marcel, with Femme perfume
15. Killing the .... lion, the first labor of Heracles
16. Surname of mailman Cliff in Cheers
17. Amount, bulk, mass; degree of loudness
18. Another name for the European bison
19. .... Île, historic center of Strasbourg
20. .... Jankovic, former Serbian no. 1 tennis player
21. Colour of autumn leaves before they turn red/brown
22. To tighten muscles
23. Some call it "plátano" in Spanish
24. Harry Potter's Dursley family lives at 4 .... Drive
25. Musée ...., French art museum in railway station
26. Kingdom between Norway and Finland
27. Dig a corpse out of the ground
28. The gentle .... of rain on a rooftop
29. Tires for emergencies
30. .... admirer, potential clandestine partner




Puzzle 4

1. Beating, like a heart
2. You shouldn't do this to a book by it's cover
3. Financial supporters
4. Usually a military or police school
5. Hans ...., German writer of Alone in Berlin
6. Scholarly Jewish comedian
7. Bound, obligated, closely related
8. Made first solo non-stop transworld balloon flight
9. Christ the Redeemer statue overlooks Rio de ....
10. Raising from birth
11. Argo producer, George ....
12. Answered
13. .... chicken wings and blue cheese dip
14. Popular nickname for Ireland: the .... Isle
15. First of three Abrahamic religions
16. End-of-line railway station, main Rome rail hub
17. Easy to talk to, friendly, pleasant to approach
18. FC Barcelona's stadium, with large trophy room
19. Troy ...., an actor in The Simpsons




Puzzle 5

1. Michael Jackson's hit
2. Specific food desires women experience when pregnant
3. Alaskan Dogsled race
4. Criminal wrongdoings
5. Serer priestly class, ministers of religious cult
6. "All over bar the ...."
7. Country in Marvel comics, capital Doomstadt
8. Alan ...., Brit inventor of stereophonic sound
9. .... Pessoa, Portuguese poet who used heteronyms
10. Jefferson ...., Washington monument to ex-president
11. The buttons that you press on a games console
12. Celebration headwear
13. Unit of hydrostatic pressure
14. Screaming
15. Before the twelfth
16. US national park, a world Heritage Site since 1984
17. Turn signals, informally
18. Filling a turkey with chestnuts and breadcrumbs
19. Matt, creator of The Simpsons
20. Spherical float found in a toilet's cistern
21. Put money into a project
22. Persian and Angora cats have .... (lengthy fur)
23. Cooked on a slow boil
24. .... in Paradise features in the 50s musical Kismet
25. Large outbreak of disease
26. Jack the Ripper's true one was never known
27. Resting position with lower legs on the ground
28. Power tool without a flex
29. Bay ...., bight at north of NZ's North Island

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Group 245




Puzzle 1

1. Yellow singing bird
2. Dipped in liquid
3. She drives off a cliff with Louise
4. Rubber contraceptive first described by Fallopius
5. London River known as “Old Father”
6. Y in the phonetic alphabet
7. ....-free food excludes wheat and other grains
8. Disease often transmitted via dog bites
9. Acoustic instrument played by ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus
10. Online accommodation marketplace; inflatable hotel
11. Marie-Antoine ...., French pastry chef to royalty
12. King ....VII Sea, Southern Ocean stretch
13. Bread ...., extract from the stomach in Operation
14. Syringa flowers that lend name to light purple
15. Colombian painter who depicts plump women
16. .... P. Sloan, General Motors' mogul
17. Photo ...., take care of your nostalgic memories
18. Operation codename for the Dunkirk evacuation
19. This is given by a teacher in class
20. An unbred, bucking, wild horse
21. .... Adventure, animated family attraction in London
22. .... in the Wind, song by Taupin and John
23. Collection of ancient writings forming Jewish law
24. .... Hero, self-destructive character
25. American Super Soaker inventor .... Johnson
26. Female president of the Philippines
27. .... Island, South African former prison
28. .... J. Fry is from the year 2000 on Futurama
29. Sea glider
30. The Girl with the Dragon ...., a book and a movie




Puzzle 2

1. Family-managed Champagne house founded in 1829
2. Powerful lamp attached to the front of a vehicle
3. .... Volunteers play football from Neyland Stadium
4. Tennis serving error, touching the baseline
5. Scottish economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations
6. Sweet, fermented yogurt eaten in India
7. .... Tittlemouse, a character obsessed with cleaning
8. Dmitri ...., created the table of chemical elements
9. .... Rock, Jerusalem's gold-roofed shrine
10. Science founded by Archimedes
11. Major global hit for Boy George and band, Karma ....
12. Well-known stage actor; played Henry Taylor on 24
13. A millionaire
14. Flyer who assesses performance of new aircraft
15. King of Aragon, sponsor of Columbus
16. Question on every Dallas fan's lips in 1980
17. Acknowledgement of truth; entrance fee
18. Kate Middleton's royal title, Duchess of ....
19. Putting green gofer
20. Frances ...., actress known for Fargo




Puzzle 3

1. Distant cousin of a vampire
2. Creator of the Garfield cartoon series
3. Not as intense as a migraine
4. Respect is greater from a ....
5. The Golden ...., Lessing's famous feminist work
6. Add .... injury; make a bad situation worse
7. Second name of Norm from the sitcom Cheers
8. Reading desks with slanted tops such as in pulpits
9. An incredibly skilled musician
10. Animal listed first in English dictionaries
11. These big cats don't change their spots
12. Science of electronic devices for aircrafts
13. Home of Jože Plečnik and Škocjan Caves
14. John ...., inventor of the chronometer
15. .... de la Cruz, eternal jubilee city
16. Frasier Crane's assistant and radio producer
17. Koala CIA agent in American Dad
18. Geological era in which mammals developed
19. To make amends and fix
20. Style or design of printed characters
21. Mount ...., historical peak in South Dakota, US
22. Pernickety, pettifogging
23. Italian kitchen appliance brand, owners of Kenwood
24. Forces that stimulate change
25. Building where soaked cereal is allowed to sprout
26. In mythology, daughter of Helen and Menelaus
27. The .... waspfish has a large crown
28. Where the bride walks towards the groom
29. He gives voice to a cowboy in Toy Story
30. Similar to persuading
31. New Zealand skyscraper for bungee jumpers
32. .... Mastroianni, leading actor of La Dolce Vita
33. .... Event, unexplained Siberian explosion of 1908
34. Last half of a round of golf
35. Major French red wine region
36. Rooftop device to indicate breeze direction
37. Florida bay discovered by Ponce de León in 1513




Puzzle 4

1. First black, male actor to win an Oscar, Sidney ....
2. 1950-60s Portuguese footballer, the “Black Pearl”
3. Blowing in the breeze
4. Minnesota Golden .... play at TFC Bank Stadium
5. Made furious, annoyed
6. Planet where Superman came from
7. Elizabethan loose-fitting breeches
8. Johnny ...., real life story of lies and rumors
9. Chemical element of atomic number 77
10. Illuminated machine that selects and plays vinyl
11. Pouring fat over meat or poultry while roasting
12. Billy Madison, Waterboy, Happy Gilmore
13. .... thy name is woman
14. Man working as hotel porter, no chiming though
15. Needlework with a single hooked needle
16. .... Marvel shoots energy bursts from her hands
17. The .... snapper has a black spot below dorsal fins
18. Similar to precook
19. Vlad the ...., ruler of Wallachia, Dracula
20. The letter 'F' in the phonetic alphabet
21. Montevideo is capital of this South American State




Puzzle 5

1. Clinton's Vice-President
2. Description of the wooden horse where soldiers hid
3. Not going
4. Five pennies, half a dime, Jefferson's side view
5. Foremost name in Chinese cookery since the 1980s
6. To turn something around on an axis
7. Lonely ...., newspaper column for romance-seekers
8. Hungarian name for their native language
9. Biblical land given to the Hebrews by Joseph
10. .... Fair, Thackeray's tale of rebellious Becky Sharp
11. Procession, cortege
12. Phone with round spinning dialpad
13. Ocean where the island of Mauritius is located
14. US brothers who invented a flying machine
15. Andrew ...., climber, died with Mallory on Everest
16. Knight's servant
17. Opposite of concave
18. Humans only have two in their hands
19. Influential poet of the Harlem Renaissance
20. Luke, former world No 1 golfer
21. .... Square, famous public space in downtown Cairo
22. Latin American dish cooked in corn husk
23. Container or ship

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Group 246




Puzzle 1

1. Strong to the finish 'cause he eats his spinach
2. An agreement between countries or companies
3. Diego ...., Flower Seller artist; wed Frida Kahlo
4. Religious festival associated with chicks
5. One who pleads for money
6. First African Nobel Peace Prize winner, Albert ....
7. Nominated 10 times for the Academy Awards, John ....
8. Greek caviar, typically served as a spread
9. Exercise performed hanging from a bar
10. In Christianity, Jacob's second wife
11. TBH, Internet slang for "To Be ...."
12. To choose not to participate
13. Events that often come with thunder and lightning
14. Dance in triple time that is slow and stately
15. Kurt .... lead singer of Nirvana
16. Sir Gary ...., West Indian cricket all-rounder
17. .... the spot, treasure indicator on a pirate's map
18. Oil used in cosmetics
19. Paid assassin
20. Joseph ...., Irish author
21. Parsley, celery-like herb
22. Lena .... plays Cersei in Game of Thrones
23. Appliance for heating water for coffee or tea
24. Having taken a breather, got your breath back
25. Georges ...., dotty French painter
26. .... of Mons, apparitions seen on the Western Front




Puzzle 2

1. Pupil who assists by policing the hallways
2. Person with unpolished raw talent: .... in the rough
3. Changes to political systems and policies
4. Mexican liquor made from blue agave
5. UK spicy, currant cake like Eccles cake
6. Hamartophobia is the fear of ....
7. Alternative name for Jerusalem's Western Wall
8. ....Steps, Iberian stone stairway in Rome
9. No gain .... pain
10. Julia Roberts and Richard Gere star in .... Bride
11. Magician and escapologist born Ehrich Weiss
12. A Few ...., Aaron Sorkin's US legal drama
13. .... Aching, witch-in-training in Discworld series
14. Clue Jr.: Case of the .... Pet was released in 1989
15. Rapture
16. This starts a soccer or football game
17. .... Adam, composed the ballet Giselle
18. .... Bentz, German who invented coffee filters
19. A person who has had a limb or part of one removed




