Answers to last month’s puzzle: Remove FIVE LETTERS and what remains is a word you can find in any English dictionary. What’s the word? AFPIOVELLOEGTI(T)ERESS or APOLOGIES. My puzzle book left out a second “T” in the string (in parentheses)—Sorry.

For this month, remember those calendars with 2 cubes that are positioned adjacent each other so that the sides facing you show the day of the month: 1—31? Without looking at one, what are the digits on each of the 6 sides that are required to show 1 through 31?