Hello everyone and welcome to this month’s Happy Puzzle competition!
For those of you who are new to this, for 14 weeks over lockdown we had an absolute blast creating weekly puzzles which were being received by well over 50,000 people each week. We had thousands of entries and each week a winner was drawn at random from the correct entries. As the weeks passed by, the puzzles were getting more and more ambitious and in the end, Gavin had to concede that he did not have the time to produce a new one every week. So we decided to make it a monthly thing, with the puzzle coming out at 7pm on the first Tuesday of each month.
Here we go then!
Here is the 83rd PUZZLE and there is a £25 Happy Puzzle voucher up for grabs.
All Around The UK
After the success of last months puzzle (which had the highest number of entries ever), i have decided to do something similar this month. However, as we had so many correct answers, i have made this one slightly trickier.
Below are 54 cryptic clues for UK towns and cities. You need to work out which of the towns and cities each of the clues represent.
Here comes the cryptic clues...
- What a vandal often does to cars
- Tying things up securely
- Writing implements with small insects
- Genuine oar movement
- The lady leaves….
- Heavy high wattage
- Where ships might dock to eat
- Recent fortress
- Order a drinking vessel to leave
- After the meal, the plate is still full
- Finished the fourth letter
- Dog controllers
- A college tutor who selects actors for a production
- A horse travels underground
- Where the cook picks crops
- Birth of a means to eating
- What you did to the appliance to make it work
- How to inform the manufacturer that your fiesta car has a problem
- The darkest water
- What to call your heavyweight love
- Where cows are milked in a capital city
- A quick ringer
- Peoples rock
- Use it to keep warm
- A type of haircut
- Secure tightly
- Would you open this to get to a top school
- Nibble your way through a female wizard
- If the singer vera were a male monarch
- Which car?
- A deep matriarch with water at the bottom
- Henry VIII’s court at the top of the compass
- Outdated meat
- The ugly ducklings open water
- Store an after dinner drink
- The very bottom of a compass
- Heavy toilet
- Where to go swimming in Dorset
- How to make a large area of crops get up in the morning
- Obviously a place to get clean
- A female servant’s rock
- The last place for burial
- Between six and eight trees
- A local competition
- Is the place an oval shape as well as the ball?
- Dull ones buzzing
- An appropriate place for a tea party
- A darkly coloured bonfire
- Someone in charge of entrances
- Part of a boat
- Distribute the cards
- A mixture of blacks and whites
- A big grassy area with a male owner
- A brilliant horse to the far left
To win the £25 Happy Puzzle voucher, once you have worked out all the towns and cities from the cryptic clues, you need to tell me how many are located in mainland England.
Please send your answer to me at josh@happypuzzle.co.uk, ensuring that you put MARCH 2026 PUZZLE in the subject line.
The competition closes at 11.59pm on Tuesday 31st March 2026. Both the answers and the winner will then be drawn at random and revealed in next month’s puzzle on Tuesday 7th April 2026! My decision will be final!
Now back to February’s competition!
We had so many correct answers, and as the majority of you guessed correctly, the line that appears the most is the Northern Line.
The winner of this competition and the £25 voucher is John Hardy.
That’s it! Enjoy the competition.
Joshua Miller
General Manager
Happy Puzzle
www.happypuzzle.co.uk
0844 848 2822