SUDOKU
DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CODEWORD Codeword is the crossword puzzle with no clues. The number in each square corresponds to a letter. Work out the words in the grid using the letters provided. Fill in these known letters first, then use skill and judgement to work out the others.
Cryptic Clues: Across
Down
1. Whichever way you look at it, it adds up to the same thing (5,6) 9. It provides accommodation in Norway’s capital (3) 10. Bad enough to cause alarm (9) 11. He cuts the werewolf’s head and tail off! (5) 13. Unyielding threads, perhaps (4,3) You have 10 mins to find as many words as possible 14. They don’t do using the letters in the wheel. Each must use the much to earn hub letter and at least 3 others. Letters may be used their descriponly once. You cannot use plurals, foreign words or proper nouns. There is at least one 9-letter word to tion (6) be found. 16. Quiet seat (6) 18. They have no settled occupation (7) 19. Fill a pot, perhaps (3,2) 20. Do meteorologists gain little by forecasting it? (3,6) 21. Follow the returning deity How you rate: (3) 15 words, average; 20 words, good; 22. Looking for 25 words, very good; 30 or more, golden opporexcellent. tunities? (11)
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3. Surpass 4. Required 5. Sinuous
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2. Colour (3)
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3. Objectionable (5)
9. Chopper (3)
4. Entangle (6)
10. Fool (9)
5. Omniscient (3-4)
11. Swarthy (5) 13. Prickly (7)
6. Took away (9)
14. Use (6)
7. Callous (4-7)
16. Pound (4,2)
8. Gluttonous (11)
18. Ease (7)
12. Entreating (9)
19. Class (5)
15. Outdoor (4-3)
20. Issuing (9)
17. Pardonable (6)
21. Deed (3)
19. Newspaper (5)
22. Most surprisingly
21. Everybody (3)
(11)
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THE CLUES: 32996 gives a musical instrument; 46753 gives a musical interval; 13892 gives a musical term.
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D
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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS
DOUBLE CROSSWORD: Cryptic: Across: 1 Base ; 3 Spurious; 9 Riotous; 10 Diets; 11 Overbalances; 13 Lupine; 15 Chaste; 17 Featherbrain; 20 Lasso; 21 Enthuse; 22 Sidesmen; 23 Less. Down: 1 Barn-owls; 2 Stoke; 4 Pestle; 5 Riding-habits; 6 Oneness; 7 Sash; 8 Combinations; 12 Meanders; 14 Pleased; 16 Recede; 18 Acute; 19 Plus. Quick: Across: 1 Cite; 3 Strength; 9 Mariner; 10 False; 11 Down the drain; 13 All out; 15 Plague; 17 Intercession; 20 Exact; 21 Milling; 22 Stealing; 23 Stir. Down: 1 Comedian; 2 Throw; 4 Target; 5 Effortlessly; 6 Galling; 7 Heed; 8 Instrumental; 12 Teenager; 14 Lineage; 16 Acumen; 18 Idiot; 19 Ness.
SUDOKU:
CODEWORD: 1=A, 2=G, 3=V, 4=C, 5=Q, 6=M, 7=S, 8=B, 9=E, 10=I, 11=L, 12=Y, 13=N, 14=Z, 15=P, 16=J, 17=D, 18=F, 19=U, 20=X, 21=R, 22=T, 23=W, 24=O, 25=K, 26=H. WORD WHEEL: MODERNISM.
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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CLOCKWORD: 1 Infant, 2 Mullet, 3 Outset, 4 Garnet, 5 Escort, 6 Nougat, 7 Select, 8 Target, 9 Upbeat, 10 Bright, 11 Bonnet, 12 Sorbet.
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Cross out one of the two letters in each divided square to reveal a completed crossword grid.
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SPLIT DECISION
Each number from 1 to 9 represents a different letter. Solve the clues and insert the letters in the appropriate squares to discover a word which uses all nine letters.
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1. Go to new owner
CELEBRITY: Imogen Stubbs.
NINER 1
Down
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6. Exhilarated 7. Plump 8. Rotated 9. Destroyed 10. Ridiculous 11. Stopped 12. Pulled
2. Portion of time
Across
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Fill in the white squares with the numbers 1 to 9. Each horizontal block of squares must add up to the number in the shaded square to its left, and each vertical block must add up to the number in the shaded square above it. No number may be used more than once in any one block.
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Quick Clues:
KAKURO
The solutions from 1 to 12 are all six-letter words ending with the letter D in the centre. Moving clockwise from 1, the letters in the outer circle will spell out the name of a late U.S. actor.
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2. Two points at the bottom of a beard (3) 3. What could be finer to imply? (5) 4. It’s not grossly offensive (6) 5. To unseat one may make a Hun sore! (7) 6. Decline to accept some advice - it’s a load of rubbish! (6,3) 7. Bird unpopular with sailors? (11) 8. Clippers of the line? (7,4) 12. What an executor has? (4-5) 15. Horsemen surround a group of attackers (7) 17. Put it on without being told? (6) 19. Principle of having it both ways? (5) 21. Assume he’s from university (3)
P H S X D
NINER: RESULTING
T L E A H
7 4 8 9 1 6 3 5 2
3 6 1 5 2 8 4 9 7
5 2 9 3 7 4 6 8 1
6 9 5 7 8 2 1 3 4
1 8 3 6 4 5 7 2 9
2 7 4 1 9 3 5 6 8
8 3 7 4 6 9 2 1 5
4 5 2 8 3 1 9 7 6
9 1 6 2 5 7 8 4 3
SPLIT DECISION:
KAKURO: 6 8 3 5 3 7 1 9 9 5 1 5 2 8 3 6 5 9 4 1 7 1 8 1 8 6 1 2 4 7 3 9 4 7
SUDOKU:
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