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Workings

Hint
Look to the skies.

Answer
NE.

From Neptune. The first two letters from the planets in sequence: MErcury, VEnus, EArth, MArs, JUpiter, SAturn, URanus, NEptune.

Workings

Hint
There are 13 loaves in a baker's dozen.

Answer
Loaves in a dozen baker's dozen.

Reasoning
A baker's dozen is 13, so a dozen baker's dozen is:

   12 x 13 = 156 loaves

There are 15 red balls in snooker, and each of these can be followed by the black ball, and then the colours in order gives:

   15 x (1 + 7) + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 = 147 points

This can rise to 155 if the break follows a foul.

Workings

Hint
In the road race, where could Charlie have finished?

Answer
Cycling : Billie > Alex > Charlie > Drew

Road race : Drew > Charlie > Billie > Alex

Road Race
In the road race, where could Charlie have finished?

By (4), he wasn't last. By (5), he wasn't first.

By (2), if Charlie was third, then he would have won the cycling, but by (3) Alex beat Charlie in the cycling, so Charlie can't have won the cycling.

So Charlie must have finished in second place.

By (5), Drew was first.

By (1), Alex didn't win the cycling, so by (2) he didn't come third in the road race. Therefore, Alex came last.

Leaving Billie in third place.

Road race : Drew > Charlie > Billie > Alex

Cycling
By (2), Billie won.

By (4), Charlie wasn't last.

By (3), Alex beat Charlie. So Alex finished in second place, with Charlie in third place.

Leaving Drew in last place.

Cycling : Billie > Alex > Charlie > Drew

Workings

Hint
The word DECEMBER appears 19 times.

Answer
The word DECEMBER appears 19 times.