REMEMBER WHEN

1A;2C;3B;4C;5D;6A;7B;8B;9C;10B;11D;12D;13B; 14 D; 15 B.

Across:s: 1 Grab; 3 Stocking; 9 Amateur; 10 Novel; 11 Discomfiture; 13 Unwise; 15 Superb; 17 Disreputable; 20 Depot; 21 Odorous; 22 Abridged; 23 Shed. Down:

1 Grandeur; 2 Amass; 4 Tariff; 5 Construction; 6 Inverse; 7 Gala; 8 Demonstrated; 12 Obsessed; 14 Whimper; 16 Oppose; 18 Booth; 19 Idea. Star Name: BOB HOPE.

Split Decision

HRAB1 2 3 4

1 2 3 4

2 3 4

Prince Edward left the Royal Marines

The Herald of Free Enterprise sank off Zeebrugge

Mel Gibson starred in the first instalment of Lethal Weapon Michael Ryan killed 16 people in Hungerford

Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert won Wimbledon

The Police National Computer went into operation Mikhail Baryshnikov defected while on tour with the Kirov Ballet Actor Leonardo DiCaprio was born

Stalin’s body was removed from Lenin’s mausoleum in Red Square The birth control pill became available on the NHS

Gary Player won the US Masters by a single stroke

Indian troops captured Goa which had been in Portuguese hands for more than 400 years

Alphamuddle

1. Root, Room, Doom, Door, Doer, Deer, Beer

2. Foot, Moot, Most, Mast, Malt, Mall, Fall.

3. Push, Mush, Must, Muse, Mule, Mull, Pull

The following events all occurred in living memory. Can you guess the year?

Word Ladder

1 Raffia, 2 Eureka, 3 Bertha, 4 Agenda, 5 Medusa, 6 Camera, 7 Enigma, 8 Nebula, 9 Trivia, 10 Iguana, 11 Red Sea, 12 Elisha. US singer: REBA MCENTIRE.

CThe King’s Speech, Dorian Gray, The Accidental Husband, The Last Legion, St Trinian’s, A Single Man, Nanny McPhee, Relative Values, Shakespeare in Love, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Another Country, Mamma Mia!, A Christmas Carol, Valmont, Love Actually, Fever Pitch, Bridget Jones’s Diary.