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1. The Bristol Bloodhound was a type of what?

2. A town called Pointe-à-Pitre is on which Caribbean island?

3. Dafne Keen plays Lyra Belacqua in the 2022 season of which British TV drama based on the novels of Philip Pullman?

4. What S is a malt-flavoured dark porter and a stocky body type?

5. Which sport can be GrecoRoman or freestyle?

6. Which electrical device in a car is located between the ignition coil and the spark plugs?

7. Which scientist discovered vaccination and used cowpox injections to cure smallpox?

8. Man! I Feel Like a Woman! was a hit song for which Canadian female singer?

9. The Atacama Desert is in which country?

10. The muted green colour used in Scottish tweed garments is called what?

Here are two miniature five-square crosswords using the same grid –but the letters have been mixed up. You have to work out which letters belong to which crossword.

1. Penny putting in ingredients for stuffing (7)

8. Leave in the lurch when lower (3,4)

9. The rest of the leftovers (7)

10. Greek character amended clues for core (7)

11. Mean person pulling back endlessly (7)

12. He helps a speculator (7)

14. Be more successful at crawling perhaps? (7)

18. Work for reporters who torment (7)

20. Notice drunken padre outside who showed off (7)

21. Building on a site in the country (7)

22. Not an employer who runs one over (7)

23. She’s repeatedly refused to give a show (7)

Place the four signs (add, subtract, multiply, divide) one in each circle so that the total of each across and down line is the same. Perform the first calculation in each line first and ignore the mathematical law which says you should always perform division and multiplication before addition and subtraction.

1. Dad’s concern? (6,7)

2. Signed different plan (6)

3. Endlessly aiding redevelopment of the country (5)

4. She’s badly entangled with net (6)

5. Point to watch on adhesive label (7)

6. Stir up trouble over info men tried to hide (6)

7. Sorts tiny area out that is wretched (2,1,5,5)

13. European press chief in smart environment (7)

15. Despotic ruler destroyed arty books (6)

16. New way the navy followed (6)

17. Place each name inside ground kernel (6)

19. Quietly remove a net from the plate (5)

Each number in our Cross Code grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. You have three letters in the control grid to start you off. Enter them in the appropriate squares in the main grid, then use your knowledge of words to work out which letters should go in the missing squares.

As you get the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and control grid. Check off the alphabetical list of letters as you identify them.

Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9, and so must each 3 x 3 box.

1. Choral composition (8)

6. Thin fog (4)

8. Insect (3)

9. Disturb (8)

10. Novice (4)

12. Dairy product (5)

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2. Skating area (4)

3. Abstract explanation (6)

4. Ceremonial (6)

5. Comply (4)

6. Chemical substance (6)

7. Sea channel (6) 11. Worth (5) 12. Salad ingredient (5) 13. Berths

How many words of four letters or more can you make from this Nonagram? Each word must use the central letter, and each letter may be used only once. At least one word using all nine letters can be found.

Guidelines:

276 8 3 32 84 7 6 1 9 3 6 7 34 67 784 21 5 7 8 71 84 48 2 apery; bare; barer; barre; baser; bear; berry; brae; bray; brrr; byre; eyra; pare; parer; parr; parry; parse; parser; payer; pear; perry; prase; pray; prayer; prey; pyre; rape; raper; rare; rarer; rase; rasp; RASPBERRY; rasper; raspy; reap; rear; repay; respray; sabre; sear; spar; spare; sparry; spear; spray; sprayer; spry; spryer; yare; year; yerba.

EQUALISER:

Cream; 14 Lyric; 17 Awry; 18 Locality;

Across – 1 Oratorio; 6 Mist; 8 Bee; 9 Unsettle; 10 Tyro; 12

QUICK CROSSWORD:

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD:

6 Distributor; 7 Edward Jenner; 8 Shania Twain; 9 Chile; 10 Lovat.