CLUES ACROSS 1. Another name for kingfisher (7) 6. Cleophas was One of the two disciples Christ met on their way to .... (5) 9. Famous city of the Chaldees (2) 10. Male swan (3) 13. Belgian currency (5) 13. Author of "Guy Mannering" (5) 15. Name of a great Augustinian saint (4) 16. Berne's river (3) 18. Resinous substance taken from yew leaves (5)

CLUES DOWN
1. Irish-American composer of "Indian Summer" (7)
2. Loss of memory (7)
3. Wheeled vehicle in general (3)
4. Central American peninsula dividing the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea (7)
5. Prize-giving inventor of dynamite (5)
7. Fine (5)
8. Small French coin (3)
12. Portuguese Territory in India (3)
14. Tall headdress worn by Mohammedan dervishes (3)
17. Ancient Egyptian sun-god often depicted with a hawk's head (2)

The above words originally were the "heads" and "tails" of six seven letter words whose central letters (which we invite you to supplyu spelled when read in order downwards, the name of a European city. Your job is to supply the missing letter-links and discover the words and the city.

6 - SECRET AGES

+ G A O L L A     A M A G E

The Tightlips never revealed their ages. The family consisted of father, mother, a son , and a daughter, named respectively Gabriel, Olga, Lambert and Amelia. Their respective ages -- All prime numbers -- together with their sum appear on. the left, each age being represented by the first two letters in the respective name of the family member. Can you figure out their ages. [Note that 4 is not involved, and of course, each letter stands for a particular digit throughout]

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7 - PLUS FOURS

Below you will find ten sets of three eight letter words, each missing its head. The heads are four letter words, and are common to each of the three words in the set. What are the words? [you may find more than are given in the answers]

1.	.... RAIN	.... RIOT	.... ORED
2.	.... LAIM	.... OUNT	.... RETE
3.	.... COCK	.... BINE	.... RUFF
4.	.... ATOO	.... SURE	.... EREL
5.	.... ARIC	.... ECUE	.... ICAN
6.	.... WARD	.... HAND	.... BONE
7.	.... HESY	.... OSAL	.... OUND
8.	.... BEAM	.... BILL	.... PIPE
9,	.... ICLE	.... ISAN	.... AKEN
10.	.... PIPE	.... FALL	.... WARD

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8 - ANAGRAMMATIC QUARTET

The four missing words in the limerick below are anagrams of each other. Your job is to find them

A ---------- of Jurors from Gaul
Made a bee-line to far-off ----------
Armed with a brand-new ---------- code
On. and on nonchalantly they rode
Till to naught came----------, jurors and all.

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9 - PUZZLING DESKS

At each of three Puzzieland schools — where each pupil has a desk all to himself, there are as many desks per classroom as there are classrooms in that school. Here is an inventory in cryptic form -- as all Puzzleland records are kept -- of the number of desks in the three schools:

Enigma School	L M N desks
Oedipus Schaal	O P S desks
Rebus School	P L P desks
Total for the three schools	U N U S desks

If the total number is 2421, how many are there in each school?

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10 - VOCABULARY QUIZ

Select the correct meaning of these six words from the three selections provided:
1. CONTIGUOUS
(a) easily convinced (b) chaste (c) adjoining
2. LEGERDEMAIN
(a) punctuality (b) sleight of hand (c) strict observance of the law
3. VERTIGO
(a) dizzyness (b) inflammation (c) lack of confidence
4. PECCADILLO
(a) public sinner (b) trifling offence (c) first offender
5. OROGRAPHY
(a) the study of mountains (b) the study of clocks and watches (c) etching in gold
6. PALINDR0ME
(a) a racecourse (b) a word reading the same backwards as forwards (c) a quadruped allied to the camel

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11 - ROAD TEASER

Spillsbury (S) is 6 km due north of Panicton (P) on the straight road to Quellem (Q). Twelve km to the East of Panicton lies Ravensthorpe (R) which is joined by a straight road to Quellem. lf the distance by road between Spillsbury and Ravenstharpe is 18 km both ways, how far is Quellem from Spillsbury?

