Puzzle Pages, May 2020: All the Answers!

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages from the May 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!

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Q&A

#1 Honahlee
#2 Vodka
#3 Pete Sampras
#4 President of the Republic of Singapore
#5 Colours
#6 Alcatraz
#7 Malé
#8 Montague
#9 Michael Caine
#10 18

SUDOKU

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

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

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

WORDWHEEL

Main word: celebrate / erectable

Other possible words:
abet, able, bale, bare, bate, bear, beat, beer, beet, belt, beta
blae, blat, blet, brae, brat, bree, carb, crab, abele, abler, acerb
baler, beret, betel, blare, blate, blear, bleat, brace, bract, caber
cable, celeb, rebec, rebel, taber, table, albert, beater, beetle
belter, berate, cabler, cablet, labret, rebate, treble, beetler
bleater, retable, bracelet

KENKEN

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

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ANIMAL KINGDOM

Match the animal with its group name

Murder of crows
Flamboyance of flamingos
Murmuration of starlings
Mob of kangaroos
Coalition of cheetahs
Shoal of seahorses

Missing Vowels

CML = camel
PLRBR = polar bear
BBN = baboon
CRMRNT = cormorant
CYT = coyote
RMDLL = armadillo
LN = lion
KNGR = kangaroo
WL = owl
KNGCBR = king cobra

QUICKIE

The last time that a year could be read the same upside down as right way up was 1961. This will next happen in the year 6009.

ARTIST & SONG

• “I’m gonna pop some tags, only got twenty dollars in my pocket”: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, “Thrift Shop”
• “And darling I will be loving you ’til we’re 70”: Ed Sheeran, “Thinking Out Loud”
• “Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash”: Pink Floyd, “Money”
• “And all the roads we have to walk are winding, and all the lights that lead us there are blinding”: Oasis, “Wonderwall”
• “Come up to meet you, tell you I’m sorry, you don’t know how lovely you are”: Coldplay, “The Scientist”
• “With the lights out, it’s less dangerous, here we are now, entertain us”: Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
• “Each morning I get up I die a little, can barely stand on my feet”: Queen, “Somebody to Love”
• “Up in the club, just broke up, I’m doing my own little thing”: Beyoncé, “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
• “You better lose yourself in the music, the moment, you own it”: Eminem, “Lose Yourself”
• “I saw her today at the reception, a glass of wine in her hand”: The Rolling Stones, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”

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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.