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This month’s solutions can be found on page 142 or at www.sussexliving.com
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.
3
2
1
5
1 7
5
4 2
5 4
2 6
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.
CROSS CODE
5 7
2. Spruce (6) 3. Elude (6) 4. Multitude (6) 5. Vocalised (4) 6. Ensured (anag.) (3-4) 7. Sailing vessel (4) 8. Make famous (9) 13. Relating to law (9) 14. Harvest (4) 15. Diminish gradually (5) 18. Dread (4) 19. Endocrine gland (7) 22. Overthrow (6) 23. North American country (6) 24. Strict (6) 27. Lament (4) 28. Sound quality (4)
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CLUES DOWN
1. Draw attention to (9) 9. False (6) 10. Narrative poem (4) 11. Fruit peel (4) 12. Bubbling sound (6) 13. Snake (7) 16. Woody plant (4) 17. Strong wind (4) 18. Pelt (3) 20. Pinnacle (3) 21. Listen to (4) 23. Vertical spar (4) 25. Umpire (7) 26. Frustrate (6) 29. Seep (4) 30. Notion (4) 31. Dried grape (6) 32. Warship (9)
QUICK CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS
7
6 3 7 4
6 2 8 1 3
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.
1 5
3 8 2 6
8
EQUALISER
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
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