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 82nd PUZZLE and there is a £25 Happy Puzzle voucher up for grabs.
All Around The Underground!
Below are 40 cryptic clues for London underground stations. It is worth pointing out that all underground lines are included, but not stations on the overground.
Here comes the cryptic clues...
1) Sounds like a favourite "dolly-bird" is capable
2) A monarch is pretty angry
3) Manufactured a thin face covering
4) Where to buy your new car perhaps
5) Is this where Fleming's super-spy lived?
6) The 1,760th yard
7) You've gone to the dogs if you visit this place
8) Maidstone, Sevenoaks or Tunbridge Wells perhaps
9) Sounds like a member of the aristocracy was nabbed here
10) A huge grey animal and the home of a princess
11) Famous UK University with a clown and an acrobat
12) Cook this road
13) Station between forehead and ear
14) The marmalade loving bear
15) A drenched rock
16) A tall haircut
17) Do rabbits live in this thoroughfare
18) A royal Spurs street
19) Big Gun Road
20) Where your money is kept
21) A heavenly messenger
22) Where nuns mow their lawn
23) A batch of weapons
24) Its not less than its…
25) The famous Abba song
26) Not a young road an…
27) More than six siblings who are all girls
28) Draw on that black board where all the animals live
29) Where you lay a female monarch to rest
30) Where Elizabeth would play in a big open field
31) Where airplanes live and they have their own stretch of road
32) The grand house of Massachusetts
33) Desmond Llewelyn outside his home looking after his plants
34) A very affluent small pile of soil
35) A rare metal bird of prey on a street
36) Tom Spiderman in a large field
37) A large curved walkthrough made of metamorphic rock
38) Far away from the east, someone who can marry you
39) A religious order of men, covered in soot
40) Meat from a pig not east
To win the £25 Happy Puzzle voucher, once you have worked out all the stations from the cryptic clues, you need to work out which underground line is featured the most. Remember, if a station sits across multiple lines, you need to count each of the lines it sits on. Then just work out which line appears the most.
Please send your answer to me at josh@happypuzzle.co.uk, ensuring that you put FEBRUARY 2026 PUZZLE in the subject line.
The competition closes at 11.59pm on Saturday 28th February 2026. Both the answers and the winner will then be drawn at random and revealed in next month’s puzzle on Tuesday 3rd March 2026! My decision will be final!
Now back to January’s competition!
We had lots of really good guesses and many correct answers. For those of you who didn't manage to work it out, the correct answer was Barbados.
The winner of this competition and the £25 voucher is Maria Campbell.
That’s it! Enjoy the competition.
Joshua Miller
General Manager
Happy Puzzle