Back to School

Going back to school brings up a lot of questions. Who might help you make connections?


What N might have a special habit?
What R gets counted in a game of baseball?
What P is a common vegetable?
What C is a social deduction board game?
What Q might you catch a ferry at?
What D is a colour for a horse?
What G is a sort of sandwich?

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The Chase

What is the preceding word in the Star Wars film's title?
What was the third of the first five American classes with a weight of over a thousand tons?
What is the third word in the song's lyrics?
Who was the first of Connecticut?
Who is the author of the work on which the opera is based?
What is the Number?


Name a season.

Name a room in Clue.

Name a zodiac sign.

Name a metal of antiquity.

Name one of the Seven Dwarfs.

A Canadian Olympian named Alex did this to win Canada's first ever medal in their Winter Olympic event. (5)
This synonym of "strenuous" or "laborious" may also appear in discussions of fiscal policy. (6)
Algorithms such as the T permutation exchange the positions of four of these. (6)
The maximum size of this in the NFL is 7 greater than that for the CFL. (6)
"Sk8r Boi" by Avril Lavigne follows a similar chord progression to this famous piece in D major. (5)

What word do you get when the last letter is removed from an alcoholic drink?
What word goes in the following blank: "carpenter ___"?
What word do you get when a vowel is deleted from a family member?
What word might you use to describe an amiable friend?
What word goes in the following blank: "I couldn't answer the question about what ___ of fish Nemo is"?
What might you — I've started so I'll finish — do to a list of numbers?

Across

1. English painter Richard
5. Zenith
9. It is often depicted as a light bulb over one's head
10. ???
11. Prefix meaning one millionth
12. Multiple countries' currency
13. Like a non-acoustic guitar
15. Male sheep
16. Extremist
18. Encountered
19. Not cold
20. Shiny and smooth
22. Failure to hit a target
25. ???
26. Naughty kids' Christmas gift
27. Material making up the Tanagra figurines
28. Gemstone that is often black and white


Down

1. Underworld city
2. Without further ___
3. Attitude of accepting failure
4. Not in
5. Bucket
6. It is not implied by correlation
7. Wall art
8. Esau's nation
14. Top of jar
16. Reinforcing rods of steel
17. Group of jazz musicians
18. Muscovite, for example
21. Sus animal
23. 3.14159...
24. Chest muscles, colloquially

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  1. Greg says, "Write down the letter denoted by three dashes in Morse code."
  2. Alex says, "Write down the Roman numeral for 506."
  3. Pilvi says, "Write down the letter denoted by dot-dash-dot in Morse code."
  4. Lasse says, "Write down the Roman numeral for 4."
  5. Mark says, "Write down the last recorded letter shifted 13 spaces backwards in the alphabet."
  6. Reggie says, "Write down the last recorded letter shifted 4 spaces backwards in the alphabet."
  7. Jeremy says, "Write down the letter denoted by dash-dash-dot in Morse code."
  8. David says, "Write down the second-last recorded letter two more times."
  9. Paul says, "Duplicate the fifth recorded letter."
  10. Babben says, "Anagram everything to form an uncapitalized noun."
  11. Olli says, "Replace the second letter with H."
  12. Atle says, "Add the letters OUS to the end of your string."
  13. Luka says, "Add the letters NG to the end of your string."

  14. Nuno says, "Anagram everything to form a two-word phrase."

Identify the sibling in each case.

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In geography, what is the traditional name given to indigenous residents of Aotearoa? ... In hunt puzzles, what ordering is often used to indicate that a re-sorting step is required? ... In the animal kingdom, what reptile possesses hands where the five digits are fused into two chunks? ... In pop culture, what type of degree is held by both members of YouTube comedy duo Rhett and Link? ... In computer science, what collaborative software development platform was launched in April 2008? ... In literature, what president is set to be executed, but is ultimately spared by the bow-wielding protagonist? ... In film, what animated film revolves around restoring the top half of the main characters' father? ... In the human body, what type of cell may possess nodes of Ranvier? ... In mathematics, whose eponymous paradox concerns random chords in a circle in comparison to an inscribed equilateral triangle?

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