The Star: April 13, 2017

30 Thursday April 13 2017
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Puzzles
THE
CROSSWORD
1667
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8
9
10
11
12 13
14
15 16
17
DECODER
Each number
represents a different
letter of the alphabet.
Write the given letters
into all squares with
matching numbers.
Now work out which
letters are represented
by the other numbers.
As you get the letters,
write them into
the main grid and
the reference grid.
Decoder uses all 26
letters of the alphabet.
18 19
20 21
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ACROSS
1. Large tent (7)
4. Additional (5)
7/8. 1936 Olympic gold medallist
in an event New Zealanders
have won three times (4,8)
10. Think again (10)
12. Bay named by James Cook in
1769 (6)
13. Caress (6)
15. New Zealander who has craters
on the Moon and Mars named
after him (10)
18. Family member (8)
19. Clothing (4)
20. Change (5)
21. Pasta (7)
DOWN
1. Army officer (5)
2. Rebounds (8)
3. Description of any species
introduced to NZ (6)
4. Simple (10)
5. Seized (4)
6. Suspiciously (7)
9. Tutor (10)
11. US state (8)
12. South Island national park,
established 1987 (7)
14. Tremble (6)
16. 14,000km direct flights from
Auckland to this city started in
2016 (5)
17. Level (4)
WORDBUILDER
G I S N K
How many words of three or more letters can you
make, using each letter only once? Plurals are
allowed, but no foreign words or words beginning
with a capital. There’s at least one five-letter word.
Good 9 Very Good 12 Excellent 14
SUDOKU
334
Fill the grid so that every row,
every column and every 3x3
box contains the digits 1 to 9.
SOLUTION 1666
Across: 1. Nickname, 7. Sauna, 8. Newmarket,
The number
9. Via, 10.
game
Slim, 11.
that
Tsetse, 13.
Pokarekare Ana, 15. Measly, 16. Lamb, 18. improves Ado, 20. Originals, your arithmetic 21. Usher, 22.
Agnostic.
Down: HOW 1. TO Nongs, PLAY2. Cowlick, 3. Neat, 4. Makes a killing, 5. Curve, 6. Karakia, 7.
Stature, It’s like 12. sudoku: Creator, each 13. Pauanui, 14. Adamant, 15. Mocha, 17. Basic, 19. Miro.
vertical and horizontal
line has to contain
the numbers 1-6, and
the numbers can’t be
repeated in any row or
column.
But it’s sudoku with a
twist: The numbers in
each heavily outlined
set of squares, called
cages, must produce the
number in the top corner.
For example, 5+ means
the numbers add up to 5,
9x means the numbers
multiply to equal 9.
TIP: Numbers can be repeated in a cage, as long as they are not in the
same line or row.
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Number FuN
2 Digits
06
17
48
59
3 Digits
240
421
515
705
752
768
848
874
4 Digits
0109
4414
6770
7802
5 Digits
14125
51045
81656
82107
7 Digits
1979610
2389422
4043474
6157591
8 Digits
11527572
15461610
76741652
86401501
SOLUTIONS
Untitled Puzzle
NUMBER FUN
7
8
0
2
1
4
1
2
5
8
6
4
0
1
5
0
1
7
6
8
4
0
4
3
4
7
4
1
1
5
2
7
5
7
2
4
2
1
4
8
5
9
2
4
0
1
9
7
9
6
1
0
5
1
5
KENKEN
8
1
6
5
6
6
7
7
0
NZ CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Marquee, 4.
Extra, 7/8. Jack Lovelock, 10.
Reconsider, 12. Plenty, 13.
Stroke, 15. Rutherford, 18.
Relative, 19. Garb, 20. Alter,
21. Ravioli.
Down: 1. Major, 2. Ricochet,
3. Exotic, 4. Elementary,
5. Took, 6. Askance, 9.
Instructor, 11. Colorado, 12.
Paparoa, 14. Shiver, 16.
Dubai, 17. Flat.
DECODER
WORDBUILDER
Gin, gink, ginks,
gins, ink, inks,
ins, kin, king,
kings, sig, sign,
sin, sing, sink,
ski, skin, snig.
SUDOKU
SUDOKU
NZ CROSSWORD
Across: 1. Marquee, 4.
Extra, 7/8. Jack Lovelock, 10.
Reconsider, 12. Plenty, 13.
Stroke, 15. Rutherford, 18.
Relative, 19. Garb, 20. Alter,
21. Ravioli.
Down: 1. Major, 2. Ricochet,
3. Exotic, 4. Elementary,
5. Took, 6. Askance, 9.
WORDBUILDER
Gin, gink, ginks,
gins, ink, inks,
ins, kin, king,
kings, sig, sign,
sin, sing, sink,
ski, skin, snig.
Instructor, 11. Colorado, 12.
Paparoa, 14. Shiver, 16.
DECODER
Dubai, 17. Flat.
8
6 1
7 6
7 5
0 6
KENKEN
4 4
8 2
1
1
1
5
2
7
5
7
2
4
0
4
3
4
7
4
5
1
5
7
6
8
8
1 6
9 4
7 0
9 1
6 5
1 0
0 1
2
4
0
5
9
1
4
1
2
5
7
8
0
2
SOLUTIONS
NUMBER FUN
Untitled Puzzle