Christmas Quiz 2022 Answers


Answers to 2022 Christmas Quiz

1 Nellie or Wilbur (8) Elephant
2 Get your act together (3) Cat (anagram)
3 Shuffle here by train via 42nd street(7) Buffalo (from old musical movie)
4 The cat with woven hair (8) Platypus
5 Worth a pound and a bit once (7,3) Guinea pig (sorry for wrong letter count!)
6 Looks the same every day, every day, every day (9) Groundhog (movie)
7 Bairstow’s tool (3) (Cricket) Bat
8 Sounds as if this Friar is a fryer (8) Chipmunk
9 Oddie’s funky friend (6) Gibbon
10 Companion of the mad tea drinker at the party (4) (March) Hare
11 1, 2, 3, 4, 99, zzzzzz (5) (Counting) Sheep
12 Male boring tool (8) Mandrill
13 Canadian Rudolf (7) Caribou
14 Afrikaner rucker (9) Springbok (rugby team)
15 The back of an Inuit canoe (3) (Ka)yak
16 If you don’t like a mixed choir, sleep through it (10) Rhinoceros (anagram of CHOIR+SNORE)
17 Monty’s desert warrior (6) Gerbil (desert rat) Not Jerboa
18 Needed to lift a car, you fool (7) Jackass
19 A special type of love (4) Vole (anagram)
20 The R Thames off course, of course (7)  Hamster    (anagram)
21 Bi-coloured martial arts expert (5) (kung-fo) Panda
22 Unwitting drug smuggler (4) Mule
23 You’re having a laugh (5) Hyena
24 What you got when an eel was broken (6) Weasel  (anagram)
25 Our close relative no longer given a tea party (10) Chimpanzee (remember the PG tips ads)
26 However he ran he never caught the runner (6) (Wil E) Coyote (cartoon character)
27 It went to Davy’s head (7) Raccoon
28 Antipodean Springbok (7) Wallaby (another rugby team)
29 Pester (6) Badger
30 Youngest scout (6) Beaver
31 Haughtily looks down on others (7) Giraffe
32 You would find this pet alone on the savannah (8) Antelope (anagram)
33 Pig in a bush (8) Hedgehog
34 You really ought to k-now wa-who's wa-who (3) Gnu (Flanders and Swann song)
35 What is this Tibetan guru doing in Peru (5) Llama
36 A capable animal if you remove most of a bee (6) Alpaca (anagram of a capable, without the be)
37 Found on a beach with a carpenter (6) Walrus 
38 An enemata of another kind (7) Manatee
39 Jonah’s host (5) Whale
40 Clouseau’s pink one (7) Panther
41 Eaten mixed up with marmite or honey (5) Stoat (anagram of toast)
42 In a maze,  but not lost (4) Zebu
43 His lip is yellow in the woods (2) Ox(lip)
44 Biggles’s Sopwith (5) Camel (WW1 fighter plane)
45 No wings, so I can’t believe it might fly (3) Pig
46 Hungry? OK, a pie and chips please (5) Okapi
47 He was paroled because he never changed where he was (7) Leopard (anagram)
48 Marmalade eater, by Royal Appointment (4) (Paddington) Bear
49 Naysayer, I hear (5) Horse (neigh)
50 Jessica’s friend looks good in a frame (6) (Roger) Rabbit
51 Found in Compo’s trousers (6) Ferret
52 Nemesis of Boggis, Bunce and Bean (3) (Fantastic Mr) Fox
53 Stands around all the time on a glacier (5,4) Polar Bear (Glacier mints logo)
54 Best minted (4) Lamb
55 Two of this are found in nasal iambs (4) Lion (anagrams of Aslan and Simba)
56 Whatever he says, that fleece doesn’t fit him (4) Wolf
57 sounds like Beauty’s companion is untamed (10) Wildebeest
58 Bumble’s law (3) Ass (from Oliver Twist - the law is an ass)
59 Not colder, I hear (5) Otter
60 Jacket type (6) Donkey
61 This can be a  bit of a wrench (6) Monkey
62 Lives on a mat in the office (5) Mouse
63 Fossey found in the mist (7) Gorilla
64 Types include C,D, E, F, S, X (6) Jaguar
65 Tea party sleeper (8) Dormouse
66 Joey’s mum (8) Kangaroo
67 Wallower in the hollow (12) Hippopotamus
68 He fetches (6) Gopher
69 MacLean surely didn’t find this in the Arctic (5) (Ice Station) Zebra
70 How to address your captain (3,3) Aye Aye
71 This clue may be a decoy.  Put it right (5) Coypu
72 Make something out of a mild oral wash (9) Armadillo (anagram)
73 Clyde, the unseen librarian (5,4) Orang-Utan (from Discworld)
74 Secrete things away (8) Squirrel
75 Another wrench in the underground (4) Mole
76 Au revoir, or CUL8R (9) Alligator
77 Sounds as if I like mine chocolate or lemon (5) Moose
78 Upstanding in its community (7) Meerkat
79 The first animal you find in Oxford (8) Aardvark (alphabetically)
80 Sounds like it’s most likely to win at any cost (7) Cheetah
81 Lax tool use can make something odd (7) Axolotl (anagram)
82 Burning bright (5) Tiger (Blake poem)
83 He smells so good (4) Lynx (deodorant)
84 Part of a handsome goon goes for a cobra (8) Mongoose (anagram)
85 No darling - it’s dry (8) Reindeer
86 An endless small neat beard (4) goat(ee)
87 Deer in a sea snail (3) (Wh)elk
88 A gun dog becomes a sea cow’s relative (6) Dugong (anagram)
89 The front of the UK’s smallest whale feels soft (4) Mink(ie)
90 First wild one just born in UK for 6000 years (5) Bison
91 Make a crab pay for this (8) Capybara (anagram)
92 Sounds like a doggy way to cool the beard area (10) Chinchilla
93 A chained changed anteater (7) Echidna
94 When she was Elizabeth, Richard tamed her (5) Shrew (Taylor/Burton film)
95 Sounds like Lionheart and Crookbank (to their friends) (3,3) Dik Dik
96 As whom Edward Fox had his day (6) Jackal
97 It doesn’t commit mass suicide! (7) Lemming
98 Eucalyptus-eating but not a bear (5) Koala
99 A wine lover could make a weasel (9) Wolverine (anagram)
100 Feline show dancer (7) Polecat

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