Puzzle Pages – answers for September 2025!

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

Q&A

1. What is the only mammal that’s capable of true flight (rather than gliding for short distances)?
2. Juneau is the capital city of which American state?
3. Australian tennis player Pat O’Hara Wood won the Australian Open in the 1920. Two other Aussies named Pat have won grand slam tournaments: who are they?
4. The Chao Phraya river flows through which city?
5. What is the medical term, starting with “a”, for having a shortage of haemoglobin?
6. What is the “27 Club”?
7. What does the “L” stand for in “LCD”?
8. How many hours is Singapore ahead of London?
9. What city was buried under volcanic ash in AD 79?
10. In Hindu mythology, who is the god with the elephant head?

Answers:

1. Bat
2. Alaska
3. Pat Cash and Pat Rafter
4. Bangkok
5. Anaemia
6. An informal list of celebrities, mostly musicians, who died at the age of 27; it includes Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse, among others
7. Liquid
8. Seven
9. Pompeii
10. Ganesh

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: interrupt

others:
nett, pent, pern, pine, pint, punt, rent, ruin, rune
runt, tent, tern, tine, tint, tune, turn, unit, inept,
inert, input, inter, inure, nitre, print, prune, rerun,
ripen, tuner, unite, unrip, untie, urine, nutter,
pruner, punier, punter, purine, retint, return,
ruiner, tinter, turner, turnip, uniter, unripe, nuttier
printer, reprint, inputter

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Pages, September 2025 answers – Page 2

TOP TO BOTTOM

List the following ten capital cities in order from the northernmost one on the planet to the southernmost

Answers:

Reykjavík
Edinburgh
Bucharest
Beirut
Vientiane
Singapore
Jakarta
Suva
Canberra
Wellington

AND… ACTION!

Movie genres stretch well beyond the standard comedy, action and horror: see if you can match each subgenre with a film

Answers:

Found Footage – Cloverfield
Period Piece – The Age of Innocence
Heist – Heat
Dark Fantasy – Pan’s Labyrinth
Mockumentary – This is Spinal Tap
Biopic – Walk the Line
Stop Motion – The Nightmare Before Christmas
Spaghetti Western – For a Few Dollars More
Post-Apocalyptic – Mad Max II
Courtroom Drama – A Time to Kill

DRAWING A BLANK?

Here’s a list of 10 Singapore neighbourhoods, with only the first and last letters provided. Fill in the gaps (noting where multiple words are required)

Answers:

Newton
Ang Mo Kio
Sentosa
Boat Quay
Pasir Panjang
Bugis
Alexandra
Buona Vista
Joo Chiat
Farrer Park

THE RIDDLER

Answers:

1. Four. It doesn’t matter how many of each colour you have, the answer will always be four. Why? Because once you have taken the first three socks from the drawer, the only way you can’t already have a pair is if you have one of each colour. When you take the fourth sock, it must be a match with one of the socks you’ve already taken.
2. Five. After the first monkey took three bananas, there were two left. The second monkey took half of those – that is, one banana – leaving just one more in the bunch.
3. Simone was looking at pages 12 and 13, which gives 156 when multiplied together.

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

20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz