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Puzzle Pages, April 2025 answers – Page 1
Q&A
- What was the original purpose of the very small pocket in a pair of jeans?
- Anastasia and Drizella are stepsisters of who?
- Which one is now extinct, the Tasmanian tiger or the Tasmanian devil?
- What’s the name of the Mexican dish of a folded tortilla filled with cheese and other ingredients?
- Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea?
- How many minutes are there in a day?
- Scheduled for release next year is what number in the Toy Story film franchise?
- What country covers five time zones but only has one official time?
- In what part of your body would you find the cruciate ligament?
- Which one of these was not a popular dance style in the 1960s: The Watusi, The Miracle Mash, The Frug?
Answers:
- To hold a pocket watch
- Cinderella
- Tasmanian tiger
- Quesadilla
- Ernest Hemingway
- 1,440
- Toy Story 5
- China
- The knee
- The Miracle Mash
SUDOKU
2 8 7 4 3 1 6 5 9
3 1 5 8 9 6 4 2 7
4 9 6 7 2 5 1 8 3
5 4 2 1 6 3 7 9 8
9 6 8 5 4 7 2 3 1
7 3 1 9 8 2 5 4 6
8 7 3 2 1 4 9 6 5
6 5 4 3 7 9 8 1 2
1 2 9 6 5 8 3 7 4
WORDWHEEL
9-letter word: adulthood
others:
alto, auto, dado, dodo, dolt, doth, halo, hold,
holt, hood, hoot, load, loot, lota, loth, loud,
lout, oath, thou, toad, tola, told, tolu, tool,
ahold, aloud, loath, outdo, outadd, holdout
KENKEN
5 1 3 2 4
3 2 4 5 1
2 4 5 1 3
4 5 1 3 2
1 3 2 4 5
Puzzle Pages, April 2025 answers – Page 2
ACE THESE ACRONYMS
Match the three-letter acronym with its meaning
Answers:
BTS – South Korean boy band
BRB – Internet chat term
BCE – A long time ago in history
BPM – Music tempo
B2B – Marketing jargon
BLT – Found on a café menu
BFF – More than just an acquaintance
BJJ – A martial art
BCC – Sneaky addition to an email thread
BAC – Police might test you for this
TEAM PLAYER
Match each sport with the official number of players on the team
Answers:
Volleyball – 6
Baseball – 9
Polo – 4
Australian Rules Football – 18
Sepak Takraw – 3
Cricket – 11
Boxing – 1
Rugby Union – 15
Rugby League – 13
Basketball – 5
FOR FILM BUFFS
Match the character and actor (bonus points for naming the movie)
Answers:
- Elisabeth Sparkle – Demi Moore (The Substance)
- Alan Turing – Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
- Edward Cullen – Robert Pattinson (Twilight)
- Gloria – America Ferrera (Barbie)
- John McClane – Bruce Willis (Die Hard)
- Bellatrix Lestrange – Helena Bonham Carter (Harry Potter)
- Rick Dalton – Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)
- Miranda Priestly – Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada)
- Ellen Ripley – Sigourney Weaver (Alien)
- Tony Montana – Al Pacino (Scarface)
THE RIDDLER
In each line, what’s a fourth word that can be linked with the other three words?
Answers:
mill | tooth | dust = saw
print | berry | bird = blue
pie | belly | luck = pot
cross | rain | tie = bow
basket | eight | snow = ball
Liked our April puzzle pages? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia:
20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz
