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Santa’s toy-makers in 

need of a new home 

• By Natalie Pham 

VOLUNTEER elves have given 

thousands of wooden toys to 

many deserving children across 

Canterbury for 50 years. 

But this year the volunteers 

at the Santa Claus Workshop 

Charitable Trust are hoping 

their wish for a permanent 

home will come true. 

The hunt for a new premises 

began in December last year 

after the technology block at 

Shirley Intermediate School was 

demolished. It was home to the 

workshop for almost 10 years. 

Since then, many volunteers 

have been working from home 

to get about 1100 handmade 

toys ready for the festive season. 

From cars to wheelbarrows 

and wooden chairs to cots for 

dolls, they craft a wide range 

of toys using high-quality 

timber. While some only take 

a few hours to complete, more 

intricate toys can take up to 20 

hours. 

Trust chairman Stewart Williams 

said the workshop’s elves 

might not be able to produce 

the toys next year if they cannot 

find a new home. In the worst 

case, the trust could be forced to 

take a break from toymaking. 

“We really don’t have much 

option. We’re still actively looking 

with the council, but we 

haven’t had much luck to date,” 

Williams said. 

“It’s not practical going forward 

from our perspectives . . . 

GIFTS: Stewart Williams with some of the toys that will be given to deserving children 

this Christmas. 

PHOTO: RHYVA VAN ONSELEN 

various toys are made by more 

than one person, so it’s not just 

the matter of cutting it out with 

a jigsaw or something like that.” 

The search for a new site has 

been difficult – but Williams 

said the trust is not alone. 

“I know most volunteer 

groups are also struggling with 

the same issue.” 

In August last year, the workshop 

was offered a vacant site 

at 280 Westminster St by the 

city council. However, the site 

was vandalised beyond repair a 

week before the equipment and 

tools were moved in. 

Said Williams: “They trashed 

the place, smashed all windows, 

and tore out all the wiring. 

Basically made the building 

uninhabitable. 

“It restricted us from being 

able to support people that need 

WORKERS: Andrew 

Grant, Alistair McDonald 

and Neil Pugh making 

toys at the trust’s former 

Shirley Intermediate 

School base before it was 

demolished. 

PHOTO: STAR MEDIA 

help in our society. We just want 

to be able to make toys to make 

kids happy.” 

City council head of city 

growth and property Bruce 

Rendall said it has tried to help 

the trust find a new home. 

“Unfortunately, the council 

has few vacant buildings and 

those it does have are generally 

being held for broader site 

redevelopment, such as park 

enhancements.” 

•To help the trust find 

a new home, phone 

027 471 4624 or email 

santasworkshoptrust@ 

gmail.com 

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New safety platforms among 

raft of proposed improvements 

• By Natalie Pham 

PROPOSED changes for a busy 

intersection in Shirley are a 

step closer after a heated debate 

among community board 

members. 

The Waitai Coastal-Burwood- 

Linwood Community Board had 

to undergo additional discussion 

before giving the green light to 

the safety improvement proposal 

for the Briggs/Marshland/Lake 

Terrace Rds intersection. 

It came after a number of 

board members expressed 

concern about raised safety platforms 

on all approaches to the 

intersection, which was among 

the proposed changes. 

Raised platforms are a traffic 

calming measure to reduce the 

speed of vehicles entering an 

intersection to 30km/h. 

They were first installed 

in Christchurch at the busy 

intersection of Lincoln Rd, Barrington 

Rd and Whiteleigh Ave, 

but the city council is proposing 

to use raised platforms at other 

high-risk intersections. 

City council senior transportation 

engineer Gemma Dioni said 

they would be a key tool in the 

Road to Zero strategy. 

“From a system perspective, we 

CHANGES: New traffic calming measures are proposed for the intersection of Marshland, 

Briggs and Lake Terrace Rds. 

PHOTO: STAR NEWS 

are trying to reduce the number 

of death and serious injury 

crashes on our network,” Dioni 

said. 

Other proposed changes 

include a new traffic island, kerb 

extensions and a new cycle lane 

on Lake Terrace Rd. 

With five out of nine board 

members giving the proposal the 

thumbs up, it is now awaiting 

the approval of the Waipapa 

Papanui-Innes-Central Community 

Board, as Briggs Rd is part 

of the Innes Ward. 

If both boards approve it, 

construction is expected to start 

in May next year. 

At the meeting on Monday, 

Linwood Ward city councillor 

Yani Johanson voted against the 

proposal and questioned potential 

damage to vehicles from the 

raised platforms. 

