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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 SELL SOAP
this Nonagram? Each word must use the central letter, and
8 each letter may be used only once. At least one word using OVERSEAS
all nine letters can be found.
9 10 Using all 16 letters
Target scores: of the phrase above,
10 23 Good; 28 Very Good; 32 Excellent. T R Y form four words
each of four letters
11 12 13 Any word found in the Concise Oxford Dictionary is which, when placed
eligible with the following exceptions: proper D E I
nouns; plural nouns, pronouns and possessives; correctly in the grid,
14 15 16 17
third person singular verbs; hyphenated words; will form a magic
contractions and abbreviations; vulgar slang words;
18 19 variant spellings of the same word (where another T E X square in which the
variant is also eligible). words can be read
20 21 21 22 24 both horizontally
SUDOKU and vertically.
23 24 25
26 27 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
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3 x 3 box. This is a logic puzzle, you should not have to guess. 8942 165 73
29 6753 849 12 2 3 1 5 7 9 6 4 8
1 5 4278 931 65
30 9634 512 87
ACROSS DOWN 42 8 1 5 1 8 6 2 7 3 9 4 3591 487 26
1. Bringing back to life (7) 1. Recuperation (8) rose; oval; saps; else. 7429 658 31 1867 324 59
8. Sloping (7) 2. Female fox (5) 5 4 6 MAGIC SQUARE
9. Conceited man (7) 3. Stringed instrument (5) trite; tyre; tyred; yeti. treed; tret; trey; tried; Dyke; 16 Sago; 17 Tank; 13 Gape; 15
10. Pray (7) 4. Threw high into the air (6) 5 1 6 2 4 tire; tired; titre; tree; Squelch; 7 Mesh; 12
5. In addition (4)
11. Yield of grapes (7) 6. Sound of walking in tide; tied; tier; tiered; Lobbed; 5 Plus; 6
14. Append (3) mud (7) rite; teed; text; texter; 2 Vixen; 3 Viola; 4
16. Crust formed over 7. Net (4) 9 1 87 retied; retted; ride; reed; reedy; rete; retie; Down – 1 Recovery;
wound (4) 12. Armoured vehicle (4) eyed; eyrie; rede; Dungeon.
18. Break suddenly (4) 13. Yawn (4) 8 931 6 exert; exit; exited; 29 Grenade; 30 Suntrap; 28 Singlet;
19. Yes (inf.) (4) 15. Dam (4) drey; dyer; edit; eider; Elk; 23 Aerosol; 26
20. Yellow part of an egg (4) 16. Cereal substance (4) 2 1 5 7 8 diet; dieter; dire; dree; Yeah; 20 Yolk; 21
21. Large deer (3) 17. News broadcast (8) dexter; DEXTERITY; deer; deity; deter; Scab; 18 Snap; 19
23. Spray can (7) 18. Verbal defamation (7) NONAGRAM Vintage; 14 Add; 16 10 Beseech; 11
22. Became invalid (6)
26. Sheltered place (7) 24. Continue (3,2) 9 2 Oblique; 9 Coxcomb; 27 Real.
28. Sleeveless garment (7) 25. Work out (5) on; 25 Solve; 26 Sigh; Across – 1 Revival; 8
29. Small bomb (7) 26. Exhale loudly (4) 6 7 22 Lapsed; 24 Run CROSSWORD
30. Underground cell (7) 27. Actual (4) Bulletin; 18 Slander; QUICK

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