Puzzle 3

1. Put a knob of this dairy product on hot corn cobs
2. Became smaller in size
3. Card game for four players
4. Bulb with pungent cloves
5. Computer self-filming device
6. .... fork, two metal prongs to find musical pitch
7. Past participle of “shrink”
8. Flashes in the light, glitters
9. Silly, nonsense talk
10. “When in Rome do as the .... do”
11. The Great American ...., 1974 rodeo documentary
12. Nestle's French packaged dessert
13. Evan .... Wood, US actress
14. Longest river in southeast Asia
15. Comfy underwear brand by Triumph
16. Greek goddess of the hearth
17. Extremely strong plastic invented by Kwolek
18. To make a contribution; to bestow
19. Piazza in Rome with fountains and obelisk
20. Rocky's surname as played by Sylvester Stallone
21. The fluid that surrounds blood cells
22. Printer inks
23. .... Cardcaptor, Japanese cartoon with a magical tarot
24. Noise of snow underfoot
25. Not a liar, honorable, fair, sincere
26. French reformer of the 16th century, John ....
27. Jan ...., Czech student protested by self-immolation




Puzzle 4

1. Meet ...., where to rub shoulders with a celebrity
2. Marble and straws game, try not to drop marbles
3. Wine grape for Franc and Sauvignon
4. Toys ‘R' Us is a US toy ....
5. Take over the place, position, or role of someone
6. Anesthetic sometimes called "Special K"
7. Variety of talc, metamorphic nickel
8. Large purple fruit used in cooking
9. Teams that swap wheels in a car race
10. "Yes, a .... times yes!", Pride and Prejudice line
11. Old Church, oldest building in Amsterdam
12. Formal garden of symmetrical box hedges
13. All ...., Fosse's dance film
14. The name of the 2010 World Cup ball
15. Roared, shouted from the stomach
16. They attach your feet to the saddle
17. Wheel inside a car that changes the direction
18. He declined the Israeli presidency in 1952
19. Large purple fruit that's cooked (aubergine in UK)
20. The extreme opposite of orderliness
21. Extinct flightless sea bird of the North Atlantic
22. A shortened version of a book




Puzzle 5

1. .... Hood; 2011 scary fairytale produced by DiCaprio
2. Can be blamed
3. Porcine-themed place to hoard your money
4. American ...., Dick Clark show for new talent
5. Gilbert and Sullivan operetta about a curse
6. Beachcomber's bounty
7. Institute where brainy sorts thrash out policy
8. Elite army of eunuchs in GOT
9. Can be verified by observation or logic
10. Compensating for; often followed by features
11. There's calm in its eye
12. What many collect on the beach
13. The first set of gnashers of a young mammal
14. Component that cleans lubrication
15. .... and Bristol fashion, meaning neatly arranged
16. Equines who pulled coal in the mines
17. Fear of animals
18. Different colored skullcap worn by RC clergy
19. Without a designer label
20. Professional charged with steering Venetian boats
21. A Town ...., a love story set during and after WWII
22. Sensible and realistic
23. Public space at the heart of Amsterdam
24. City where Anne Frank house is located

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Puzzle 1

1. Much more refined than glass
2. Children's Author, .... Cleary
3. Flying, anagram of signora
4. Jane ...., MM's co-star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
5. Touched hand to cap like a soldier
6. Laurence, knighted British stage and movie legend
7. The town's doctor in The Simpsons
8. Given too much to eat
9. Term for an americana submission in Jiu Jitsu
10. Spanish fashion designer, .... Fortuny, born 1871
11. French dept in Occitanie, named after its river
12. South African mongoose
13. Go somewhere and come back before bedtime
14. Strips of dried dough
15. Gear for going backwards
16. First Triumvirate member with Pompey and Caesar
17. Hot ...., moving around the office to work
18. Louisiana hot sauce popular worldwide
19. As fast as it goes
20. Ancient quarter of a city
21. .... Sound, NZ fjord with penguins and seals
22. George ...., surveyor-general of India in the 1830s




Puzzle 2

1. Iconic Easter animal with fluffy tail
2. Last bottle of a batch of wine sold at a reduction
3. .... Conquest, Battle of Hastings in 1066
4. As You Like It, not a tragedy but a ....
5. Type of cooking oil is short for Canadian oil
6. Dame Ninette de ...., English-Irish ballerina
7. Animal waste used as fertilizer
8. Foliage
9. .... Plath, writer who married Ted Hughes
10. Official currency of Tajikistan
11. Puff ...., French, many buttered layers
12. Capital of Dominica
13. Where would Scooby-Doo be without ....
14. Insect emblem of mysterious global puzzle series
15. Noah's great-grandson
16. Cleaning up the .... stables, the fifth labor of Heracles
17. Taking a chance, with no guarantee
18. Original imitation




Puzzle 3

1. Jigsaw, crossword, anagram
2. Tall wooden or wire structures to keep things out
3. Allotted mooring spots for ships and yachts
4. Make an effort to end a feud: “extend an olive ....”
5. Elvis Presley's birthplace: ...., Mississippi
6. Brazilian striker who played with Messi at Barça
7. Piña ...., Puerto Rican pineapple, coconut drink
8. Hold your ....
9. Animated film starring Princess Elsa won an Oscar
10. What Italians call Scotland
11. Woven fabric with a loopy curled pile
12. Neither Sunday nor Tuesday
13. Museum where the Mona Lisa is located
14. Adrenal and thymus are types
15. A large dog
16. He was Prince Siddhartha before his enlightenment
17. Schwarzenegger is his twin in a movie
18. Aircraft storage building
19. Japanese photography firm, merged with Minolta
20. .... Heinlein, the dean of science fiction writers
21. Natalie ...., plays a Tyrell in Game of Thrones
22. Roman Augustan poet famous for his odes
23. Guitar maker that produces the Stratocaster
24. Maraschino, a type of
25. Agricultural region in southeastern Spain
26. Tropical plant used in conservatory furniture
27. Hand coverings
28. Sport for which Petra Kvitova is noted




Puzzle 4

1. Not plural
2. Bright yellow aromatic powder used in cooking
3. Seedless, easy-to-peel citrus fruits
4. Dry white grapes from Bordeaux give lemony wines
5. .... Cornhuskers play football at Memorial Stadium
6. Ms Curie named this element after her home country
7. The science of the laws, especially of the mind
8. The N in the international phonetic alphabet
9. Amerigo ...., explorer who gave his name to America
10. Tommy and ...., crime solvers till death do them part
11. Unaccompanied, abandoned, forsaken
12. On Futurama, he is a famous robot actor
13. Italian dessert made with mascarpone and coffee
14. Owner and manager of vacation resorts, inns
15. A head-swelling lizard
16. Jim ...., lead singer of US band The Doors
17. This machine tears up confidential papers
18. The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Molly ....
19. Where an artist keeps oils
20. US prison center of 1962 jailbreak mystery
21. Two-player card game evolved from "whisky poker"
22. Wine bottle equivalent to four normal bottles




Puzzle 5

1. Government formed by more than one political party
2. Metal fasteners for shirt sleeves
3. Terrible, dreadful
4. .... Clearwater Revival
5. German director of Der Blaue Engel
6. The season of good cheer
7. Professional specialized in mental health
8. To move back and forth
9. Deceitful speech or action
10. On his deathbed he said: Let not poor Nelly starve
11. To build
12. Thor ...., Norwegian explorer and anthropologist
13. Armpit perfume, fights body odor
14. The common garden mint; a candy flavor
15. Joseph of ...., he took the Holy Grail to Britain
16. Hardwood trees with catkins
17. Shepherds' animal helpers
18. Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel
19. Opening sheet of a newspaper, with headline
20. Contamination, toxic waste and smoke cause this
21. One who obtains or extorts money illegally
22. Cologne ...., Germany's most visited landmark
23. Where golfers go to celebrate a round of golf

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Puzzle 1

1. Tennis players wipe off sweat with these items
2. Plant resulting from a crossing
3. Bell on the House of Parliament in London
4. .... Miller, American Sniper actress
5. Pepper named after Syrian city; regional spice
6. Metallic strands used to decorate a Christmas tree
7. Filtration system inside the mouth of some whales
8. President of France starting 2017: Emmanuel ....
9. Yoga practiced in heated rooms
10. Warning lights in a car, with a triangle symbol
11. Soldier's equipment holder
12. Greek goddess of hearth, home and chastity
13. The highest voice part in harmonic music
14. Nicole ...., Star of Far and Away and Moulin Rouge
15. Color of the submarine the Beatles sang about
16. Dinner
17. .... Greene, UK author of The Heart of the Matter




Puzzle 2

1. Something that is brought to your door
2. UK Secretary of State for War in 1914, Herbert ....
3. Long-running Japanese Solid Snake game franchise
4. Paint mix for whitening or a coverup for misdeeds
5. Growing
6. Inflatable airships named after a German count
7. Artistic attention to detail
8. Shot of espresso with ground coffee
9. Person who has a hard time remembering things
10. Instrument that tells height above sea level
11. Teller in a financial institution
12. Strait separates Africa and Europe
13. A hundred stories by Giovanni Boccaccio
14. Adjective to describe someone who can't remember
15. Country where Hugh Jackman was born
16. It used to be Saint Petersburg
17. Vehicle driven by Ernest Hemingway in WWI
18. .... Taylor, British-American iconic actress
19. German composer of Canon in D
20. Period of life before adolescence
21. Former home of Elvis in Tennessee
22. Weather-related nickname of boxer Rubin Carter
23. First to develop a polio vaccination
24. It means "never-ending" in Latin




