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Puzzle

QUICK CROSSWORD NONAGRAM MAGIC SQUARE
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 How many words of four letters or more can you make from CANNOT CREATE
this Nonagram? Each word must use the central letter, and
7 8 each letter may be used only once. At least one word using CORE
all nine letters can be found.
9 10 Using all 16 letters
Target scores: of the phrase above,
10 11 11 13 14 12 Good; 14 Very Good; 16 Excellent. V I S form four words
each of four letters
11 12 13 14 15 16 Any word found in the Concise Oxford Dictionary is which, when placed
eligible with the following exceptions: proper O N E
nouns; plural nouns, pronouns and possessives; correctly in the grid,
17 18
third person singular verbs; hyphenated words; will form a magic
contractions and abbreviations; vulgar slang words;
19 22 variant spellings of the same word (where another E F F square in which the
variant is also eligible). words can be read
20 21 22 23 24 both horizontally
SUDOKU and vertically.
25 26
23 28 27 28 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
29 30
3 x 3 box. This is a logic puzzle, you should not have to guess. 1843 275 96
29 31 9576 184 23 6 3 2 9 4 5 1 8 7
98 6 5762 918 34
32 33 4137 862 59
ACROSS DOWN 5 9 8 2 9 4 5 3 6 7 1 2618 793 45
1. Pulled a face (8) 2. Reign (4) 7451 329 68 3985 647 12
6. Truth, reality (4) 3. Short-lived bug (6) 26 8 93 4 14 Gen; 15 Every;
8. Pointed tool (3) 4. Fodder plant (6) 12 Sport; 13 Petal;
9. Minimise (4,4) 5. Scandinavian (4) coat; once; acer; tern. Cruise; 11 Prove;
10. Musical composition (4) 6. Blossom (6) 9 5 3 6 1 Dane; 6 Flower; 7
12. Slumber (5) 7. Voyage (6) MAGIC SQUARE Mayfl y; 4 Clover; 5
14. Noisy fowl (5) 11. Verify (5) 4 7 2 vino. Down – 2 Rule; 3
17. Stringy (4) 12. Recreation (5) sniff; sone; vein; vine; sene; seven; sine; Trysting.
18. Reticent (8) 13. Floral leaf (5) ovine; seen; seine; 31 Hop; 32 Blue; 33
20. Upright (8) 14. Information (inf.) (3) 7 1 3 Smut; 30 Aberdeen; 25 Enter; 26 Lorry; 29 OFFENSIVE; oven;
15. Each of a number (5)
24. Reptile (abbrev.) (4) 16. Decree (5) niff; noise; nose; 20 Vertical; 24 Croc;
25. Penetrate (5) 19. Conifer (3) 2 4 5 1 7 fi ne; fi no; info; névé; Ropy; 18 Reserved;
26. Truck (5) 21. Glossy surface (6) envoi; eosin; even; Sleep; 14 Geese; 17
29. Soot (4) 22. Cut a tooth (6) 5 6 8 23 NONAGRAM down; 10 Opus; 12
30. Scottish city (8) 23. Isolated (6) Rapt; 28 Vein. 6 Fact; 8 Awl; 9 Play Across – 1 Grimaced;
31. Jump on one foot (3) 24. Direct (anag.) (6) Lonely; 24 Credit; 27
32. Sky colour (4) 27. Spellbound (4) 18 2 Enamel; 22 Teethe; 23 CROSSWORD
33. Arranging to meet (8) 28. Blood vessel (4) 16 Edict; 19 Fir; 21 QUICK

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