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Puzzle


             QUICK CROSSWORD                       NONAGRAM                                 MAGIC SQUARE

             1  2    3     4     5  5  6  6  7  7  How many words of four letters or more can you make from   ADVANCE EVE’S
                                                   this Nonagram? Each word must use the central letter, and
                                 8                 each letter may be used only once. At least one word using   SCENE
                                                   all nine letters can be found.
             9             10      10                                                      Using all 16 letters
                                                   Target scores:                          of the phrase above,
                              11  11               22 Good; 26 Very Good; 31 Excellent.   V  I  E   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    T  R  Y
                                                   nouns; plural nouns, pronouns and possessives;   correctly in the grid,
             15                  16  17  18    19
                                                   third person singular verbs; hyphenated words;   will form a magic
                                                   contractions and abbreviations; vulgar slang words;
                                 22   23           variant spellings of the same word (where another    S  I  D  square in which the
                                                   variant is also eligible).              words can be read
             20  21  22    23  25  24  25   26                                             both horizontally
                                                   SUDOKU                                  and vertically.
             26            27
             28                                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            29         30
                                                   3 x 3 box. This is a logic puzzle, you should not have to guess.    7451 639 28
             31                                                                                                        8327 594 61  1 6 9 4 8 2 7 3 5
                                                         8       6   941                                               6542 783 19
             34         31  32                                                                                         9283 165 47
             ACROSS             DOWN                         6                2 7                                      3 7 1 9 4 5 6 8 2  4135 278 96
             1. Wasteful (8)      2. Literate person (6)                                                 send.         5968 312 74  2876 941 53
             8. Rouse (6)         3. Lump (6)       4                2        8   96                     aces; cave; even;   MAGIC SQUARE
             9. Tumble (4)        4. Desert-dwelling                                                                   Deed; 21 Athens; 22   17 Alec; 18 Peat; 19
             10. Furrow (3)       rodent (6)                                                             very; vestry.  verity; verst; vert;   13 Moat; 14 Lean;
             11. Coiffure (inf.) (6)    5. Mortal (6)        1                                           trey; tried; tyre; tyred;   7 Stodge; 12 Spud;
             12. Milk pudding (8)    6. Stint (6)                                                        tidier; tier; tire; tired;   5 Lethal; 6 Scrimp;
             15. Push forward (6)    7. Heavy food (6)   2       3            5 4                        stride; strive; strived;   3 Dollop; 4 Gerbil;
             16. Scooped up with the     12. Potato (inf.) (4)                                           sire; sired; stir; stiver;   Down – 2 Reader;
                                  13. Defensive trench (4)
               tongue (6)         14. Slim (4)                                                                         Enigma; 32 Landmark. rite; rive; rived; rivet;
             20. Having an assignation     17. Boy’s name (4)  6  4       8            9                 rest; revisit; ride; rise;   29 Imp; 30 Talk; 31
               with (6)           18. Bog fuel (4)                                                       drey; driest; drive;   Executed; 28 Chopin;  dyer; erst; iris; resit;
             24. Ten-year period (6)    19. Action (4)               8 2 7             5                               24 Decade; 27   16 Lapped; 20 Dating;  DIVERSITY; divert;
             27. Put to death (8)    21. Capital of Greece (6)                                           dirty; diver; divers;   Semolina; 15 Propel;
             28. Polish composer (6)    22. Call in question (6)  8  27 5         6                      derv; dire; direst; dirt;   Rut; 11 Hairdo; 12
             29. Little devil (3)    23. Jovial (6)                                                      NONAGRAM      8 Excite; 9 Fall; 10
             30. Chat (4)         24. Intensify (6)                                                      26 Dealer.    Across – 1 Prodigal;
             31. Mystery (6)      25. Habit (6)                      639 2                               Deepen; 25 Custom;   CROSSWORD
             32. Outstanding event (8)    26. Merchant (6)                                               Impugn; 23 Genial; 24   QUICK












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