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    Sep 05, 2021 5 minutes

    QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker

    Puzzle No 1614

    Clues across

    1. Which musical instrument did Laurens Hammond revolutionise in 1934? (5)

    4. Which city’s airport is named after Frédéric Chopin? (6)

    9. What is a wide ornamental strip of gathered material sewn onto a skirt? (7)

    10. Which US city is one of the three vertices of the Bermuda Triangle? (5)

    11. What vibrates in the mouthpiece of an oboe? (4)

    12. What lens for one eye is held in place by facial muscles? (7)

    13. The emerald is which month’s birthstone? (3)

    14. In television’s ’Allo ’Allo!, what is Herr Flick’s first name? (4)

    16. What is to stealthily follow someone? (4)

    18. Which insect is a Manchester emblem? (3)

    20. Montgomery is the capital of which US state? (7)

    21. Which German car maker originally produced sewing machines?

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