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12 - CHANGING LADDERS

One can change COLD into HEAT in three intermediate steps, simply by changing one letter at a time. Thus for example, COLD, HOLD, HELD, HEAD, HEAT - Now try to change PORK into VEAL, and SHOT into GOAL, likewise.

COLD HOLD HELD HEAD HEAT

PORK **** **** **** VEAL

SHOT **** **** **** GOAL

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13 - EASTER TREAT

In Malta, as well as is some European Countries, children get a special baked treat, at Easter, called a FIGOLLA. These are made in various shapes. One mother cut up her son's figolla into six equal parts as shown to the diagram on the right. With the real thing in his hand the boy quickly discovered what it looked like before the cutting. Can you?

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14 - WHAT'S THE WORD?

Starting with one of the letters in one of the circles move to the next circle in a clockwise fashion, choosing a letter as you go on. You should find a nine letter word when you have finished. It may sound easy at first but wait till you try it out for yourself.

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15 - SLIDOPANS

Can you find the six eight letter words which have PAN sliding through them. The missing 17 letters are replaced with numbers.

P	A	N	1	2	3	4	5
6	P	A	N	7	4	5	1
8	9	P	A	N	8	1	10
11	12	13	P	A	N	4	14
15	3	4	9	P	A	N	11
13	8	16	17	4	P	A	N

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16 - NOSY LETTERS

* * * * * * M * U *

Being NOSY perhaps you can decipher this ten letter word by simply replacing the * with the letters, N, O, S, Y using each one twice.

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17 - DRAWING SKILL

Can you draw the star on the right in one continuous line? You must not lift your pencil or go over any part of the figure twice.

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18 - MISSING LETTER AND DROPPED SPACES

T E I D I A R U E R S W O I E E V E T S

In the above sentence the spaces have been removed as well as one particular letter has been dropped nine times. Try to discover the missing letter and reconstruct the sentence.

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19 - MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS

LURE CATTLE IN CHARMER IN YALO TEST ACE BLUE

On the left we have three musical compositions, each one for two instruments. Re-shuffle the letters in each title and figure out the instruments for which it was composed.

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20 - THE DARTS PLAYER

The other day, Good-shot chalked up exactly 300 points in 10 throws on this specially marked darts board. Can you discover how the score was made up?

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21 - THE SUM

Figure out the digits represented by X, Y and Z in this addition.

X X X + X X + X + X          + X Y Z Z Z

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22 - MAGIC WORD SQUARE
The numbers 1 to 10 in this magic square represent letters. They are - not in order - A, C, E, I, M, O, P, R, S and T. The vowels are represented by 2, 4, 7, and 9, and as you see the words spell the same across and down. Your task is to solve it.

1	2	3	4	5	5
2	6	7	8	9	1
3	7	8	10	4	3
4	8	10	9	3	4
5	1	3	4	2	5

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23 - CAMOUFLAGED BIRDS

1. TANNER	5. PUNTING
2. REPOSE	6. STRANGLE
3. COUNTS	7. ACTIVE
4. RICHEST	8. FARTHING

Change a letter in each of the above words and rearrange the letters obtained to produce a bird's name in each case. For instance, No. 1 should be GANNET (TANNER minus R plus G). Can you figure out the remaining seven birds?

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24 - PARK PATHS

The park in the diagram tlis made up of two adjoining square plots AXEF and XBCD. There are two straight paths, XD and BF, the latter 500 metres in length. If the perimeter of the park is 1400 metres, how long is DE?

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25 - SQUARE FIELDS

Peter and Paul each purchased a square field at one dollar per square metre. Later on they sold their fields at cost price, pooled the proceeds and purchased a large square field jointly. Given the following information encrypted of course, can you figure out how long was the field they purchased jointly?

		Length		Cost
Peter's field		AB metres long		CDEH dollars
Paul's field		KC metres long		HBBC dollars
Field bought jointly		MA metres long		MHOM dollars

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26 - GIVE AND TAKE ANAGRAMS

Replace one of the letters in COURTESY with another, then rearrange the letters to form a new eight letter word to be inserted in the second rung of the ladder. Repeat the process, first changing a letter in the word just formed followed by a reshuffle of the letters so a as to spell the word to go into the third rung. Do the same to the third rung to produce the fourth an then the fifth [ROUNDLET] The given letters help to make your task less difficult.

