Puzzles

AN EXCHANGE OF SORTS

DIFFICULT

Place numbers into the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains each of the digits 1 to 9. No guessing is needed.

EASY

WHEN YOU HAVE TO EAT ON THE GO

Across

1. Make temporary sleeping place (Colloq) 5. Satiate 9. Bundle of money 12. Shakespeare's river 13. Assistant 14. Dined 15. Welt 16. Angers 17. Hold up 18. Taj Mahal site 20. Parotitis 22. Ail 25. Chart 26. Bush call 27. Flee 28. Social insect 31. One who is indebted 32. Young goat 33. Back 34. Small amount 35. Menagerie 36. Weird 37. Actress, - Farrow 38. Temporary dismissal of staff (3-3) 39. Anthem 42. Merit 43. Expression of disgust 44. Medicinal plant 46. Well ventilated 50. Scottish river 51. Otherwise 52. Thick cord 53. Witness 54. Monetary unit of Cambodia 55. Russian parliament before 1917

Down

1. Black bird 2. Eggs 3. The sun 4. Rubber-soled shoe 5. Pile of stones 6. Italian currency 7. Poem 8. Sycophant 9. Fairly hot 10. At the apex 11. Debutantes 19. Horse command 21. Toward the top 22. Gael 23. U.S. State 24. Student at mixed school 25. Mire 27. - de Janeiro 28. Prefix, air 29. Naive person 30. Not kosher 32. Hawaiian acacia 33. Name given to the fox 35. Stringed instrument 36. Otic organ 37. Objective case of I 38. Tag 39. Mires 40. Double curve 41. You 42. Gaelic 45. Biblical high priest 47. Acknowledgement of debt 48. Rotational speed 49. Yes

Ladderword puzzles are like crosswords but with a twist. The words in the middle column are anagrams of the words of the first column. The words in the last column are anagrams of the middle column plus one additional letter. The anchor words (the down clues) are related by a common theme.

Across

1. Red dye 3. Currencies 5. Attractive 6. Vulgar 7. Frightens 8. Car accidents 9. Relaxes 10. Gawks 11. Tormentors 12. Mark of omission 13. Pertaining to the rectum 14. Dark syrup 15. Flower part 16. Flower parts 17. Straw mattresses

Down

2. Eating occasions 4. Trundle