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Puzzles
THE
CROSSWORD
1668
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8
9
10 11
12 13
14 15 16
17 18
19 20 21
22 23
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.
24 25
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ACROSS
7/8. She played Dame Nellie
Melba in an episode of
Downton Abbey (4,2,6)
10. 1976-90 TV series which made
a one-off return in 2009 (3,4)
11. Characteristic (5)
12. Shove (4)
13. Old Man’s __: common name
for clematis vitalba (5)
17. Belief (5)
18. Oil company which launched its
first NZ petrol stations in 1998
(4)
22. Command (5)
23. 1978 Split Enz song (1,3,3)
24. Selected (6)
25. Woolshed worker (colloq) (6)
DOWN
1. October, in Maori (7)
2. Make a suggestion (7)
3. Rose (5)
4. Snare (7)
5. Deadly (5)
6. Flavour (5)
9. Not sure (9)
14. Obstruction (7)
15. Plant called raupo in Maori (7)
16. Scrounger (7)
19. Sea shell (5)
20. Fool (5)
21. Evil spirit (5)
SOLUTION 1667
Across: 1. Marquee, 4. Extra, 7/8. Jack Lovelock, 10. Reconsider, 12. Plenty, 13.
Stroke, 15. Rutherford, 18. Relative, 19. Garb, The 20. number Alter, 21. game Ravioli. that
Down: 1. Major, 2. Ricochet, 3. Exotic, 4. improves Elementary, your 5. Took, arithmetic 6. Askance, 9.
Instructor, 11. Colorado, 12. Paparoa, 14. Shiver, 16. Dubai, 17. Flat.
HOW TO PLAY
It’s like sudoku: each
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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WORDBUILDER
S Y A
B
R
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.
2 Digits
11
49
52
85
3 Digits
079
231
238
402
Good 6 Very Good 8 Excellent 9
Number FuN
648
685
760
869
4 Digits
1073
2567
4019
5442
6143
6643
7235
7475
5 Digits
79940
96887
6 Digits
579724
799089
7 Digits
1895265
9912685
9 Digits
845809286
910871408
SUDOKU
335
Fill the grid so that every row,
every column and every 3x3
box contains the digits 1 to 9.
SOLUTIONS
Untitled Puzzle
NUMBER FUN
5
2
8
4
5
8
0
9
2
8
6
6
4
8
2
5
6
7
1
9
1
0
8
7
1
4
0
8
9
7
9
9
0
8
9
6
1
4
3
4
9
8
5
6
6
4
3
7
2
3
5
5
7
9
7
2
4
5
2
0
7
9
1
1
KENKEN
Kanawa, 10. Top Town, 11.
Trait, 12. Push, 13. Beard,
17. Faith, 18. Gull, 22.
Order, 23. I See Red, 24.
Chosen, 25. Rousie.
Down: 1. Oketopa, 2.
Propose, 3. Stood, 4.
Capture, 5. Fatal, 6. Taste,
9. Uncertain, 14. Barrier,
15. Bulrush, 16. Bludger,
19. Conch, 20. Idiot, 21.
Demon.
DECODER
NZ CROSSWORD
Across: 7/8. Kiri te
WORDBUILDER
Abs, ays, bar,
bars, bas, bay,
bays, bra, bras,
bray, brays, ray,
rays, say.
SUDOKU
SUDOKU
NZ CROSSWORD
Across: 7/8. Kiri te
Kanawa, 10. Top Town, 11.
Trait, 12. Push, 13. Beard,
17. Faith, 18. Gull, 22.
Order, 23. I See Red, 24.
Chosen, 25. Rousie.
Down: 1. Oketopa, 2.
Propose, 3. Stood, 4.
Capture, 5. Fatal, 6. Taste,
9. Uncertain, 14. Barrier,
15. Bulrush, 16. Bludger,
19. Conch, 20. Idiot, 21.
Demon.
WORDBUILDER
Abs, ays, bar,
bars, bas, bay,
bays, bra, bras,
bray, brays, ray,
rays, say.
DECODER
KENKEN
1
1
5
7
9
7
2
4
6
6
4
3
9
9
1
0
8
7
1
4
0
8
0
7
9
7
2
3
5
2
8
5
4
9
1
2
5
6
7
6
4
8
8
4
5
8
0
9
2
8
6
5
6
1
4
3
7
9
9
0
8
9
5
2
SOLUTIONS
NUMBER FUN
Untitled Puzzle