Puzzle 3

1. Where people go to take a plane
2. Jackie ...., Honeymooner bus driver
3. He slew the Minotaur
4. Food product associated with the term “balsamic”
5. A stain, mark or imperfection
6. Nickname of Arsenal's supporters
7. Conflict, lack of harmony
8. Root vegetable, off-white, similar to a carrot
9. Composer of "Symphonie Fantastique": Hector ....
10. To have faith in someone or something
11. Walter ...., creator of the Bauhaus in Weimar
12. Heavy, coarse fabric used for stiffening garments
13. Jules Verne adventure, 20,000 .... Under the Sea
14. Marsupial that is like a small kangaroo
15. Cross them for good luck
16. The capital of Iraq
17. Vengeance
18. Last name of US first lady Jackie's husband, 1960s
19. Suspension of fine solid or liquid particles in gas
20. Doctor who discovered penicillin: Alexander ....
21. Survivors, remnants
22. Not indoors




Puzzle 4

1. Sharm el-...., Egypt holiday destination
2. Former NSync member, .... Timberlake
3. Avoided, flew under the radar
4. .... of the road, gentle easy-listening music
5. Become unsteady and come crashing down
6. .... stick; a USB by another name
7. Hugh ...., British actor, Dr. House
8. Italian aperitif flavored with orange
9. Lightweight, cheap cotton, used for straining jam
10. Corny, mawkish
11. Play that poses the question "To be or not to be?"
12. Type of liquid printer
13. Annie ...., evil nurse from King's Misery
14. The period of four Sundays before Christmas
15. Gulf of ...., site of 1964 US/Vietnam incident
16. Car stoppers




Puzzle 5

1. A key figure in an organization
2. Elevation steeper and much higher than a hill
3. Delusional
4. Annie's signature song
5. Learn-at-school woodwind instrument
6. A person who repairs machines, especially cars
7. Cotton, linen, fleece, rayon
8. Chicago retailer acquired by Macy's, .... Field's
9. A rebellious sailor
10. Male marine creature that carries eggs
11. Bob's ...., animated short film about midlife crisis
12. Small bread roll from Belgian capital
13. Creator of Holden Caulfield
14. King .... Stadium, Belgian royalty sporting grounds
15. Island group containing Majorca and Menorca
16. Avant-garde musical instrument with antennae
17. Green or yellow banana
18. Horror sitcom sounds like a type of cheese
19. Member of a group holding power in a country
20. Brought inland by the tide
21. Seller of indulgences, as described by Chaucer
22. .... Judy, seaside slapstick with husband and wife
23. It won't poison you
24. Saddle bags, handy for cyclists
25. The "other" musician Elvis
26. Major vein that returns blood to the heart
27. Pony ...., vibrant trophy ribbons
28. Malaise, disease
29. British queen who reigned from age 18 to age 81
30. Winner

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Puzzle 1

1. Large, multi-colored daisy types from South Africa
2. Okie From Muskogee singer, Merle ....
3. Train transport network
4. For The .... Girl, Richard Dreyfuss won an Oscar
5. .... order, dominance hierarchy not just for birds
6. Michel ...., French soccer king and UEFA president
7. Female parent, not biological
8. Display-based game console from Milton Bradley
9. .... James, actor who served as Monty's double
10. Mountain that has the highest peak above sea level
11. Quickly scrolling sideways on a screen
12. Apep, Egyptian .... deity who fought Ra
13. Twisted, baked bread represents people hugging
14. .... Familia, Gaudi's unfinished Barcelona church
15. Waste, trash
16. The Goonies follow .... Willy's treasure map
17. The banded .... star has dark brown bands
18. Large knife used for clearing foliage
19. Played Liz Lemon on 30 Rock
20. The middle coat of the eyeball
21. Small Eurasian gray-headed crow
22. Blood sucker
23. Gentlemen Prefer ...., a 1953 Marilyn Monroe movie




Puzzle 2

1. Reality show about items in hock
2. Name given to an Islamic state
3. Gymnastic and athletic, like a trapeze artist
4. Rules specifying the type of clothing to wear
5. Germany's main legislative body
6. Science of the sun, ancient Egypt course
7. A small German archipelago in the North Sea
8. King Solomon's mother
9. Long form of a machine that copied over phonelines
10. Evaluates art, writing of strengths and weaknesses
11. Forrest's shrimping boat company
12. Napoleon's last utterance, the love of his life
13. Very exaggerated figure of speech, in writing
14. They eat ants
15. Hitting a ball with a racket before it bounces
16. Notorious Welsh pirate famed for many captures
17. Largest Buddhist temple in the world, in Indonesia
18. Yom Kippur, Day of .... in Jewish religion
19. Body of water on the coast of Lithuania
20. Contamination; disease caused by germs
21. .... Trophy, annual prize for seaplane races
22. The head of a company, chairman
23. Small version of posh piano
24. When an astronaut leaves the capsule




Puzzle 3

1. Loved by Apollo, she was turned into a laurel tree
2. Expression associated with faux tears
3. Cleveland .... play at the FirstEnergy Stadium
4. Annual celebration of the seven seas: World .... Day
5. The Human ...., Rooney as telegram boy
6. A price placed on a wanted person's life
7. Pencil toppers with colorful stood-up hair
8. Colorful Egyptian water, popular with divers
9. Arachnid
10. Plain, Irish fabric of woven cotton
11. Shakespearean play that starts "Who's there"
12. Bessie ...., medical supplies pioneer
13. Tapping a keyboard with fingers
14. Greek titan of the sun
15. German word for an artificial, substitute thing
16. Drug that reduces cholesterol
17. Sarah Ferguson's former spouse: Prince ....
18. Ceramic spouted vessel to brew Assam or Earl Grey
19. What the French call Scotland




Puzzle 4

1. Usual accompaniment for a fajita
2. Eddie's Pasadena “Jump” rock band
3. Wrestled
4. Miami .... play at Hard Rock Stadium
5. French painter, Barbizon school
6. Bosnian custard cream pie
7. Used in the home
8. Similar to an oboe, but with a single reed
9. Swine language game, remove letter, add an 'a'
10. Fabric with linseed, now plastic, as table cover
11. Founder of the German Empire, Otto von ....
12. Fight Club and Mr and Mrs Smith actor
13. Not sisters
14. St Peter's sacred building in the Vatican City
15. Turtles, crocodiles, snakes, lizards, etc.
16. Nissan car shares name with Campbell's speedster
17. Someone who is a novice, especially to a religion




Puzzle 5

1. Quiet, noiseless
2. Nicosia is capital of this Mediterranean island
3. Sherlock Holmes' sidekick, Dr John H. ....
4. The .... Rose of Texas
5. Twenty plus fifteen minus twenty four
6. Carson's profession in Downton Abbey
7. Container of woven straw or willow
8. Steep rock faces along the coast
9. Luc ...., director of Nikita and The Fifth Element
10. Thomas ...., invented first commercial steam engine
11. Truck ...., heavy tractor units revving up
12. Volkswagen model sounds like a friend of Tracy
13. It will take your picture
14. Tough choice between two
15. Animals to which the term "dressage" applies
16. Wildlife-spotting adventure holiday
17. Facial hairs, mostly in men
18. "Good good" chocolate sweets
19. Home builder
20. Long-stemmed salad veg with leaves at top
21. Royal residence, such as Buckingham or Versailles
22. ....ventura, Canary Island with biosphere reserve
23. Magician's story
24. Sci-fi novel by R.A. Lafferty: "Past ...."
25. Side of the head, behind the eye
26. Woodwind instruments held sideways

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Puzzle 1

1. Break during the school day for kids to play
2. Smoothing power tool
3. Object used to pour liquid down a bottle neck
4. Citrus fruits in Limoncello
5. Major U.S. national passenger railroad service
6. Purcell opera, Dido and ....
7. The art of horsemanship
8. Alexandre Dumas novel: "The Count of Monte ...."
9. .... notes, brand of sticky notes
10. To abduct
11. Concurs
12. Larry who played J. R. Ewing in Dallas
13. Creator of the TV show The X Factor
14. Elevated
15. In contrast to or as the alternative of
16. Northernmost Latin American country
17. .... coral shrimp are red and white
18. .... Wallis, invented bomb used by the Dam Busters
19. French multinational known for dairy products
20. Orange or purple root veggie favored by rabbits
21. Five vertebrae in your lower spine
22. 101 Dalmatians in 1996 is a .... of the 1961 film




Puzzle 2

1. Destructive flames in Australian outback
2. Converter of a gas to a liquid
3. Revolting, nauseating
4. Went back to a place or subject matter
5. A very large landmass, like Europe or Africa
6. 1941 holiday when Hong Kong surrendered to Japan
7. Artist of Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi bridge
8. The duration of a pregnancy
9. Cartoon superheroines, The .... Girls
10. Word starting with f with all five vowels in order
11. Machine tool engineer, famous for screw threads
12. Waves at an orchestra
13. Marine creature siphons water in and pushes it out
14. Scarlett ...., actress of Lost in Translation
15. Acclaimed UK band composed album "The Wall"
16. Flat tires on a bike
17. This person waves at an orchestra
18. Sir Les ...., drunken Australian cultural attaché
19. Easy ...., unexacting music genre aka mood music
20. Storage for personal items with no strap
21. Human remains perfectly preserved in peat
22. Newt ...., fictitious J K Rowling author
23. .... Louise, Davis and Sarandon starred
24. The first drops of breastmilk after a baby's birth
25. Diamonds ...., Prince's song about precious stones
26. .... Maria of France, married Charles I in 1625
27. Practice what ....
28. Promoting, selling and distributing a product
29. Belgian former pro tennis player Kim ....
30. Norwegian nutty cheese with large holes
31. Large London square with lions and fountains
32. What takes you to another web page
33. To take errors into account on a reading




Puzzle 3

1. Green symbol that shows when a website is secure
2. .... on the Wind, based on real life scandal
3. Small, short sword used by Samurai class
4. .... van Gogh, he painted sunflowers
5. "There is honour among ...."
6. Bright, glowing, especially of the face
7. Major worldwide news syndication company
8. To have laid out a course for a plane, boat
9. Merry ...., rotating horses, carousel
10. Double ...., Nintendo basketball game
11. Southern .... snake is a harmless species in the US
12. Of or relating to fabric or weaving
13. He has a hit song called Maggie May, Rod ....
14. December 26, Saint's Day in Ireland
15. Antonym of lowest
16. ABBA female singer with blonde hair, .... Fältskog
17. .... van Gogh painted The Starry Night
18. Package requiring delicate care; a famous stamp
19. Lewd, raunchy