C	O	U	R	T	E	S	Y
O				I
C				E
T				C
R	O	U	N	D	L	E	T

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27 - CROSS QUIZ

The words "across" suggest common words, those "down" proper names. Across: 8. Dance. (5) 6. Scene of combat. (5) 7. Presses. (5) 8. Reluctant. (5) Down: 1. Great Roman historian. (5) 2. French painter of the Absinthe Drinker. (5) 3 and 5. Name and surname of a great English modern painter who died in 1946. (4, 4) 4. The third brightest star in the sky. (4)

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28 - QUIZ

In which sport or game was each of the following sportsment famous?
(a) Joe Davis (b) Reg Harris (c) Victor Barna (d) Arthur E. R. Gilligan (e) Fred Daly (f) Sir George A. Thomas, Bt.
2. Who wrote the words of the hymn "Lead, Kindly Light"?
3. Pachydermatous means: (a) puerile (b) thick-skinned (c) dark-skinned (d) hairy
4, In which well-known books does each of these characters appear?
(a) Colonel Dobbin (b) Lady Dedlock (c) Mr. Collins (d) Sir Anthony Absolute

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29 - FIND THE FAMOUS

Guided by the sliding OUTs, and bearing in mind that, each of the numbers 1 to 18 stands for the same letter of the alphabet throughout, complete the six words concealed in the diagram. They mean, not in order, (a) a type of wine (b) to outmanoeuvre (c) a small quantity (d) angling — for a fish of the salmon family (e) a Mohammedan hermit (f) germinated. Then substitute letters for the numbers in the two panels underneath the diagram and you will discover the name a great sporting personality.

O U T 1 2 3 4 5 6 O U T 7 1 8 2 9 10 O U T 11 4 12 13 14 10 O U T 15 16 17 15 10 6 O U T 7 6 3 10 3 18 O U T 5 15 11 9 7 6 11 2 2 15 10

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30 - PLUS SIX

In the diagram on the right appear three skeleton eight-letter words, the missing letters being B, E, L, O, S and T in each case. Can you insert the six letters in their right squares?

R   U         A         U             A C

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31 - WEIGHTY TEASER

Using an equal arm balance, and having only 1 kg, 3 kg, and 6 kg weights, it is possible to weigh any exact number of pounds from one to 50 kg. Given a uniform metal bar 50 cm long and weighing 50 kg, how, would you cut it up in order to have weights with which you can weigh any exact number of kilograms from one to fifty kilograms? [In this Magic World there is no waste while cutting!]

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32 - HIDDEN FILM STAR

Here are clues to five five-letter words to be inserted in the diagram. If the right words are found out, a great film star should appear along the diagonals, reading down. CLUES 1. Pythias' inseparable friend. 2. Sicilian secret society. 3. French quisling with a palindromic name. 4. Stalin's henchman. 5. A water nymph.

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33 - COMMONWEALTH BASE

Starting with the letter A at the apex of the pyramid, move downwards towards the base, adding a new letter at each successive step, followed by a rearrangement of the letters so as to form a new word at each step. The nine different letters involved have been replaced by the digits 1 to 9, as they occur in order in the parent word at the bottom which is the name of a naval base in the former British Commonwealth. Can you reconstruct the pyramid and reach the base?

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34 - TWIN ANAGRAMS

The pair of missing words in each sentence that follows, are anagrams of each other. Can you supply them? Each * stands for a letter.
(a) ***** are sometimes mightier than many a *****.
(b) The fugitive ****** was caught in the enemy's ****** movement.
(c) Poor health did not deter the aging ****** from conducting. a very active religious study ******.
(d) Less and less ******* is being shown to the ******* of kings.
(e) The two ******* had appeared in every ******* of the local press.

