Quizwoz 2024

 

 

The Annual Cryptic
Movie Quiz 2024

Quizwoz ‘24

It’s that time again!

Welcome to  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 HAPPY 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 by the end of January 9th 2025 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 puzzles 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:
An Ancient Roman cannibal ate his mother in law. He was...

Example answer:
Glad he ate her, so... Gladiator.

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 pretty much anyone 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. A place where the deities of armed conflict can go to build sandcastles. 

2. Two donkeys in this killer. 

3. Taking a long and distinct period of history along for a surgical operation. 

4. Arachnid dedicated to God. 

5. New Musical Express but extracted from its initials. 

6. Assassins perilous to dark nylons everywhere. 

7. Kubrick’s black slabs metamorphose into frightening, imaginary creatures. 

8. Jazz legend Fitzgerald goes to see a men’s hair stylist. 

9. Red Cheeked, male offspring of Richard sends health care worker to the dark period following day. 

10. Amorous untruths losing blood from the circulatory system. 

11. Quickly spun around like a spinning top, to the left of the compass.

12. Three kisses in King’s New England state of the US. 

13. Daniel on the bridge on the river.

14. An Englishman’s home is the fluid of his circulatory system.