Puzzle Pages, July 2020: All the Answers!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from Expat Living July 2020 issue. If you missed the puzzles or you’d like to make sure you get them in each issue from now, don’t forget to subscribe!

Puzzle Page 1

Q&A

#1 Zero
#2 10 points
#3 Rice
#4 2009
#5 Messi 6, Ronaldo 5
#6 New Zealand
#7 Lowest (or least) common denominator
#8 A frog
#9 USA (it was invented in San Francisco)
#10 AA Milne

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

Main word: different

Other possible words:
deer, dere, dire, dirt, dree, eire, erin, erne, fere, fern, fire,
firn, free, fret, frit, ired, nerd, rede, reed, reef, reft, reif,
rein, rend, rent, rete, ride, rife, riff, rift, rind, rite, tern,
tier, tire, tree, tref, defer, deter, diner, drift, eider, ender,
enter, fifer, finer, fired, freed, fried, inert, infer, inter, niter,
nitre, refed, refit, rente, retie, terne, tired, treed, treen,
trend, tried, trine, deffer, defier, defter, denier, dieter, differ,
entire, fender, ferine, finder, friend, nereid, niffer, redfin,
reedit, reffed, refind, refine, reined, rented, retied, retine,
rident, riffed, rifted, tender, tiered, tinder, triene, trined,
definer, refined, niffered, different

KENKEN

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

Puzzle Page 2

ART & COLOUR

Match the painting with the artist:

American Gothic = Grant Wood
The Birth of Venus = Sandro Botticelli
Guernica = Pablo Picasso
The Kiss = Gustav Klimt
Mona Lisa = Leonardo da Vinci
The Starry Night = Vincent van Gogh

Missing vowels:

RNG = orange
MGNT = magenta
Q = aqua
NDG = indigo
PCH = peach
MRN = maroon
MSTRD = mustard
VLT = violet
ZR = azure
LV = olive

QUICKIE

Secret messages:

VAD ERS = Space Invaders
HIJKLMNO = Water (“H to O”)
YOU JUST ME = Just between you and me

ARTIST & SONG

• Simon & Garfunkel, “Hello darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again” (“The Sound of Silence”)
• Miley Cyrus, “We clawed, we chained, our hearts in vain, we jumped, never asking why” (“Wrecking Ball”)
• Tones and I, “Dance for me, dance for me, dance for me, oh, oh, oh” (“Dance Monkey”)
• Sinéad O’Connor, “It’s been seven hours and 15 days, since you took your love away” (“Nothing Compares 2 U”)
• Village People, “Young man, there’s no need to feel down; I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground” (“YMCA”)
• Guns N’ Roses,  “She’s got a smile that it seems to me reminds me of childhood memories” (“Sweet Child O’ Mine”)
• MC Hammer, “My, my, my my music hits me so hard, makes me say, ‘Oh my Lord!’” (“U Can’t Touch This”)
• Drake, “You used to call me on my cell phone, late night when you need my love” (“Hotline Bling”)
• Aretha Franklin, “What you want, baby, I got it; what you need, do you know I got it?” (“Respect”)
• The Kinks, “I met her in a club down in old Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca Cola” (“Lola”)

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Shamus Sillar

While he has worked as a magazine editor since 2003, Shamus also has a PhD in Roman History (useful!) and is a published author. He writes mostly on travel but also covers food, history, sport, trivia and more, across Expat Living’s publications and websites in Singapore and Hong Kong.