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    Diversions & Puzzles

    Nov 22, 2020 5 minutes

    QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker

    Puzzle No 1574

    Clues across

    7. What is the only animal in the world that produces cube-shaped faeces? (6)

    8. Which major river flows through Vienna? (6)

    10. What is an official language of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda & South Sudan? (7)

    11. What word can precede school, vision, shift? (5)

    12. Alfred Hitchcock suffered from ovophobia, a fear of what? (4)

    13. Porcelain for the first-class passengers aboard the Titanic came from which city in England? (5)

    17. In 1969, Paul McCartney objected to the appointment of which Allen as manager of the Beatles? (5)

    18. Near which Texas town in 1993 was there an FBI siege and assault on a religious sect’s headquarters and a fire resulting in 76 deaths, including 25 children? (4)

    22/23. Who flew an aeroplane in Australia in 1910 and escaped from the belly of a whale

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