“Because the one at Lincoln 

[Addington] is pretty bad. People 

don’t expect them,” he said. 

There have been complaints 

from drivers on social media 

after the bottom of their vehicles 

were scraped by the new safety 

platforms at the Lincoln Rd 

intersection. 

Burwood Ward city councillor 

Kelly Barber was also not 

in favour of the raised safety 

platforms 

“Road to Zero is an admirable 

goal. It’s very easy to achieve if 

we drive everywhere at 20km/h. 

But I don’t think in our society, it 

is practical. 

“I think these are the sort of 

intersection changes that give 

council a bad name.” 

However, deputy chairperson 

Jackie Simons said the raised 

platforms are not going to damage 

vehicles if drivers slow down. 

“I actually go through the Lincoln 

Rd intersection every week. 

This is about drivers’ education. 

“They’ve been used all over the 

country. It’s new to Christchurch, 

it’s new to us. But they are 

a good system that does slow the 

traffic down.” 

There have been four serious 

injury crashes in the last 10 years 

at the Shirley intersection. 

City council staff has identified 

red light running, right turning 

traffic failing to give way, and 

right-angle crashes being the 

most significant crash problems. 

There is also a high collective 

and medium high personal risk at 

this intersection as it has a death 

and serious injury score of 1.86. 

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number of fatal and serious 

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set distance of an intersection. 

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The Cecilian Singers mark 40 years 

ALTHOUGH NOW in their 

42nd year, The Cecilian Singers 

are celebrating the 40th 

anniversary of the choir, with a 

special concert at The Piano on 

November 26. 

An equal voice choir for 

women, The Cecilian Singers 

was founded in 1981 by Nan Anderson. 

It is an auditioned choir 

with a varied repertoire, ranging 

from medieval to modern, both 

sacred and secular. 

The choir quickly established 

a national reputation with 

broadcasts on Radio New 

Zealand and Praise Be. 

It has also recorded two CDs 

that went to No. 1 on Concert 

NZ Classical Hits. Works by 

New Zealand composers, some 

especially commissioned, are 

frequently performed and the 

choir has twice travelled to 

Australia to showcase New 

Zealand music. 

There has always been an 

emphasis on supporting local 

musicians and encouraging 

outstanding talent. Featured 

artists have included Teddy 

Tahu Rhodes, Ann Lamont 

Lowe, Louisa Pilkington, 

Helen Charlton, and many 

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instrumentalists who have gone 

on to NZSO or international 

careers. 

Over the past 40 years, the 

Cecilians have performed at 

least 100 times at concerts, plus 

events like weddings and music 

festivals. Events range from 

poetry and music at the Old 

Municipal Chambers, to singing 

in Hebrew with the Washington 

Women’s Choir at the Great Hall. 

They have performed at many 

iconic Christchurch venues that 

were casualties of the February 

22, 2011 earthquake – the 

Provincial Council Chambers, St 

JOYOUS: The Celician Singers choir has been performing for more than 

four decades. 

Luke’s Church, the Music Centre 

Chapel and The Chapel of St 

John of God in Halswell. 

The choir has been fortunate 

to have worked under the baton 

of only four music directors in 

its history. Nan Anderson, who 

received the QSM in 2020 for 

services to choral music, was the 

director for 27 years. Anderson 

was followed by Jean Cumming, 

JIG 

Rosemary Allison 

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and the 

current director, renowned 

contralto Rosemary Turnbull. 

As has been the case for so 

many organisations, the choir’s 

original plans for celebrating 

the milestone were disrupted 

by Covid-19, resulting in 

three cancellations of planned 

concerts. 

The celebration on Saturday 

will be the culmination of two 

years of planning, rehearsing, 

and waiting. 

It will offer traditional and 

modern classical compositions 

(Brahms, Britten and Orban) 

and a piece by NZ composer 

David Hamilton. The choir will 

be accompanied by pianist Sarah 

Kang, harpist Helen Webby 

and Emma Eden and Bernard 

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biggest household costs. That’s why, 

as part of our Government’s work 

to support New Zealanders with 

the cost of living, we are making 

childcare more affordable for low 

and middle income families. 

We recently announced that we’re 

significantly expanding childcare 

assistance, cutting costs for working 

parents and supporting more 

children into early education. 

On top of this, we are further 

boosting Working for Families and 

the Best Start payment, providing 

more support. 

