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Puzzle

QUICK CROSSWORD NONAGRAM MAGIC SQUARE
1 1 2 2 3 4 5 6 6 7 How many words of four letters or more can you make from CROONERS
this Nonagram? Each word must use the central letter, and
7 8 each letter may be used only once. At least one word using DEEPENED
all nine letters can be found.
8 9 Using all 16 letters
Target scores: of the phrase above,
10 11 11 12 13 14 32 Good; 38 Very Good; 44 Excellent. R A Y form four words
each of four letters
13 15 16 15 Any word found in the Concise Oxford Dictionary is which, when placed
eligible with the following exceptions: proper O D 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;
22 variant spellings of the same word (where another M C C square in which the
variant is also eligible). words can be read
19 20 25 21 both horizontally
SUDOKU and vertically.
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23 24 25 28 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. 9632 154 78
29 30 1584 793 26 4 2 7 6 8 3 9 5 1
23 5 7 core; open; reed; ends. 6715 942 83
31 31 MAGIC SQUARE 8927 365 14
ACROSS DOWN 7 93 6 roamed; rode; yard. ready; redo; road; 3 4 5 8 2 1 6 9 7 5169 478 32
2. Adore (7) 1. Arrive (4) radome; rayed; read; oared; oread; raced; 7893 621 45 2341 587 69
7. Quartet (4) 2. Legal document (4) 1 478 32 mardy; mead; mode;
8. Repulsive (4) 3. Annul (6) dyer; ecad; made; 26 Only; 27 Inch. Parcel; 24 Ulna; 25 Prop;
9. Endanger (7) 4. Addictive drug (6) dream; dreamy; drey; 16 Model; 20 Ribbon; 21
10. Undergarment (4) 5. Draw (4) 3 5 8 6 9 dory; dram; dray; 14 Generic; 15 Meter;
12. Pine (4) 6. Tribe (4) dome; dorm; dormy; derm; derma; doer; 11 Sanctum; 13 Omitted;
15. Proverb (5) 10. Moved out of (7) 2 3 5 1 DEMOCRACY; demy; Pull; 6 Clan; 10 Vacated;
17. Call off (6) 11. Holy place (7) decoy; decry; demo; 3 Repeal; 4 Heroin; 5
18. Thought (6) 13. Left out (7) dear; decay; decor; Down – 1 Come; 2 Writ;
19. Stifl ed laugh (6) 14. Of a kind (7) 6 5 9 2 dace; dame; dare; Luck; 31 Penalty.
15. Measuring device (5)
21. Annoy (6) 16. Standard of credo; cycad; cyder; Rubicon; 29 Into; 30 Dump; 26 Odic; 28
22. Challenger (5) excellence (5) 4 6 9 1 comrade; cord; cred; coder; comedy; Pester; 22 Rival; 23
23. Rubbish heap (4) 20. Narrow band of material (6) coda; code; codec; Notion; 19 Titter; 21
26. Of poems (4) 21. Wrapped package (6) 8 26 caromed; cedar; Maxim; 17 Cancel; 18
28. Cross the ------- (7) 24. Arm bone (4) card; cardy; cared; 10 Vest; 12 Long; 15
29. Preposition (4) 25. Support (4) arced; armed; cadre; Four; 8 Ugly; 9 Imperil;
30. Fortune (4) 26. Solely (4) 3 accord; aced; adore; Across – 2 Worship; 7
31. Punishment (7) 27. Measure of length (4) QUICK CROSSWORD NONAGRAM

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