Puzzle 4

1. Republican candidate Obama defeated in 2012
2. Dividing line between countries, cities, etc.
3. .... Bells, a Christmas song
4. .... parking, leave your car here while shopping
5. .... or Later, 1990 Madonna single
6. He serves green eggs and ham
7. Flies without power, on thermals in the air
8. .... Legion, German planes bombed Guernica in Spain
9. .... Lance, 1954 Western movie with Spencer Tracy
10. The Welsh mafia, a portmanteau word
11. Hair products you use "Because You're Worth It"
12. Subgenre of alternative rock born in the last 1980s
13. Fleet of warships
14. Ready to relinquish control
15. .... crow, black and white corvine
16. American .... Story, US series created by Ryan Murphy
17. Marbled dried meat from Italy
18. Czech-born Swiss tennis star Martina
19. French-speaking province of Canada
20. Recovery, renewal
21. The ....brush coral is tall with small branches
22. Swallowed something that obstructed breathing
23. Vulcanized material developed by Charles Goodyear
24. San ...., tiny European nation surrounded by Italy
25. Spanish newspaper, name means "the country"




Puzzle 5

1. Seattle .... play at Safeco Field
2. Estimating
3. Diver's footwear that helps with swimming
4. Norwegian mineral, contains uranium
5. Source, origin, font
6. Something that takes precedence or is most urgent
7. Next to the swimming area
8. .... the Kings, Luxor's ancient royal burial site
9. Marks caused by burst blood vessels under the skin
10. Sherwood Forest's male inhabitants
11. Die-cast vehicles first sold in cardboard packs
12. Marlene ...., sultry actress of The Blue Angel
13. Substance used to preserve food
14. Bamboo weapon with darts
15. Final date to complete a project
16. Blue-spotted .... has bright blue spots
17. The woman Romeo claimed to love before Juliet
18. .... Flute, Mozart opera

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Puzzle 1

1. Losing country in the Crimean War
2. Intricate silk design by arachnid
3. Empire founded by Genghis Khan in 1206
4. Scandinavian country's currency is the Krona
5. .... Aztec, red cocktail with tequila, cream
6. La Femme ...., TV series starring Peta Wilson
7. Sea between Australia and New Zealand
8. How the .... Stole Christmas
9. They fly the bird
10. Jane who played Daphne Moon in Frasier
11. Riverside execution post used for hanging pirates
12. Less hot
13. The Police's hit song Every .... You Take
14. John .... plays Finn in Star Wars: Episode 7
15. Scope, degree, range
16. 1980s term for a young urban professional
17. Cutter




Puzzle 2

1. Where Peter Pan and Tinker Bell live
2. Small containers for drugs
3. Belgian king set up the Congo Free State
4. 1975 film satire of country, gospel music
5. Small containers for encapsulated drugs
6. Like Water for ...., Laura Esquivel's Mexican story
7. Town border
8. King Tut's golden headdress, discovered by Carter
9. Pierre ...., French dramatist of Le Cid
10. Star of Good Will Hunting
11. .... nebula, dark "equine" cloud of dust in Orion
12. Apparatus used for hatching eggs
13. Money lender with excessive interest rates
14. Sedimentary white rock
15. Italian cheese sometimes smoked or grilled




Puzzle 3

1. West German name for former East German currency
2. Sikh swords seen crossed on Khanda symbol
3. Plastic spork is example of this utensil
4. Grape Ape was created by Hanna/.... in 1975
5. Western Hemisphere marsupials
6. You're twistin' .... man, sang Shaun Ryder
7. Young ....; age is just a number
8. Northern Illinois .... play football from DeKalb, IL
9. Maiden name of Margaret Thatcher
10. Impressive cave scribblings at Lascaux, France
11. 1989 Bond film .... to Kill
12. Gainsborough portrait of young man in satin
13. Where planes land and models strut
14. .... Ice, US rapper from the 1980s
15. Edible upper half of the broccoli
16. Ergonomics is the .... of things fitting people
17. ....-Daro, abandoned Indus Valley archeology site
18. Mr Eiffel, who built an iconic French tower
19. Kidding around
20. Convertible car




Puzzle 4

1. Reject a decision (by a superior)
2. Confidentially
3. Traffic signal meaning stop
4. To pervade, pass through
5. Door to door group singing of Christmas songs
6. Semiaquatic egg-laying, duck-billed mammal
7. Ohio State .... play football at Ohio Stadium
8. Literary publication used by students in school
9. Strongman buys girl in Fellini's mythology film
10. Sacerdotal
11. Awkward and not graceful
12. Container of varied objects
13. Imitative work that nods at another work or style
14. Backcombed hairstyle
15. Pink-hued nickname of Petra, Jordan
16. Peruvian or Greek tunes are played on these
17. Snack made with granola, dried fruits and nuts
18. Form of marriage with multiple wives
19. Reached the North Pole under the ice cap (1958)
20. Five robots combined in the Power Rangers series




Puzzle 5

1. Triangular Indian pastry with spicy filling
2. Judas ...., band known for Breaking the Law
3. .... Cancer Day is marked by wearing a pink ribbon
4. What humans breathe
5. Pirate ship blaster
6. Describes the network of electricity in a house
7. Male swimming bottoms; chests
8. The .... Ultimatum, part of Matt Damon's franchise
9. Puppet play from Bali and Java
10. Important to economy, longest south African river
11. Snowy month of the French Revolutionary calendar
12. One makes several french fries
13. Dust used in concrete
14. Day of the week that starts the Sabbath
15. Lech ...., Polish trade unionist and president
16. Spanish F1 racing driver Fernando ....
17. Rhyming term for an important person
18. You put your head here when you are sleeping
19. French author of the play No Exit, Jean-Paul ....
20. To choose something or someone over others
21. Small measure of liquor
22. Chronicles of ....: Prince Caspian is a 2008 movie
23. Red ...., British flag seen at sea
24. Charles ...., Dickens' French aristocrat
25. Former name of Chennai and a lightweight fabric
26. The Persistence of ...., by Dalí, if you can remember
27. Announcer on the Muppet Show,.... the Frog

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Puzzle 1

1. Photo-taking apparatus
2. Where the Biblical Ark came to rest, Mount ....
3. Resembling air in lightness; a .... pillow
4. Magicians perform these
5. First wife of Henry VIII: Catherine of ....
6. Shakespeare's shortest play, The .... of Errors
7. Astrological sign associated with the fish
8. Shape of cloud that forms the core of a tornado
9. Pete's Dragon in 2016 is a .... of the 1977 film
10. Breaking up of soil using machine of the same name
11. Padded stool used as a footrest
12. Type of coffee invented by German Melitta Bentz
13. Mixed songs; a mixture of different things
14. Someone paid illegally for a service
15. Moveable toy, with strings, for putting on shows
16. Store your stuff here
17. To deliver a blow, to hit with a fist or weapon




Puzzle 2

1. French word for eggplant, also its color
2. People or animals who live at night
3. Crystal twinning, variety of albite
4. Cross between an espresso and a cappuccino
5. Photo story, progressing through multiple pictures
6. .... dummies, car safety guinea pigs
7. Equine violin bow material
8. Controversial spiritual movement in China
9. Pilot of a double-decker passenger vehicle
10. Moving a ball with lots of short kicks
11. A bizarre or odd idea or suggestion is out in ....
12. Carved faces on Westminster Abbey's roof
13. Star from Taxi and Who's the Boss?
14. Active during the night, like certain animals
15. Covering again in gold
16. Animal logo of the French clothing company Lacoste




Puzzle 3

1. Collection of online pages for a company
2. Freedom
3. Oscar's last name on The Odd Couple
4. Omission of a passage in a book, speech or film
5. Naval battle between the Ottomans and Holy League
6. Highest officer rank in the US Army
7. Prehistoric remains in stone
8. Standing long jump expert in early 20th century
9. The Dalai Lama is a central figure in .... Buddhism
10. Often ice-bound gulf between Sweden and Finland
11. Someone who trespasses or steals
12. Historical Delhi residence of Mughal emperors
13. London's macabre historical attraction
14. Slang for prison, describes the closing of doors
15. Fred and Wilma Flintstone's daughter
16. .... Vivaldi, composer of The Four Seasons
17. .... oxide, aka laughing gas
18. To gulp and ingest food or drink




Puzzle 4

1. Rich, successful globetrotters
2. Frasier Crane's first wife
3. TV “Mom” since 2013: Allison ....
4. A person who owns or manages a farm
5. Language spoken in Scotland and Ireland
6. Attorney, counsellor
7. The best thing since .... bread
8. Harry's snowy owl
9. Manufacturer of Lipitor
10. Satan's Little ...., comedy horror film pun
11. Norse dwarf turns into a dragon killed by Sigurd
12. Thin fruit dessert topping from Eastern Europe
13. AS Roma plays soccer in this Italian league
14. Sub-unit of the zloty, Poland's currency
15. Little ...., Degas sculpture of ballet student
16. Jacqueline ...., French flyer who set speed records
17. Golden fruit, similar in appearance to a pear
18. The Millennium .... is Han Solo's ship in Star Wars
19. Eager, impatient
20. Bone in the wrist
21. Country claims part of Kosovo, capital Belgrade
22. Ferdinand Marcos' shoe loving widow
23. Author of "The Handmaid's Tale" Margaret ....
24. Onto a ship or plane, climb ....
25. Subject, theme, topic
26. Proviso in a contract
27. .... Conrad, Chief Bureaucrat on Futurama
28. Microsoft's software suite
29. Gulf ...., strait of the Arabian Sea
30. Spicy root can be used in sweet or savory food
31. Robert ....; plays DiCaprio's dad in This Boy's Life




