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Local Life - Wigan - October 2021

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66<br />

Puzzle Pages<br />

CROSSWORD<br />

down<br />

1. Collection of facts (4)<br />

2. Sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer (6)<br />

3. Wither, especially due to loss of moisture (7)<br />

4. Sediment that has settled at the bottom of<br />

a liquid (5)<br />

5. Crescent-shaped yellow fruit (6)<br />

6. Raging and rapidly spreading conflagration (8)<br />

11. Item used to dry dishes (3,5)<br />

13. Meat chopper (7)<br />

15. Metal ring for lining a small hole (6)<br />

17. Carpenter’s tool (6)<br />

18. Projection at the end of a piece of wood (5)<br />

21. Shallow basket used when gardening (4)<br />

across<br />

7. Miscellaneous articles needed for a particular<br />

operation or sport (13)<br />

8. Pre-decimal coin worth one quarter of a penny (8)<br />

9. Verdi opera with an Egyptian theme (4)<br />

10. Cooking utensil (7)<br />

12. Point directly opposite the zenith (5)<br />

14. Smooth surface (as of a cut gemstone) (5)<br />

16. Piece of cloth sewn under a zip or a pocket (7)<br />

19. Hemispherical roof (4)<br />

20. Grow thin and waste away physically (8)<br />

22. Diverse in character or content (13)<br />

Wordwheel<br />

Using only the letters in the Wordwheel, you have ten<br />

minutes to find as many words as possible, none of<br />

which may be plurals, foreign words or proper nouns.<br />

Each word must be of three letters or more, all must<br />

contain the central letter and letters can only be used<br />

once in every word. There is at least one word that uses<br />

all of the letters in the wheel.<br />

target<br />

Excellent: 40 or more words<br />

Good: 38 words<br />

R<br />

M<br />

O A<br />

R<br />

U T<br />

B<br />

E<br />

Fair: 30 words

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