Puzzlebrains

I'm intrigued as to how you would know about such pages. I'd never have thought of looking for puzzles on fb.

Didn't know there was such a page! Well done!

Happy birthday from me too. Hope you are having a good day!

I'll be interested to hear if you do decide to read either of those.

My go to books for easy reading are Georgette Heyer novels but I have read loads of those over many years most of them more than once and a few several times!

I recently read "In Order to Live" by Yeonmi Park which is about a young girl's escape from North Korea. Obviously not fiction but very interesting and thought-provoking. I joined the local U3A in September and a book club group within that and it was the third book we have read. It was good to be a...

Quite happy for you to feel encouraged!

I enjoyed them once I got going. A fun challenge so thank you!

By the way, I assume it is still FR FV and not FV FR?

18 H HD WKWRD TG GRMN GRD WTH FRDS SL (FV FR

I can't get away from AWKWARD, GERMAN and GUARD but can't make them work with what I want the answer to be

Hmm, still thinking.

I shall have to think about that one.

Aah!
You could always change the second place to Jaffa? Although I agree that is a bit random!

Re 18 I am now slightly confused as I had also thought I had JN from Johnston and needed AHA to go inside. Although I hadn't got as far as SparkOut!

Right, I think I have them all now but haven't quite worked out the end of clues 3 and 18

3 I have ... not that nice for her
18 I haven't worked out what Fred's Silo should be

But I am fairly confident I have all the correct answers.

Somehow I think that I don't have 14 or 18 quite right

14 She has short cretin devil guarded by two mothers and is told by spaceship computer
18 he is found in quiet borders of Arbroath and Johnstone next to Fred's silo

11 His auction piece contains clean mess Lancelot

I'm enjoying these, especially now I know how they should work

and 12 He could record where an insect sat on his lap or so I've heard Mark Antony

4 She is tailless leopard cat hybrid Cleopatra

8. Flogged within that's her ISOLDE

6. He has middle of Gaucho Moustache clipped and adds variable factor - GOMEZ