Puzzle 5

1. Miniature railroad for the young and young at heart
2. In tennis, a ball that just gets over the net
3. To do or say something shocking: raise ....
4. Eddie Vedder's band
5. Evened out
6. Hallway furniture near the door
7. French Sun King with palace at Versailles
8. Times ...., standard font
9. Large long-tailed bird with beautiful feathers
10. Plentifully
11. Journey album, 1978
12. The Return of the .... Son, Rembrandt painting
13. Blue-pink spring flowers from bulbs
14. Soaking food in liquid to extract flavor
15. One of the most famous British Monarchs ever
16. A small rocky body that orbits the sun
17. .... Leia kills Jabba the Hutt in Episode 6
18. Author of All Quiet on the Western Front
19. Retired Serbian tennis player Ana ....
20. Trans-.... Railway, linking Moscow with Vladivostok
21. Internal communications system
22. Singing group associated with Diana Ross

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Group 253




Puzzle 1

1. .... Strait, water separating Russia from the US
2. Walkie-...., for two-way conversation, Roger
3. To give yourself or your ideas a shake
4. Campbell soup can painter, Andy ....
5. All .... Day, the day after Halloween
6. Joyfulness, happiness; famous Dublin theatre
7. Son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
8. Sporting person with clubs
9. Deux-...., west French dept named after two rivers
10. The Gross Clinic is surgery painted by Thomas ....
11. Five o'clock stubble
12. Yellowish French liqueur flavored with aniseed
13. Not being at risk from danger
14. Police Chief Clancy on The Simpsons
15. To clumsily feel for something
16. Portable computer for hot-desking
17. Shakespeare ...., won the Academy Awards in 1999
18. ....proof, can't be if shot
19. Fruit ready to be picked
20. Bohemian religious reformer burned at the stake
21. Spike of ice formed when dripping water freezes
22. Ex-Man Utd and England striker, Wayne ....
23. Author of the novel "Black Beauty": Anna ....
24. Measures of metric liquid volume
25. Renault mid-range van, badly spelled conjestion




Puzzle 2

1. .... Taylor, actress of Cleopatra
2. Leaving
3. Climb it to eat something fresh
4. Weighed up evidence
5. Derogatory 1980s term for chronic fatigue syndrome
6. Dolphins quarterback who starred in many movies
7. Largest island in the Maluku archipelago
8. Nationality of Verdi's opera princess, Aida
9. Turkish tax system of enrollment of Christian boys
10. Lotion to protect skin from harmful rays
11. Birds whose eggs are the biggest
12. Not the glass of an optimist
13. End of year festivities cookies, Santa, reindeer
14. Smooth rock for grinding grain
15. Arm ...., test of upper body strength
16. Anya ...., bag lady of "I'm not a plastic bag"
17. Supposedly, allegedly
18. Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
19. Daily frequency
20. Polymers developed by Frederick Kipping
21. Robinson Crusoe's companion
22. Nazca Desert mountaintop alien landing site?




Puzzle 3

1. Sour liquid table condiment
2. One of Britain's biggest football clubs
3. Appliance for keeping food ice-cold
4. Greet
5. Midwestern dumpling
6. .... Henry, Frenchman led Arsenal in scoring
7. Name that Julius Caesar gave to present-day Paris
8. Nino ...., Italian stylist and wool business owner
9. The reversed P "paragraph" symbol
10. Truthfulness
11. Moving your body to a tune
12. Other times, other ....
13. Name popularly given to early humans
14. The eighth sign of the zodiac in astrology
15. Beethoven's only opera
16. Axilspot .... are red-brown with white spots
17. Collectibles in metal currency form
18. Procedure to find cause of death
19. Popular US breakfast with maple syrup
20. Luck of .... is a drawing game from 2006
21. Great Wall ...., giant East Asian brickwork
22. Dogs .... Poker, famous canine portrait
23. Professional started with science kit as kid
24. Umbrella toting fictional character Mary ....
25. Medicine used for pain and to thin blood
26. John ...., Dexter villain, Interstellar actor
27. .... control, of the force that attracts us to earth
28. Strolling, taking steps, using your legs
29. Upward-moving current of air




Puzzle 4

1. Heavyset SNL star died tragically at 33
2. To give in a completed assignment
3. Roman god of fires and volcanoes
4. Title or address for an Italian man
5. Military nickname for the game of darts
6. Penultimate king of Egypt and Sudan
7. Lowest rank of Zoroastrian priesthood
8. .... Electric Power, stadium nicknamed Big Swan
9. Oldest university in English speaking world
10. Small, wooden tool for making a hole for planting
11. Frenchman who led the First Crusade, Peter the ....
12. .... Dawg, cartoon canine sheriff's no 2
13. Scanty, not enough
14. Under ....; at risk of becoming extinct
15. Country where Monte Carlo is located
16. Large white seabird with yellow head
17. Musical pieces or decrees in law
18. Infamous letter-writing killer in 1960s California
19. Neck accessory for male evening suit
20. .... Run, utopian, no one above age of 30
21. Jack ...., White Fang author
22. Kitchen utensil for removing the pits of cherries
23. Berry Gordy's music from Motor Town
24. .... Sutherland, Flatliners star




Puzzle 5

1. Jackie ...., famous no. 42 for Brooklyn Dodgers
2. Canine companion for the unsighted
3. There are 17-20 species of these flightless birds
4. Describes a 0-0 draw in football
5. Empresses of Russia
6. The title given to the daughter of a tsar
7. Pirate's handheld optical aid
8. .... order or a PO
9. A woodwind instrument with a reed mouthpiece
10. A precision shooter is an expert ....
11. New Zealand movie set offering tours
12. Monty Burns's assistant in The Simpsons
13. .... Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer
14. First President of Kenya as an independent nation
15. Not straight forward
16. On a snail they are retractable
17. Legendary literary critic, .... Frye
18. Strong green liquor nicknamed "The Green Fairy"
19. The Blues ...., stars John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd
20. Region of calm winds near the Equator
21. .... Kingdom Brunel; steamship pioneer

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Group 254




Puzzle 1

1. Argentinian archipelago: .... del Fuego
2. Deeply established, embedded
3. Someone who fuses metals for a living
4. Public display of acknowledgement or respect
5. Online retailer Founded by Jeff Bezos
6. Sacking of this financier started the French Rev
7. The current capital of Tanzania
8. Ricky ...., torch bearer of late 90's Latin craze
9. Dam Busters target with the Sorbe and Eder
10. Pam who played Mindy in Mork and Mindy
11. Glitzy French Riviera resort Saint- ....
12. Benjamin with a curious case
13. Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Montenegro and ....
14. Spanish word for state
15. Country called the "land of milk and honey"
16. Wooden structure used in factories
17. Female English fossil finder Mary
18. Red head in love with Betty and Veronica
19. Female Collie has been in film, TV and radio
20. .... cord, vital part of the central nervous system
21. Charity begins here
22. Money earned through work
23. Best Film Oscar, directed by a woman, The Hurt ....
24. George ...., main spy of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy




Puzzle 2

1. Italian-Jewish writer of If This is a Man
2. Armored mammal that curls into a ball
3. Small wooden stick used after a meal
4. Black Beauty's stablemates: Ginger and ....
5. WWI training grounds like at Etaples Mutiny
6. Grab a tree for luck
7. Old style personal printer
8. It's all about beauty
9. Insurance claim investigators
10. Novelty lighting with warmed wax blobs in glass
11. Part of a choreographer's routine
12. A full life enjoyed during many years
13. Holder of grilled bread at breakfast table
14. Tiny breed of dog named after a big Mexican State
15. .... the post, voting system where winner takes all




Puzzle 3

1. Bear native to North America
2. Mystical and enchanting, using sorcery
3. Aircraft designer known as Queen of Hurricanes
4. Priestess of Santeria, male is Santero
5. A ruling family in a monarchy
6. The ...., resources not owned, open to all
7. .... Square, central piazza in Venice
8. Thou shalt not bear false .... against thy neighbor
9. Shakespearean play title that rhymes with "jello"
10. Fastest land animal
11. .... Itza, ancient archeological site in Mexico
12. Stuffed pasta pillows
13. Trial sessions before making one's mind up
14. .... cards: decorative aces, kings, queens, jacks




Puzzle 4

1. .... oil, nutty seed essence used in Chinese cookery
2. Cricket bat tree that helps to alleviate back pain
3. Prepare a meal simply with a single cooking vessel
4. Posh pancakes from France, rolled and filled
5. Kidnapper, abductor
6. Magically animated beings of Jewish mythology
7. Jack ...., paleontologist researched dinosaurs' DNA
8. Small, long-handled shallow pan for sauteeing
9. Ernst .... Stadion, hosted 2008 Euro games
10. Doggy channel south of Tierra del Fuego
11. Antonym of never
12. Of or relating to dogs
13. Coarse fabric often used in sacking
14. Give lines to a forgetful actor
15. Shiny, metallic finish on desks and chairs
16. .... reels form part of a needleworker's collection
17. Written communication
18. To .... go where no man has gone before (Star Trek)
19. Like a jogger but faster
20. Country where Lech Walesa served as President
21. Roller shoes with built-in wheels
22. Occupation of the fictional character Sweeney Todd
23. Kevin, plays Francis Underwood in House of Cards
24. Coloring fabric by knotting string round sections
25. This government style lasted 1,500 years in Rome
26. Entry-level light aircraft
27. Curiosity killed it
28. What slot machines are called in Australia
29. .... Babies, collectible soft animals made by Ty
30. Attention-seeking cry of a pirate
31. The Hindu class system divides people into ....




