Puzzle Page

SUDOKU

A simple process of logic is all that it takes to solve each puzzle in this game. Put the numbers 1 to 9 in each vertical column and each horizontal line. Each number must appear only once in each column and line and in each of the 3x3 boxes in the grid.

QUICK CROSSWORD

CLUES ACROSS

1. Conjecture (7) 8. Bewilder (7) 9. Faultless (7) 10. Reckoned (7) 11. Bureaucracy (3,4) 14. Allow (3) 16. Tangle (4) 18. List of options (4) 19. Give out (4) 20. Large jug (4) 21. Information (inf.) (3) 23. Kitchen tool (7) 26. Have within (7) 28. Joining (7) 29. Madman (7) 30. Small axe (7)

CLUES DOWN

1. Isolate (8) 2. Trimmed (5) 3. Musical drama (5) 4. Course at dinner (6) 5. Cut (4) 6. Obvious (7) 7. Second-hand (4) 12. Row (4) 13. Stopper (4) 15. Canvas shelter (4) 16. Pottery oven (4) 17. Dusk (8) 18. Significance (7) 22. Castrated male (6) 24. Expel from property (5) 25. Rustling sound (5) 26. Pay a short visit (4) 27. Prefix denoting self (4)

EQUALISER

Place a different arithmetical sign (add, subtract, multiply, divide) in each circle so that the total of each line across and down 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.

CROSS CODE

Each number in the 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.

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