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New Year's Eve Party ★★★[New!]

Thanks to Paul White from the UK, we can present this puzzle to you.

The date is December 31st, 2000, and it's celebrating time in the Norman family household. Leonard and Marianne Norman have lived in the village of Hardy since the nineteen seventies and are having a New Year's Eve bash.

At the party, along with Leonard and Marianne, are the couple's six children. They are, in descending order of age: Aqua, Byzantine, Carmine, Desert, Emerald and Flame. The age range of the children is no more than thirteen years.

Also at the party are Leonard's dad, Frank, and his girlfriend Pamela, along with Mick, an old friend of Marianne's from years ago. Then there is Manhattan, the family dog. And finally the family's three monkeys: See, Hear and Speak, again in descending order of age.

All the ages are different and all the answers are whole numbers. No number begins with a zero.

Across:

  1. The square of Aqua's age
  2. The year of Byzantine's birth
  3. Byzantine's age
  4. The sum of See and Hear's ages
  5. Same number as 5 down, a multiple of Emerald's age
  6. Two less than Desert's age
  7. Frank's age
  8. Marianne's age
  9. The number of years the family has lived in the village
  10. Pamela's age
  11. The cube of See's age
  12. The year of Flame's birth
  13. Speak's age multiplied by fifteen

Down:

  1. Carmine's age multiplied by three
  2. Same number as 6 across
  3. Manhattan's age
  4. Mick's age multiplied by ten
  5. A multiple of Aqua's age
  6. The year of Desert's birth
  7. Same answer as 9 across
  8. Leonard's age
  9. The year of Leonard's birth
  10. The square of Flame's age, the digits in the number add to nine
  11. The year in the 1800s of the great flood in the village, a prime number
  12. Same answer as 16 across
  13. Nine less than 17 across
  14. The square of Hear's age
NameAge
Leonard
Marianne
Frank
Pamela
Mick
Aqua
Byzantine
Carmine
Desert
Emerald
Flame
Manhattan
See
Hear
Speak

The question: Can you use the given clues to fill in the cross-number puzzle and work out the ages of everyone at the party, dog and monkeys included?

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The solution: Click here!

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