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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   MISTER, IT IS
                                                   this Nonagram? Each word must use the central letter, and
                                 8                 each letter may be used only once. At least one word using   REMOTE
                                                   all nine letters can be found.
             8             9     10                                                        Using all 16 letters
                                                   Target scores:                          of the phrase above,
                        11                         16 Good; 19 Very Good; 22 Excellent.   H  A  S   form four words
                                                                                           each of four letters
             12      13          14   15           Any word found in the Concise Oxford Dictionary is   which, when placed
                                                   eligible with the following exceptions: proper    N  C  I
                                                   nouns; plural nouns, pronouns and possessives;   correctly in the grid,
                  16             17
                                                   third person singular verbs; hyphenated words;   will form a magic
                                                   contractions and abbreviations; vulgar slang words;
                                 22                variant spellings of the same word (where another    C A R  square in which the
                                                   variant is also eligible).              words can be read
             18  21  19  20  21  25  22  23  24  26  25                                    both horizontally
                                                   SUDOKU                                  and vertically.
             26                  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.    1472 659 38  3651 984 72
                                                    98               1                 7                               8 2 9 4 3 7 6 5 1  2783 461 95
             31                  32                                                                                    4935 817 26
             ACROSS             DOWN                         68                                                        6 5 1 9 7 2 3 8 4  5147 298 63
             1. Front (6)         1. Wince (6)                                                                         7368 542 19  9826 135 47
             4. Upward slope (6)    2. Gambling room (6)  51     7 2          8   6                      emit; more; iris; test.  MAGIC SQUARE
             8. Invertebrate (6)    3. Edict (6)                                                                       Cried; 18 Useful; 19
             10. Sell door to door (6)    5. Three-dimensional (6)                                       scar; scran.  SACCHARIN; scan;   Pest; 13 Obese; 15   Twenty; 9 Tidy; 10
             11. Large stream (5)    6. Tolerate (6)                                                     rachis; ranch; rich;   Stereo; 6 Endure; 7
             12. Paddled (6)      7. Score (6)                                                           crash; inarch; inch;   Casino; 3 Decree; 5
             14. Clandestine (6)    9. Neat (4)                  5 817                 6                 circa; craic; cran;   Down – 1 Flinch; 2
             16. Follow orders (4)    10. Nuisance (4)                                                   chin; china; cinch;   Friend.
             17. Ripped (4)       13. Abnormally fat (5)                                                 charas; chic;   Triple; 31 Lieder; 32
             19. Catch sight of (4)    15. Wept (5)  2                    6       95                     chana; char; characin;   chai; chain; chair;   28 Alter; 29 Fillip; 30
             22. Pace (4)         18. Helpful (6)                                                        cairn; carina; cash;   Severe; 27 Tedium;   Espy; 22 Step; 26
             26. Very strict (6)    19. Develop, disclose (6)  2  4 3                                    arch; archaic; arnica;   16 Obey; 17 Tore; 19
             27. Boredom (6)      20. Commend (6)                                                        anarch; anarchic;   Canoed; 14 Secret;
             28. Later (anag.) (5)    21. Sharp cry (4)  6       1            4                          NONAGRAM      Peddle; 11 River; 12
             29. Stimulus, boost (6)    22. Let it stand (4)                                             Impend.       Ascent; 8 Insect; 10
             30. Threefold (6)    23. Great fear (6)                                                     Terror; 24 Pimple; 25   Across – 1 Façade; 4
             31. German songs (6)    24. Infl amed spot (6)  1             5            8                 21 Yelp; 22 Stet; 23   CROSSWORD
             32. Pal (6)          25. Threaten (6)                                                       Evolve; 20 Praise;   QUICK














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