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Answers for Tuesday, 22 September 2026

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Yesteryear — the year was 1970

Clue 1: A music festival was held on a Somerset farm for the first time.

Clue 2: Eighteen-year-olds voted in a general election for the first time.

Clue 3: Apollo 13 declared 'Houston, we've had a problem' — and came home safely.

Clue 4: England surrendered a two-goal lead to West Germany in a World Cup quarter-final.

Clue 5: The Beatles announced they had split up.

Word Search — theme: Morning Post

The 8 hidden words were:

BICYCLE · DELIVERY · ENVELOPE · PARCEL · POSTBOX · POSTMAN · SORTING · TELEGRAM

Mini Crossword

HTJ
OLIVE
UGL
SHELL
ERY

Across: 4. OLIVE · 5. SHELL

Down: 1. HOUSE · 2. TIGER · 3. JELLY

Daily Trivia — Poets' Corner

  1. Who 'wandered lonely as a cloud' and saw a host of golden daffodils? William Wordsworth
  2. 'If you can keep your head when all about you...' opens a poem by... Rudyard Kipling
  3. In Edward Lear's poem, the Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a... Beautiful pea-green boat
  4. Which much-loved poet of railways and suburbs became Poet Laureate in 1972? John Betjeman
  5. 'Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred' is from which poem? The Charge of the Light Brigade

Sudoku Solutions

Easy

843516729
291437856
657928143
426891375
785643291
319752468
972385614
568174932
134269587

Medium

851723469
426589317
397641258
534862971
978314526
612957843
765498132
183275694
249136785

Memory Match — deck: Travel

The 10 pairs were:

🚂 Steam train · ✈️ Aeroplane · 🚢 Ship · 🧳 Suitcase · 🗺️ Map · 🎫 Ticket · 🚕 Taxi · ⛴️ Ferry · 🚉 Station · 🧭 Compass

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