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35 - WORD PYRAMID

Starting with the single letter word A at the apex of the pyramid, move towards the base, adding a new letter at each successive step downwards, followed by a rearrangement of the letters so as to form a new word at each step. To facilitate your, task, each of the letters in the base word has been replaced by a particular digit throughout the whole construction. Can you reconstruct the word pyramid?

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36 - THE MARKED COUNTER

Uncle Martin placed 16 counters on the table as shown in the figure. One of them had been marked with a cross and put face downwards like the rest. Then he invited his six nephews to guess in which row or column it was. Each nephew was allowed three guesses, a prize was going to whoever obtained the highest number of hits. The following were the answers he received: Ben: 4, A, C. Sam: 3, B, D Tom: 1 2, C. Bob: 2, 3, D, Len: 2, B, C. Dan: 1, 3, D. Uncle Martin could not award the prize as each nephew had registered but one, single hit. Which was the marked counter?

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37 - PLUS THREE

Without disturbing the order of the letters given add the same letter three times to each of the following and turn them into words. Example NSPD would be turned into INSIPID:

1. MCDM	2. CCN	3. TREED	4. SAUE
5. OAGO	6. AEUIA	7:NSAL	8. AUIN

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38 - CRYPTIC CRICKET

In the cricket match between Catchistan and Bowlonia, at the end of the second day's play, the scoreboard read

CATCHISTAN - 1st. Innings
Bandur b. Alfalfa
	X Y Z
Zimri b. Tari
	Y Z X
Khandari b. Tari, c. Manana
	Y Y X
Kukri not out
	Y X Z
Extras
	X Y
Total fore 3 wickets
	Z Z Y

Having given'that the number of runs made by each of the four batsmen is a prime number, can you translate the scoreboard into figures?

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39 - PUZZLERS'CONGRESS

The members of Puzzlers' Club met recently at Enigmopolis and elected the following ladies and gentlemen to form the committee for the coining year.

1. ELSA RIMELS	2 RUTH CABES	3. IGOR BURF
4. LEON BARCA	5. TOM TRADER	6. EDGAR LINN

Rearrange the letters in each member's name and figure out which European town or city he or she represents at the club.

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40 - MASQUERADING IMMORTALS

Listed here are the surnames of ten famous people of the past. Rearrange the letters to unmask them. To help you the art, sport, or profession each excelled in, is shown near each name.

1. ALEXIS PERT [sculptor]
2. NOE MINS [novelist]
3. ANTON STINCE [cricketer]
4. SAM EIST [painter]
5. SAUL YESCH [dramatist]
6. LEON PHILIC.. [composer]
7. GINO LISTNEV [explorer]
8. PIERRE CANT [bOxer]
9. BEN WRUINS [poet]
10. AZIZ LOPETS educator]

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41 - OPERATIC CROSSWORD

S	1	E	2
A				I
	A	3	4
5		E		S
S	I	6	7	8

Guided by the letters already in place, insert the following 12 letters in the diagram so as to form a crossword:

A

A

C

L

E

I

L

N

N

P

R

T

If you succeed you will note that 6 letters occupying the pink squares 1 to 8 When read in order, will produce the title of a comic opera, a game, and what you badly need now. What is it?

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42 - CARD ADDITION

JACK ACE KING

A simple case of substitution of letters for digits to have a proper addition. Sounds easy, but try to get the highest sum.

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43 - UNDERGROUND

"Can you write the word UNDERGROUND using eight letters only?" inquired the fox.
"I'm afraid I can't," replied the puzzled hedgehog. I think it can't be done."
Much to the hedgehog's astonishment the fox proved that it could. How did he do it?

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44 - POLO TO GOLF

P	O	L	O
G	O	L	F

Changing one letter at each successive step — downwards without reshuffling the letters, it is pos sible to turn LEAD into GOLD thus: LEAD, LOAD, GOAD, GOLD. Employing the same tactics, can you change POLO Into GOLF in only three intermediate steps?

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45 - LETTER DIVISION

LU) YANR (PGO        LU        PGN        PYD          PNR          PNR

This Long Division is based on a ten-letter keyword, whose letters in order stand for the digits 1, 2, 3, 4. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0. Try to solve the problem as well disover the keyword.

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