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Puzzle

QUICK CROSSWORD NONAGRAM MAGIC SQUARE

1 2 3 4 5 6 6 7 7 8 How many words of four letters or more can you make from REGAINED
this Nonagram? Each word must use the central letter, and
7 9 each letter may be used only once. At least one word using BIRDCAGE
all nine letters can be found.
10 11 10 Using all 16 letters
Target scores: of the phrase above,
10 11 11 12 16 Good; 19 Very Good; 22 Excellent. S O B form four words
each of four letters
13 14 15 15 Any word found in the Concise Oxford Dictionary is which, when placed
eligible with the following exceptions: proper E T U
nouns; plural nouns, pronouns and possessives; correctly in the grid,
16 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 U N O square in which the
variant is also eligible). words can be read
20 22 21 22 23 24 both horizontally
SUDOKU and vertically.
25
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
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3 x 3 box. This is a logic puzzle, you should not have to guess. 9176 324 58
31 2534 786 91 6 8 4 1 5 9 3 2 7
7 4752 631 89
32 3295 817 46
ACROSS DOWN 9 8 1 8 6 1 7 9 4 5 3 2 5328 169 74
1. Discarding (9) 2. Hue (6) 7469 258 13 1983 472 65
9. Fit for crop-growing (6) 3. Think highly of (6) 5 8 69 74
10. Shellfi sh (4) 4. Mollycoddle (6) bare; acid; ring; edge. MAGIC SQUARE 15 Round; 18 Ogee;
11. Propel (4) 5. Body of the church (4) unto. Quicksand; 14 Aged; Abut; 8 Heartfelt; 13
12. Christian festival (6) 6. Bigger (7) 8 6 7 5 2 tube; tune; unset; 5 Nave; 6 Greater; 7
13. Fourth (7) 7. Adjoin (4) suet; tenuous; tone; Admire; 4 Pamper;
16. Impel (4) 8. Sincere (9) 3 17 stone; stub; stun; Down – 2 Colour; 3
17. Mechanical repetition (4) 13. Treacherous area of snot; snout; soot; Rearrange.
18. Lout (3) land (9) sent; seton; snoot; Skin; 31 Nodded; 32
20. Rotter (3) 14. Elderly (4) 75 6 1 8 onset; onto; oust; nest; note; obtuse; Sector; 29 Nigh; 30
21. Come ashore (4) 15. Spherical (5) bouton; bunt; bust; Peal; 25 Dialect; 26 Cad; 21 Land; 23
23. Chime (4) 18. S-shaped curve (4) 8 4 1 5 2 BOUNTEOUS; bout; 17 Rote; 18 Oaf; 20
25. Citadel (anag.) (7) 19. Social worker (7) boot; boots; 13 Quarter; 16 Urge;
26. Distinct area (6) 22. Act indecisively (6) 7 1 bent; best; boost; 11 Move; 12 Easter;
29. Near (4) 23. Bodily fl uid (6) NONAGRAM 9 Arable; 10 Clam;
30. Thin outer surface (4) 24. Performing (6) Across – 1 Scrapping; 27 Code; 28 Ride.
31. Indicated agreement (6) 27. Cipher (4) 1 3 4 5 23 Plasma; 24 Acting; CROSSWORD
32. Put back in order (9) 28. Go on horseback (4) 19 Almoner; 22 Dither; QUICK

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