The Star: April 27, 2017

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The Star
Puzzles
THE
CROSSWORD
1669
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8
9
10 11
12 13
14 15
16 17
18 19
20 21
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.
22 23
©THE PUZZLE COMPANY
ACROSS
6. Make possible (6)
7. Tell (6)
10. Product promoted by Rachel
Hunter in the 1980s (7)
11. Wal Footrot’s neighbour (5)
12. Fruit with the New Zealand
variety Taylor’s Gold (4)
13. Attempted (5)
16. Financial inspection (5)
17. South Island river whose Maori
name is Mawheranui (4)
20. Reason (5)
21. Miser (7)
22. Pulled (6)
23. Flinch, move back (6)
DOWN
1. Form of punishment abolished
in NZ in 1961 (5,7)
2. Any white note on a piano (7)
3. Run away to marry (5)
4. Critic, fault-finder (inf) (7)
5. Bedtime drink (5)
8. Oldest New Zealander to win
an Olympic gold medal (4,8)
9. Zodiac symbols (4,5)
14. Speed up (7)
15. Crime for which only one
person has been executed in
NZ history (7)
18. Torment (5)
19. Concur (5)
WORDBUILDER
S I E K T
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 11 Excellent 14
SUDOKU
336
Fill the grid so that every row,
every column and every 3x3
box contains the digits 1 to 9.
SOLUTION 1668
Across: 7/8. Kiri te Kanawa, 10. Top Town,
The
11.
number
Trait, 12. Push,
game
13.
that
Beard, 17.
Faith, 18. Gull, 22. Order, 23. I See Red, 24. improves Chosen, your 25. Rousie. arithmetic
Down: 1. Oketopa, 2. Propose, 3. Stood, 4. Capture, 5. Fatal, 6. Taste, 9.
Uncertain, HOW TO 14. PLAY Barrier, 15. Bulrush, 16. Bludger, 19. Conch, 20. Idiot, 21. Demon.
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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Number FuN
2 Digits
13
26
3 Digits
050
066
089
121
143
186
256
353
572
793
995
4 Digits
0981
1505
1978
2323
2567
3462
3570
5744
5759
7023
7524
8534
8849
9945
5 Digits
50496
79212
7 Digits
5769614
8730175
SOLUTIONS
untitled
NUMBER FUN
0
0
6
6
5
7
5
9
7
5
2
4
1
3
3
5
3
0
7
0
2
3
8
5
3
4
1
2
1
5
7
2
0
8
9
5
7
4
4
0
9
8
1
1
1
8
6
2
6
2
5
6
7
9
9
4
5
7
9
3
9
KENKEN
NZ CROSSWORD
Across: 6. Enable, 7.
Inform, 10. Trumpet, 11.
Cooch, 12. Pear, 13. Tried,
16. Audit, 17. Grey, 20.
Logic, 21. Niggard, 22.
Yanked, 23. Recoil.
Down: 1. Death penalty,
2. Natural, 3. Elope, 4.
Knocker, 5. Cocoa, 8. Mahe
Drysdale, 9. Star signs, 14.
Quicken, 15. Treason, 18.
Agony, 19. Agree.
DECODER
WORDBUILDER
Est, its, kist, kit,
kite, kites, kits,
sei, set, sike,
sit, site, ski, skit,
skite, tie, ties,
tike, tikes.
SUDOKU
SUDOKU
NZ CROSSWORD
Across: 6. Enable, 7.
Inform, 10. Trumpet, 11.
Cooch, 12. Pear, 13. Tried,
16. Audit, 17. Grey, 20.
Logic, 21. Niggard, 22.
Yanked, 23. Recoil.
Down: 1. Death penalty,
2. Natural, 3. Elope, 4.
Knocker, 5. Cocoa, 8. Mahe
Drysdale, 9. Star signs, 14.
Quicken, 15. Treason, 18.
Agony, 19. Agree.
WORDBUILDER
Est, its, kist, kit,
kite, kites, kits,
sei, set, sike,
sit, site, ski, skit,
skite, tie, ties,
tike, tikes.
DECODER
KENKEN
7
9
3
9
9
4
5
2
5
6
7
2
6
9
1
8
6
1
0
9
8
1
5
7
4
4
0
8
9
5
7
2
1
2
1
8
5
3
4
7
0
2
3
0
3
5
3
0
1
3
7
5
2
4
5
7
5
9
0
6
6
SOLUTIONS
NUMBER FUN
untitled