Puzzle Pages – answers for April 2026!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the April 2026 issue of Expat Living magazine. If you love quiz questions and puzzles and you’d like to make sure you get them every month, don’t forget to subscribe to Expat Living!

Puzzle Pages, April 2026 answers – Page 1

Q&A

#1 What was the name of Bryan Cranston’s character in Breaking Bad?
#2 What fashion brand has an interlocking “CC” logo?
#3 Which US state is nicknamed the Lone Star State?
#4 In Korean cuisine, what does the term banchan refer to?
#5 What organ in the body is often described as having no purpose?
#6 What does a golfer traditionally yell out as a warning to people standing in the way of a poor shot?
#7 What is New Zealand’s second biggest city by population?
#8 Which British street artist created “Girl with a Balloon”?
#9 What is the term for a dictionary of synonyms?
#10 What was the first fruit eaten on the Moon: grape, banana or peach?

Answers:

#1 Walter White
#2 Chanel
#3 Texas
#4 Side dishes
#5 Appendix
#6 “Fore!”
#7 Christchurch
#8 Banksy
#9 Thesaurus
#10 Peach. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had a meal of bacon, tinned peaches and cookies on the lunar surface in 1969.

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: fireworks

others:

skew, weir, wire, wise, woke, wore, work,
resow, rower, sower, swire, swore, wirer,
wiser, woker, worse, wrier, rework, worker,
worser, firework

KENKEN

5 4 1 2 3
2 1 3 4 5
4 3 5 1 2
1 5 2 3 4
3 2 4 5 1

Puzzle Pages, April 2026 answers – Page 2

SUPERSTAR SURNAMES

Match the artist with their real-life last names

Answers: 

Madonna – Ciccone
Jay Z – Carter
Lorde – Yelich-O’Connor
Bono – Hewson
Rihanna – Fenty
Freddie Mercury – Bulsara
Cher – Sarkisian
Chappell Roan – Amstutz
Pink – Moore
Sting – Sumner

SPICY SCALES

On a scale of 1 to 10, how well will you go at matching the following terms with the things that they measure?

Answers:

Scoville – spiciness of chilli peppers
Beaufort – wind
Brix – sugar concentration in liquids
Decibel – sound intensity and volume
Richter – magnitude of earthquake
Kelvin – thermodynamic temperature
Apgar – newborn baby health
Mercalli – effects of earthquake
Fujita – tornado strength
Mohs – hardness of minerals

MOVIES MINUS VOWELS

Can you work out the film titles from the vowel-less clues?

Answers:

TP GN – Top Gun
MRTY SPRM – Marty Supreme
MNNS – Minions
TH SL SSPCTS – The Usual Suspects
JMNJ – Jumanji
BB – Babe
CSN RYL – Casino Royale
GRS – Grease
PLTN  – Platoon
TH PNST – The Pianist

THE RIDDLER

If times means minus, minus means times, plus means divide, and divide means plus, solve the following:

(14-5) / (120+2) x 70 = ?

Answer:

(14×5) + (120/2) – 70 = 60

Liked our April puzzle pages? Read on for more fun puzzles and trivia:

20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz