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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 RESTING IN
this Nonagram? Each word must use the central letter, and
each letter may be used only once. At least one word using REAR, SIR?
all nine letters can be found.
8 9 Using all 16 letters
Target scores: of the phrase above,
9 10 14 Good; 17 Very Good; 20 Excellent. B A D form four words
each of four letters
10 11 11 12 13 13 Any word found in the Concise Oxford Dictionary is which, when placed
eligible with the following exceptions: proper A L T
nouns; plural nouns, pronouns and possessives; correctly in the grid,
14 15
third person singular verbs; hyphenated words; will form a magic
contractions and abbreviations; vulgar slang words;
16 17 18 variant spellings of the same word (where another N S S square in which the
variant is also eligible). words can be read
19 20 both horizontally
SUDOKU and vertically.
21 19 22 23 24
23 25 26 24 25 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
27 28 29
3 x 3 box. This is a logic puzzle, you should not have to guess. 9256 781 43 8465 139 27
5 8 6 1 3 7 9 2 4 6 8 5 6543 897 12
30 31 7832 614 59
ACROSS DOWN 127 65 2 9 1 4 5 7 8 3 6 3681 952 74
1. Boat with twin hulls (9) 1. Rounded loaf (3) 4127 365 98 5798 423 61
6. Attach fi rmly (3) 2. Taint (anag.) (5) 36 5 4
8. Tarry substance (7) 3. Operatic heroine (4) Faded; 12 Get on;
9. Lawful (5) 4. Rotten (6) 10 Willpower; 11
10. Feel need of (4) 5. African river (4) 2 1 7 3 6 MAGIC SQUARE Figment; 7 Xylophone; grin; rare; iris; nest. Rancid; 5 Nile; 6
11. Pear-shaped fruit (3) 6. Fabrication (7) slant; slat; tabla; tala. Titan; 3 Mimi; 4
13. Sob (4) 7. Percussion instrument (9) 78 6 5 SANDBLAST; slab; Down – 1 Cob; 2
14. Paddled (5) 10. Self-control (9) salsa; salt; sandal; Rewarding.
16. Became invalid (6) 11. Lost colour (5) nasal; natal; salad; Flaccid; 30 Roy; 31
18. Military display (6) 12. Progress (3,2) 54 97 2 blat; land; lass; last; Acne; 27 Waltz; 28
19. Entrap (5) 14. Marry (3) basalt; bland; blast; 21 Puny; 22 Dun; 23
21. Weak (4) 15. Period of light (3) balsa; banal; basal; 18 Tattoo; 19 Decoy;
22. Greyish-brown (3) 17. Forfeit (7) 3 9 4 8 5 aslant; atlas; bald; Waded; 16 Lapsed;
23. Skin condition (4) 20. Ban on people being alas; alba; anal; Fig; 13 Weep; 14
27. Dance in triple time (5) outdoors (6) 13 2 NONAGRAM Legal; 10 Want; 11
28. Soft and limp (7) 24. Spiny plants (5) Lair; 29 Dog. 6 Fix; 8 Bitumen; 9
30. Rob ---, Scottish 25. Russian emperor (4) Across – 1 Catamaran; 24 Cacti; 25 Czar; 26 CROSSWORD
outlaw (3) 26. Den (4) 5 3 Penalty; 20 Curfew;
31. Profi table (9) 29. Canine animal (3) 14 Wed; 15 Day; 17 QUICK

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