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Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 9 CHRISTCHURCH CREMATORIUM FUNERALS CROSSWORD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 283 SUDOKU Every row, column and box should contain the digits 1 to 9. WordBuilder WORDBUILDER 183 6 Y S E P L E 11 12 13 14 15 <strong>16</strong> 17 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 <strong>16</strong> Very Good 19 Excellent 23 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 182: aft, atom, fat, FATHOM, foam, haft, ham, hat, hot, mat, math, moa, moat, mot, moth, word. oaf, oat, oath, oft, ohm, tam, tom. Good <strong>16</strong> Very Good 19 Excellent 23 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Across 1. Prisoner (7) 5. Falter (7) 9. Breathes heavily (5) 10. Watered (9) 11. Improving in health (2,3,4) 12. Stadium (5) 13. Nose (colloq) (5) 15. Profession of belief (9) 18. Tumultuous (9) 19. Carry out (5) 21. Prank or silly act (5) 23. Discard (4,5) 25. Express disapproval of (9) 26. Measuring device (5) 27. Large area (7) 28. Realm (7) Decoder Down 1. Plentiful (7) 2. Red wine (5,4) 3. Matter (5) 4. Focal point of earthquake (9) 5. Tear into small pieces (5) 6. Make worse (9) 7. Without shine (5) 8. Glowing (7) 14. Baton (9) <strong>16</strong>. As it were (2,2,5) 17. Gaunt (9) 18. Nonsense (7) 20. Idea (7) 22. Refill (3-2) 23. Stop (5) 24. Paperwork (colloq) (5) K B Q G F D C W H L E P I 14 15 <strong>16</strong> 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 T M A N V J X Y S U R O Z 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 N U 14 15 <strong>16</strong> 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 R All puzzles copyright T H E P U Z Z L E C O M P A N Y www.thepuzzlecompany.co.nz SOLUTION No.183 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 the out which letters letters you have are represented found, cross by them other off the numbers. alphabet provided. 1 21 21 9 15 19 12 20 22 11 24 25 11 24 2 26 24 11 10 3 3 3 4 5 3 25 3 23 3 5 24 11 13 23 12 1 8 24 24 24 24 1 12 24 3 11 4 1 22 12 4 17 4 9 15 10 24 23 6 <strong>16</strong> 10 26 1 24 1 3 23 20 24 2 20 24 4 23 M 9 2 26 11 14 18 12 7 22 12 23 24 I 1 1 11 23 10 23 11 T 9 10 11 4 3 2 24 19 8 26 4 17 24 2 21 24 4 8 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 M 14 15 <strong>16</strong> 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 I SOLUTION No.182 183 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 O Z P U V N W K A J C Y G T L R S Q H B I F D M E X 14 15 <strong>16</strong> 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 24 20 24 24 24 20 12 11 8 8 10 21 12 1 26 20 13 8 <strong>16</strong> 15 23 21 11 26 2 12 12 7 17 10 1 20 24 5 R 7 2 10 14 8 5 8 U 5 8 3 7 11 20 14 8 22 8 8 26 25 24 1 11 21 8 17 7 12 25 21 N <strong>16</strong> 8 2 11 12 19 Crossword Across: 1. Captive, 5. Stammer, 9. Pants, 10. Irrigated, 11. On the mend, 12. Arena, 13. Snout, 15. Testament, 18. Turbulent, 19. Enact, 21. Antic, 23. Cast aside, 25. Deprecate, 26. Meter, 27. Expanse, 28. Kingdom. Down: 1. Copious, 2. Pinot noir, 3. Issue, 4. Epicentre, 5. Shred, 6. Aggravate, 7. Matte, 8. Radiant, 14. Truncheon, <strong>16</strong>. So to speak, 17. Emaciated, 18. Twaddle, 20. Theorem, 22. Top-up, 23. Cease, 24. Admin. WordBuilder eel, eels, else, espy, eye, eyes, lee, lees, ley, leys, lye, lyes, pee, peel, peels, pees, ply, see, seep, sleep, SLEEPY, sly, spy, yelp, yelps, yes. Sudoku 26 20 12 18 6 7 20 4 24 1 20 <strong>16</strong> 23 5 12 26 8 8 26 20 5 2 10 1 20 1 7 15 8 24 17 24 25 9 3 CHRISTCHURCH CREMATORIUM FUNERALS