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British cities without a train station: Armagh, Ripon, St Asaph, St Davids, Wells
Commemorative stamps 2024: Spice Girls, Weather Forecasting, Vikings, Dinosaurs, 100 Years of Commemorative Stamps, Peppa Pig, Dogs, Red Arrows, Dungeons & Dragons, Tower of London, Dad, Spiders, The Who, Christmas, Winston Churchill
Names of the Seven Dwarfs in Polish: Apsik, Gapcio, Gburek, Mędrek, Nieśmiałek, Śpioszek, Wesołek
Main numbered bus routes in Barking & Dagenham: 5, 103, 173, 179, 499
Murdered Female EastEnders Characters: Saskia Duncan, Trina Johnson, Gemma Charleston, Heather Trott, Lucy Beale, Margaret Midhurst, Chantelle Atkins, Tina Carter, Debbie Colwell

Singles kept from number 1 by Wet Wet Wet’s Love Is All Around: Baby I love you I swear Crazy about you Compliments on your kiss Trust me
Prime Ministers who served shorter terms than Keir Starmer: Liz Truss
Moments when the two hands of a clock are opposite each other: 12:32, 1:38, 2:43, 3:49, 4:54, 6:00, 7:05, 8:10, 9:16, 10:21, 11:27
Paralympic sports that are not Olympic sports: Boccia, Goalball
Things I first did 40 years ago: woke up above an estate agent, ate a bowl of Start cereal, played the computer game Chuckie Egg, watched the video for Master and Servant, picked up a Daily Mirror million pound Bingo card, had a drink at The Perch in Binsey

Monarchs around the turn of the century: Henry I, John, Edward I, Henry IV, Henry VII, Elizabeth I, William III, George III, Victoria, Elizabeth II
Teams Arsenal have defeated in an FA Cup final: Aston Villa, Chelsea, Huddersfield Town, Hull City, Liverpool, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Southampton
Accentuated arrondissements of Paris: Hôtel-de-Ville, Panthéon, Élysée, Opéra, Entrepôt, Ménilmontant
Farrow & Ball grey paint colours: Off-White, Ammonites, Dimpse, Skimming Stone, Elephant’s Breath, Moladem, Purbeck Stone, Worsted, Plimmett, Lamp Room Gray, Dove Tale, Down Pipe, Hopper Head
Club cookies (no longer available): Milk, natural, fruit, coffee, waffle, chocolate, coconut

Shipping forecast areas without coastline: Bailey, Dogger, Forties, Sole, Viking
Counting with tires: One Direction, Two Door Cinema Club, Three Dog Night, Four Tet, Five Star, Electric Six, Shed Seven, Eighth Wonder, Nine Inch Nails, Ten Pole Tudor
Countries in the United Kingdom time zone: Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Faroe Islands, Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Ireland, Liberia, Mali, Portugal, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, Togo, UK
Constituencies with the smallest majorities: Hendon (15), Poole (18), Basildon and Billericay (20), North West Cambridgeshire (39), Central Devon (61), Havant (92), South Basildon and East Thurrock (98)
Paninaro: passion, love, sex, money, violence, religion, injustice, death, girls, boys, art, fun, food, cars, travel

Classified roads on the Isle of Skye: A87, A850, A851, A852, A853, A854, A855, A856, A863, A864, A881, B883, B884, B885, B886, B887, B8009, B8036, B8083
Things I did more than twice yesterday: woke up, made a cup of tea, used a zebra crossing, washed a spoon, cut a cucumber, changed the radio station, bit into a hot cross bun
Cities in Surrey with a Gail’s: Cobham, Epsom, Farnham, Godalming, Guildford, Redhill, Weybridge, Woking
Hats ending in ‘a’: balaclava, biretta, chupalla, fedora, montera, panama
London bus routes that are a multiple of 84: 252, 336, 672

