CISRA Puzzle Competition 2007 - Solutions

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A.1 Alpha Ward

Intuitive leap: The puzzle text is full of references to the pilot's alphabet, otherwise known as the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Repeat twice: Five guys, a girl and their father
(in a radiation outfit) went to a country, a
Canadian province and a city. There they met two
Greeks, an African and an American. They danced
twice (to critical acclaim), had a drink in a pub,
played a sport, and before December they founded a
software company.

• Alpha: one of the "two Greeks"
• Bravo: "to critical acclaim"
• Charlie: one of the "Five guys"
• Delta: one of the "two Greeks"
• Echo: "Repeat twice:"
• Foxtrot: one of the two "dances"
• Golf: "played a sport"
• Hotel: "in a pub" (in Australia, pubs are often associated with hotels)
• India: "a country"
• Juliet: "a girl"
• Kilo:
• Lima: "a city"
• Mike: one of the "Five guys"
• November: "before December"
• Oscar: one of the "Five guys"
• Papa: "their father"
• Quebec: "a Canadian province"
• Romeo: one of the "Five guys"
• Sierra: "a software company"
• Tango: one of the two "dances"
• Uniform: "outfit"
• Victor: one of the "Five guys"
• Whiskey: "had a drink"
• X-ray: "radiation"
• Yankee: "an American"
• Zulu: "an African"

The only word from that alphabet not represented in the puzzle is KILO, which is the solution.