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12 Thursday <strong>March</strong> 2 2<strong>02</strong>3<br />
CHRISTCHURCH<br />
CREMATORIUM<br />
FUNERALS<br />
CROSSWORD<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6<br />
7 8 9<br />
10 11<br />
12 13 14<br />
15 16 17<br />
18<br />
285<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Every row, column and box should<br />
contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
WORDBUILDER<br />
185<br />
6<br />
R A L<br />
I E A<br />
How many words of three or more letters,<br />
How including many plurals, words can you of make three from or the more six<br />
letters, using each letter only once? No foreign<br />
words or words beginning with a capital are<br />
from allowed. the There's six letters, at least one using six-letter each word. only<br />
once?<br />
TODAY<br />
Good 20 Very Good 23 Excellent 27<br />
Solution 184: bog, bot, both, bough, BOUGHT, bout,<br />
bug, but, gob, got, gout, gut, hob, hog, hot, hub,<br />
hug, hut, ought, out, thou, thug, tog, tough, tub,<br />
word.<br />
tug, ugh.<br />
letters, including plurals, can you make<br />
No words beginning with a capital are<br />
allowed. There’s at least one six-letter<br />
Good 20 Very Good 23 Excellent 27<br />
19 20 21 22<br />
23 24<br />
25 26<br />
Across<br />
7. Negligent (8)<br />
9. Tall, strong woman (6)<br />
10. Food regime (4)<br />
11. Intimidating (10)<br />
12. Salvage (6)<br />
14. Puerile (8)<br />
15. Stylish and sophisticated (6)<br />
16. Positive aspect (6)<br />
19. False teeth (8)<br />
21. Ditch (6)<br />
23. Rearrange (10)<br />
24. Shut forcefully (4)<br />
25. Group of fish (6)<br />
26. Baker’s dozen (8)<br />
Decoder<br />
Down<br />
1. Severe food shortage (6)<br />
2. Despatched (4)<br />
3. Altruistic (8)<br />
4. Large introduced deer (6)<br />
5. Over an extended area (3,3,4)<br />
6. Come together (8)<br />
8. Stringent (6)<br />
13. Talkative person (10)<br />
15. Mercy (8)<br />
17. Pitiable (8)<br />
18. Casual top (1-5)<br />
20. Actually (6)<br />
22. Red wine (6)<br />
24. Location (4)<br />
Z T B W C X G E R O V P H<br />
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26<br />
D S K J Y U N I L A M F Q<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />
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<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />
E T<br />
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26<br />
G<br />
All puzzles copyright<br />
T H E P U Z Z L E C O M P A N Y<br />
www.thepuzzlecompany.co.nz<br />
SOLUTION<br />
No.185<br />
20 25 6 10 3 7 1 1 11 1 3 24<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 7. Careless, 9.<br />
Amazon, 10. Diet, 11.<br />
Formidable, 12. Rescue,<br />
14. Childish, 15. Classy, 16.<br />
Upside, 19. Dentures, 21.<br />
Trench, 23. Reorganise,<br />
24. Slam, 25. School, 26.<br />
Thirteen.<br />
Down: 1. Famine, 2. Sent,<br />
3. Selfless, 4. Wapiti, 5. Far<br />
and wide, 6. Coalesce, 8.<br />
Strict, 13. Chatterbox, 15.<br />
Clemency, 17. Pathetic,<br />
18. T-shirt, 20. Really, 22.<br />
Claret, 24. Site.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
AERIAL, ail, air, ala, alar,<br />
ale, are, area, areal, aria,<br />
aril, ear, earl, era, ira, ire,<br />
lair, lea, lei, liar, lie, lira, lire,<br />
rail, rale, real, REALIA, rial,<br />
riel, rile.<br />
Sudoku<br />
Each number in our DECODER grid represents a different<br />
letter - there is a number for all 26 letters of the alphabet.<br />
DECODER<br />
Enter the given letters into all squares with matching numbers.<br />
The challenge now is to work out which letters are represented<br />
Each by the number other represents numbers. a As different you get letter the of letters, the alphabet. enter them Write into the<br />
given the letters main grid, into all and squares the reference with matching grid. numbers. To keep Now track work of out the<br />
which letters letters you are have represented found, cross by them other off numbers. the alphabet provided.<br />
4 10 18 13 6 10 22 1 10 24<br />
23 9 22 21 18 23 16 22 10<br />
C O B<br />
17 26 8 15 21 17 10 2 26 26 6<br />
9 11 10 9 10 23 17 9<br />
5 21 10 22 2 15 6 25 23 22 15<br />
15 16 5 15 21<br />
25 23 21 15 8 18 5 21 9 25 21 1<br />
21 2 12 22 10<br />
22 2 10 18 22 21 1 2 18 10 16<br />
2 8 7 6 11 2 3 9<br />
25 10 8 7 10 11 23 22 10 15 10<br />
21 20 22 21 15 9 22 20 14<br />
19 21 10 21 2 15 26 21 15 21<br />
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<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />
SOLUTION<br />
No.184<br />
185<br />
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26<br />
B C<br />
O<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13<br />
T A B X N Q U E W P L S F<br />
Z D C M K V I Y J G O H R<br />
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26<br />
12 1 21 23 1 7 1 16 2 3<br />
26 3 3 10 21 3<br />
6 21 13 19 1 6 2 6 21 3 9 21<br />
G E T<br />
4 2 13 18 10 21<br />
14 6 21 5 26 8 26 12 11 14<br />
2 7 6 19 14 10 26<br />
1 21 13 12 26 1 2 6 10 19 12 1<br />
12 26 10 21 25 12<br />
CHRISTCHURCH<br />
25 6 23 10 1 14 21<br />
CREMATORIUM<br />
FUNERALS<br />
20 26 2 4 21 3 21 12 14 2 26 2<br />
7 17 1 4 10 10