PUZZLE TIME
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26 Teak 27 Mumbai 28 Tarragon
136 SHIRE MAGAZINE | March/April 2022
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14 Gargantua 15 Janissary 17 Eboracum 19 Vibrato 22 Ivanov 23 Dixie 25 Elbe
1. Every square has to contain a single number. 2. Only numbers 1 to 9 can be used. 3. Each 3×3 box can only contain each number from 1 to 9 once. 4. Each row and column can only contain each number from 1 to 9 once.
The highlighted letters when rearranged spell OSWESTRY
Sudoku rules
Difficulty: medium
1 Breed of sheep with especially fine and soft wool (6) 2 Lookout platform on the mast of a ship (5,4) 3 City known to the Romans as Deva (7) 4 The largest island in the Firth of Clyde (5) 5 The ____, site of the first FA Cup final (4) 6 & 9 Across Football club whose home ground is Prenton Park in Birkenhead (8,6) 8 Wife of Uriah, seduced by King David in the Old Testament (9) 14 Father of Pantagruel in novels by Rabelais (9) 15 Soldier in the Ottoman Sultan’s household troops (9) 17 Roman fort and city which became York (8) 19 Musical effect consisting of a rapid and subtle oscillation between different pitches (7) 22 Play by Chekhov (6) 23 ____ Dean, centre forward who began his career at 6 Down & 9 Across (5) 25 River that flows through Hamburg (4)
1 Merino 2 Crow’s nest 3 Chester 4 Arran 5 Oval 6 Tranmere 8 Bathsheba
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7 Anglo-Saxon princess and the patron saint of 3 Down (8) 9 See 6 Down 10 Legislative assembly in countries such as Japan (4) 11 Twelfth Night tradition of singing to the trees in an orchard (10) 12 Diving duck of the sawbill family (9) 13 ____ Baden-Powell, founder of the Girl Guide movement (5) 16 Trojan hero and lover of Dido in an epic poem by Virgil (6) 18 The angel of death in Islam and some other Abrahamic religions (6) 20 Gecko native to Asia, or a Hungarian white wine (5) 21 Drug obtained from foxgloves (9) 24 Mountain near the town of Dolgellau, Wales (5,5) 26 Tropical hardwood used in boat building and furniture making (4) 27 The home of Bollywood (6) 28 Herb used in Béarnaise sauce (8)
7 Werburgh 9 Rovers 10 Diet 11 Wassailing 12 Goosander 13 Agnes 16 Aeneas 18 Azrael 20 Tokay 21 Digitalis 24 Cader Idris
Rearrange the highlighted letters to find the name of a Shropshire town with an Iron Age hill fort
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Alice Leetham is a writer and puzzle maker from Cheshire. She works in the fintech industry and also enjoys creating quizzes and cryptic crosswords. Contact: alice@downstream.co.uk