Puzzle 5

1. Primitive marine mollusc with spiral shell
2. Orange/red berry-like fruit of thorny flowers
3. Building for arrivals and departures at an airport
4. Explaining; describing
5. Type of pipe smoked by Sherlock Holmes on screen
6. A branch of mathematics
7. Low-cost German airline with green logo
8. Roald Dahl's first children's book: "The ...."
9. Widely known as the first synthetic plastic
10. Mineral used in making glass
11. Brittany region as said by a Frenchman
12. Table Mountain overlooks this South African city
13. .... chameleon has large horns on its head
14. She plays Katniss in The Hunger Games movies
15. Annually, each year
16. A branch of mathematics that deals with shapes
17. Roald Dahl's small mythical creatures
18. Dry Italian cookies to eat with coffee
19. Board game where a player may land on "Chance"
20. The second-highest ranking of angels
21. Stade ...., national stadium in Paris
22. Reba ...., US country singer, actress
23. Sideshow Mel is Krusty's .... in The Simpsons
24. Got very good at, acquired a new skill
25. Bruising of the eye or eyelid, also called shiner

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Group 255




Puzzle 1

1. Marcel ...., known for In Search of the Lost Time
2. Rhyming word meaning a foolish person
3. Thursday after Ash Wednesday
4. Underground railway or passage, it might vary
5. Six letter word for the season of fall
6. Wax light source
7. Country that is directly north of the U.S.
8. Not dangerously
9. A plane taxis along this
10. They escort cinema-goers to their seats
11. Modern term, someone who knows rabbinical lit
12. Food made by churning milk
13. Peace prizewinner and founder of Solidarity union
14. Latin name for Copenhagen
15. German-Austrian dress of full skirt and low bodice
16. Fighting skills
17. Blend of cybernetics and organism for a part-robot
18. Venomous Aussie snake has coastal and inland types
19. Surly or ill-tempered
20. .... Sese Seko, seized power in Zaire in 1965
21. Spanish for 'city'; e.g. .... Juárez in Mexico
22. Friendly ghost, befriended by Christina Ricci
23. Food made by churning cream or milk
24. Juno ...., Roman goddess of money
25. .... Lake, Oregon landmark with a wizard island
26. Lofty Australian tennis star, Pat ....
27. Futurama's head of the Robot Mafia
28. ....bahn, famous entertainment street in Hamburg
29. King of England from 1760 to 1820: .... III
30. Bad manners to put these on the dining table
31. Line of equal pressure on a weather map




Puzzle 2

1. Five-day event between major cricketing nations
2. Remove objects for simplicity at home
3. Common gamebirds with long tail feathers
4. Male sponsor of a child at its Christian baptism
5. A feral boar
6. “I'm Popeye, the ....”
7. She takes you to your seat in the theater
8. Harsh scratchy garment worn as a show of penance
9. Papa's Delicate ...., Jackie Gleason plays Papa
10. Having gone back to a place
11. Don Quixote tilted at them
12. SI derived unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq
13. Unter den Linden in Berlin is a tree-lined ....
14. African ...., giant gastropod
15. Called Liberty Steak in the US during WWII
16. US international news agency founded in 1995
17. Seaside venue for club and ball game
18. Polish dance music associated with Chopin
19. Drying, shriveling
20. Occupied by animals
21. What many hands make
22. Raining lightly but continuously
23. Catalytic ...., device to reduce vehicle emissions




Puzzle 3

1. Less light
2. Long decorated stick carried by a sovereign
3. Material used to resurface roads
4. Instrumentalists of 40s swing and dance music
5. .... novel, a comic book story
6. Avril ...., singer of the misspelt Sk8er Boi
7. Ability of animals to adapt to avoid predators
8. ...., Mr. Chips, 1939 British romantic drama
9. Bishop to whom title has been officially granted
10. Paolo ...., longtime left back for AC Milan, Italy
11. North American wild dogs, smaller than wolves
12. Mouse-like domestic pets that burrow in earth
13. Sun...., yellow paintings by Van Gogh
14. Infectious disease also known as lockjaw
15. .... Bridge, Prague river crossing with statues
16. Leonardo ...., Italian artist and inventor
17. Hard clear plastic, an alternative to glass
18. .... cavity, space between membranes in the lung
19. Shop checkout person
20. Venetian water transport
21. Steered clear of something
22. To flog a dead horse is ....
23. Foreign born singer who had a No. 1 smash "SOS"
24. KISS' guitarist, Ace ....
25. Montserrat ...., opera singer of Lucrezia Borgia
26. Preferred green leaf of a certain fictional sailor
27. To lean back




Puzzle 4

1. Spanish eat 12 at midnight at New Year for luck
2. US probe that met up with Halley's Comet in 1986
3. Teasing, mocking
4. Miami Hurricanes play in Coral ...., FL
5. Last name of the Count of Monte Cristo
6. Roasted bird that is a traditional Christmas feast
7. Cell created when a sperm fertilizes an egg
8. Shoe that needs to be tied
9. Japanese religion honors natural world deities
10. Where something begins
11. Storage for pirate plunder
12. .... reviver, a mix strong enough to raise the dead
13. Swiss chemist who invented an updated oil lamp
14. The Baltic States are Estonia, Lithuania and ....
15. Premeditated unlawful action of killing someone
16. A participant in game played in an alley
17. Sailors suffered from this disease, lack of Vit C
18. "Au ...." means goodbye in French
19. Whistle ...., exposes illegal, unethical conduct
20. Dust storms occurring in arid regions
21. C-3PO was built by .... in Star Wars: Episode 1
22. .... squad, former military execution method
23. Julia Louis-Dreyfus played her on Seinfeld




Puzzle 5

1. A person's collection of clothes
2. .... Truffaut, French director of Jules et Jim
3. Ship-swallowing zone near Bermuda in the Atlantic
4. Live, public musical performances
5. Without any large, tall vegetation
6. Largest of the United Arab Emirates
7. National capital of Australia
8. .... pudding, sieved jam with flaky pastry
9. Mental state of insecurity, anxiety
10. .... rate, the value of one currency against another
11. Save your place
12. The furthest flight routes and destinations
13. "Great voice" pioneer of video game consoles
14. Canadian province whose capital is Winnipeg
15. .... board, peg table of compass points and holes
16. David, who played Mulder in The X-Files
17. Ballet about a toymaker
18. US battles to end slavery, 1861-1865
19. .... furniture: chests, chairs used by the military
20. Device that can be used without connecting cord
21. To pretend to be sick to avoid doing work
22. Bought, anagram of producer
23. Scary creatures
24. Abhorred, detested

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Group 256




Puzzle 1

1. Kenny ...., opened his own fast food franchise
2. A psychic who earns money talking to the dead
3. Beethoven's third symphony
4. Largely, chiefly
5. The S in SD card, meaning “safe”
6. A country's national tune
7. Danish short film about a hospital friendship
8. having a lighthearted temperament; merry
9. Die .... is a German strategy board game from 1986
10. Gold ...., someone who marries for money
11. A piece of news intentionally false
12. Chickpea spread
13. The alternative verdict to innocent
14. Chosen weapon of fictional aliens
15. Small canine
16. Made a mess with a simple dress, Miss .... Lewinski
17. Honeycombed mushrooms
18. US boxer Sonny, world heavyweight champ in 1960s
19. Organic matter for enriching the soil in spring
20. First country to issue a Christmas stamp
21. Turned a check into notes




Puzzle 2

1. Music partner of Art Garfunkel
2. Where two roads intersect at right angles
3. Chomp, chew, munch
4. Shook, had a seizure
5. A father has one or more sons or .... or a mix
6. Greatness, size or scale
7. Not prepared to do something
8. Icewind Dale PC game by .... Studios
9. First king of Norway after dissolution of the union
10. Ancient Greek maze, where the Minotaur was hidden
11. It means "spring" in Spanish
12. Rust is a form of this chemical compound
13. Viennese building and Jugendstil art movement
14. Large marsupial with pointed nose and large ears
15. Ms Hill and Messrs Jean and Michel comprise?
16. Bin for decaying food/garden waste
17. "Ugly" Danish toy, found under bridges?
18. House that once reigned in Game of Thrones
19. Cordial made from orange juice and sugar
20. Luxury Swiss watch brand, used by aviators
21. They indicate your place when reading




Puzzle 3

1. Mary ...., Dr Watson's wife in the Sherlock tales
2. TV oldtimer: health and fitness guru Richard ....
3. Author of "The Day of the Jackal", Frederick ....
4. .... Bomb, Red Bull cocktail named after candy
5. Roman senator, lead among those who stabbed Caesar
6. The best things in life ....
7. .... To My Life, Simple Plan song
8. Spiders make lots of these in autumn gardens
9. Burj ...., Dubai skyscraper, tallest in the world
10. To care for and encourage development
11. .... at Bernie's, 1989 US dark comedy
12. Far from close or near
13. .... Meekley, Wacky Races pal of Sergeant Blast's
14. To have authority over a military unit
15. Uphill stretches of the Tour de France race
16. Actively look for people to hire
17. Riding of air currents (not flying or levitation)




Puzzle 4

1. Place where fiction and non-fiction is sold
2. Roasted game bird eaten with chestnut stuffing
3. Buy this in a sports shop, for dipping in a pool
4. Winds or helicopters
5. .... heel, a vulnerable point; name of a Greek hero
6. First Roman Emperor: Caesar ....
7. Moving around and around, spinning
8. Ace Ventura's saved this NFL team's mascot
9. Nevsky ...., St Petersburg's main road
10. Showing extreme expression of emotion; emphatic
11. North-east Indian state whose capital is Kohima
12. .... grise, exerts power without official position
13. Wellington's nickname
14. The amount of labor a person has to do
15. Li'l Abner's hometown
16. Best position to put someone unconscious in
17. Robin ...., Mork & Mindy star
18. French family of deep-sea explorers
19. Sir Edwin, sculptor of Trafalgar Square lions
20. Sits on the tongue and identifies sweet and sour
21. Large N American amphibian known for noisy croak
22. The apparent change in position of an object
23. Elevation that rises from the ocean floor
24. Name of 16 popes, inc the former Pope Emeritus
25. Match at which people abuse each other verbally
26. Youngster aboard ship
27. Process also known as hydraulic fracturing
28. Britain's largest train station
29. Norodom ...., king, PM and president of Cambodia
30. Athletic event with a bar to clear
31. Practical joking and deception
32. .... cry, sports warcry to motivate team
33. Little Miss...., it shows a trip and a beauty pageant
34. No news is ....
35. Drawing aimlessly
36. Thirstquencher of a Caribbean party sharing drink




