The Irish Mail on Sunday

Hidden within the grid are answers to these 20 clues

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1 Which planet is fourth closest to the Sun?

2 The colour sepia is named after the pigment from the ink

sac of which marine creature?

3 What is the smallest country in Europe?

4 What record label signed Chuck Berry in 1955 and gave him

his big break?

5 A Scotch Argus is what type of creature?

6 The Dragon Boat Festival is held in Taiwan during which

month of the year?

7 Twittering Machine, declared ‘degenerate art’ by

Adolf Hitler, was the 1922 work of which Swiss-German painter?

8 Mentha spicata is the Latin name for which garden herb?

9 What was Elvis Presley’s first number one hit single,

released in January 1956?

10 In the religious calendar which ‘A’ is the first day of Lent?

11 Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

12 Who had a hit in the 1950s with See You Later Alligator?

13 The 1990 ‘Community Charge’ introduced by the British

government was commonly known by what name?

14 What flavour does fennel have?

15 What kind of creature is Shere Khan in The Jungle Book?

16 The medical condition aphonia is the inability to do

what?

17 An antipyreti­c drug reduces what in humans?

18 In which play are twins separated by a storm?

19 Sevruga, Sterlet and Ossetra are all types of which delicacy? 20 Which planet in our solar system takes around 165 Earth

years to orbit the Sun?

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