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Quick Crossword

Sudoku

Fill in the blank cells using numbers from 1 to 9. Each number can only appear once in each row, column and 3x3 block.

Quick Workout

Fit the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 into the hexagons so that where the hexagons touch, the numbers will be the same. No number is repeated in any hexagon.

FOCUS

An All Australian Word Game

* Each word must contain the centre ‘Focus’ letter and each letter may be used only once

* Each word must be four letters or more

* Find at least one nine letter word

* No swear words

* No verb forms or plurals ending in ‘s’

* No proper nouns and no hyphenated words

TODAY’S Good: 12 words

FOCUS Very good: 18 words

Excellent: 36 words

Word Find

Join the Dots

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION arras array asap card carp carry dray pacy parry pray racy radar rasp raspy sacra sard scar scarp scrap

SCRAPYARD spar spay spray yard

Reference: Macquarie Concise Dictionary

Focus No. 3863

What creature is this? Find out by joining the dots.

Crossword Solutions

Find the following words in the grid. They may read in any direction, even diagonally. Some letters are used more than once.

1. What is the name of the creek that connects terminal lakes Hindmarsh and Albacutya and continues beyond Albacutya?

2. Australia’s largest bird of prey, the wedge-tailed eagle, calls the Wimmera home. Which is generally larger, the male or the female?

3. According to fanciful but well-documented myth and legend, the recipe of what famous national beverage had its origins on the banks of the Wimmera River in Horsham?

4. On October 31, 1917 during World War One conflict in the Middle East, former Rupanyup stock and station agent James Lawson, DSO, played a key role in leading many Wimmera horsemen on history’s final what?

5. The legendary Roy Cazaly of Australian football’s ‘Up There Cazaly’ fame, captain-coached which Wimmera league club in the 1920s?

6. What did Aboriginal tracker King Richard famously find in scrub west of Natimuk in 1864?

7. Kaniva-born Marcus Wills won what major Australian prize in 2006?

8. In what country did Ararat cycling sensation Shane Kelly break a world 100-metre time-trial track record in 1995?

9. What south-east Wimmera footballer was drafted at pick 26 by an interstate club in the 1996 AFL draft?

10. What former Wimmera shire became incorporated in September 1877, dissolved in January 1995 and featured localities such as Nullan, Wirchilleba, Rulauna and Burrero?

9. Tim Notting. Brisbane Lions drafted him from Navarre. 10. The shire of Dunmunkle. Its main centres were Murtoa, Minyip and Rupanyup.

Answers: 1. Outlet Creek. 2. Female. 3. Fosters Lager. 4. Calvary charge. The Australian Lighthorse ‘mounted infantry’ charged Turkish positions at the wells of Beersheba. 5. Minyip. 6. The Duff family children of Jane, 7, Isaac, 9, and Frank, 4. The children were lost in the bush for nine days. The story captured national attention and was later immortalised in film, called ‘Lost in the Bush’. 7. The Archibald Prize for his portrait, ‘The Paul Juraszek Monolith’. 8. Colombia.

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