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When you have filled in all<strong>the</strong> answers, <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong> a celebrity can be read from topto bottom in one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> lines.?Name<strong>the</strong>starpicturedon <strong>the</strong>leftANSWERSCelebrity wordmatch: Straw, sports, rubber,cheese, serial, star, fiddle, clever, runner, light,barrow, ground and <strong>the</strong> celebrity is Robert DeNiro.Clebrity stare: Jenny BondWORD wiseThe word may soundfamiliar, but do youknow what it means?ABCPREVARICATEEvade <strong>the</strong> truthForestallAnticipateANSWER?IMPOSSIPUZZLEA: Evade <strong>the</strong> truthA blue cap and a white cap coststwice as much as a red cap and agreen cap, but only a pound morethan a blue cap and a red cap. 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