Symphosius
Crossword
Top 20
1. Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an
hour.
2. In England, it used to be illegal to eat mince pies on
Christmas Day!
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1. Drink sachets (3,4)
5. Proficient
9. Sensationalist (press)
10. Tunisia’s neighbour
11. Stomach sore
12. Literary masterpiece
13. Impart knowledge
15. Northern sea duck
17. Blokes
20. Dairy animal
21. U-boat
23. Lawn tools
27. Classify
30. Get to feet
32. Partial exchange (5-2)
33. Cruel
34. Unabbreviated
35. Money put by (4,3)
36. Senses
37. Deviousness
1. Hand-held PCs
2. Country, Saudi ...
3. Clip on
4. Day of rest
5. Decelerates (5,2)
6. Bring on (birth)
7. Coerced
8. Reading room
14. Browbeaten
16. Map within map
17. Aggressive dog
18. Inquire
19. Mayday call (1,1,1)
22. Highbrow person
24. Gathers
25. Shoelace holes
26. Magazine chiefs
28. Sudden
29. Of race & culture
30. Comfortably
31. Blame
11. If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop.
12. In 1974, canned food from a boat that sank in 1865 was
tested by chemists and was found to be still safe to eat.
3. Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers!
13. Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more
attractive to females.
4. The inventor of the Game Boy, Gunpei Yokoi, was
originally Nintendo’s janitor and maintenance man.
14. The person who invented the Frisbee was cremated
and made into Frisbees after he died!
5. A flock of crows is known as a murder.
15. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to
fill two swimming pools.
6. “Facebook Addiction Disorder” is a mental disorder
identified by Psychologists.
7. The average woman uses her height in lipstick
every 5 years.
8. 29th May is officially “Put a Pillow on Your Fridge
Day“ in Europe and the USA
9. Cherophobia is the fear of happiness.
10. Human saliva has a boiling point three times
that of regular water.
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16. Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is
color-blind and best sees the shade of blue.
17. Polar bears are the largest carnivores that live on land.
18. King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe beside him.
19. Bikinis were invented by men.
20. Bald Eagles can reach speeds of up to 100mph
when diving