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44 <strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Wednesday <strong>August</strong> <strong>23</strong> 20<strong>23</strong><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 />
305<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Every row, column and box should<br />
contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
WORDBUILDER<br />
205<br />
6<br />
U P G<br />
L A E<br />
many words of three or more letters,<br />
How<br />
including<br />
many<br />
plurals,<br />
words<br />
can you<br />
of<br />
make<br />
three<br />
from<br />
or<br />
the<br />
more<br />
six<br />
letters, using each letter only once? No foreign<br />
words or words beginning with a capital are<br />
allowed. There's at least one six-letter word.<br />
once?<br />
TODAY<br />
Good 18 Very Good <strong>23</strong> Excellent 28<br />
letters, including plurals, can you make<br />
from the six letters, using each only<br />
No words beginning with a capital are<br />
allowed. There’s at least one six-letter<br />
Solution 204: gen, GENIUS, gens, genus, gin, gins,<br />
gnu, gnus, guise, gun, guns, sen, sign, sin, sine, sing,<br />
word. single, snug, sue, suing, sun, sung, use, using.<br />
Good 12 Very Good 19 Excellent 26<br />
19 20 21 22<br />
<strong>23</strong> 24<br />
25 26<br />
Across<br />
7. Unidentified (8)<br />
9. Achieve (6)<br />
10. Shade (4)<br />
11. Dilute (10)<br />
12. Seasoned sausage (6)<br />
14. Afflicted (8)<br />
15. Spade (6)<br />
16. Braids (6)<br />
19. Adversary (8)<br />
21. A score (6)<br />
<strong>23</strong>. Billet doux (4,6)<br />
24. Singe (4)<br />
25. Former name of Beijing (6)<br />
26. Baptise (8)<br />
Down<br />
1. Boat dock (6)<br />
2. Joke (4)<br />
3. Family member (8)<br />
4. Jailer (6)<br />
5. Good looking (10)<br />
6. Mental suffering (8)<br />
8. Flatten (6)<br />
13. Sorry (10)<br />
15. Presumed (8)<br />
17. Of or relating to books (8)<br />
18. Inactive (6)<br />
20. Appear (6)<br />
22. Journey (6)<br />
24. Middling (2-2)<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 7. Nameless,<br />
9. Attain, 10. Tint, 11.<br />
Adulterate, 12. Salami, 14.<br />
Stricken, 15. Shovel, 16.<br />
Plaits, 19. Opponent, 21.<br />
Twenty, <strong>23</strong>. Love letter,<br />
24. Sear, 25. Peking, 26.<br />
Christen.<br />
Down: 1. Marina, 2. Jest,<br />
3. Relative, 4. Captor, 5.<br />
Attractive, 6. Distress, 8.<br />
Squash, 13. Apologetic,<br />
15. Supposed, 17. Literary,<br />
18. Static, 20. Emerge, 22.<br />
Travel, 24. So-so.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
age, ague, ale, alp, ape, gal,<br />
gale, gap, gape, gel, glue,<br />
gulp, lag, lap, lea, leap, leg,<br />
leu, luge, page, pal, pale,<br />
pea, peal, peg, PLAGUE,<br />
plea, plug, pug, pul, pule<br />
DECODER<br />
Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the<br />
given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out<br />
which letters are represented by the other numbers.<br />
Decoder<br />
Sudoku<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
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