2023 Christmas social bonus quiz

[Chris M]

As has become customary there will be a bonus crossword quiz for the Christmas social this year. As not everybody will be able to make it, you can also play online.

Assuming the technology works correctly, the grid will become visible here at 8pm on Friday and the images at 2pm on Saturday. The thread will not be automatically marked as updated by the forum software though so you will need to check.

Fill in the crossword grid below using these images of stations which appear on the current tube map as the clues.
Notes:

• Multiple-word station names may be represented by all words, initials (#) or only the first world (*)
• Punctuation (hyphens, apostrophes, etc) is ignored.
• If it appears, “Saint” is always “St”.
• If it appears, “and” is always “and” never “&”
• Bonus: re-arrange the highlighted letters to form the names of four stations.
• The only modifications made to the images are to hide text/signs that are too much of a giveaway such as station names and signal numbers. + next to the question number indicates a modified image.

Answer grid

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Across
3 across

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7 across

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11 across

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12 across

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15 across

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17 across

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20 across

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21 across

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23 across

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25 across and 27 down

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26 across

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30 across

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31 across

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32 across

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33 across

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Down
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2 down

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4 down

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5 down

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6 down

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8 down

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9 down

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14 down

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16 down

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22 down

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24 down

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27 down
See 25 across

28 down

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29 down

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32 down

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[Chris M]

Technology appears to be working, so the questions will appear in the first post in about 20 minutes.

[trainwizard]

1 down - Covent Garden

[Chris M]

1 down: Covent Garden - lifts to street

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I'll post the rest of the answers tomorrow if there are no more guesses. goldenarrow absolutely demolished the quiz in person!

[elsombernie]

3 across Crossharbour.
11 across Cutty Sark?

[gantshill]

I've been away, without access to a PC, trying to do the crossword on a phone was impossible.

Anyway, here are my guesses:

4D: Shadwell
5D: Bond Street
9D: HAI
18D: Northfields
11A: Island Gardens
21A: Edgware
26A: Loughton
31A: Putney Bridge

I'm sure that if I now went back and looked at the letters that now appear in other clues, I'd get a few more.

As ever, thanks to Chris for the Crossword, and to those who organised the DD meet.

[bigvern]

Are all the 26 letters highlighted used only once to create the 4 stations names or is just use the letters to form 4 different station names within any of the 26 letters remaining?

[Chris M]

Each of the 26 letters (plus 1 R, as I missed highlighting 1) are used exactly once.

4 down: Shadwell (London Overground) - north end of northbound

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5 down: Bond Street - Exit from passage linking LU lines to Elizabeth line and Davies Street ticket hall

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9 down: Highbury & Islington - Passage from southbound deep level lines to ticket hall

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18 down: Northfields - exterior from corner of Redwood Grove

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3 across: Crossharbour - northern stairs to southbound platform

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11 across: Island Gardens - platform from southbound train

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21 across: Edgware - exterior in May 2017

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26 across: Loughton - roundel on eastbound island

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31 across: Putney Bridge - platform 2 in January 2023

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[bigvern]

Have sent a PM with final grid answers & the 4 stations to allow others to continue with the quiz. (Note; I didnt need the extra 'R' not highlighted in the Grid above)
Good Luck All - keep hunting..

Looking forward to the daily quiz next year.

Thanks to the Quiz Team and contributors for making the quizzes up and the monitoring & marking throughout the year.

Have a Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year.

Bigvern.

[enness]

20a Nine Elms ?
25a Kew 27d Gardens
22d Gloucester

[Chris M]

20 across: Nine Elms - top of escalators

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25 across and 27 down: Kew Gardens - footbridge in January 2023

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22 down: Gloucester (Road) - bottom of lifts to Piccadilly line

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[keerde]

32a - Russell Square
33a - Bayswater
2d - Archway

[Chris M]

32 across: Russell Square - platform wall tiling

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33 across: Bayswater - stairs to platform 2

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2 down: Archway - exit to Navigator Square

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[t697]

So 32 down must be Rectory Road - RR
And 23 across Kilburn High Road - KHR
And did we do 24 down Hackney Wick - HW?

[t697]

6d picture looks like the next station along, half sharing its name with what seems to be the 6d answer.

[Chris M]

24 down: Hackney Wick - westbound Freightliner servince in July 2021

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32 down: Rectory Road - northbound waiting shelter

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23 across: Kilburn High Road - footbridge from platform

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Dec 13, 2023 17:55:40 GMT t697 said:

6d picture looks like the next station along, half sharing its name with what seems to be the 6d answer.

Yes, I took photos of every station on that stretch of line one day earlier this year and then mislabelled the photo when sorting them later. Which is more understandable than when I discovered a photo clearly showing a roundel saying Stanmore labelled as Edgware!

[enness]

7a Bow Church
15a Bethnal Green
17a Willesden Junction
30a Colindale
16d Emerson Park
19d Ickenham


?? 6d image seems to be Ruislip (picture from Station Approach) but the answer that seems to fit is Ruislip Manor ??

[Chris M]

Dec 14, 2023 9:59:20 GMT enness said:

7a Bow Church
?? 6d image seems to be Ruislip (picture from Station Approach) but the answer that seems to fit is Ruislip Manor ??

Yes, see the bottom of my previous message.

6 down: Ruislip - exterior in June 2019 [incorrectly labelled as Ruislip Manor]

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16 down: Emerson Park - Class 315 315802 at platform

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19 down: Ickenham - eastbound platform

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7 across: Bow Church - south end of southbound platform

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15 across: Bethnal Green (LU) - decorative ironwork in pavement outside entrance

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17 across: Willesden Junction - sign to lift from high level to low level platforms

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30 across: Colindale - top of stairs to platform

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[enness]

29d Bushey

12a Cambridge Heath

14d Whitechapel

28d Neasden

8 d Chigwell ?

13a Taplow

[Chris M]

12 across: Cambridge Heath - roundel on northbound platform

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13 across: Taplow - station buildings from temporary footbridge in April 2016

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8 down: Chigwell - ticket hall in December 2007

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14 down: Whitechapel - exit from platform to Court Street ticket hall on final day

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28 down: Neasden - subway to depot from northbound Metropolitan line platform

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29 down: Bushey - north end of platforms 1 and 2

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[enness]

10d Maidenhead ?

[Chris M]

10 down: Maidenhead - platform 2 in April 2016

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