21 June 2001
Here
is a midsummer quiz for you. There are
again 25 questions, but you will note that this is 24 + 1, a factor you should
bear in mind when looking for the theme.
Once you find it, I’ve no doubt the answers will not take you long.
The
questions are of two types: the one and
two word questions are trivia questions, with only the most important words
shown. The other questions are cryptic
clues, and for these the number of letters in the solution is given in each
case. The type of question does not
relate to the answer in any way and the questions are simply in alphabetical
order, though there is a more logical order for the answers, which are all of
one word. You also need to know the cut-off
date, which is 22 July, when I will publish the results and answers.
1.
Angles to see if she’s making it up (6)
2.
Aquifer
3.
Arthropod stings
4.
Aslan
5.
Bent cops hiding out in Rio look for top-of-the-range car (7)
6.
Cooper’s mate
7.
Derby County
8.
Foreign books can be found in Braille, but not the French (5)
9.
He shoots into the charts with new aria busting its guts (11)
10.
If a week is a long time in politics, this is an age in music (8)
11.
Justice
12.
Madonna
13.
Minotaur
14.
Northern line
15.
‘Oh you’ll never get to heaven, in an old Ford car’ (6)
16.
Rolls-Royce company briefly involved in wild panic at winter forecast
(9)
17.
Sign of a crumpled toga (4)
18.
Spring sign
19.
Snooker champion
20.
Space programme
21.
Species swimming without energy (6)
22.
Supernova explosion
23.
Thanks! We hear you are in
front of us. What bull! (6)
24.
They didn’t build Rome in a day or two (5)
25.
Toxophilite
