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Puzzle


             QUICK CROSSWORD                       NONAGRAM                                 MAGIC SQUARE

             1    2     3     4    5  5  6     7   How many words of four letters or more can you make from   CREATE GERMAN
                                                   this Nonagram? Each word must use the central letter, and
                                   8               each letter may be used only once. At least one word using   MICE
                                                   all nine letters can be found.
             9                     10                                                      Using all 16 letters
                                                   Target scores:                          of the phrase above,
                              11      10           14 Good; 17 Very Good; 20 Excellent.   Q  U  I   form four words
                                                                                           each of four letters
             10  12  13    14    12  15            Any word found in the Concise Oxford Dictionary is   which, when placed
                                                   eligible with the following exceptions: proper    H  M  S
                                                   nouns; plural nouns, pronouns and possessives;   correctly in the grid,
             16         14  17   18
                                                   third person singular verbs; hyphenated words;   will form a magic
                                                   contractions and abbreviations; vulgar slang words;
             19   20    21       22   23           variant spellings of the same word (where another    S  E  A  square in which the
                                                   variant is also eligible).              words can be read
                        24    25                                                           both horizontally
                                                   SUDOKU                                  and vertically.
             26            22  27  28    29
                     23  30           24       31  There is just one simple rule in Sudoku. Each row and each   SOLUTIONS
                                                   column must contain the numbers 1 to 9, and so must each
             32               33
                                                   3 x 3 box. This is a logic puzzle, you should not have to guess.    4953 178 26  3815 264 79
                                                         721              4                                            2 6 7 9 4 8 3 5 1  1564 827 93
             34         31  35                                                                                         9287 315 64
             ACROSS             DOWN                             2 9                   7                               7 3 4 6 5 9 1 8 2  6198 732 45
             1. Robe (8)          1. Huge (4)                                                                          8432 956 17  5721 649 38
             5. Freshwater fi sh (4)    2. Spanish man’s title (5)  61  8  3                              meet.
             9. Spiced Spanish wine (7)   3. Deserve (5)                                                               Off-stage; 18 Rhyl; 20  gram; rice; acne;
             10. African country (5)    4. Almost (6)                                                    MAGIC SQUARE  13 Urn; 14 Able; 16
             11. Drowned valley (3)    6. Evened up (7)  3           5 9 1 8 2                           smash; SQUEAMISH.  Peep-hole; 8 Azalea;
             12. Savage (6)       7. Slit (4-4)                                                          sham; shame; shim;   Nearly; 6 Aligned; 7
             15. Midday meal (5)    8. Deciduous shrub (6)  92   7            5                          same; seam; semi;   Señor; 3 Merit; 4
             17. Cattle shelter (4)    13. Vase (3)                                                      misuse; muse; mush;   Down – 1 Vast; 2   Attorney.
             19. Yellow-fl owered herb (6)  14. Talented (4)                                              mess; messiah; miss;   Kestrel; 34 Earl; 35
             22. German composer (6)    16. Not visible to   1   4                9                      massé; mesa; mesh;   masque; mass;   30 Arc; 32 Allot; 33
             24. Trust (4)        audience (3-5)                                                         mash; mashie;   Sober; 27 Oldest;
             26. Temperate, moderate (5)    18. Welsh resort (4)                                         hassium; maquis;   Handel; 24 Rely; 26
             27. Most ancient (6)    20. Cloudy (7)          7       4 8                                 assume; haem;   Byre; 19 Fennel; 22
             30. Curve forming part of     21. Mistakes in print (6)                                     ahem; amiss; amuse;   Brutal; 15 Lunch; 17
               circumference (3)    23. Born as (3)      8       5        6       7                      NONAGRAM      10 Zaire; 11 Ria; 12
             32. Deal out (5)     25. Ornamental case (6)                                                31 Clay.      5 Carp; 9 Sangria;
             33. Small falcon (7)    28. Dancing party (5)                                               28 Disco; 29 Siren;   Across – 1 Vestment;
             34. British nobleman (4)    29. Temptress (5)  4    3                     6                 23 Née; 25 Locket;   CROSSWORD  QUICK
             35. Lawyer (8)       31. Sticky earth (4)                                                   Nebular; 21 Errata;













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