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Puzzle


             QUICK CROSSWORD                       NONAGRAM                                 MAGIC SQUARE

             1       2     3     4  5  5       6   How many words of four letters or more can you make from   DODGE TO
                                                   this Nonagram? Each word must use the central letter, and
                                   8               each letter may be used only once. At least one word using   UNUSED TEE
                                                   all nine letters can be found.
                  7                      8                                                 Using all 16 letters
                                                   Target scores:                          of the phrase above,
             9                        10           14 Good; 16 Very Good; 19 Excellent.   R  O  E   form four words
                                                                                           each of four letters
             11  11     11    12   13              Any word found in the Concise Oxford Dictionary is   which, when placed
                                                   eligible with the following exceptions: proper    H  E  S
                                                   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            20           variant spellings of the same word (where another    O  R  F  square in which the
                                                   variant is also eligible).              words can be read
             17                    18                                                      both horizontally
                                                   SUDOKU                                  and vertically.
                        19  20   21            28
             22      23       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
                  26
                                                   3 x 3 box. This is a logic puzzle, you should not have to guess.    1369 875 42  2574 136 89
                                                                     647                                               8 9 4 6 2 5 3 7 1  6851 924 37
             27            28                                                                                          3297 481 65
             ACROSS             DOWN                56                        2                                        7 4 1 5 3 6 9 2 8  4723 598 16
             1. Throw overboard (8)    1. Doorpost (4)                                                                 5638 712 94  9182 647 53
             5. Stringed instrument (4)   2. Shot (anag.) (4)  4  2  598 1
             7. Going up (9)      3. Perspiration (5)                                                                  Uncle; 21 Hardy;   14 Capacity; 20
             9. West Country city (4)    4. Lowest point (5)  7  1 5 3                 8                               12 Optic; 13 Merge;
             10. Information (4)    5. Worker (4)                                                                      8 Garrulity; 11 Steer;
             11. Tempest (5)      6. Rode a bicycle (8)                                                  duet; undo; edge;   Pedalled; 7 Atrocious;  toes.  4 Nadir; 5 Hand; 6
             14. Small farm (5)    7. Heinous (9)   3                                  5                 MAGIC SQUARE  2 Tosh; 3 Sweat;
             15. Register (5)     8. Talkativeness (9)                                                   shoe; shore; sore.  Down – 1 Jamb;
             16. Come in (5)      11. Guide (5)     68           1            4                          seer; sere; serf; sheer;   Yolk; 28 Egyptian.
             17. Reward (5)       12. Of the eye (5)                                                     orfe; reef; refer;   Stag; 26 Sincerely; 27  refresh; roofer; rose;
             18. Icy, chilly (5)    13. Blend (5)        9 4              5       7                      hoofer; horse; hose;   Ruche; 22 Coup; 24   Prize; 18 Gelid; 19
             19. Pleated frilling (5)    14. Power of holding (8)                                        hereof; hero; hoer;   Enrol; 16 Enter; 17
             22. Masterstroke (4)    20. Male relative (5)                                               fresher; froe; here;   free; freer; fresh;   Storm; 14 Croft; 15
             24. Male deer (4)    21. Resolute, robust (5)  2        136                                 fore; FORESHORE;   9 Bath; 10 Data; 11   5 Harp; 7 Ascending;
             26. Genuinely (9)    23. Pale red (4)                                                       NONAGRAM      Across – 1 Jettison;
             27. Egg yellow (4)    24. Opening for coins (4)  3      87           42                     Gown.         CROSSWORD
             28. North African (8)    25. Robe (4)                                                       23 Pink; 24 Slot; 25   QUICK










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