Answers for Tuesday, 27 October 2026
All six puzzles from this day, solved.
The answers are below — no peeking unless you mean to!
Yesteryear — the year was 1981
Clue 1: IBM launched its first personal computer.
Clue 2: Bucks Fizz won Eurovision with a skirt-ripping routine.
Clue 3: Thousands ran the very first London Marathon.
Clue 4: Ian Botham turned an Ashes series on its head at Headingley.
Clue 5: Charles and Diana married at St Paul's in July.
Word Search — theme: Old Time Music
The 8 hidden words were:
BALLROOM · CROONER · FOXTROT · GRAMOPHONE · JUKEBOX · MELODY · SWING · VINYL
Mini Crossword
BBS
ROAST
ODO
ORGAN
MEE
Across: 4. ROAST · 5. ORGAN
Down: 1. BROOM · 2. BADGE · 3. STONE
Daily Trivia — Great Firsts
- Who was the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969? Neil Armstrong
- The Wright brothers are famous for the first successful... Powered aeroplane flight
- Which ocean liner famously sank on her maiden voyage in 1912? The Titanic
- Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were first to the top of... Mount Everest
- Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic? Amelia Earhart
Sudoku Solutions
Easy
568921347
347865912
219473685
684317529
921546738
753289164
836794251
475132896
192658473
Medium
927564381
451783629
368912547
576849213
293175468
814326795
689237154
745691832
132458976
Memory Match — deck: At the Zoo
The 10 pairs were:
🦁 Lion · 🐘 Elephant · 🦒 Giraffe · 🐒 Monkey · 🦓 Zebra · 🐻 Bear · 🦛 Hippo · 🐅 Tiger · 🦘 Kangaroo · 🐊 Crocodile