Exactly the same technique as last week – he must be running out of ideas! This time the puzzles were disguised as the centre pages of "Puzzle Crazy" magazine.
Not Uncoordinated
Every square is to be filled. Stray letters are not clued but are pinpointed with the clue and should be inserted between words or at either end as necessary.
Across:
A. City in Tunisia relating to arms
C. Behavioural scientist increase
E. Uncomfortable honour to build the Olympics (R,E)
G. Gear makes holes in garden molluscs (E,O)
H. Mites ticks operating system monster (A,L)
I. Refilled (R,P)
L. How to find a web site: they are round and flat hordeolum
O. Scot's sore believers (R,G)
P. La Palma airport uses lunar rocket (G,E)
R. Dorsal muscles wartime unit circle's ratio
X. Responds to gnome like creature
Y. Dr Johnson would regard this as harmless drudgery
Down:
A. Brightest Virgo is father of phenomenology
B. Overweight Costa Rican internet is strong snuff (I,P)
C. Pension top-up Irish American chopper (S,A)
E. Very big string instrument to dehydrate former US telecoms company
G. Gay Welsh pubic bone, and so on.
I. No longer primitive French body
L. Sun god? Wild horse ovum!
N. Top cards measurement system measures things
O. Bletchley machines Japanese noodles (G,I)
R. Water shortages assist
S. Contraceptive is off-white sun hat (R,I)
T. Stop inevitable future
Neighbours
Seven families who are friends all live in consecutively numbered houses in the same street, and so are next door, or across the road from each other. There are a few hundred houses in the street.
- 1. Each house is inhabited by a married couple and, by one of those strange coincidences, they work at seven different jobs, with one female and one male example of each.
- 2. In three families both members do the same job. In the others they do different jobs.
- 3. All the houses on the south side of the street have black front doors, those on the other side are all different from this and to each other.
- 4. The Lloyds are PR account managers and like to play bridge with the Reids.
- 5. The Blacks' house number is the highest numbered, and that number is an integer power of an integer.
- 6. The quantity surveyor lives with his wife in one of the two prime-numbered houses and the other quantity surveyor (who is married to a glaciologist) lives next door in the other.
- 7. No-one lives in a house with the same colour door as their surname would suggest.
- 8. One of the turret press operators is married to a quantity surveyor.
- 9. Last Friday the Blacks were kept up late by a noisy quantity-surveying party next door.
- 10. The foundry workers are brother and sister.
- 11. The vulcanologists live in the lowest even numbered house, opposite the Greens.
- 12. Neither of the Blacks have ever been abroad.
- 13. Last year the Gormans went on holiday with the vulcanologists.
- 14. After a particularly good party last Christmas, Mr Lloyd mistook his neighbour's house for his own (they all have doors the same colour after all). But luckily his neighbours on both sides are good friends.
- 15. Mr Brown and Mrs White do the same job and - as they are neighbours - often car share.
Where do the Gormans live?
Double Crostic
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