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| Water rail, the answer to question 4. Photo: Tony CC Gray, Flickr |
The prize quiz winner has been chosen in a random draw from 10 entries with all 50 correct answers. The winner is Mrs Kate Kuss of Haydock, St. Helens. Congratulations Kate!
Here are the answers:
1. Biting insects causing angst. (5). Gnats
2. Thematic warrior plant. (5, 7). Water Soldier
3. Is this plant what nine nibbled? (7). Frogbit
4. Bird, or thematic mode of transport. (5, 4). Water rail
5. Plant shocked Lupper with unrestrained conflict. (6, 11). Purple loosestrife
6. Male goose swallowed nothing very large, a duck! (9). Goosander
7. God! Hospital habitat! (5). Marsh
8. Type of woodwind with spice plant. (8). Reedmace
9. There’s nothing in the former West Germany for this creature. (4). Frog
10. Stirring reveals two mammals. (5, 5). Water voles
11. Bird is what push comes to with the French right. (8). Shoveler
12. I’m told people with birthdays in December to February form an intermittent stream. (12). Winterbourne
13. Bird sees Ray, for example, come between maybe Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth. (10). Kingfisher
14. Bird in very large quarry. (6). Osprey
15. Thematic corpse? (5, 4). Water body
16. Insect has permission to take off. (6). Mayfly
17. Keep your hair on! I hear a bird. (5). Heron
18. Ocean, burn, river, fish. (6, 5). Arctic charr
19. Primate and follower, forgetting Old Latin, see this plant. (6, 6). Monkey flower
20. Host, once seen “beside the lake, beneath the trees”. (9). Daffodils
21. Grand odds on Trump’s barrier for a swimmer. (7). Gadwall
22. Thematic sailor, a six-footer. (5, 7). Water boatman
23. Bird from Westminster house together with traditional Scottish instrumentalist. (6, 9). Common sandpiper
24. Huge friend of Ant turns round, takes in recuperation with ... novel tango. (5, 7, 4). Great crested newt
25. ... or with good fermented beer. (5, 7, 5). Great crested grebe
26. I had nap disturbed by small creature. (7). Daphnia
27. Are these algae just simple molecules? (7). Diatoms
28. Feature that hides in Lake Windermere when a flock of ducks is landing on the water. (6). Island
29. Sad young woman, take an aeroplane, a little flyer. (4, 9). Blue damselfly
30. Creature is ’pon land strangely. (4, 5). Pond snail
31. Thematic potter’s rest, arachnophobe’s nemesis. (5, 6). Water spider
32. “Don’t tell him” this fish’s name! (4). Pike
33. I hear strong man Edward lower his head for a swimmer and diver. (6, 4). Tufted duck
34. Fifteen is verse rewritten in Republic of Ireland, middle of Waterford. (9). Reservoir
35. You can read the tea leaves and predict where you’ll find this bird. (4). Teal.
36. Does this insect eat its own rear end? (11). Swallowtail
37. Tree may be seen, if you look westward, among a hundred lakes. (5). Alder
38. The Torville and Dean of one kind of fifteen? (4, 7). Pond skaters
39. Fifteen sea, French and European. (4). Mere
40. Is Ms Lovelace able to pinch the bottom of this bird? (6, 5). Canada goose
41. Plant of thematic corvine extremity. (5, 8). Water crowfoot
42. Lens opacity featured in a river. (8). Cataract
43. Royal drinking vessel is a May-blob. (7). Kingcup
44. Turbulent R Dee is subjunctively dead habitat. (7). Reedbed
45. Insect, a fuzzy target (a non-starter), almost heavenly good vegetable the Spanish turns round. (5, 6, 6). Great diving beetle
46. “Duck - it’s a James Bond film!” (9). Goldeneye
47. Fifteen cooked kale. (4). Lake
48. Dragonfly, a fat Grand National runner maybe? (5-6, 6). Broad-bodied chaser
49. Fish spectrum, start of this defeat. (7, 5). Rainbow trout
50. Neston holes scream excitedly as East African leaders fall out in Scotland. (4, 4, 7). Loch Ness Monster
For anyone wishing to give their brain cells another workout, we will be launching the spring/ summer 2021 quiz soon.