These changes will kick in from 

1 April next year. The exact amount 

families will save on childcare costs 

will depend on the number of hours 

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number of hours of childcare per day, 

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For example, a Canterbury family 

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with two children under five would 

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Have a cuppa 

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BRAINTREE, the first wellness centre of 

its kind in New Zealand to support people 

with neurological conditions, is holding 

an open day in Papanui on Saturday. 

The centre at 70 Langdons Rd will be 

open to the public from 10am to noon. 

“We have had such positive feedback 

from everyone attending either an activity 

or support session since we opened in 

June this year, we want to give the public 

the chance to see just how special this 

facility is and why it is earning such high 

praise,” BrainTree general manager Phil 

Marshall-Lee said. 

“We hope people will pop in, have a 

look around and enjoy a coffee.” 

BrainTree is the new home for 

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and Parkinson’s Canterbury, the Southern 

Stroke Foundation, Southern Music 

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Conductive Education Trust. 

“The centre is already making life so 

much better for the many people living in 

the community with neurological conditions,” 

Marshall-Lee said. 

Conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, 

Parkinson’s and dementia are progressive, 

and while some people become severely 

disabled, most can live with relatively 

moderate symptoms for longer periods 

of time. The wellness centre is a key 

component to ensuring those affected can 

still live a full life after a diagnosis of a 

neurological condition. 

Marshall-Lee said the centre is 

equipped with a gym, studio, cafe and 

meeting spaces for individual or group 

use, as well as being a place to share and 

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learn from real-life experiences, take part 

in activity support groups and access 

specialist well-being services. It can also 

host conferences for up to 80 people, with 

all inquiries welcome. 

The $8 million complex is the 

culmination of a huge community 

effort since Dementia Canterbury, and 

Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s 

Canterbury joined forces in 2017 in the 

Canterbury Brain Collective, a registered 

charity, to build a home for the two 

societies. The cost has been almost 

entirely funded by private individuals, 

businesses and community trusts in 

Christchurch. 

The donors, many of whom have 

known someone personally affected, 

have opened their hearts and contributed 

generously, all sharing the vision of 

creating BrainTree, Marshall-Lee said. 

“The team at BrainTree wishes to thank 

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Bellbird Hearing, as they are an 

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As a 100 per cent Kiwi-owned 

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Run by locals for locals, NZAS 

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Dux of the School 

Janvi Puri 

The PETER BRYANT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP is awarded to the Dux of 

the school. This is an annual award, established by the Board of Trustees, 

to acknowledge the outstanding contribution to Burnside High School of 

the late Dr Peter Bryant in his role as the chairperson of the Board. 

This year’s Dux recipient, Janvi Puri, attended Russley School and Burnside 

Primary School, where she displayed a wide range of skill, ability and 

intelligence across a wide range of areas. 

Early on at Burnside High School Janvi 

was identified as someone who achieved 

amazing results across the board with 

teachers describing her as a dedicated 

and conscientious student and someone 

who was “bright and friendly”. 

At Burnside, she was placed in a 

Performance Music Class and continued 

as a guitarist in the Junior Guitar 

Ensemble. Janvi is also an accomplished 

badminton player. She has represented 

Burnside High School every year and is 

currently the captain of the Girls Premiere 

A Team competing at the South Island 

Secondary Schools Championships for 

the past two years. 

Janvi has an Excellence Endorsement in 

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every subject she has entered in NCEA 

amassing 274 Excellence credits. She has 

been the recipient of the General Excellence Award for North Division for 

the past three years with numerous first placings in subjects. Her academic 

record this year is superior and the 41 NCEA credits she has earned so far 

are exclusively at Excellence level and she is entered for no less than seven 

Scholarship exams on top of her other SIX subjects. 

At our awards evening she placed First Place in Biology, English, 

Mathematics with Calculus and Spanish and an Excellence Awards for 

Physics and Chemistry. 

Currently Janvi has accepted a place at Otago University with a $30,000 

scholarship but is still entertaining options such as Auckland University 

where she has been offered a $20,000 Scholarship or possibly a University 

in New South Wales. Wherever she lands she will be studying medicine 

and we and we are positive that in all of her endeavours, it WILL BE with 

great. Congratulations! 

After significant debate among the Music staff, 

it was decided to award the cup top two joint 

winners. 

The winners of the Smokefree Cup for 

Leadership in Music and the Peter Rowe Cup in 

2022 are Sho Woodhouse and Dylan Blundell. 

Dylan and Sho have contributed to a wide 

range of ensembles having won multiple awards 

throughout their time at Burnside. They have 

both been in SMP Jazz for five years, and 

between them they contribute to multiple 

ensembles and groups. Together have won 

many awards for Big Band, and Chamber Music. 

