Puzzle Pages – answers for September 2026!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the September 2026 issue of Expat Living magazine. Do you love quiz questions and puzzles? Make sure you get them every month by subscribing to Expat Living!

Puzzle Pages, September 2026 answers – Page 1

Q&A

#1 An Alaskan Malamute inspired which famously hairy sci-fi character?
#2 Which glands are found immediately about the kidneys in the human body?
#3 Helen Mirren, Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench and Margot Robbie have all portrayed which historical figure?
#4 What is the term for words that mean the opposite of each other?
#5 Which strait separates Alaska from Russia?
#6 In 2019, the official Rules of Golf reduced the amount of time you can look for a ball before it’s considered lost from 5 minutes to how long?
#7 What number is undici in Italian?
#8 On which Eminem hit did singer Dido perform?
#9 What type of creature is a cowrie?
#10 The two famous epic works attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer are The Odyssey and The ____?

Answers:

 #1 Chewbacca (the dog was George Lucas’s)
#2 Adrenal glands
#3 Queen Elizabeth I
#4 Antonyms
#5 The Bering Strait
#6 Three minutes
#7 Eleven
#8 “Stan”
#9 A mollusc
#10 Iliad

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: paramedic

others:
aced, acid, acme, acre, came, camp, cape,
card, care, carp, cram, crap, dace, dice, epic,
iced, mace, mica, mice, pace, pica, race, rice,
acrid, apace, cadre, caped, caper, cared, cedar,
cider, cramp, cream, cried, crime, crimp, medic,
paced, pacer, price, raced, recap, arcade,
camera, camped, camper, decamp, madcap,
priced, cramped, crimped

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Pages, September 2026 answers – Page 2

TITLE FIGHT

Can you match the following films with the words that come after the colon in their title?

Answers:

Mad Max: Fury Road
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Spider-Man: Far from Home
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Speed 2: Cruise Control
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

WORD SCRAMBLE

Unjumble the following words to reveal a sport

Answers:

secloars – lacrosse
lseablba – baseball
rectick – cricket
uubglagryee – rugby league
ewsltnirg – wrestling
lpweooart – water polo
nigfrus – surfing
reansquite – equestrian
hycerar – archery
intdnabmo – badminton

BORDERING ON TRICKY

Match each country on the left with the one on the right that it shares a land border with

Answers:

Cambodia – Thailand
Finland – Russia
El Salvador – Guatemala
The Gambia – Senegal
South Africa – Eswatini
Syria – Lebanon
Bahrain – Saudi Arabia
Bhutan – China
Madagascar – none
Slovenia – Italy

THE RIDDLER

On a game show, a contestant made it through to the final million-dollar round. The show host said to the contestant: “With a million dollars up for grabs, here is your challenge: In just 90 seconds, name 100 words that do not contain the letter “a”. Your time starts… now!”

Not only did the contestant win the million dollars, but she did so with almost 30 seconds left on the clock. How?

Answer:

The contestant just counted from 1 to 100. The letter “a” doesn’t appear in any of those numbers. In fact, it doesn’t make an appearance until the number 1,000 (“one thousand”).

Enjoyed the Puzzle Pages in our September issue? Read on for more challenges and trivia!

20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz