Southern View: December 08, 2022

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Thursday December 8 2022
CHRISTCHURCH
CREMATORIUM
FUNERALS
CROSSWORD
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10
273
SUDOKU
Every row, column and box should
contain the digits 1 to 9.
WordBuilder
WORDBUILDER
173
6
B L O
E G T
11 12
13 14 15 16 17
words of three or more letters,
How many words of three or more
including plurals, can you make from the 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 20 Very Good 25 Excellent 29
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 172: issue, its, set, sets, sis, sit, site, sites,
sits, sties, sue, sues, suet, suit, suite, SUITES, suits,
word. sus, tie, ties, TISSUE, use, uses.
Good 20 Very Good 25 Excellent 29
18 19 20
21 22 23 24
25 26
27 28
Across
1. Indecent (7)
5. Collusion (7)
9. Customs and conventions (5)
10. Reproduce (9)
11. Foolish (9)
12. Overweight (5)
13. Unemotional (5)
15. To begin with (9)
18. Sanitise (9)
19. Fabled author (5)
21. Japanese dish (5)
23. Cede (9)
25. Say again (9)
26. Giant (5)
27. Genuine (7)
28. Instructor (7)
Decoder
Down
1. Absorption of ideas, knowledge
(7)
2. Gruelling (9)
3. Result from (5)
4. Curse (9)
5. Annoyed (5)
6. Mouth organ (9)
7. Talk pompously (5)
8. Landscape (7)
14. Insect (9)
16. Impede (9)
17. Final desperate attempt (4-5)
18. Abandons (7)
20. Associate (7)
22. Descendant (5)
23. Garden tool (5)
24. Additional (5)
B L U N P E Q T Y V X F A
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G H Z C O W I D S K M J R
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
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
E L
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
I
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SOLUTION
No.173
1 18 18 20 18 19 16 4 18 20 1
Crossword
Across: 1. Obscene, 5.
Cahoots, 9. Mores, 10.
Procreate, 11. Senseless,
12. Obese, 13. Stoic, 15.
Initially, 18. Disinfect, 19.
Aesop, 21. Sushi, 23.
Surrender, 25. Reiterate,
26. Titan, 27. Sincere, 28.
Teacher.
Down: 1. Osmosis, 2.
Strenuous, 3. Ensue, 4.
Expletive, 5. Cross, 6.
Harmonica, 7. Orate, 8.
Scenery, 14. Centipede, 16.
Intercept, 17. Last-ditch, 18.
Deserts, 20. Partner, 22.
Scion, 23. Spade, 24. Extra.
WordBuilder
beg, begot, bel, belt, bet,
blog, blot, bog, bogle, bole,
bolt, bot, ego, gel, gelt, get,
glob, globe, gob, GOBLET,
got, leg, let, lob, lobe, log,
loge, lot, ogle, teg, toe, tog.
Sudoku
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.
11 14 14 8 2 25
7 17 15 26 22 26 6 19 9 5 11 19
17 26 6 21 11 26 21
17 7 13 23 26 17 26 15 22 11 18 2
5 17 22 5 22 7
6 2 19 21 19 12 19 4 21 4
22 25 19 10 20
26 3 15 5 21 22 14 16 13 18
15 26 19 8 7 26
7 17 8 19 24 26 18 13 7 4 5 21
14 16 7 15 7 10 4
7 9 15 26 17 8 9 25 15 19 9 2
A N D
21 1 5 21 17 22
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
D
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
N
A
SOLUTION
No.172
173
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
X H T O Z V J P Y W E N A
D M K L U G B C F Q R I S
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
17 1 26 10 11
18 20 20 22 1 24 12 14 1 26 21 4
1 26 24 11 17
11 19 21 8 20 11 12 19 22 17 21
L
17 2 8 15 24 25 20
I
1 24 6 21 12 22 1 24 8 1 23 16
25 12 22 1 18 25 20 18 10 19 10
E
13 18 17 26 12 19
CHRISTCHURCH
20 12 22 21 21 22 26
CREMATORIUM
FUNERALS
11 4 26 7 8 12 21 17 1 26 24 12
14 20 1 6 6 18