Separately they have achieved recognition in 

Orchestra, Percussion Ensemble, Jazz Combo 

and Funk Band. 

While one won the best combo drummer at 

JazzQuest, the other was awarded Best Drum 

Solo at JazzBandit. Congratulations! 

Leaders in Learning 

Proxime Accessit 

Our Proxime Accessit for 2022 is Carol Khor. Carol is an exceptional 

student who has been described as someone who always meets and 

regularly exceeds work quality expectations. 

Beginning Burnside High School as a Year 10 student she immediately 

signed up as a librarian and involved herself in Archery, Badminton and 

Surfing. Her academic talent at this point was evident as she took first 

place in Science, English, Mathematics, Digital Technologies and Business, 

Economics and Accounting as well as 

the General Excellence Award for South 

Division over the next three years! 

Her academic prowess is supreme and is 

characterised by a real sense of purpose in 

everything that she does. She is also the 

kind of person whose actions are for the 

benefit of others with her being further 

described by teachers as loyal, genuine, 

empathetic and fair. 

This year she has represented Burnside 

High Schools’ Premiere Badminton Team 

and she has been a driving force amongst 

the Academic Leadership Group. On top 

of this and an incredibly busy program of 

study, she has spent time on a research 

program with the University of Otago 

at Christchurch Hospital investigating 

advancements in cancer treatment. Her 

work in this area earned her the Prime 

Music Awards 2022 Sports Champions 2022 

Dylan Blundell & Sho Woodhouse 

Carol Khor 

Taylah Holdem & Rosa Vesty 

Carol Khor 

Minister’s Te Puiaki Kaipūtaiao Ānamata Future Scientist Prize valued at 

$50,000. Her work also won her acclaim during the recent holidays where 

she was invited to present her findings along with other undergraduate 

students winning a Royal College of Australasia Pathology Award. 

To date she has the opportunity to continue her education at the 

University of Canterbury, or Auckland, or Otago and has received sizeable 

scholarship offers from all, however she is not ruling out a place at 

Cambridge University. Carol has, in 2022, navigated a formidable workload 

and still come out the other side as close to the top as you can get. At 

prize giving she has received awards for FIRST PLACE in Physics and 

FIRST PLACE in Design and Visual Communication and Excellence in 

Biology, English and Chemistry. We wish her well as she embarks on an 

exam program which includes an additional eight Scholarship subjects on 

top of her other subjects and looks to build on the total of 240 Excellence 

credits she already has. 

Taylah and Rosa are members of the Senior Girls ‘A’ 

Volleyball team, who won the Mainland Champs (also 

known as the South Islands) early in March this year, before 

Covid caused the Canterbury and NZ Secondary Schools’ 

Championships to be cancelled or postponed. They were 

also about to represent Burnside High School in the 

Canterbury and NZ Beach Volleyball Championships, when 

these events were cancelled in February. They both were 

selected for the NZ Junior Womens’ Volleyball team, who 

beat Australia Junior Women in a 5-match test series last 

term, and for Beach Volleyball, they represented Canterbury 

and NZ this year, attending the World Beach Volleyball 

Championships in Europe. They are currently coaching 

junior girls’ volleyball teams for Burnside High this term. L to R: Rose Vesty, Taylah Holdem 

Over Labour weekend, the Senior Girls ‘A’ Volleyball team won the re-scheduled Canterbury 

Secondary Schools’ Girls Championships. For 2023, Taylah has been awarded a Volleyball scholarship 

to Michigan State University, USA, and Rosa has been awarded a Beach Volleyball scholarship to 

Florida State University, USA. Taylah and Rosa, representing Beach Volleyball, received a “Highly 

Commended” award at the Zonta Secondary Schools’ Sports Awards ceremony, in the category of 

“Most Outstanding Female Team” for 2022. 

Thomas Vesty 

Thomas’ three sports this year are Cricket, Volleyball and Beach Volleyball. 

He played in the Gillette Cup preliminary series with the Cricket 1st XI in 

the first term. For Beach Volleyball, the Canterbury and NZ Secondary 

Schools tournaments were cancelled. However, the Canterbury rep season 

featured Thomas being selected in the Canterbury U17 Boys Beach team, 

pairing with Flynn Holdem. This pair went on to win the NZ U17 title. 

For Volleyball, Tom is a member of the Senior Boys ‘A’ team, who also 

couldn’t play Canterbury or NZ Secondary Schools’ tournaments this year. 

However, he made the Canterbury U17 Boys Volleyball team, who won the 

NZ U17 tournament. Thomas was the MVP of this tournament. 

