Puzzle Pages — answers for October 2026 from Expat Living

# What this brief covers This brief compiles the October 2026 Puzzle Pages answers published by Expat Living. It lists the solutions provided on the website for the magazine's monthly puzzle section so you can check your own answers quickly without opening the original post.

# Quick roll call of puzzle types The issue's solutions include: a 10-question trivia Q&A, a completed Sudoku grid, the Wordwheel 9-letter solution plus valid shorter words, a completed KenKen grid, a furniture identification matching list, a geography true-or-false list, a set of collective nouns mapped to animals, and the solution to a seven-child-themed riddle.

# Trivia Q&A highlights

• Freezing point of water: Zero degrees Celsius.
• 2023 highest-grossing film directed solely by a woman: Barbie (Greta Gerwig).
• River flowing through the most countries (10): The Danube.
• Classic Queen song that begins "She keeps her Moët et Chandon...": "Killer Queen."
• Most produced fruit (excluding tomato): Banana.
• Tallest manmade structure for ~3,800 years: The Great Pyramid of Giza.

• Word meaning to overfill and a type of shoe: Clog.
• Primary flavour/ingredient in traditional Worcestershire sauce: Anchovies.
• First Pixar feature (1995): Toy Story.

# Puzzles solved in full Sudoku: The site posts a full 9x9 solution grid for the puzzle in the issue.

KenKen: A completed 5x5 grid is provided in sequence across the page.

# Themed quizzes and matching Furniture ID (10 items): Credenza, Hassock, Murphy Bed, Chesterfield, Chabudai, Armoire, Fainting Couch, Fauteuil, Panton Chair, Vitrine.

# The riddle The riddle titled "The 7th Child" resolves to the name Tilly. The puzzle explanation notes the seven names start with the musical syllables Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti.

# How to use this brief Use the lists here to check your answers quickly. If you want a monthly copy of the puzzles themselves, the post notes you can get the Puzzle Pages by subscribing to Expat Living.

# Where the answers were published