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| Item | Choice | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| puz-lateral-thinking-01 | C | A pale circular mark left on the varnish by his mug. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-02 | A | The errand at the door lasted hours, so the tea had ample time to cool. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-03 | D | One person holds both posts, so the handover happened in one pair of hands. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-04 | B | To hold the self-closing door open while the boxes are carried through. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-05 | A | Flat four is home to two people, so there are two new neighbours. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-06 | C | He rowed against the current going out and with it coming back. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-07 | B | A timed recorded announcement played through the new ceiling speakers. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-08 | D | The labels are on the lids, and the lids went back onto different tins. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-09 | A | Rosa listed three things that happened without claiming that order. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-10 | C | A scale model of the valley laid out in the grounds. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-11 | B | Two of the doors serve the bin store and the shared stairwell, not homes. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-12 | D | Mice moving about under the door trigger the motion-sensing bulb. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-13 | A | The paper takes up damp over the cold weekend and feeds badly until the room warms. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-14 | B | It stood corner to corner in the lift, whose floor diagonal is nearly three metres. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-15 | C | On Monday evening the surgery held no Tuesday appointment in her name. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-16 | D | The greenhouse overheating while its vent was jammed shut. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-17 | B | Both totals rise when more people swim, so the swimmer count drives each. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-18 | A | Salim's badge record for Wednesday morning. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-19 | C | There are eighteen passengers for sixteen passenger seats. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-20 | D | A water cooler spilt as it was moved out, and the through-draught scattered the papers. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-21 | A | The rear wheel is held on by a lever that opens by hand. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-22 | D | She saw the bag on that chair herself, between half past five and quarter to six. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-23 | C | Six rows. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-24 | B | That checks at three moments show where the key was in between. |
| puz-lateral-thinking-25 | A | The grower wrote it himself; a denial is a claim, not a constraint. |