The re-scheduled Canterbury Secondary Schools’ Championships were 

played over Labour Weekend, and the Senior Boys ‘A’ team beat Shirley 

BHS in the final, to win this event for the first time ever. 

L to R: Dylan Blundell, Sho Woodhouse 

Thomas Vesty 

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SUDOKU 

Every row, column and box should 

contain the digits 1 to 9. 

WordBuilder 

WORDBUILDER 

171 

6 

R E E 

N G D 

12 13 14 15 

16 

17 18 

19 

20 21 22 23 24 

words of three or more letters, 

How 

including 

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plurals, 

words 

can you 

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make 

three 

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or 

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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 12 Very Good 16 Excellent 20 

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 

Solution 170: for, fort, forth, four, FOURTH, fro, 

froth, fur, hot, hour, hurt, hut, oft, our, rho, rot, 

word. rout, rut, ruth, thou, tofu, tor, tour, turf. 

Good 12 Very Good 16 Excellent 20 

25 26 

27 28 

29 30 

31 32 

33 34 

Across 

1. Warmth of passion or feeling (6) 

5. Cease (6) 

10. Refers to (7) 

11. Smokestack (7) 

12. Departs (6) 

15. Dainty (6) 

16. Cuddle (7) 

17. Adolescent (abbr) (4) 

18. Single sheet of paper (4) 

19. Grille (7) 

20. Elderly (4) 

22. Wading bird (4) 

25. Missives (7) 

27. Merchant (6) 

28. Hold in custody (6) 

31. Lack of guile (7) 

32. Obstruction (7) 

33. Interfere (6) 

34. Stitch (6) 

Decoder 

Down 

2. Liberate (7) 

3. Lots (inf) (6) 

4. Danger (4) 

5. Cut into cubes (4) 

6. Evening party (Fr) (6) 

7. Dawn (7) 

8. Vote (6) 

9. Me (6) 

13. Canvas shoe (7) 

14. Cause trouble (7) 

15. Poster, advertisement (7) 

20. Take care of (6) 

21. Look at in detail (7) 

23. Fire pit (7) 

24. Various (6) 

25. Myth (6) 

26. Confidential (6) 

29. Youngster (4) 

30. Recedes (4) 

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SOLUTION 

No.171 

Crossword 

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. 

8 3 12 5 6 19 9 8 6 24 1 19 

6 13 2 6 6 10 

11 6 2 24 6 21 25 10 20 6 24 23 

21 19 25 21 4 5 20 

2 10 18 12 5 19 7 19 12 24 25 

P 

L 

25 14 11 7 6 7 

16 12 24 1 6 10 10 25 2 24 12 7 

2 9 2 9 9 1 

9 19 8 6 10 6 8 7 12 9 5 

17 7 3 19 25 10 12 

19 10 19 13 2 19 17 11 15 19 10 8 

8 25 24 8 8 12 

25 22 2 26 25 3 12 10 26 9 12 20 

Y 

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 

L 

Y 

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 

P 

SOLUTION 

No.170 

171 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 

Z N J T W S C X K B Q V R 

Y H A M P G E I O D L U F 

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 

21 3 18 11 18 4 13 

6 4 21 13 17 19 13 17 13 

20 10 1 20 26 6 3 

17 11 13 21 2 17 25 23 18 11 22 9 

13 17 4 11 18 15 14 

12 11 3 3 17 11 26 13 17 13 15 25 

14 5 11 14 12 14 

Across: 1. Ardour, 5. Desist, 

10. Alludes, 11. Chimney, 

12. Leaves, 15. Petite, 16. 

Snuggle, 17. Teen, 18. Leaf, 

19. Lattice, 20. Aged, 22. 

Ibis, 25. Letters, 27. Trader, 

28. Detain, 31. Naivety, 32. 

Barrier, 33. Meddle, 34. 

Suture. 

Down: 2. Release, 3. 

Oodles, 4. Risk, 5. Dice, 6. 

Soirée, 7. Sunrise, 8. Ballot, 

9. Myself, 13. Sneaker, 14. 

Agitate, 15. Placard, 20. 

Attend, 21. Examine, 23. 

Brazier, 24. Sundry, 25. 

Legend, 26. Secret, 29. 

Tyke, 30. Ebbs. 

WordBuilder 

deer, den, edge, edger, end, 

ere, erg, erne, gee, geed, 

gen, GENDER, gene, genre, 

greed, green, need, nerd, 

red, reed, reg, rend. 

Sudoku 

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