From the archive · Oct 24, 2026
The 25 clues of Oct 24, 2026, column by column from the left edge to the right (the columns get harder as you cross), with the letters on each hex and the answer. The board above plays this day and never touches your streak.
The cowardly cartoon Great Dane who solves mysteries with Shaggy and the Mystery Machine gang.
Answer: Scooby-Doo
The world’s largest coral reef system, off the coast of Queensland.
Answer: Great Barrier Reef
The hazelnut chocolate spread created by Ferrero.
Answer: Nutella
The Irish rock band fronted by Bono.
Answer: U2
The Middle Eastern kingdom that is home to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
Answer: Saudi Arabia
The “tyrant lizard king”, the most famous predator of the Cretaceous, with tiny arms.
Answer: Tyrannosaurus Rex
The card game where you shout when you are down to your last card.
Answer: Uno
The Tour de France rider who won seven titles, later stripped for doping, in the Livestrong era.
Answer: Lance Armstrong
The reality show in which singles live in a villa and couple up or get dumped.
Answer: Love Island
The English physicist who, despite ALS, wrote A Brief History of Time.
Answer: Stephen Hawking
The Polish astronomer who proposed that the Earth orbits the Sun.
Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus
The Italian city destroyed by Vesuvius in AD 79 and preserved in ash.
Answer: Pompeii
The long-running British soap set on Albert Square in London’s East End.
Answer: EastEnders
The British pop genre of the 1990s associated with Oasis and Blur.
Answer: Britpop
The 1620 ship that carried English Separatists to what is now Massachusetts.
Answer: Mayflower
The match-three mobile game by King that became a phone-screen staple.
Answer: Candy Crush
The never-identified killer who terrorised London’s Whitechapel in 1888.
Answer: Jack the Ripper
The Missouri city, with a name that suggests it is on the state line, famous for barbecue and jazz.
Answer: Kansas City
The Austrian symphony composer who wrote the Surprise Symphony, called the Father of the Symphony.
Answer: Joseph Haydn
The region of the Pacific where Earth’s deepest known point, the Challenger Deep, lies.
Answer: Mariana Trench
The Byzantine emperor who built the Hagia Sophia and codified Roman law.
Answer: Justinian I
The imaginary line at 180 degrees longitude where each new calendar day begins.
Answer: International Date Line
The British science-fiction comedy about the last human aboard a mining ship, with a hologram and a creature evolved from a cat.
Answer: Red Dwarf
The 2009 Kathryn Bigelow film about a bomb disposal unit in Iraq.
Answer: The Hurt Locker
The astronomer who, with a telescope, discovered Uranus in 1781.
Answer: William Herschel