It’s becoming a tradition that we publish a cryptic ‘Orange Quiz Sheet’ to get people thinking during the Christmas break. Look out for the 2011 Quiz Sheet in December. Here’s this year’s sheet (which raised over £230!), with the answers, and a few indications of how they work.
Many thanks for supporting the Link by having a go at this year’s Quiz-sheet. We hope you enjoyed it! Here are the anwers. I’ve added a few notes (underlinings or italics) to explain some of the answers. If you want any more details, do contact me on robin.gray1066@googlemail.com
Hastings & St Leonards: – roads, streets etc
1) Wade around lake in honour of Belgian friends (10, 4) (anagram) Oudenaarde Walk
2) Sounds like just the spot for a fish farm (6,5) Breeds Place
3) How the Light Blues got to Putney Bridge? (9,4) Cambridge Road
4) The duke not cool? (10, 6) Wellington Square
5) Fishing folk might spin a wacky tale here. (9) (anagram) Tackleway
6) When beauty is confused, she’ll end up by the Park (7, 3) (anagram) Bethune Way
7) Why were cats seen around the White Rock Theatre? (8, 3) (anagram) Schwerte Way
Tardy cowherd (anagram) (9, 3) Dordrecht Way
9) Sounds like just the road for a maternity unit (3, 6) The Bourne
… local landmarks past & present
10) Missing from the heart of Hastings, but (appropriately) not forgotten (3,8) The Memorial
11) A pub where it might rain darts? (9) Pissarro’s
12) We consulted its stout face in times gone by (3, 8, 5) The Guinness Clock
13) A department store where Mum’s bakeware came from? (7) Mastins
14) A cinema included in the pro xylophone-players’ circuit? (4) (hidden) Roxy
15) Yet you can’t get pets’ nosh here (unless they like fish) (3, 5 or just (anagram) Net Shops / Netshops
16) Where bashed men shop? (9) (anagram) Debenhams
19) Motley lot have fun here at the fair (3, 4) (anagram) The Oval
18) Sounds like just the place for those who are sober and dull (3, 5) The Stade (staid!)
19) Sidney Little’s masterpiece – quite a dive! (7,4) Bathing Pool
20) Prithee, restore! (3,4) (anagram) The Pier
Areas of our town
21) Just dig this ‘village’! (3) Ore
22) Just the place for a stop-over (6) Halton
23) Up here, the streets aren’t quite paved with gold (10) Silverhill
24) Full of long-haired poets? (7) Bohemia
25) Organic mud era (anagram) (2 words) America Ground
26) Where Edward VII’s wife left her carriage? (9,4) Alexandra Park
27) Would crook earn a living here? No, our fishermen are honest! (4-1-4) (anagram) Rock-a-Nore
28) Named after a chap who started as a scribe for the East India Company (5,4) Clive Vale
In 1066 Country
29) Are the girls all blonde featherweights here? (9) Fairlight
30) Where zealots zip round an international village (10) (anagram) Pestalozzi
31) Was a maid observed back here in the old days? (6) (hidden, reverse) Bodiam
32) Gardens where a shapely Roman might wander. (7,5) (anagram) Pashley Manor
33) Where gardeners find fun seconds from here (10) Merriments
34) This has just what plants need, e.g. extra dirt (5,6) (anagram) Great Dixter
35) Was Pevensey once built on a drained site? (8) (anagram) Anderida
36) Perhaps the security team needs guns around here? (9) (anagram) Dungeness
37) What garden designers hope to do (10) Winchelsea
38) Someone who’s invited (Heather?) would feel at home here (9) Guestling (ling = heather)
39) Could be found in a toolbox with sickles, hammers etc (9) (hidden) Icklesham
Kent & Sussex
40) A resort toreadors would rather avoid (6) Goring
41) Where Osbert (= Lancaster, the cartoonist) thought of Maudie? (13) Littlehampton
42) Just the place for a Regency nob? Right! (8) (anagram) Brighton
43) Where nautical chaps once heaved? (4) Hove
44) A Kent resort – or a Caribbean fish. (7) Margate
45) You can tell the girls from here by the way they speak. (9) Maidstone
46) No need to go hungry here if you use your loaf (8) Sandwich
47) Surprisingly, its bells can be silent (10) Canterbury
48) Said to associate with things creepy (7) Crawley
Towns and counties around Great Britain
49) Warhol might have come from here? (6) (anagram) Harlow
50) Billy Connolly gets many a slow gag from here (7) (anagram) Glasgow
51) Sorted re-sorted! (6) (anagram) Dorset
52) Where the blind poet laments? (6, 6) Milton Keynes (to keen = to wail)
53) Has David Archer’s wife joined the Communist Party? (7) Redruth
54) Sounds as if the food here must be inedible (8) Nuneaton
55) Steer Model T through here (except it’s all Park & Ride!) (6) Oxford
56) A padded sofa (12) Chesterfield
57) A place of indeterminate gender? (9) Middlesex
58) Where hepatologists get their transplant material from? (9) Liverpool
59) Sounds like a detective’s favourite town (5) Leeds
(Someone suggested Clink – not bad)
60) Shares its name with George, a famous window-cleaner (6) Formby
61) Green – or biscuits? (7) Lincoln
62) Not a pleasant place to be sent to (8) Coventry
63) Sounds like the home of GBP (8) Stirling
64) Home-town of a puzzling polygamist (2.4) St Ives (I met a man with 7 wives…)
65) Looks like a bookish sort of place (7) Reading
66) The home – well, pad, anyway – of Bond? (8) Basildon
67) Don’ you show respec’, man! (4) Diss (Rappers’ slang for ‘disrespect’)
68) Give ’ere! (7) Andover
69) Did they outlaw very loud type of workhorse in this old Scottish county? (10) Banffshire
70) Where you’d expect stags to get excited (but it’s not Bucks) (7) Rutland
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