Quizwoz 2023 - The Annual Cryptic Movie Quiz

 

The Annual Cryptic
Movie Quiz 2023

Welcome back, once again, for this year’s Cryptic Movie Quiz for the festive period.

How you play...

Check out the grid above and you’ll see spaces for 14 movie titles running horizontally and, below this intro, are the cryptic clues to assist you in working out what these 'non-Christmas' movie titles are. To help out, I’ve filled in a line of letters vertically downwards spelling out MERRY CHRISTMAS... so you have a letter in its correct position for each of the titles. Please don’t forget to click on the grid to see a larger version of it and maybe print it off to help yourself.

Email your answers to me at nuts4r2@hotmail.com before January 9th 2024 to get your entries in. A few days after that, I’ll stick up the name of the winner (or winners, if it’s a tie or a group effort), along with all the answers, here on my blog. No prizes, it’s just for fun but, if you like solving piuzzles and have some down time during the Christmas break, maybe give it a go.

By way of an example, here’s a question from last year’s quiz, followed by the answer...

Example question:
Game of an Egyptian God as a North American warrior.

Example answer:
So Game, an Egyptian God could be Ra and a North American warrior could be called a Brave.
So put those three together and you get... Gamera The Brave.

Or just check out the January solution pages from the last few years to get a feel for how to put these things together (you often have to make adjustments for the puntastic nature of the solutions). If you keep checking back in the comments section below, I will probably put the odd extra clue down there every now and again to help you out throughout the Christmas period.

Full marks are rarely scored by everyone so... if you’re feeling a bit stuck, there’s still everything to play for. Some people have won it with less than half the grid correct. So send me what you’ve got anyway.

I hope you enjoy playing. Make sure you have lots of fun this Christmas period, drink responsibly and play irresponsibly. Here are the questions...

1. Somebody visually recorded Italy’s capital city.

2. 16th Century firearm demonstrating one more organ of auditory processing than the average human.

3. The monster maker swore at his creation.

4. Using oars to steer thre author of Delta Of Venus towards the shore.

5. Scrambled by the hello.

6. If the four lettered town in Switzerland started and ended with the same two letters.

7. Enthusiastically expelled breath on a device manufactured to give out light.

8. Auditory organ sandwiched in a backwards, long playing record album.

9. The cannibal ate his girlfriend. He was...

10. What you get if a Pokémon goes down with a nasty skin condition... from a certain point of view.

11. Family tribe of the light coloured James Bond car in The Spy Who Loved Me

12. “Oh, Mr. Neeson!” called John Thaw’s Detective Inspector.

13. Daniel goes for a walk next to The Bridge On The River...

14. This verion of the International Space Station is powered entirely by the sun.