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Help me solve this last part of the puzzle so I can win some spending money for my vacation.

1) It isn't always easy to ????? something that is moving quickly. a) Block b) clock

2) University professor manages to settle students dispute regarding the facts pertaining to a certain country's ????

a) pact b) pass

3) By suddenly starting to cross the road ??? can make a driver swerve.

a) hen b) men

4) Followers ponder leader's question, "With such continued global turmoil, will there ever be a ??? to end all wars ?"

a) way b) war

5) To earn extra ??? for summer vacation, computer engineer asks her boss if she could work overtime.

a) day b) pay

6) News commentator believes that minds of two octogenarian communist rulers are very much ????? , despite media reports to the contrary.

a) alike b) alive

14) People with plenty of money often pay substantial sums for

a) horses b) houses

15) Grabbing for paper bag in seat pocket, groaning airline passenger blames bad ?????
for his upset stomach.

a) lunch b) Lurch


?????? a staff member may not make her any better.
a) Fining b)Firing


THANKS AGAIN FOR ANY HELP.

blackscorpion, you are wasting your time. the odds of jumping the right way everytime are huge. 8 questions = 0.5 to the power of 8 = 20,000 + . have a bet on a horse instead. better still start saving.

I disagree with you, submitting a few entries with the possibility of winning $1200 is not a waste of time. Somebody has to win, somebody ALWAYS win these ;. Whoever wins I'm sure will be happy they wasted a half hour or so with this. Thanks for your opinion.

Seriously, though, blackscorpion: you are perfectly free if you wish to devote your energy to winning, but there is absolutely NO WAY that we can help you, since all answers are literally equally possible! It's as simple as that!

@GK
Je suis en désaccord. Peut-être il y a une certaine logique ici.
Lisez ma réponse ci-dessous.

What the heck.
Had occasional help with a prize puzzle, the Spectator, but not the one I won. Also try to help others - Karma.

Is there a preamble that might indicate the better answer (cryptic ?), or is it simply a crap-shoot?

With the jump in numbers, does that mean you've figured out the ones in between, or it this in a grid?
What are your answers for those?
Next time, give some indication where the puzzle is from, or scan & post it via Dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/
You might get more help if people have some background information.

My best guesses, from the text:

1B clock - time factor: moving quickly.
2A pact - "to settle"
3A hen - why did the chicken cross the road?
4B war - "turmoil"
5A day - "overtime"
14A horses - http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/plenty+of+money
15A lunch - "paper bag"
X A fining - "make better" -- Chambers

6 could go either way.
A alike - "despite ... contrary"
B alive - "octogenarian ... very much" Commie leaders tended to die of things like "the flu". My favourite.

Good luck! If you win, post a card here.

Didn't test the links. This site has a problem with certain http syntax:

http://www.dropbox.com/

Horse pedigrees:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/7xr8bbz

The thing is, with a 'competition' like this, there are no absolutely right or wrong answers, so the setter can easily manipulate it to select the 'winning' entry. Someone doesn't always win -- you said so yourself in the other thread. Someone eventually wins, when the setter chooses.

To endorse/elaborate on what Bullfrog says, as long as 60+ years ago, puzzles like this regularly appeared in UK Sunday papers. There are always a number of clues with two equally valid answers so that the puzzle cannot be 'solved' in any definitive way. It depends on which answer the setter has decided is the correct (i.e. winning) one.

Thanks again and all of you are right; whoever these folks want to win will win as any one answer can be the correct one.

I am feeling some good karma right now so I'll submit just one entry. Thanks again.