We are The Christie magazine March 2025 Staff edition

Enjoy completing these puzzles just for fun, or to pass the time. If you submit your answers, you might be in with a chance of winning a prize. ? Fancy yourself a puzzle master? To qualify for a draw to win 2x Manchester City tickets and a Christie Charity bundle, please send a picture of your puzzle page to the-christie.internalcomms@nhs.net Alternatively, cut out your completed puzzle section and post it to WATC editor, The Christie, 2-4 Candleford Road, Withington, Manchester M20 3JH. Entries close on Friday 9 May 2025. Answers available on The Christie website when entries close

Puzzles

Christie crossword Across 2. Research building at The Christie (8) 7. Overcome initial awkwardness (5,3,3) 11. Flagrantly bad (9) 13. Spiky sea-dweller (6) 15. Permit (3) 16. Possessing a high level of skill (6) 18. To say very little... (12) 21. All courses in a school (10) 23. Celestial messenger, meadow in Manchester (5) 24. Test of human intelligence in a computer (6)

Sudoku

Christie Crossword #2 - Crossword Labs

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Christie quiz 1. Manchester’s three main city centre rivers, also represented on both football club’s badges: the Irk, the Irwell and the…

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A) Goyt B) Rochdale C) Medlock 2. What year did The Christie open? A) 1892 B) 1948 C) 1901

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3. In 1948 Manchester University professors developed the first computer to have a stored programme and memory – what was it nicknamed? A) Baby B) Hal C) Sunny 4. What is a group of flamingos called? A) Flashdance B) Flock C) Flamboyance 5. What sport is played in the Ryder cup? A) Tennis B) Golf C) Rugby 6. Which capital city of the following countries, France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany, is furthest north? A) Paris B) Vienna C) Berlin D) Bern 7. This famous engineer, who’s name also adorns a gallery in Manchester, gifted the land for The Christie to open: A) George Stephenson B) John Ryland C) Joseph Whitworth 8. This famous figure has an NHS leadership development programme that bears their name? A) Florence Nightingale B) Clement Atlee C) Mary Seacole

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Down 1. Cutlery item (7,5) 3. Group of three (4) 4. Curved crisp (7) 5. Building material found all over Manchester (3,5) 6. A quick meal, to grip with jaws (4) 8. Engrave (4) 9. Hindu god (6) 10. Scottish water (4,4)

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12. Unexpectedly (3,2,3,4) 14. To copy or emulate (7)

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17. Bluish-purple, a family of plants (6) 18. To feel good, name of a hobbit (5) 19. England's northernmost county (14)

20. A lack of funds (5) 22. A tiered tower (6)

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