SPIRAL CROSSWORD

Here are some extra hints for each clue. Answers further down this page.

1. Anagram + word for 'Dad'
2. Spelt Olive Oyl
3. Sounds-like bit + word for 'ship'
4. Anagram – plus a particular meaning of 'bottle'
5. Italian, with two wheels
6. Pa rather than Ma
7. Hidden word
8. or almond or walnut ...
9. Anagram
10. buckle my shoe
11. anagram + 'y'
12. Anagram
13. Hidden word
14. Think Sri Lanka
15. From the mouths of children ...
16. Double meaning
17. Anagram + 'y' again
18. Hidden word
19. Anagram inside 'NE'
20. Time before Easter
    (Yikes: Was this clue missing from the page? Should have read: Fast or slow, nothing less (4)

Answers:

1. alcopop
2. Popeye
3. eye-liner
4. nerve
5. Vespa
6. pastime
7. menu
8. nutcase
9. semicolon
10. one-two
11. worthy
12. hysteric
13. ricotta
14. Tamil
15. milk tooth
16. Othello
17. lousy
18. synod
19. nodule
20. Lent

In the shades squares, two GAMESHOWs: Pointless & Countdown

CARBIS BAY

1 bray  2 Saab  3 Abba  4 crib  5 Isaac  6 Basic  7 rabbi  8 Syria  9 Basra  10 scary  11 cabby  12 abaci  13 Babar  14 carbs  15 arias  16 Arabic  17 Biscay  18 Barsac  19 scarab  20 crabby

100 YEARS AND COUNTING

If the parent and child share the same birthday and the parent's age at the time of the child's birth is an ODD number, then the sum of their ages will always be an odd number – so can never be exactly 100. (So the odds are HALF of 1 in 365 = 1 in 730.)