Southern View: March 02, 2023

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Thursday March 2 2023
CHRISTCHURCH
CREMATORIUM
FUNERALS
CROSSWORD
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7 8 9
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18
285
SUDOKU
Every row, column and box should
contain the digits 1 to 9.
WordBuilder
WORDBUILDER
185
6
R A L
I E A
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
from allowed. the There's six letters, at least one using six-letter each word. only
once?
TODAY
Good 20 Very Good 23 Excellent 27
Solution 184: bog, bot, both, bough, BOUGHT, bout,
bug, but, gob, got, gout, gut, hob, hog, hot, hub,
hug, hut, ought, out, thou, thug, tog, tough, tub,
word.
tug, ugh.
letters, including plurals, can you make
No words beginning with a capital are
allowed. There’s at least one six-letter
Good 20 Very Good 23 Excellent 27
19 20 21 22
23 24
25 26
Across
7. Negligent (8)
9. Tall, strong woman (6)
10. Food regime (4)
11. Intimidating (10)
12. Salvage (6)
14. Puerile (8)
15. Stylish and sophisticated (6)
16. Positive aspect (6)
19. False teeth (8)
21. Ditch (6)
23. Rearrange (10)
24. Shut forcefully (4)
25. Group of fish (6)
26. Baker’s dozen (8)
Decoder
Down
1. Severe food shortage (6)
2. Despatched (4)
3. Altruistic (8)
4. Large introduced deer (6)
5. Over an extended area (3,3,4)
6. Come together (8)
8. Stringent (6)
13. Talkative person (10)
15. Mercy (8)
17. Pitiable (8)
18. Casual top (1-5)
20. Actually (6)
22. Red wine (6)
24. Location (4)
Z T B W C X G E R O V P H
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D S K J Y U N I L A M F Q
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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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E T
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SOLUTION
No.185
20 25 6 10 3 7 1 1 11 1 3 24
Crossword
Across: 7. Careless, 9.
Amazon, 10. Diet, 11.
Formidable, 12. Rescue,
14. Childish, 15. Classy, 16.
Upside, 19. Dentures, 21.
Trench, 23. Reorganise,
24. Slam, 25. School, 26.
Thirteen.
Down: 1. Famine, 2. Sent,
3. Selfless, 4. Wapiti, 5. Far
and wide, 6. Coalesce, 8.
Strict, 13. Chatterbox, 15.
Clemency, 17. Pathetic,
18. T-shirt, 20. Really, 22.
Claret, 24. Site.
WordBuilder
AERIAL, ail, air, ala, alar,
ale, are, area, areal, aria,
aril, ear, earl, era, ira, ire,
lair, lea, lei, liar, lie, lira, lire,
rail, rale, real, REALIA, rial,
riel, rile.
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 letters main 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.
4 10 18 13 6 10 22 1 10 24
23 9 22 21 18 23 16 22 10
C O B
17 26 8 15 21 17 10 2 26 26 6
9 11 10 9 10 23 17 9
5 21 10 22 2 15 6 25 23 22 15
15 16 5 15 21
25 23 21 15 8 18 5 21 9 25 21 1
21 2 12 22 10
22 2 10 18 22 21 1 2 18 10 16
2 8 7 6 11 2 3 9
25 10 8 7 10 11 23 22 10 15 10
21 20 22 21 15 9 22 20 14
19 21 10 21 2 15 26 21 15 21
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.184
185
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
B C
O
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T A B X N Q U E W P L S F
Z D C M K V I Y J G O H R
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
12 1 21 23 1 7 1 16 2 3
26 3 3 10 21 3
6 21 13 19 1 6 2 6 21 3 9 21
G E T
4 2 13 18 10 21
14 6 21 5 26 8 26 12 11 14
2 7 6 19 14 10 26
1 21 13 12 26 1 2 6 10 19 12 1
12 26 10 21 25 12
CHRISTCHURCH
25 6 23 10 1 14 21
CREMATORIUM
FUNERALS
20 26 2 4 21 3 21 12 14 2 26 2
7 17 1 4 10 10