Amersham Together March/April 2020 Issue

Amersham & Chalfont’s Brain Matter
CROSSWORD
Across
1 Sign, emblem (6)
4 Undulate (6)
7 Dessert (6)
9 Energetic movement, liveliness (8)
11 Escape quickly (4)
14 Believe to be true (7)
15 Young woman (4)
16 Get out (4)
17 Cut off the sun’s light (7)
18 Drizzle (4)
21 Loan for the purchase of property (8)
22 Compose, formulate (6)
24 Vendor (6)
25 Gives rise to, induces (6)
Down
1 Muffler (5)
2 Unit of length (5)
3 Belonging to us (3)
4 Tried again (11)
5 Pirate ship (9)
6 Posing no difficulty (4)
8 Central American capital city (3,8)
10 Island in French Polynesia, capital
Papeete (6)
SUDOKU
Place a number from 1 to 9 into each empty square so every number
appears once in each horizontal row, each vertical column and each box
of nine squares.
WARM UP
CHALLENGING
(answers on p45)
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8
11 12 13
14
9 10
15 16
21
17
24 25
12 Rough shelter at the
side of a house (4-2)
13 Vital (9)
19 Assumed name (5)
22 23
18 19 20
20 Demands (5)
21 Fail to hit (4)
23 Epoch (3)
9 1 5 4
5 9
3 4 9 8
8 4 6 9
3 2
5 1 7 6
1 9 7 5
2 8
8 7 3 2
9 4 6
1 3 2
7 8
6 7 1
2 4 9 6
3 5 8
1 5
8 5 9
8 4 6