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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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