Puzzle Pages – answers for December 2025!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the December 2025 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, December 2025 answers – Page 1

Q&A

#1 Sri Lanka is more densely populated than Japan, true or false?
#2 What is the comparative form of “badly”?
#3 Which team won Major League Baseball’s World Series last month?
#4 Who became known for the catchphrase “That’s hot”?
#5 What is the name of Apple’s virtual assistant?
#6 What is the key ingredient of the Greek dish moussaka?
#7 Which month has more birthdays than any other?
#8 What galaxy is the closest to the Milky Way?
#9 Latin was the official language of Vatican City until 2014; what is it now?
#10 Who played The Joker in the 2008 film The Dark Knight?

Answers:

#1 False
#2 Worse
#3 LA Dodgers
#4 Paris Hilton
#5 Siri
#6 Eggplant
#7 September
#8 Andromeda
#9 Italian
#10 Heath Ledger

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: political

others:

atop, calp, clip, clop, lipa, opal, pact, pail
pall, pica, pila, pill, pita, plat, plot, poll,
apiol, capot, clapt, optic, patio, pical, pilot,
plait, plica, topic, atopic, lipoic, aplitic,
capitol, coalpit, optical, politic, topical

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Pages, December 2025 answers – Page 2

LANDMARK LOCATOR

Which city is each of these famous structures found in?

Answers: 

CN Tower – Toronto, Canada
Forbidden City – Beijing, China
Sacre Coeur – Paris, France
Burj Khalifa – Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Christ the Redeemer – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Acropolis – Athens, Greece
Space Needle – Seattle, USA
Taj Mahal – Agra, India
Trevi Fountain – Rome, Italy
Petronas Twin Towers – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

WORDS OF THE MONTH

It’s December, so here’s a bunch of words and phrases starting with “Dec–” for you to identify. We’ve given letter counts to help!

Answers:

Art something, a 1920s design style (4) – Deco
Large transferrable sticker (5) – decal
Thing used to lure you into a trap (5) – decoy
Pour from one container into another (6) – decant
One tenth of a century (6) – decade
Interpret a hidden code (8) – decipher
Lots of these at a loud concert (8) – decibels
Shedding leaves annually (9) – deciduous
Breaking down of organic substances (13) – decomposition
Christmas carol (4, 3, 5) – Deck The Halls

FESTIVE FILMS

Match these Christmas (or Christmas-ish) movies to the actresses in them

Answers:

Elf (2003) – Zooey Deschanel
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) – Beverly D’Angelo
You’ve Got Mail (1998) – Meg Ryan
The Holdovers (2023) – Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Home Alone (1990) – Catherine O’Hara
The Family Stone (2006) – Sarah Jessica Parker
Edward Scissorhands (1990) – Winona Ryder
Love Actually (2003) – Emma Thompson
Meet Me in St Louis (1944) – Judy Garland
Die Hard (1988) – Bonnie Bedelia

THE RIDDLER

Can you make a Magic Square?

Answers:

There are various permutations of the answer, depending on how you order things, but here are how the numbers need to be grouped:

2 7 6
9 5 1
4 3 8

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

20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz