Nor'West News: May 19, 2022

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Thursday May 19 2022
CHRISTCHURCH
CREMATORIUM
FUNERALS
CROSSWORD
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8
9 10
244
SUDOKU
Every row, column and box should
contain the digits 1 to 9.
WordBuilder
WORDBUILDER
144
6
T R A
Y S A
11 12
13 14 15
16 17 18 19
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 each letter only once? No foreign
words or words beginning with a capital are
from allowed. the There's six letters, at least one using six-letter each word. only
once?
TODAY
Good 14 Very Good 18 Excellent 22
Solution 143: gin, girn, giro, gown, grin, groin, grow,
grown, ion, iron, nog, noir, nor, now, owing, own,
rig, ring, row, ROWING, wig, win, wing, wino, won,
word.
worn, wring, wrong.
letters, including plurals, can you make
No words beginning with a capital are
allowed. There’s at least one six-letter
Good 14 Very Good 18 Excellent 22
20
21 22 23
24 25
26 27
Across
1. Flare (6)
4. Exit (6)
9. Russian ruler (4)
10. Fussy (10)
11. Dilly-dally (6)
12. Maternal (8)
13. Supple (9)
15. Lure (4)
16. Tricks (4)
17. List of items (9)
21. Immense (8)
22. Split off (6)
24. Shabby (4-2-4)
25. Assert (4)
26. Hypothesis (6)
27. Otherwise (6)
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K L P U J G C N S V Z W O
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F M Q D E R T B H A X I Y
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SOLUTION
No.144
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
T
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E
A
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Down
1. Type of rice (7)
2. Bitter or pungent (5)
3. Subjugate (7)
5. Culpable (6)
6. High-spirited (9)
7. Bright red (7)
8. Head of state (5,8)
14. Impediment (9)
16. Devise or invent (7)
18. Fifth letter of the Greek alphabet
(7)
19. Compensation (7)
20. Take care of (6)
23. Lifting machine (5)
21 2 26 11 11 23 25 24 21 2
Each number in our DECODER grid represents a different
letter - there is a number for all 26 letters of the alphabet.
DECODER
Enter the given letters into all squares with matching numbers.
The challenge now is to work out which letters are represented
Each by the number other represents numbers. a As different you get letter the of letters, the alphabet. enter them Write the into
given the main letters grid, into all and squares the reference with matching grid. numbers. To keep Now track work of out the
which letters letters you are have represented found, cross by them other off numbers. the alphabet provided.
23 12 2 16 17 7 8 12 6 20 9
26 26 6 5 10 10
2 17 22 7 18 10 21 19 15 12 21 19
12 3 26 17 17 21 19
7 26 17 6 21 10 2 5 21 7 15
12 20 10 22 5
22 5 7 7 5 5 25 12 20 14 5 4
16 26 24 20 13
9 6 5 1 5 6 5 21 4 17 2
5 5 11 10 4 12 5
6 12 4 12 20 17 15 5 10 23 5 6
12 19 5 26 5 12
20 6 5 5 15 7 17 8 6 10 7
R A T
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
11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99 10 11 12 13
R T A
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SOLUTION
No.143
144
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
T M A N V J X Y S U R O Z
K B Q G F D C W H L E P I
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
15 9 18 19 4 18 12 26 18 23 13 2
3 22 10 25 5
9 5 23 4 13 23 24 9 11 5 3
14 9 25 25 22 26 26 23
11 26 22 4 18 18 19 9 10 3 11
18 26 17 21 14 21 25 23 18
Crossword
Across: 1. Beacon, 4.
Egress, 9. Tsar, 10. Particular,
11. Dawdle, 12. Motherly, 13.
Lithesome, 15. Bait, 16. Cons,
17. Inventory, 21. Enormous,
22. Secede, 24. Down-atheel,
25. Aver, 26. Theory, 27.
Unless.
Down: 1. Basmati, 2. Acrid,
3. Oppress, 5. Guilty, 6.
Exuberant, 7. Scarlet, 8.
Prime minister, 14. Hindrance,
16. Concoct, 18. Epsilon,
19. Redress, 20. Foster, 23.
Crane.
WordBuilder
art, arts, artsy, arty, ASTRAY,
rat, rata, rats, ray, rays, sat,
satay, satyr, say, star, stay,
stray, sty, tar, tars, tray,
trays, try, tsar.
Sudoku
3 23 4 25 21 24 7 23 2 14 5
26 14 11 18 3
11 16 13 21 3 1 9 11
A
13 24 21 4 20 26 11 9 5 26 21
E
21 24 4 8 14 11 21 26 1
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