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Every row, column and box should
contain the digits 1 to 9.
WORDBUILDER
WordBuilder
117
6
G E I
O L B
CROSSWORD
9
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
217
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
six
least
letters,
one six-letter
using
word.
each only once? TODAY
No Good words 19 beginning Very Good 23 with Excellent a capital 27
Solution 116: ago, all, alp, gal, galop, gall, GALLOP,
are allowed. There’s at least one
gaol, gap, glop, goal, lag, lap, log, lop, opal, pal, pall,
poll.
six-letter word.
Good 19 Very Good 23 Excellent 27
10 11
12 13
DECO
11
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19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26
27 28
29
SOLUTION
No.117
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J Y M X H B U Z K W Q G C
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E L I N O P V T S A F D R
Across
1. By the shortest and most
direct route (2,3,4,5)
10. Artery (5)
11. Oasis (5,4)
12. Slim (7)
13. Examine (7)
14. Brothel-keeper (5)
16. Interminably (9)
19. Startles (9)
20. Leans (5)
22. Advise (7)
1 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 L
A X
Decoder
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
20 8 13 14 7 18 21 16 14 7 13
25. Put into order (7)
27. Nomadic (9)
7 7 4 23 7 8
X
28. Freshwater fish (5)
29. Applying to all (6,3,5)
22 21 5 20 19 2 21 12 14 2 21 24
A
Down
2. Cede (9)
3. Cache (5)
4. Colleagues (2-7)
5. Openings or passages (5)
2 21 21 1 10 21 1
6. The heavens (9)
7. Bitter humour (5)
8. Landscape (7)
9. Kidnap payment (6)
15. Unrelenting (9)
17. Take apart (9)
18. Brilliance (9)
19. Endurance (7)
21. Detective (6)
23. Beforehand (5)
24. Precise (5)
26. Style from recent past (5)
L
9 19 15 12 21 10 19 7 5 2 7
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6 7 10 10 7 20 1 9 23 9 3 18
7 1 7 26 15
T H E P U Z Z L E C O M P A N Y
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14 10 9 24 24 8 3 5 1 18 7
16 25 21 22 1 8 22
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 with of the matching alphabet. numbers. Write the
given The letters challenge 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
the
numbers.
letters, enter
As you
them
get
into
the
letters,
the main
write
grid,
them
and
into
the
the main
reference
grid and
grid.
the
To
reference
keep track
grid. Decoder
of the
uses all 26 letters of the alphabet.
letters you have found, cross them off the alphabet provided.
1 16 13 25 14 26
8 13 5 14 10 4 6 20 4 3 9 18
26 19 12 10 10 11 10
18 20 9 19 10 4 12 13 1 11 1 13
3 8 13 7 12 15 16
3 21 5 17 21 2 8 9 14 10 19 2
7 21 9 2 5 1
11 21 24 13 8 7 14 21 9 5 21
4 1 1 12 7 3 17 1 4
25 13 24 9 12 9 25
R O T
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.
9 20 25 10 13 23 18 5 10
8 9 5 19 10 13 4
117
13 5 8 5 13 2 3 16 6 3 4 25
10 10 20 1 10 2 23
26 5 2 20 16 4 10 21 10 2 1 10
8 22 9 1 15 15
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
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
O T R
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
118
Crossword
Across: 1. As the crow flies,
10. Aorta, 11. Water hole,
12. Slender, 13. Analyse,
14. Madam, 16. Endlessly,
19. Surprises, 20. Tilts,
22. Apprise, 25. Arrange,
27. Itinerant, 28. Trout, 29.
Across the board.
Down: 2. Surrender, 3.
Hoard, 4. Co-workers,
5. Ostia, 6. Firmament,
7. Irony, 8. Scenery, 9.
Ransom, 15. Merciless, 17.
Dismantle, 18. Splendour,
19. Stamina, 21. Sleuth, 23.
Prior, 24. Exact, 26. Retro.
WordBuilder
beg, bel, big, bile, bilge, bio,
blog, bog, bogie, bogle, boil,
bole, ego, gel, gibe, glib,
glob, globe, gob, leg, lei, lib,
lie, lob, lobe, log, loge, obi,
OBLIGE, ogle, oil.
Sudoku
SOLUTION
No.116
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X M R W D Y Q K U T F I V
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S G N C H L O B Z J E A P
DECODER
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