A thousand flights were cancelled on Tuesday because one plan arrived with a departure code no British computer had a row for. Brussels had accepted it forty minutes earlier. Its list has the row, and the row is not an aerodrome.
A grave lease at Gotha lapses after 25 years unless somebody comes to the counter. Adam Weishaupt's has been renewed seven times, in cash, by a payer the ledger calls ‘the Order’.
Whoever lost the craft at Corona wrote it off that October: one platform, complement of three, not recovered. The form was registered as an object, which is why it could be read. The replacement it asks for has waited since 1949.
The last two puzzles failed on geography and on a clock. This one has nobody in the wrong city and nobody moving faster than an aeroplane, and one entry is impossible anyway.
A reader broke last week's puzzle in fourteen minutes and then found a flaw the setter had not intended. This one states where every registry stands, because that was the flaw.
A wall map making Africa the size of Greenland hung in classrooms for a century, and a committee chose it knowing that. Its minute book records the vote, 9 to 2, and the reason: show the world as it is held.
Custody Chain No. 1 asked readers to find the one impossible entry. Forty-one found it. One went further and filed an objection about a second entry which the setter has now conceded is arguable.
A new puzzle for the back of the book. You are given six custody entries for a single folder and the movements of the six people who signed them. Exactly one entry cannot have happened. Find it.
The Jekyll Island party travelled under first names only and denied for eighteen years that the meeting happened. The club's own game register survives, and it records eleven days in which nobody shot anything.
A crate opened in Cochise County in July holds a dried membrane on thirty-one articulated elements. Two laboratories put the collagen between 1874 and 1908, and neither can match it to any bird, mammal or living reptile.
De Nederlandsche Bank calls it crisis preparedness. The bar list says more than that: 1,163 bars in the shipment appear on the lists of eight earlier central bank moves, all ending at one London vault.
The pancreatic agent licensed this week is a patented salt of a compound that has been in the catalogues since 1998. What changed was not the chemistry. It was who could hold the patent.
Thirty-one of the Committee's thirty-nine founding members had to build the authority that signed for them. The instrument provides a four-page form for doing it. In seventy-three years the depository has never sent one to this planet.
Six days ago this newspaper placed the marked Roswell site in the wrong draw. The lessee across the fence let us dig. A trench 1.1 metres down met a cut horizon with a 1943 cartridge case lying above it.
Two field notebooks and thirteen hundred pages produce one tally: thirty-four askings, two answers. Fifteen years earlier, in another hand, a single word for a star that three linguists read three different ways.
A private expedition permit for a coordinate in Queen Maud Land took nine weeks, £780 in fees and £6,100 for an environmental evaluation. It was approved with four conditions. Then eleven transport operators refused us, in writing.
Nineteen months, sixty-three separate records requests, two blinded statisticians. Against park area the clusters reproduce the published atlas almost exactly. Against visitor-hours they dissolve, except at one place where nobody has ever gone missing.
A charity lawyer and a chartered secretary drew one order's structure from its public accounts. Four entities, assembled by a provincial solicitor in 1974 after a plasterer fell down the stairs and sued nine men personally.
Reflectance imaging at eleven angles confirms one royal titulary cut over another; both readings are published here. Nobody can date the plaster loss that made the famous shape any closer than a forty-five-year window, and no living conservator remembers it.
Nine readers asked for Item 14 material last year. All nine were refused, for the same reason: no reference. The catalogue that would supply one is the work of a single post, vacant since 2019 and readvertised four times.
Two survey firms, working blind, computed seven decades of volume change from film and lidar this newspaper paid for. The hill has lost 41,000 cubic metres, all of it in one road cut on the north side.
Two epidemiologists recoded all 618 entries in a national register against the definition in force before April 2019. On that definition the 2020 total is 24. Forty-one facilities have reported nothing in ten years.
One sheet of gazelle hide, 90 by 63 centimetres. Fitted to Antarctic bedrock the famous coast misses by 340 kilometres; fitted to Brazil, rotated and squeezed, by 61. The squeeze begins 2.1 centimetres from the trim.
Three receiving stations outside the American network recorded the voice downlink themselves in July 1969. We have two of the three sets and measured 611 exchanges. The round-trip delay is there throughout, and it tracks the range.
Eleven women served in the Army Nurse Corps detachment at Roswell in 1947 and all eleven have been accounted for. One of them did leave the base without notice, in nine days, under a regulation about pregnancy.
Sixty-one sign-by-sign readings, 1,830 pairs tested. The best agreement between any two is four signs out of 417. Seven pairs agree on nothing. The field's working text has nineteen typos.
The station that watches this system lost two of its three continuous watches at the 2019 review. Sorted by the post's own thirty-hour clock, reports filed since then pile into the ninety-minute windows when two instruments are lit at once.
Nine days, sixty-two hectares and eleven hundred anomalies produced fencing staples and a 1968 tractor linkage. The work also established that the draw described in the 1947 rancher's statement lies across a fence, on other ground.
Annex C to the National Relocation Instruction is the standing order that turns a list of post-holders into a government. Its validation form has had an eleven per cent return rate since 2011. Two people maintain it, one of them part-time.
Four hundred and twelve consecutive agendas of the Standing Committee on Admissions and Interdiction list this planet as Item 14. The disposition is 'carried' every time. The word quarantine does not appear in the file once.
