Start 2021 with a Cryptic Quiz and all the answers (helpful hint) are CHOCOLATES & SWEETS
1. Mothers local
2. What a doctor does
3. Wise guys
4. Old singers and musicians
5. Do refined people live here?
6. Gesticulating at the races
7. Bovine peepers
8. 100% Auric
9. Blow it or light it
10. Finish this snack with a kiss
11. Ford’s people carrier
12. Muzzy Izzet’s elation after scoring for Leicester City
13. People scheming marriages
14. Heavenly cluster
15. Corn, Soap or Snow perhaps
16. Gravel underfoot
17. Sounds like “Plain” chocolate
18. Nine, Ten, Eleven…
19. Add hesitation, and it’s a type of rocket
20. Adore the men from Tynecastle Park
21. TV adjustment
22. 0.1 dollars
23. A native of a northern county
24. Say it quietly
25. Good, twice in succession, in France
26. Wobbly infants
27. Exchange K for an S in your underwear
28. Tattooed granite
29. Additional payment for a job well done
30. Make non-metric coins
31. This boy has been ripped off
32. Models do this on the cat walk
33. Endurance test
34. Pig’s tail
35. Natives of Naples
36. Barbie’s assortment
37. Edible fasteners
38. Grape juice sticks
39. Al fresco eating in spring or summer
40. Judy Garland song, 1943, “That old…”
41. Smelly cockroach
42. Eat this raw
43. Trucks moving part
44. Give this last one to the one you love
45. This chocolate may give appeal, though has not been appeal
46. A favourite at the fun-fair
47. Cadbury’s hometown
48. Showers, cool drinks or courses
49. H2SO4 spillages
50. Exploding comet
ANSWERS
1. MARS BAR
2. TREATS
3. SMARTIES
4. MINSTRELS
5. QUALITY STREET
6. TIC TAC
7. BULLS EYES
8. TERRY’S ALL GOLD
9. FUSE
10. TWIX
11. GALAXY
12. TURKISH DELIGHT
13. MATCH MAKERS
14. MILKY WAY
15. FLAKE
16. CRUNCHIE
17. AERO
18. AFTER EIGHT
19. BOOST
20. LOVE HEARTS
21. CONTRAST
22. DIME
23. YORKIE
24. WHISPER
25. BON BON
26. JELLY BABIES
27. SNICKERS
28. ROCK
29. BONUS
30. MINT IMPERIALS
31. RIPPLE
32. TWIRL
33. MARATHON
34. CURLY WURLY
35. NEAPOLITAN
36. DOLLY MIXTURES
37. CHOCOLATE BUTTONS
38. WINE GUMS
39. PICNIC
40. BLACK MAGIC
41. HUMBUG
42. LION
43. WAGON WHEEL
44. ROLO
45. CHOCOLATE ORANGE
46. CAROUSEL
47. BOURNVILLE
48. REFRESHERS
49. ACID DROPS
50. STARBURST
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