Western News: June 23, 2022

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Thursday June 23 2022
CHRISTCHURCH
CREMATORIUM
FUNERALS
CROSSWORD
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8
9 10
249
SUDOKU
Every row, column and box should
contain the digits 1 to 9.
WordBuilder
WORDBUILDER
149
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P C E
O I T
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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
allowed. There's at least one six-letter word.
once?
TODAY
Good 18 Very Good 22 Excellent 26
Solution 148: dog, don, dong, dour, drug, dug, din,
dung, duo, gnu, god, gourd, GROUND, gun, gurn,
nod, nog, nor, our, rod, round, rug, run, rung, undo,
word. urn.
letters, including plurals, can you make
from the six letters, using each only
No words beginning with a capital are
allowed. There’s at least one six-letter
Good 18 Very Good 22 Excellent 26
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21 22 23
24 25
26 27
Across
1. Soak up (6)
4. Stroke lightly (6)
9. Challenge (4)
10. Not trustworthy (10)
11. Sluggish (6)
12. Collapse (colloq) (4,4)
13. The accused (9)
15. Actors in a play (4)
16. Imitate (4)
17. Fervency (9)
21. Inside (8)
22. Take for granted (6)
24. Hooligan (10)
25. Unhearing (4)
26. Wood (6)
27. Entry (6)
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Down
1. Paua (7)
2. Precipitous (5)
3. Curved (7)
5. Dozing (6)
6. Complex (9)
7. Most noticeable (7)
8. Grief-stricken (6-7)
14. Polite term for something
unpleasant (9)
16. Idea (7)
18. Flexible (7)
19. Direction finder (7)
20. Suggestive (6)
23. Move furtively (5)
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 into the
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.
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11 25 22 11 9 8
24 22 23 17 15 10 11 22 8 18 11 12
2 13 18 3 8 1 23
26 23 12 25 10 11 9 1 1 9 5
20 10 8 5 9
17 9 26 23 14 9 15 20 12 23 19 8
22 25 23 24 22
23 17 22 10 8 24 25 23 1 23 26
19 25 11 16 9 11 1
20 7 11 20 22 23 11 15 12 10 19 10
14 22 20 22 26 10
9 21 1 10 12 4 9 6 10 14 14
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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SOLUTION
No.148
149
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T H I P S R C N E V D M O
G Z A F W L K J Q Y X U B
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O
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15 10 7 25 15 3 3 13 5 24
7 26 8 16 15 17
9 7 11 24 2 21 24 17 9 2 11 24
18 7 2 4 7 15 1
17 7 22 24 11 15
2 4 17 26 12 4 15 11 7 13 16 24
A F Shuker
SOLUTION
No.149
Crossword
Across: 1. Absorb,
4. Caress, 9. Dare,
10. Unreliable, 11. Torpid,
12. Keel over, 13.
Defendant, 15. Cast,
16. Copy, 17. Vehemence,
21. Interior, 22. Assume,
24. Delinquent, 25. Deaf,
26. Timber, 27. Access.
Down: 1. Abalone, 2. Steep,
3. Rounded, 5. Asleep,
6. Elaborate, 7. Salient,
8. Broken-hearted, 14.
Euphemism, 16. Concept,
18. Elastic, 19. Compass,
20. Risqué, 23. Sidle.
WordBuilder
cep, cite, cop, cope, cot,
cote, epic, ice, opt, optic,
otic, pet, pic, picot, pie, pit,
poet, POETIC, poi, pot, tec,
tic, tie, tip, toe, top, tope,
topi, topic.
Sudoku
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4 4 7 2 2 19
7 16 19 2 11 24 15 17 2 2 26 24
23 7 3 7 17 18 24 14 7 22 2 15
F A T
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