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ACROSS

1 Once more (5) 4 Arrange into categories (8) 9 Drank cautiously (6) 14 Donates (5) 15 Confess fully one’s mistakes or wrongdoings (4,1,5,6) 17 Grin (5) 18 Zero (3) 19 Charming in a childlike or naive way (7) 20 Logical thinking (9) 21 Happens again (6) 24 Lateness (9) 25 Boxer’s helper (6) 26 Breathes noisily asleep (6) 29 Being envious of (10) 31 Frozen water (3) 32 Light gas (6) 33 Distant (4) 35 Self-importance (3) 37 Complimentary (4) 39 Looked like (9) 40 Ignore (9) 41 Vista (5) 42 Convalescence (8) 47 Estimated (8) 51 Rhymes (5) 55 Resistance fighter (9) 56 Political party’s declaration of intentions (9) 58 Gain by effort (4) 59 Mineral spring (3) 60 Deceive (4) 61 Cut into (6) 62 Regret bitterly (3) 63 Subjugation (10) 66 Underground work (6) 67 Ignites (6) 69 Soliloquy (9) 72 Uneven in quality (6) 73 Make clear, explain (9) 75 Inflatable rubber bag (7) 77 Wholly (3) 80 Rope noose (5) 81 Avoid the point at issue; prevaricate (4,5,3,4) 82 Seller’s patter (5) 83 Toddler (6) 84 Orators (8) 85 Kills (5)

DOWN

2 Thankfulness (9) 3 Thoughts (5) 5 Fibs (4) 6 Earnest (7) 7 Overwhelmingly attractive (12) 8 Long for (5) 9 Of the Devil (7) 10 Sit for (4) 11 Deported (6) 12 Smoothes out (5) 13 Futile (7) 14 Authentic (7) 16 Good fellowship (11) 22 Apes (6) 23 Take into account (7) 24 Underwater missile (7) 25 Travels rapidly (6) 27 Chorus (7) 28 Vigorous scuffle (6) 30 Match (4) 32 Was optimistic (5) 34 Made over again (5) 36 Feeble (4) 38 Cereal crop (3) 42 Behaved angrily, violently (5) 43 Degrade, devalue (7) 44 Diversify (4) 45 Court decision (6) 46 Discontinue (5) 48 Compose dance steps (11) 49 Supervise (7) 50 Organ of balance (3) 51 Largest ocean (7) 52 Stings (6) 53 In-between (12) 54 Frizzy hairstyle (4) 57 Flexible (6) 64 Evidently (9) 65 Place or fix in position ready for use (7) 66 Illness (7) 68 Large marine flatfish (7) 70 Interconnected system (7) 71 Picked (6) 72 Unornamented (5) 74 Bedlam (5) 76 Defame (5) 78 Long soft seat (4) 79 Light in sky (4)

Word Go Round

How many words of four letters or more can you make? Each letter must be used only once and all words must contain the centre letter. There is at least one nine-letter word. No words starting with a capital are allowed, no plurals ending in s unless the word is also a verb.

WORDGOROUNDGO B P C K AR

Good 18 Very Good 26 Excellent 35+ Sudoku 2 8 5 9 7 7 49 6 6 98 12 4 7 2 3 396 1 58 827 9 7 8 2 1 6 3 5 3 2 8 474 3 6 5 7 7 163 5 4 5 3 7 1 4 8 9 8 23 6 4 8 5 32 1

EASY

Last week

5937 146 82 Fill the grid so that every 2183 549 768625 7412 931 689 47 35 column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. 7349 625 6598 712 81 34 3 2 6 8 4783 1596 9 3 7 1 2149 5 9 4 215 478 8 5 2 763 7 1 96 23 6 4 58 1 4 5 6 8 9 7 2 3 6854 327 19 Last week’s CodeCracker 3964 271 58 8271 356 49 5 6 3 2 9 8 4 1 7 4827 163 95

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Last week’s crossword solution

ACROSS: 1 Agree, 4 As keen as mustard, 14 Laugh, 15 Roost, 16 Infatuated, 17 Cycle, 19 Mar, 20 Mending, 21 Hibernate, 22 Sentry, 25 Ascending, 27 Bedeck, 28 Droopy, 33 Fraudulent, 35 Goo, 36 Streak, 37 Miss, 39 Sun, 41 Captain, 42 Angles, 43 Enchilada, 44 Orbit, 45 Betrayal, 50 Em, 51 Pleasing, 55 Acorn, 58 Reprimand, 59 Top ten, 60 Strolls, 61 Ash, 63 Sock, 64 Neared, 65 Urn, 66 Shimmering, 68 Pallid, 69 Unsure, 71 Sculpting, 76 Badger, 77 Itinerant, 79 Consent, 81 Ice, 84 Eyrie, 85 Immigrated, 86 Ennui, 87 Nadir, 88 Around the corner, 89 Acted. DOWN: 2 Glower, 3 Eased, 5 Sink, 6 Elation, 7 Nausea, 8 Satin, 9 Updated, 10 Tack, 11 Racket, 12 Dummy, 13 Charity, 14 Lecture, 18 Insecurity, 23 Adieu, 24 Scarlet, 26 Shutter, 27 Blossom, 29 Origami, 30 Grease, 31 Agile, 32 Cancel, 34 Tint, 36 Snubs, 38 Slang, 40 Diva, 45 Birds, 46 Typical, 47 Aria, 48 Azalea, 49 Nomad, 50 Enthuse, 52 Estimation, 53 Sporran, 54 Nylons, 55 Adoring, 56 Spine, 57 Jets, 62 Filly, 67 Fiddler, 68 Patient, 70 Untried, 72 Centaur, 73 Terror, 74 Tragic, 75 Endure, 76 Beads, 78 Nymph, 80 Sonic, 82 Menu, 83 Here.

5x5

C M O P R R S T R V S N R

Insert the missing letters T B to complete ten words M R L — five across the grid N L and five down. R U E More than one solution may be possible.R A

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C O M B O A P AR T R E S A T P RO V E SA NER

S T AB S MO R A L A NG L E REUS E T RE A T

SCRAPBOOK soak sock sook spark spook pock pork rack racks rock rocks rook rooks sack sark croaks crook crooks okra pack packs park parks brook brooks cark cask cook cooks cork corks croak back backs bark barks bask bock book books brock

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