Planets (shortest day first): Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Mars, Earth, Mercury, Venus
Independent radio stations that went on the air in 1984: Viking Radio, Leicester Sound, Invicta Sound, Radio Broadland, Hereward Radio, Radio Mercury
Moquette to purchase: Bartender, Bartender Bakerloo, Buses 2016, Colindale, Crossrail Standard, District, Elizabeth Line Standard, Green Line, Old Metropolitan, Overground, Piccadilly, Routemaster, RT/RF, S Stock, Straub, Victoria 1967, Victoria
Zodiac signs of ABBA members: Aries, Taurus, Scorpio, Sagittarius
Numbered Freeview channels: BBC ONE, Channel 4, BBC FOUR, QVC, U&W, Sky Arts, 4seven, Blaze, Blaze+1, Freeview

Micropubs in Bexley: The Bird and the Barrel, The Escape Hole, The Broken Drum, The Door Hinge, The Halfway House, The Hackney Coach, The Hangar, The Hopper’s Hut, The Kentish Belle, The Long Flight, The Penny Farthing, The Silver Fox
Unused storm names (2023/24 season): Minnie, Nicholas, Olga, Piet, Regina, Stuart, Tamiko, Vincent, Walid
Clues I didn’t find in the big cryptic crossword puzzle: 20 down, 47 down
Names of British Rail sleeper trains in 1993: The Night Scotsman, The Night Caledonian, The Royal Highlander, The Night Aberdonian, The West Highlander, The Night Riviera, The Night Scot, The Night West Countryman
Scandinavian host cities for the Eurovision Song Contest: Bergen, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Malmö, Oslo, Stockholm

Heroes: Cream Egg Twist, Crunchie, Dairy Milk, Dairy Milk Caramel, Double Decker, Eclair, Fudge, Twirl, Wispa
Commentators who took a chance this month: Stephen, Scott, THC, A3Warrior, Sean, Freddie Fitch, Ken, Philip, anonymous
Current layout of the menu bar on the BBC News website: Home | InDepth | Israel-Gaza War | US Elections | Cost of Living | War in Ukraine | Climate | UK | World | Business
Mandatory holidays in Uruguay: New Year’s Day, International Workers’ Day, Constitution Day, Independence Day (today), Family Day
The Very Hungry Caterpillar in emojis: 🐛🍎🍐🍐🟣🟣🟣🍓🍓🍓🍓🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🎂🍨🧀🍭🥧🍉🍃🦋

Stations in zone 7: Carpenders Park, Chorleywood, Croxley, Rickmansworth, Theobalds Grove, Waltham Cross, Watford
Orange flags: Armenia, Bhutan, Cyprus, India, Ireland, Ivory Coast, Marshall Islands, Niger, Sri Lanka, Zambia
7-letter palindromes: deified, hadedah, halalah, Nauruan, peeweep, racecar, reifier, repaper, reviver, rotator, seities, sememes
Squares on which a white knight can stand after two moves: a3, a4, b1, b5, c3, c4, d2, d4, d5, e2, e4, e5, f3, f4, g1, g5, h3, h4
Three-word English Football League teams: Milton Keynes Dons, Preston North End, Queens Park Rangers, West Bromwich Albion, West Ham United

Bands I saw in 2003: More Fire Crew, The Streets, The Polyphonic Spree, Liberty X, The Darkness, Ash, Moby, Spiritualized, Arab Strap, Mogwai, Audio Bullys
Above-ground stations that start and end with the same letter: Dalston Kingsland, Hampstead Heath, Norwood Junction, Seven Sisters, Surrey Quays, Turkey Street
Archers characters who haven’t spoken yet this year: Debbie, Johnny, Ian, Leonard, Martin, Usha
Dwarf planets with moons: Eris, Gonggong, Haumea, Makemake, Pluto, Quaoar, Orcus, Salacia
Spangles flavors: sour liquorice, anise, barley sugar, blackcurrant, cola, fruit cocktail, lemon and lime, lime, liquorice, mint humbug, orange lemonade, pear liquorice, peppermint, pineapple, spearmint, strawberry, mandarin, syrup

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