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    Diversions & Puzzles

    Jul 04, 2021 5 minutes

    QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker

    Puzzle No 1605

    Clues across

    1. Which army unit consists of soldiers who fight on foot? (8)

    7. The name of what seance board is literally “yes yes”? (5)

    8. In 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales called for an international ban on what? (9)

    9. What word can precede head, plant, white? (3)

    10. What flexible armour is made of interlinked metal rings? (4)

    11. What indicator turns red under acid conditions and blue under alkaline conditions? (6)

    13. What river passes through Baghdad? (6)

    14. Which legendary war is described in Homer’s Iliad? (6)

    17. What is a small earthquake? (6)

    18. A praying mantis has five what? (4)

    20. Which film company made 1941’s Citizen Kane? (1,1,1)

    22. Established in 1683, which museum in Oxford was Britain’s first public museum? (9)

    23/24. Recorded

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