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6 Question mark over hubby’s
regular losses (5)
9 Medic bringing Mae West
a vision (5)
14 Displaying incompetence
in record time (5)
17 Alien sunset: ravishing
but redundant (11)
18 An America where
food runs out? (4)
19 An immature animal hangs
upside down? (4)
21 Back around the clock party bar (5)
22 Smell of opening grave (5)
23 Which loom audibly produces
some energy? (4-4)
28 Spins the small pots (5)
30 Careful new beard design (2,6)
34 German city painter one
gets into (6)
35 No salami salad for
painted lady (4,4)
36 Taste detective’s reflux (3)
37 Sequence of redirections
rerouted journey (4)
38 As a result, monotheist
sounds out alcohol (4)
41 IKEA and I try cooking
Japanese dishes (8)
43 Hymn I introduced to relieve
the terminal boredom (6)
44 A royal heir’s criminal act (5)
46 Vote for King Charles I amid
concerning current affairs (8)
47 Stood, fired and looted (9)
48 Like the planets, boycott
every other alien (5)
49 Gouache artist shows spirit (5)
51 Ceremonial, trite, and also
not well-hidden (8)
52 Remarked on these sail parts (5)
53 They haven’t shelled paradise (6)
54 Ruin pamper like a child (5)
55 Stop time (6)
56 Put off opening of
the game boxes (5)
57 Newspaper closest to The Sun? (7)
58 Fly off settee (6)
59 Top hominid chromosome (4)
60 North American tax agency circles
what French ring brought up (8)
Festive puzzles
Christmas gifts – Zoe Mensch
#35 Part 1
By the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love
has given me 12 partridges in a pear tree.
But which gifts have I received the most of?All squares – David Bodycombe
#36
I met Natalie the other day. She wasn’t
prepared to tell me her age, but she did tell
me that in the year N^2 , she will turn N years
old. In what year was she born?#37
Can you work out (68^2 – 32^2 )/(59^2 – 41^2 )
without using a calculator? And can you
do it without having to square any of the
numbers?Meaningful matches
- Paulo Ferro
#38
The figure below has four equilateral
triangles. Move two matchsticks to
get only three equilateral triangles.#39
The figure below is composed of
29 matchsticks. Move two matchsticks
to get a correct multiplication result.Answers to all puzzles on page 94Part 2
I want to give all the gifts back. Starting on
26 December 2019, I am going to give one
of them to my true love every day. On which
date will I give them my final gift?