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Too much salt? Just cancel it with sugar.
Soldiers. Machine guns. And emus.
Different towns, different times. One railway timetable.
Tekitō: suitable… or careless?
On the map. Not in the sea.
One building. One company.
Life on the Moon. According to a hoax.
The calendar needed a better leap-year rule.
Let’s table it. Discuss it—or set it aside?
Learn a word yesterday. See it everywhere today.
She raced a fictional round-the-world traveller.
One address. A flood of unwanted deliveries.
The boundary between one date and the next.
One word, opposite meanings.
The next round uses a different kind of defence.
Alone on an Arctic island. Then rescue.
Spaghetti grew on trees. For one BBC broadcast.
A prize for knowing where your ship was.
A misheard phrase that almost makes sense.
All that adventure. To iron a shirt.
He asked to be left ashore. The wait lasted years.
A giant in the ground. A hoax in the making.
The world’s industry became an exhibition.
There is a name for those misheard lyrics.
An obstacle race, with another person on board.
Titanic was not her only ship disaster.
A human ancestor— until the fraud was exposed.
Under the city, a different kind of river.
That smell when rain meets dry ground.
A cheese rolls downhill. People follow.
A teenager survived a crash and the rainforest.
Fairy photographs persuaded Sherlock Holmes’s creator.
A newspaper for a penny.
Bought it. Stacked it. There is a word for that.
A snorkel trip without the tropical sea.
Around the world, collecting plants.
Three days across the Atlantic. A newspaper hoax by Poe.
Before electronic mail, mail moved through air tubes.
Sunlight through leaves, in a single word.
A festival float that makes visitors look twice.
Japan in 1878, through a traveller’s eyes.
A city’s dancing outbreak. An explanation still debated.
A railway built for the journey to a cemetery.
Cleave can split. Cleave can cling.
At this event, a crying baby is part of the plan.
The coast held an older ocean.
One pig. An international confrontation.
A coffin designed to call for help.
Once outstanding. Now outrageously bad.
A nativity scene, with someone answering nature’s call.
A dishwasher before the electric kitchen.
The summer when a river’s smell became a political crisis.
A changing room that rolled into the sea.
A jellyfish that can return to an earlier life stage.
Pay for two coffees. Drink one.
A film star with a second kind of invention.
A beer flood. A real industrial disaster.
An automatic chess player. With a person inside.
A beetle with a hot chemical defence.
A finished book gets another journey.
To learn to fly, she crossed an ocean.
The flood was made of molasses.
An aircraft carrier made from ice.
That gap may be small. The octopus is flexible.
Your ordinary street may hide a treasure hunt.
Bicycle parts, scrap and a working wind turbine.
A laughter outbreak closed schools.
Secret documents intended to be discovered.
Mantis shrimp come with different weapons.
The treasure is a stamp in your notebook.
He carved a shortcut through a hill.
The defendant was a deceased pope.
A giant liner found work laying undersea cable.
Wombat droppings have corners.
Money that will not fit in a wallet.
A postman’s palace, 33 years in the making.
A war named for a bucket. Not simply caused by one.
The shipping revolution started with a standard box.
Growing up without the usual makeover.
A record made of cords and knots.
A round-the-world voyage. A crew of one.
A tree-cutting operation backed by military force.
Ancient gears from a shipwreck.
A plant trap waits for another signal.
A conversation carried by whistling.
A meteorite struck her inside her home.
A moving-picture pioneer vanished during a journey.
When tulip contracts became a speculation story.
Many ragged strips. Usually just two leaves.
A roll of snow, with no person behind it.
The warning said attack. He judged it a false alarm.
Someone broke into the television signal.
Messages travelled without wires.
It looks mould-like. It is not ordinary fungus.
A pile of stones can carry a message.
Around the world, without stopping or a crew.
A solar storm disrupted the telegraph age.
A Roman object without an agreed purpose.
Not reflected light. Light made by life.
A repair that leaves the break visible.