Answers for Wednesday, 12 August 2026
All six puzzles from this day, solved.
The answers are below — no peeking unless you mean to!
Yesteryear — the year was 1971
Clue 1: Hot pants were, briefly, high fashion.
Clue 2: Mr Benn first popped through the changing-room door on children's TV.
Clue 3: The Open University welcomed its first students.
Clue 4: Shopkeepers spent February explaining a whole new kind of money.
Clue 5: Decimal Day: pounds, shillings and pence became pounds and new pence.
Word Search — theme: Board Game Night
The 8 hidden words were:
BACKGAMMON · CHECKERS · CRIBBAGE · DICE · DRAUGHTS · MARBLES · PUZZLE · SOLITAIRE
Mini Crossword
PATH
IU
EARLY
NI
SOAP
Across: 1. PATH · 3. EARLY · 4. SOAP
Down: 1. PIANO · 2. TULIP
Daily Trivia — Sporting Days
- How many balls are bowled in a cricket over? Six
- Wimbledon is famous for which sport? Tennis
- England won football's World Cup in which year? 1966
- St Andrews in Scotland is called 'the home of' which game? Golf
- In chess, how many squares are on the board? 64
Sudoku Solutions
Easy
137928465
569374812
248651397
876419523
915832674
423765981
392587146
681243759
754196238
Medium
326794518
471528639
598613274
643257981
259481763
187369425
732145896
865932147
914876352
Memory Match — deck: Farm Animals
The 10 pairs were:
🐄 Cow · 🐖 Pig · 🐑 Sheep · 🐓 Rooster · 🐴 Horse · 🐐 Goat · 🦆 Duck · 🐇 Rabbit · 🐕 Dog · 🐈 Cat