The Star: July 15, 2021

The Star Thursday July 15 2021
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SUDOKU
Every row, column and box should
contain the digits 1 to 9.
WORDBUILDER
WordBuilder
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N U G
How many words of three or more letters,
How including many plurals, words can you of make three from or the more six
letters, using including each letter plurals, only once? can No you foreign
words or words beginning with a capital are
make allowed. from There's the at five least one letters, six-letter using word.
each only once? TODAY
Good 19 Very Good 22 Excellent 26
No words beginning with a capital
are allowed. There’s at least one
Solution 102: chore, CHROME, come, comer, cor,
core, corm, echo, hem, her, hero, hoe, hoer, home,
six-letter homer, more, word. ochre, ohm, orc, ore, rho, roc, roe.
Good 14 Very Good 19 Excellent 25+
DEC
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SOLUTION
No.103
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B C K J Z U R H F Q A D M
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T X I S W Y N O P E V G L
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Across
1. Without purpose (7)
5. Caught (7)
9. Mistake (5)
10. Infamous (9)
11. Itemise (9)
12. Evil spirit or ghost (5)
13. Rigid (5)
15. Genius (9)
18. Forbearance (9)
19. Delete (5)
21. Employees (5)
23. Retrospective wisdom (9)
25. Consistently (9)
26. Succinct (5)
27. Perfumed (7)
28. Tiny drip (7)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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5 25 23 6 7 6 13 5 18
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Down
1. Eternal (7)
2. Temperamental (9)
3. Eagle’s nest (5)
4. Feeling (9)
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26 9 19 5 11 26 1 12 23 9 4
5. Church payment (5)
6. Conceit (9)
7. Picture (5)
8. Exhibit (7)
14. Vanguard (9)
16. Envious (5-4)
17. Opening, introductory (9)
18. Disposable
handkerchiefs (7)
20. Plead (7)
22. Nimble (5)
23. Clammy (5)
24. Confrontation, fight (3-2)
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DECODER
Each number in our DECODER grid represents a different
letter - there is a number for all 26 letters of the alphabet.
Each Enter number the given represents letters into a different all squares letter of with the matching alphabet. numbers. Write the
given The challenge letters into now all squares is to work with out matching which letters numbers. are Now represented work out
which by the letters other are numbers. represented As you by the get other numbers. letters, enter As you them get into the
letters, the main write grid, them and into the the reference main grid and grid. the To reference keep track grid. Decoder of the
uses
letters
all
you
26 letters
have
of
found,
the alphabet.
cross them off the alphabet provided.
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10 3 8 20 3 10
25 8 7 10 24 15 21 3 10 11 10 25
D O N
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24 6 9 18 7 6 17 19 2 16 6
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24 14 13 24 18 10 3 7 1 24 15 1
3 13 10 8 26
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15 17 24 1 26 8 7
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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N O
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SOLUTION
No.102
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Each number in our DECODER grid represents a different
letter - there is a number for all 26 letters of the alphabet.
Enter the given letters into all squares with matching numbers.
The challenge now is to work out which letters are represented
by the other numbers. As you get the letters, enter them into
the main grid, and the reference grid. To keep track of the
letters you have found, cross them off the alphabet provided.
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R T G X L Z C S E W A U O
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J F H V N M K P Y Q D B I
Crossword
Across: 1. Aimless, 5.
Trapped, 9. Error, 10.
Notorious, 11. Enumerate, 12.
Ghoul, 13. Stiff, 15. Ingenuity,
18. Tolerance, 19. Erase,
21. Staff, 23. Hindsight, 25.
Uniformly, 26. Terse, 27.
Scented, 28. Droplet.
Down: 1. Ageless, 2.
Mercurial, 3. Eyrie, 4.
Sensation, 5. Tithe, 6.
Arrogance, 7. Photo, 8.
Display, 14. Forefront, 16.
Green-eyed, 17. Inaugural,
18. Tissues, 20. Entreat, 22.
Agile, 23. Humid, 24. Set-to.
WordBuilder
Ego, eon, gen, gent, get,
gnu, gone, got, gout, gun,
gut, net, nog, not, note, nut,
one, out, teg, ten, toe, tog,
ton, tone, tong, TONGUE,
tug, tun, tune, unto.
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