Answers for Tuesday, 22 September 2026
All six puzzles from this day, solved.
The answers are below — no peeking unless you mean to!
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
Across: 4. OLIVE · 5. SHELL
Down: 1. HOUSE · 2. TIGER · 3. JELLY
Daily Trivia — Poets' Corner
- Who 'wandered lonely as a cloud' and saw a host of golden daffodils? William Wordsworth
- 'If you can keep your head when all about you...' opens a poem by... Rudyard Kipling
- In Edward Lear's poem, the Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a... Beautiful pea-green boat
- Which much-loved poet of railways and suburbs became Poet Laureate in 1972? John Betjeman
- 'Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred' is from which poem? The Charge of the Light Brigade
Sudoku Solutions
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Medium
Memory Match — deck: Travel
The 10 pairs were:
🚂 Steam train · ✈️ Aeroplane · 🚢 Ship · 🧳 Suitcase · 🗺️ Map · 🎫 Ticket · 🚕 Taxi · ⛴️ Ferry · 🚉 Station · 🧭 Compass