Puzzle 5

1. Bruce ...., US actor played John McClane
2. Books with protective sheets to hold photos
3. Photographic equipment
4. Quick team meeting
5. Old French currency, weighed a pound of silver
6. You use one to clean the dishes with
7. Spirit of tragic drama
8. Nepalese knife, weapon, tool, ceremonies
9. Jack Nicholson's character in "As Good as it Gets"
10. Poles apart from being neat
11. ....-talkie, device for two-way conversation
12. Strauss opera and daughter of Herod
13. TV show centered around the Ewings
14. 2D shape with four equal sides
15. Metals made of two or more elements, e.g. bronze
16. French term for served on ice
17. Copy someone's ways mockingly
18. Thin layer, like wood on a coffee table
19. Food closet
20. Unbearable provocation
21. Mole-like animals often confused with mice
22. The Times of .... Milk, doc of gay rights leader
23. John Maynard ...., demand-side economist
24. Underwater pursuit popular with Red Sea tourists

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Group 257




Puzzle 1

1. TV movie for kids, How the .... Stole Christmas
2. Lifeforms, the basis of the Great Barrier Reef
3. The name of the comet that returns every 75 years
4. Common caiman species found in South America
5. Walter ...., director of The Motorcycle Diaries
6. To steer a ship into shallower waters
7. Roman politician assassinated Caesar, Et tu?
8. Harass with small persistent acts
9. Non-stop; without interruptions
10. Mark Twain created The Adventures of Tom ....
11. Wall paintings, e.g. those painted by Diego Rivera
12. Caffeinated drink also popular ice cream flavor
13. Prodigious individual with autism
14. Greek god of the sun, light, music, and healing
15. Islam worship site
16. French "Incredible Sulk" footballer, Nicolas ....
17. Picturesque Thai island loved by backpackers
18. .... Le Pen, was French National Front head (female)
19. Paul McCartney's fashion designer daughter
20. Wheel has grooved rim used within a lifting system
21. Solar ...., flashes of brightness on Sun's surface
22. More explosive than bullets of same caliber




Puzzle 2

1. Task carried on outside the lab
2. .... 64, early 80s, 8-bit home computer
3. Comedy Central animated TV Series
4. Hemline well above the knee
5. Citric dessert spread used as topping
6. Evonne ...., leading Aussie tennis player in the 70s
7. St Paul's epistle to the people of Galatia
8. Something totally unexpected or out of the blue
9. Collectible objects to do with warfare
10. Spinal bones
11. MMS, multimedia .... service
12. Romantic tale
13. Agriculturalist who rears pork
14. Hemline well above the knee, tiny clothing
15. Signals and communication using flags
16. Actor who played the patriarch of Addams Family
17. Aussie town in Northern Territory with female name
18. Picturesque volcanic peak in Japan
19. 1961 Ben E. King's hit song




Puzzle 3

1. Holiday ...., festive knitwear with amusing images
2. They allow a body to move around
3. Reach out and touch
4. Place in your home where you sleep
5. Singer of the novelty song “The Streak”: Ray ....
6. Mr and Mrs ....; Gainsborough's landed gentry couple
7. Card game with variants Callabra and Papillon
8. Vietnamese mooncake
9. Gives his name to industrial framebreakers
10. Engraver of Beer Street and Gin Alley
11. TV series about the world's most famous vampire
12. Corpus ...., feast on Thursday after Trinity Sunday
13. Study of animals
14. The night of this present day
15. Gulf name, aka Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Iran
16. French car brand whose badge features a lozenge
17. .... harvester, large machine that threshes grain
18. Spirit of ...., the statuette on Rolls-Royces
19. Person who moves in the water professionally
20. Tony .... sang I Left My Heart in San Francisco
21. .... are masters of the Light Side in Star Wars
22. Person with ginger hair
23. Universal ...., theme parks in Florida and Japan
24. .... Burgess, English writer and composer
25. ...., Row the Boat Ashore, slave spiritual
26. Do it while the sun shines
27. To stay away from others without having any contact




Puzzle 4

1. Judas' treacherous act against Jesus
2. Nickname of a former female British Prime Minister
3. Gritty or grainy, the composition of certain rocks
4. Champagne cassis cocktail
5. Better ....; prequel to crime drama Breaking Bad
6. Perceives, recognizes
7. Rare metal element W used in light bulb filaments
8. Hunts the prey
9. .... Gulbenkian, Armenian philanthropist
10. Savings that you're forced to make in hard times
11. Police Department's jurisdiction
12. Tomaso ...., Vivaldi contemporary, Italian composer
13. Dust form of volcanic rock
14. Popular amusement park chain with banners
15. Country noted for its Ajiaco stew
16. Russian rocket pioneer responsible for Sputnik I
17. Egyptian Red Sea resort popular with divers
18. Irregular in frequency
19. Predominant religion of Thailand
20. Diplomat and chief weapons inspector over Iraq
21. .... Silver, quartermaster under Captain Flint
22. Chief cook
23. Money workers claim back, e.g. snacks for meetings
24. Jelena ...., former Serbian no. 1 tennis player
25. Robin ...., actor of Mrs. Doubtfire
26. Weblog publishing site; diary "dot" com
27. "Not waving but ...." according to Stevie Smith
28. Guards the entrance to Hades in Greek mythology
29. What Spielberg did with ET, Jaws, Indiana Jones...
30. Box containing cerebral board game
31. Making decorative items by hand
32. War memorial for fallen soldiers buried elsewhere
33. White goods brand, famous for washing machines
34. Gaudí's "stone quarry" building in Barcelona
35. Hazardous coating on road surfaces in winter
36. Buoyant jacket
37. Former French president with Dutch-sounding name
38. Largest land mammal hunted for its ivory tusks




Puzzle 5

1. Device for getting the liquid out of fruits
2. Philadelphia's soaring sports team
3. Covered in liquid sugar
4. Stuffed with, containing
5. A little bit cold
6. Strike a ball before it bounces
7. Turbulent, with thunder and lightning
8. Norman ....; becomes a Halloween-themed supervillain
9. Ancient curved sword of Indian subcontinent
10. .... Acar, Turkish artist
11. Fruit with the outer skin layer removed
12. Job of Robin Starveling, a Shakespeare's Mechanical
13. Director of the 1996 sci-fi comedy Mars Attacks
14. Grain-eating beetle
15. Blockage, standstill
16. List of acts
17. Burj ...., towering sailing boat hotel in Dubai
18. Pocket-sized, flat, folding holder for money
19. Picturesque waterfall between Brazil and Argentina
20. Kept afloat
21. Took someone's possessions by force
22. Buddhism's four noble ....
23. Scientist Isaac, first to observe laws of motion
24. Novel by Daniel Defoe: Robinson ....
25. Agents of ....; spy and superhero TV series
26. Roman counterpart of Hypnos, Greek god of sleep
27. Carved artwork
28. Common name for the Academy Awards

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Group 258




Puzzle 1

1. Bowling done in an alley with strikes
2. Something that causes laughter
3. Lancashire film star famous for his ukulele
4. Someone of greater age; Sr suffixed to name
5. Blanche ...., A Streetcar Named Desire's lead
6. WWII U.S. Navy leader, Fleet Admiral Chester W ....
7. Pretzel-like deep fried maida flour
8. Deficiency in red blood cell production
9. .... Board, large paper used for science projects
10. Unrealistically high price for certain assets
11. Time to get the .... jumpers and scarves out
12. Empty promises, such as would fill flying balloons
13. La Isla ...., Spanish-style Madonna single
14. Religious woman who heads a convent
15. SI derived unit of pressure named after physicist
16. 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games mascot
17. African lake also called Lake Nyasa
18. Branching tube sponges are usually a .... color
19. Street with restricted direction
20. The Coathanger's and Opera House's home city
21. Wrote Hound Dog with partner Stoller
22. "Mighty oaks from little .... grow"
23. By no means unknown
24. 2000 US presidential candidate and eco warrior
25. Pins on the bottom of track runners' shoes




Puzzle 2

1. Scientific study of organic tissues
2. Single by Fleetwood Mac, or a huge white bird
3. The most snooty or stuck up
4. Sparkling wine used for wedding toasts
5. Mel Brooks' movie and broadway show
6. Istanbul in ancient times
7. Neolithic settlement on the Bay of Skaill
8. Vast mass of comets 50-100,000 AU from the sun
9. Dan Aykroyd plays the father of this alien family
10. Artificial waterway links the Elbe to the Baltic
11. On 1 December, .... Day, people wear a red ribbon
12. The taking over of an aircraft in flight
13. Invented the zoopraxiscope; first motion pictures
14. Exits through stages in theatres
15. Furniture for playing bridge
16. Cooked by being submerged in hot oil
17. Devoid of freedom or liberty
18. Phantom vessel with no signs of life
19. Spanish name of precious green stone
20. An island-city state
21. Music group associated with collieries
22. Crusty arthropods that cover rocks
23. These require you to clean hearth and grate after




Puzzle 3

1. Started up again
2. Titanic director, James ....
3. Bob Marley's backing band
4. Composer of the opera “Tosca”
5. South .... Jaguars are from Mobile, AL
6. Type of crumpet, pancake in Oceania
7. The .... of King George, royal mental health film
8. Composer of La Mer, Claude ....
9. Traditional folk stories or mythological tales
10. .... Flynn, her thriller novels portray mad women
11. .... Patch Kids, unattractive soft toys of the 1980s
12. Large fire built for celebration, entertainment
13. One who rejects the accepted explanation to facts
14. Sleeping chamber
15. Place where your vehicle gets cleaned up
16. Someone who comes from the Ivory Coast
17. The speed of sound
18. Fish that when red is a misleading clue
19. Bang & ...., Danish audio-visual company




Puzzle 4

1. Chemistry paper to test for acid or alkaline
2. Family of comedian brothers, Damon, Keenan
3. Tools like a vice that hold things in place
4. European candy that explodes when mixed with Coke
5. Gulliver's forename
6. Spiced Indian rice dishes
7. Wildlife, plants, etc; not made by humans
8. European city that's home to St. Vitus Cathedral
9. Card game, deck has no twos to sixes
10. Protein; helps chemical reactions in living things
11. Boeing rival
12. Cause of laughter
13. Latin football fixture list term meaning against
14. Force ...., barriers against evil
15. On the way, arriving, approaching
16. Fort ...., New Mexico: where Billy the Kid was shot
17. In music, instruction to repeat from the beginning
18. RBI: Run .... In
19. Evil dwarf
20. Flying island in Gulliver's Travels
21. Robert ...., former leader of Zimbabwe
22. Machu ...., citadel of the Incas in the Andes
23. "After us the ...." said Madame de Pompadour
24. In some places, the kids go back to .... in autumn
25. Some people need a big cup of this in the morning




