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ADD-ALETTER Answer the clues by adding just one letter to each of the given words, and rearranging them if necessary. Write the letter you have added in each case to the appropriate box so that the central column spells the name of an actor/director (5,5).

1 Group of bees

MARS

2 Complain

GRAN

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PINT

4 Apple drink

RICE

5 Bread ingredient

EAST

6 Roof tile

LEST

Adult Features 7 Unseeing

BIND

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NEAP

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CHAP BRIG

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ARROWORDS

Kriss Kross

Arrow Words

SEASONS GREETINGS

Follow the arrows to place the answers, then rearrange the shaded letters in each puzzle to spell a word that can follow SNOW to make new words.

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Waterways for barges

Company rep

Christmas food in a shell

China’s continent

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Kick the bucket!

Give way

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Holly’s Xmas partner!

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STAR TOYS

5 letters BELLS

River sediment

Hobby

List of food choices

Tell fibs

CARDS Join as one

GIFTS

Below, beneath

Green citrus fruits

Classic Epsom horse race

MERRY PARTY

Letters after a firm’s name (abbr)

Flavouring plant Vanilla __, Tom Cruise film

Poisonous snake

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SOLUTION

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ANGELS RIBBON SEASON

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SLEIGH TINSEL WREATH

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GREETINGS

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CANDLES

PRESENTS

MISTLETOE

DECORATIONS

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REINDEER

STOCKINGS

ICICLES

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Find all the listed words in this grid - they can run in any direction, even backwards or diagonally, but always in a straight line. Then colour in the left-over letter squares to discover a hidden shape!

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Christmas Secret Shape

LIGHTS

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Put to some purpose

Spoil, disfigure

HOLLY

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Official mail stamp

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Begging request

Melody

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In good shape

Clothes maker

Can you fit these Christmas words into the grid.

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Pig’s home

SPY STEAM TIDE TIRED TRAIN

Twisted Carols Re-arrange the letters to reveal the Christmas Carol 1. Greener symmetry to legend 2. Angel’s wicked goons 3. Earth-shaking handlers leg 4. Boldly, I’m the mutterer

G M M A R I T E W A E E E O Y

AWE NOBLE BAUBLE ORNAMENTS BELLS PAPER HAT BETHLEHEM PEAR CANDY CANE POST CARD PRESENT CRIB RITE DECEMBER ROBE DOVES SANTA DRUM SHEEP ELVES SILVER EVE SING FAIR SLED FIR STARS FUN SUN GRINCH TOP HARK TOYS HOLIDAY TRAYS SOLUTION ICE TREE Basketball, blackmail, dog tired, fan club, high JINGLE WISH tide, pine cone, raincoat, spyglass, steam train.

LIST WRAP The remaining words are CHART and MISS, MANGER XMAS which can be rearranged to spell CHRISTMAS. MERCY YULE NIGHT

5. No hotel to befit them well 6. Clever, steadfast, hot whimsy 7. Coyly or candid vanities 8. Bemoan the shinier babble 9. A gray win, a name 10. Jet to holy word

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Christmas Find-a-Word

Find all these words in the grid - they can run in any direction, but will always be in a straight line.

Write the 17 left-over letters in the stars below to discover a composition by Bach.

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ADORE ANGEL APPLES BALLET BAUBLES CHOIR CHURCH BELLS CRACKERS DECK THE HALLS DRUMMER EGGNOG FIR GALA GOLD HARK HEART HEAV’N HOLIDAY JOSEPH LIGHTS LISTEN

MAGI MINCE PAGEANT PRANCER PUDDING REST SALES SILENT SING SNUG SOLSTICE STOCKING TREES TURKEY VIGIL WINE WISE MEN WONDER WREATH YULE

Which bird, featured in a famous Christmas song, can be made from these letters?

R E G A R D P I T SOLUTION

The bird is a PARTRIDGE (from the song The Twelve Days of Christmas).

ADD-ALETTER

1 Another time

GAIN

2 Hissing reptile

SAKE

3 Group of judges

LEAP

4 Document folders

SELF

Answer the clues by 5 Sleepy adding just one letter to each of the given words, ACROSS 12 Subtle chute emanations 6 Playground and rearranging them if 2& 85 Across.

Saidthe byletter Scrooge 7 House people (5) necessary.

Write visitor you have added in each (3,6) 13 Had dinner (7) 8 Lifting machine case to the appropriate 3 Murmur (3)the 16 A vision (5) box tofondly spell out 9 Small rock name 5 Rich (7)of a celebrity who 18 Altruistic (8) 10 Group of fish celebrates their birthday 7 Popular Christmas song (6,5) 20 Drag (3) on Christmas Day (5,6).

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TEAR 9 Nuts, eaten all the year round (7) 23 Abbreviation for ‘is not’ (4) SOLUTION24 Not the one or the other (7) 10 Babies’ presents (7) 1 Again 2 Snake 3 Panel 4 Files 5 Tired 6 Slide 7 Guest 8 Crane 9 Stone 10 Shoal 11 Extra.

The celebrity is singer ANNIE LENNOX.

RIDDLE My My My My My My My My

The first seven lines each stand for a letter.

Put them together to solve the riddle!

first is in DOCTOR and also in CARE, second’s not in NAKED but is found in BARE. third is in SPEAK and also in SAY, fourth is in SCULPT and also in CLAY. fifth is in KIND but never in NICE, sixth is in CAKE and also in SLICE. last is in CALLER and also in RANG, whole makes sure Christmas time goes with a bang!

SOLUTION The item is a CRACKER.

Across 1. Nearests and dearests (8) 5. “________ now behold Him arise” (8) 9. Soup server (5) 10. Flavoured with citrus rind (5) 11. What 8 Down was (5) 12. What maids were doing (8) 14. Christmas _____ by Bach or Saint-Saëns (8) 16. Riding horses (6)

Children’s Features Pic Puzzles

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Starting from the red letter C, move up or down or sideways, but not diagonally, to find a single winding track that includes all of the names of Santa’s reindeer listed here.

BLITZEN COMET CUPID DANCER DASHER DONDER PRANCER RUDOLPH VIXEN

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Santa’s Sudoku

Using the four different Christmas images fill in each empty cell with a picture so that each row, each column and each 2 x 2 block contain all four pictures.

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KID’S STUFF Join the Dots

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Join the dots from 1 to 55 to discover a hidden picture.

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SPIRAL CROSSWORD

Colour-In Fit these Pages answers into the grid, starting at the pink arrow and spiralling into the centre. The la

letter of one answer is the first of the next. When you’ve finished, read up the shaded diagona to find the names of two bands who have had Number One hits at Christmas. Who are they?

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9 Status in the army (4) 10 Chess piece with a horse’s head (6) 11 Dutch flower (5) 12 Artist (7) 13 Ship’s steering device (6) 14 Withdraw (7) 15 Change direction (4)

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Close by (4) Call (4) Despondency (5) Edges of a page (7) Lazy drooping posture ( Stop (4) Slang word for ‘clothing’ (4) 23 Large body of water (3)

BODY WORK

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These are all parts of the body, but with their vowels removed. Can you name them?

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