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Writing implement
Witty person
Leadership
Put to some purpose
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Altering one letter at each stage to form a new word every time, change the word on the top line to the word on the bottom line.
Fit the numbers 1 to 6 into each hexagon so that where the hexagons touch, the numbers are the same. No number is repeated in any hexagon.
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FILL-IN WORDS Place all the words listed into the grid. Each word can be used once only. The first word has been filled in.
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SUDOKU 2 There is just one simple rule in Sudoku. Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9, and so must each 3 x 3 box.
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Expressive sounds
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Leaves employment
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Profound Spermproducing organs
Assist Hatchet
Endeavour
Set of tools
Shortage
Obtain
Bodily extremities
Internal
Secret agent
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ALPHABET SOUP - PAGE 8 Darts, Pontoon, Mah Jong, Yahtzee, Quoits, Poker, Whist, Fives, Chess, Marbles.
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Level One: 16 Level Two: 105 Level Three: 40
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Andrew Castle Jeremy Clarkson Claire Balding Tess Daly Christine Bleakley Terry Wogan Adrian Chiles Susanna Reid Lorraine Kelly Bruce Forsyth
CROSS WORD - PAGE 16
Palm, pale, pile, pipe, ripe, rile, rule, mule, mull
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DINGBATS - PAGE 16 1. Sunny side up 2. The plot thickens 3.Little by little
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SIGNWORD 2 - PAGE 23 P D O M E R N U R S E T E S T E S I A I L A C K G X I N N S F E E T
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