Puzzle 5

1. Pile of dried grass, packed, with a pointed top
2. Meat workers
3. Famous hotel chain, anagram of North Sea
4. Decorative mineral crystal used in jewelry
5. Angers
6. Stumbling over an obstacle
7. To the French, a parapluie
8. .... Bank, water extension of Yucatan Peninsula
9. Transatlantic air service created by Freddie Laker
10. Male singing voice between tenor and bass
11. In good spirits, merry
12. David ...., author of Cloud Atlas
13. Horse with brown and white patches
14. One who gathers pieces for a book
15. The Roosevelt who displayed a teddy bear
16. Month when many countries celebrate Nochebuena
17. Making a societal debut
18. Bicycles riding one behind the other in cycling
19. Takes his or her clothes off to music for a living
20. .... bodily harm, crime causing great pain
21. Sixth son of Jacob, his mother was Bilhah
22. Seth MacFarlane created .... Dad
23. To remain local rather than holidaying abroad
24. Working of bread dough to strengthen gluten
25. .... clock, another name for a grandfather clock
26. First disease for which a vaccine was invented

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Group 259




Puzzle 1

1. .... bells ring, are you listening?
2. .... neckline, an off-the-shoulder look
3. Country footpaths followed by hikers
4. Herbs with numerous types: lemon, wild, corsican
5. First English poet laureate, Benjamin ....
6. Ran for the door; fastened
7. Straight-line conjunction of Sun, Earth and Moon
8. Forerunner to the U.N., .... of Nations
9. Big clumsy fellow
10. Classic pie made with tart, not sweet berries
11. Australian city hosting the 2000 Summer Olympics
12. .... vest, beachware according to saucy postcards
13. .... Film Festival, Golden Bear Award
14. Quiet and decorous
15. Lee who played The Six Million Dollar Man
16. Capital of New Caledonia




Puzzle 2

1. Internal data storage device in a computer
2. Acrobatic or erotic staff boogie
3. Country associated with gamelan music
4. Not permanent
5. .... gains, dishonestly obtained goods
6. Russian tennis no. 1 Maria ....
7. Director of Gallipoli and Picnic at Hanging Rock
8. Gin-based cocktail at the Raffles Hotel: .... Sling
9. Prejudicial system abolished in S. Africa by 1991
10. Greek king murdered by wife Clytemnestra
11. A woman who stays at home to care for the children
12. "Karma Police" band
13. North Sea wetland area with rich biodiversity




Puzzle 3

1. Nightshade plant, anagram of Aunt Pie
2. Singing mom of Kingston, Zuma, and Apollo: Gwen ....
3. Ivory tower
4. In German legend, he pulled a sword from a tree
5. Randy Johnson's nickname, The ....
6. Something given without charge
7. Boat to overturn, bottom up
8. Non-religious, not affiliated to a church
9. Eyelet of hard material covering a hole
10. Clear, reflective material
11. North German city and port on the River Alster
12. A form or variant of a type or original
13. Brushed cotton fabric used on shirts/PJs
14. Scorching, intense, e.g. .... heat
15. A bird in the hand is worth two in ....
16. Johann .... II, wrote Blue Danube




Puzzle 4

1. Pansy ...., bullying prefect in Harry's year
2. The day of the week that follows Tuesday
3. US stand-up comedian, Sarah ....
4. Fruit popular in pancakes
5. Hotel proprietor of olden times
6. Riding at a slower pace than galloping
7. Inscrutably codified
8. Space Hulk is a game set in the .... universe
9. Brandon ...., known for his Mistborn series
10. Vodka and cranberry makes a marine wind
11. Concrete bridge, the design for many road bridges
12. Paper currency of the US during American Civil War
13. Decision requiring no thought
14. .... Network, first 24 news network
15. Photograph taken to show a wide view
16. Speech sounds are the focus of this science
17. Nigerian extremists blamed for mass abductions
18. Scientific study of ancient inscriptions
19. A device that sprays water
20. Verdi opera from a play by Friedrich Schiller
21. Safe room for storing cash
22. Lindsay ...., former US no. 1 tennis player




Puzzle 5

1. More in need of food
2. Frolicked
3. Sir John ...., Shakespeare chap with large appetite
4. “When life deals you lemons, make ....”
5. HQ of the International Olympic Committee
6. Numbers with six zeros
7. Central Swiss canton, Sarnen is the capital
8. Film print in which light and dark are reversed
9. Large thin crepe, zampanelle
10. Estadio Atanasio ...., Medellin, Colombia
11. The first of its kind
12. Second Roman emperor; Captain Kirk's middle name
13. Jomo ...., Nairobi's international airport
14. Largest of the American frogs
15. Person from the country whose capital is Gaborone
16. Epidemic disease spread across a large region
17. Buzz Lightyear and other playthings come to life
18. British war artist famous for the Menin Road
19. Japanese city terror, silverscreen success
20. Italian poet of Canzoniere (Songbook)
21. Cotton fabric with soft pile, like chamois
22. Intertwined festoons of flowers and vegetation
23. Moving as if not to be seen
24. One who is tall and thin
25. Niccolò ...., violinist composer of Caprices
26. Destroying

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Group 260




Puzzle 1

1. Color of an eggplant
2. Poland's capital
3. Place of confinement for convicted felons
4. He won it fair and ....
5. Being currently in operation; room for lounging
6. Your things of value
7. Bush ...., Aussie food from native plants, animals
8. U.S. democratic political party symbol
9. Largest sea mammals, home to Jonah
10. Synagogue assistant, shamash
11. .... Bung Karno Stadium, Indonesia's biggest
12. Prince in Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute
13. John ...., Zimbabwean Test and ODI cricketer
14. Slang for money in South Africa
15. Feast of the Seven ....
16. Curriculum vitae
17. Car company that makes the LEAF electric car
18. The projecting jaws and nose of an animal
19. Anagram of fibers
20. Class
21. Harm caused
22. Grass family cereal grain
23. Give all one's time to someone or something
24. Another name for vitamin B3
25. Literary method of comparison: as quiet as a mouse
26. Made an exact copy
27. .... iron, hinged metal device to bake pancake mix
28. Nickname for Canadian \$1 coin
29. .... Washington, Oscar winner for Training Day
30. .... Lindgren, Swedish author of Pippi Longstocking
31. Cold ...., Lennon song with B-side Don't Worry Kyoko
32. John P. ...., US banker with a company in his name
33. .... Kai-Shek, led the KMT government on Taiwan




Puzzle 2

1. Become dispirited
2. Begin to grow, come to life
3. Office on road or bridge that collects fees
4. Where Marvin Gaye heard it
5. Seaport city in British Columbia, Canada
6. Set of questions answered in order to land a job
7. Palazzo del ...., residence of the Italian president
8. Los ...., Peruvian site of Cloud Alien People
9. Pienza sheep cheese
10. Weather system bringing low temperatures
11. You can't make a .... out of a sow's ear
12. Slobodan ...., Serbian prosecuted for war crimes
13. US inventor, developed a steamboat in 1786
14. French chemist, outlined the theory of combustion
15. Lands ruled over by a muslim sovereign ruler
16. Composer of Ode to Joy
17. Character who is decidedly ungainly
18. .... Mountain, most Oscar nominated film in 2006
19. .... O'Neal, former US basketball player
20. Belle of the ball at school party
21. Strict laws from Ancient Greece
22. Grilling (often with a panel) before getting a job
23. When it feels colder because of the breeze




Puzzle 3

1. Body parts for nursing a baby
2. Raining cats ...., raining very heavily
3. Oaty dunking biscuits, sometimes chocolate coated
4. Sticks to a policy
5. Documentary about the dolphin hunting in Japan
6. Science of the hypothetical mystical force of od
7. Amount paid for retirement after serving
8. .... camps, single-site family summer attractions
9. Tiny, imaginary creatures
10. Long nerve running down the back of the leg
11. Japanese city, venue of the 1972 Winter Olympics
12. Weak monarch who ruled England from 1135-54
13. Nomadic Middle Eastern people
14. Sergei ...., Russian astronautical engineer
15. Printed version of a publication
16. To break up, dissolve, disperse
17. Garments




Puzzle 4

1. The largest “big cats” in the world
2. Japanese motor company with Leaf and Cherry models
3. “Get Into the ...., boy you've got to prove…”
4. Indoor breezes
5. To restructure
6. Speaks slowly like John Wayne
7. Having been unsealed, accessed
8. .... Indians, Boston Tea Party indigenous disguise
9. Notorious French serial killer, Henri ....
10. Commonly known as maru, deer horn weapon
11. His comet returns to Earth every 76 years
12. Frail, decrepit
13. Time spent outdoors on a blanket with food
14. 5th cup of Passover Seder wine intended recipient
15. Grass and earth thrown up after a golf stroke
16. .... wrap, parcel packaging filled with air
17. Primary color that mixed with blue makes green
18. Chinese zodiac animals repeat every how many years
19. Dublin's river, crossed by Ha'penny Bridge
20. The capital of Comoros
21. This force is deadly
22. To increase the ticket price
23. Italian grape brandy
24. Unique and unrepeatable
25. Tim ...., Left Behind author




Puzzle 5

1. .... jungle, urban area with unattractive buildings
2. Father of relativity theory
3. American sweet pastry resembling an animal limb
4. A young plant
5. Blue club .... are a type of sea squirt
6. Homer's goody-two-shoes neighbor
7. Hijacker of Boeing 727 who vanished in 1971
8. German V2 rocket engineer and space pioneer
9. To arrange objects or items in categories
10. Cookie made of egg, sugar and almonds or coconut
11. Don't put the cart before ....
12. Lower leg tendon, also known as the heel cord
13. Greater or Lesser, Caribbean archipelago
14. Herman ...., writer of the American Renaissance
15. The Blues ...., 1980 American musical crime comedy
16. Made a formal declaration