E: 20/11 Love It Magazine Issue 1028

Midnighter

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These are my suggested answers:

Puzzle 1 Guess the Year: ?????? (The events given are Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody being number 1, The Wombles debuting on TV, The Godfather debuting in cinemas and Mastermind debuting on BBC1. The first two were 1973 and the second two 1972.)

Puzzle 2 Mini Crossword: POINT

Puzzle 3 N/A (See below.)

Puzzle 4 Word Wheels: WHITE

Puzzle 5 TV Trouble: BABY REINDEER

Puzzle 6 Giant TV Xword: MIDSOMMAR

Puzzle 7 Odd One Out: A

Puzzle 8 Word Fit: SHIRT

Puzzle 9 Missing Wordsearch: FREDDO

Puzzle 10 Tile Fit: SOB

Puzzle 11 Crossword Jigsaw: CREAM

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Blulu

Q1) I'm gonna leave it a while, in case anyone has any better suggestions, but otherwise, I am tempted to send by email, listing the four events and add the year for each one. As in...

Puzzle 1 Guess the Year:
Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody being number 1 & The Wombles debuting on TV - 1973
The Godfather debuting in cinemas & Mastermind debuting on BBC1  - 1972

GiGoVX

Very odd; my answer from Copilot being:

Slade and The Wombles — 1973

Slade’s “Merry Xmas Everybody” was released in December and became the UK Christmas number one in 1973, establishing itself as a perennial holiday hit. The children’s stop‑motion series The Wombles first appeared on BBC1 on 5 February 1973, introducing the Wimbledon Common characters and their theme of recycling to TV audiences that year. Both cultural moments — a chart‑topping festive single and a new children’s TV series — are firmly rooted in 1973, making that the correct year for this pair.

The Godfather and Mastermind — 1972

The quiz show Mastermind made its television debut on BBC1 on 11 September 1972, hosted by Magnus Magnusson and quickly becoming known for its austere format and specialist‑subject rounds. The Godfather premiered in cinemas in March 1972 (with its U.S. theatrical release in March 1972), launching what would become one of cinema’s most influential gangster epics. Those two launches — a landmark film and a now‑classic quiz show — both occurred in 1972, so that is the year for the second pair.

lovetowinacar

May I check the closing date?  In the magazine it shows as closing 20.11.25
Thanks

Midnighter

lovetowinacar said:

May I check the closing date?  In the magazine it shows as closing 20.11.25
Thanks

The end date is usually two weeks from publication, so I assume it's a printing error in the magazine.