Local Life - St Helens - Jan/Feb 2022

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Puzzle Pages
CROSSWORD
across
3. Onyx marble (9)
8. Crack in a lip caused usually by cold (4)
9. Pretending one set of feelings and acting under
the influence of another (3-5)
10. Glacial period in Earth’s history (3,3)
13. Greek muse of love poetry (5)
14. Painfully desirous of another’s advantages (7)
down
1. Copyist, scribe (9)
2. Implanted device that controls heartbeat (9)
4. Milky plant substance that coagulates on
exposure to air (5)
5. Sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol (7)
6. Unwanted email (4)
7. Fencing sword (4)
11. Mental illness in which the mind is dominated
by a single thought or idea (9)
12. Of a triangle, having two sides of equal length (9)
14. Container used to store jam, dried fruit, etc (3)
15. Facility caring for the terminally ill (7)
18. Make cloth by interlacing threads (5)
19. Strong, forceful wind (4)
20. Mammal having partially webbed feet; valued
for its fur (4)
15. Ugly, evil-looking old woman (3)
16. Citizen who has a legal right to vote (7)
17. Devoutly religious (5)
21. Breathe out (6)
22. Early Christian church (8)
23. Bake in a kiln so as to harden (4)
24. Apiarist (9)
Wordwheel
Using only the letters in the Wordwheel, you have ten
minutes to find as many words as possible, none of
which may be plurals, foreign words or proper nouns.
Each word must be of three letters or more, all must
contain the central letter and letters can only be used
once in every word. There is at least one word that uses
all of the letters in the wheel.
target
Excellent: 20 or more words
Good: 16 words
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Fair: 12 words