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No. 1557
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No. 1558
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To solve a Sudoku puzzle, every number from 1 to 9 must appear in: each of the nine vertical columns, each of the nine horizontal rows and each of the nine 3 x 3 boxes. Remember no number can occur more than once in any row, column or box.
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ACROSS
1 Kitchen utensil (6) 4 Vows (8) 10 Melodramatic show (4,5) 11 fact of being elsewhere (5) 12 Reflected sound (4) 13 Persistently attempt to sell (4) 14 colloquialism (5) 16 Summit (4) 17 Women’s underwear and nightwear (8) 20 Lawyer (8) 22 Swear (4) 25 Two-armed cooking implement (5) 26 Nailed (4) 28 Heroic story (4) 30 Breed of dog (5) 31 copying (9) 32 Eavesdropped (8) 33 freedom from risk or danger (6)
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DOWN
1 Romantic touches with the lips (6) 2 Windpipe (7) 3 Be ominously close (4) 5 Holiday by car (4,4) 6 Significant (10) 7 More exciting; more fragrant (7) 8 Swayed (8) 9 Sampler (4) 15 Developing backwards (10) 18 Strategic (8) 19 calming drug (8) 21 flat, frozen wastelands (7) 23 Steady (7) 24 Awkward (6) 27 Revise (4) 29 uS space agency (acronym) (1.1.1.1)
Puzzles and pagination © Pagemasters | pagemasters.com 1 Which English broadcaster is the host of documentaries including The Most Hated Family in America and Under the Knife? 2 Did Egypt’s famed King Tutankhamun suffer from a cleft palate or a club foot? 3 What is the plural of bijou, meaning a jewel? 4 What country is home to the Apennines, a mountain range traversing the length of its peninsula? 5 Name the original host and team captains on Spicks and Specks. 6 Which sister is older, Venus or Serena Williams? 7 Who is the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch? 8 In Roman mythology, who was the goddess of wisdom, the arts and war? 9 Does the common wombat have hair on its nose? 10 What name is given to a word that has a different sound and meaning from another, but the same spelling?
Solutions
No. 1557 591286473 842793156 637415928 379521684 264879315 158364792 786142539 423957861 915638247
No. 1558 197246385 835179246 264358719 752864931 348915627 619732854 586493172 421687593 973521468
10. Heteronym 8. Minerva 9. No Duke of Edinburgh 6. Venus 7. Prince Philip, Warhurst and Alan Brough 4. Italy 5. Adam Hills, Myf Theroux 2. Both 3. Bijoux Brain busters: 1. Louis
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