Across
1. What is the name of the NCC’s (Nairobi City Council’s) seat of power?
5. What is the three-letter abbreviation of the mortgage company based in Mama Ngina Street?
6. What is the full web address for the city portal bringing you this original crossword?
11. What is the old abbreviated name for what is now known as the Posta building?
12. What is the thing that denotes the rating of a hotel?
14. What is the name of a building in town that implies the sitting of examinations there in Kiswahili?
16. What is the building on Kimathi street whose two-word name (no space) suggests something weathered?
20. On what month of the year might workers conglomerate without permits in the capital?
23. What is the last syllable of the name of the café situated on the ground floor of the New Stanley hotel?
24. What is the name of the German Institute in Maendeleo House?
25. What street, named in Kiswahili, has a name suggestive of commerce and industry?
28. What is the type of large religious structure near Macmillan Library called?
31. What Presbyterian church with a two-word name (the first is abbreviated) is located near the YMCA on State House Road (no punctuation)?
33. What is the first word in the name of the ‘Exchange’ with a back entrance on Kaunda Street?
34. Barclays Plaza can be said to be located on what street?
38. What is the colour of most roads in town?
39. What is the name of the ‘towers’ whose Kiswahili name sounds like the English word for a light object?
40. How can a backstreet in town around 18.50 pm be best described?
41. What type of references can be found in the public building near Ambassador and opposite the Kenya Cinema?
44. What cinema is located downtown, near where public service vehicles to the central highlands can be obtained?
47. What was the Cold War enemy of the country whose embassy moved from the Central Business District in 1998?
48. Take a kilometre, multiply it as per necessary until it becomes a smile without the s, then turn that word into a popular girl’s name.
49. What is the second word in the name of the cinema and shopping complex near International House?
52. What is the second word in the old name for the multi-star hotel with ‘journey’ in its current title, on University Way?
54. What is the full name of the vehicle passageway named after the capital of a country bordering Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo?
60. What is the surname of the Socialist president who has a road near Uhuru Park named after him?
57. What is the street in Central Business District that shares a name with a men’s suit that gained popularity some years ago?
62. What is the shape of the Kenya Railway’s road warning sign?
63. What is the last word in the three-word name of the television channel with headquarters near the Norfolk hotel?
66. What is the abbreviation for an international organisation whose logo is imprinted on many airlines and travel agents’ signs?
67. What is the long road on Industrial Area whose name rhymes with a synonym for reward?
69. What is the name of the ‘house’ off Kenyatta Avenue, synonymous with the name of a country neighbouring the Central African Republic?
72. What is the name of the building on Kimathi street whose name is suggestive of exclusivity?
73. What is the international hotel chain with a branch opposite International House?
74. What is the Kiswahili word after which a ‘house’ in Central Business District is named, suggestive of vitality?
75. What is the image on the building nearly opposite the 680-hotel, an image symbolising the name of a business that wrongly implies 007 territory?
Down
2. What is the slang name for Central Business District?
3. What are the first two letters of the abbreviated three-letter name for the body that professionals found in or around the High Court belong to?
4. Trains south-bound from Central Business District go to Mombasa but not to which small car-free island north of Mombasa?
7. What do crows do at Jeevanjee gardens?
8. What is the position of HFCK relative to Koinange Street?
9. Parliament could have a bell also known as a what, a word close to a synonym for fantasy?
10. What is the surname of the Kenyan hero after whom a street in Central Business District is named, a street once notorious for muggings?
11. What is the adjective preceding the multi-star hotel not far from Kenya Airways’ headquarters in Central Business District?
13. What is the first part of the name of the notorious road that marks the beginning of downtown?
14. What road leads southwards, out of Uhuru Highway and towards the Ocean?
15. What is the second word in the name of the multi-star hotel at the mouth of Lagos road, off Tom Mboya street?
76. What is the avenue that sounds like the word for ‘hot wind’ in some Bantu languages.
77. What is the name of the shiny blue building on the corner of Kenyatta Avenue and Muindi Bingu street?
78. What is the name of the Mercedes showroom on University Way, without punctuation?
17. What is the ‘house’ in which are the headquarters of the largest women’s organisation?
18 What is the name of the supermarket on Muindi Bingu street opposite one entrance of City Market?
19. What is the road in town named after a former West African capital city?
26. What is the type of soil that you least expect to find in the Central Business District?
29. Parliament Square could also be known, in a geometrical sense, as Parliament what?
30. What is the word for erudition after which a bookshop downtown, not far from Odeon Cinema, is named?
32. A coach company running services from Central Business District to parts of East Africa has a name suggesting it is what in origin?
33. What is the name of the road leading eastwards out of town, synonymous with a name for a certain male creature?
36. What is the Chinese name for the hot beverage after which a ‘house’ in town is named?
45. What is the full name of the vehicle passageway on which the Kafico hotel is located?
49. What is the abbreviation for the infamous government department that was based in Nyayo House?
51. Kenya Re is located on what type of vehicle passageway?
50. People at KenCom waiting for a public service vehicle can gain shelter from what element?
35. What is the name of the upcountry matatu terminus suggestive of a unit of building space?
37. What is the abbreviation for the educators’ commission located near the Nation Plaza?
46. What ‘towers’ are located just off the roundabout leading some traffic from the Central Business District towards Museum Hill?
79. What can you see if you stare upwards from the top floor of KICC?
42. What is the name of the pale blue tall building with apartments, not far from Koinange Street?
43. What is the name of the road hosting the Israeli embassy on the outskirts of town?
55. What is the abbreviation for the tax body with headquarters in the Central Business District?
57. What street runs out of Muindi Mbingu street and is named after an African country’s capital?
58. What kind of lighting illuminates many shop signs at night?
59. Uhuru Park can be best measured in what unit?
61. Guests of Central Police Station are unlikely to be able to do what?
67. A shop/business with a long history is likely to put what abbreviation before the year it was founded?
68. How many lanes are there on Uhuru Highway, counting pedestrian walkways on three sides and adding one?
65. What is the abbreviation for the government department with a glamorous new building not far from ‘Community’?
64. What large building on the mouth of Kenyatta Avenue has signs asking people not to stand or idle outside it?
70. What ‘house’ seems to be named after the breathing apparatus of some creatures?
71. When, timewise, are the busiest hours of Central Business District?
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