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20<br />

Thursday <strong>September</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />

CROSSWORD<br />

1 2 3 4 5 6 7<br />

8<br />

9 10<br />

314<br />

SUDOKU<br />

Every row, column and box should<br />

contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />

WordBuilder<br />

WORDBUILDER<br />

<strong>21</strong>4<br />

6<br />

T E V<br />

L R O<br />

11 12<br />

13 14 15<br />

16 17 18 19<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 24 Excellent 29<br />

Solution <strong>21</strong>3: aeon, anew, ape, awe, awn, eon, nap,<br />

nape, neap, new, nope, now, one, open, owe, own,<br />

word.<br />

pan, pane, paw, pawn, pea, pean, pen, peon, pew,<br />

pone, wan, wane, wean, WEAPON, wen, woe, won.<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 13 Very Good 19 Excellent 25<br />

20<br />

<strong>21</strong> 22 23<br />

24 25<br />

26 27<br />

Across<br />

1. Solution (6)<br />

4. Claw (6)<br />

9. Animal enclosure (4)<br />

10. Unparalleled (10)<br />

11. Quick look (colloq) (6)<br />

12. Adolescent (8)<br />

13. Bordering (9)<br />

15. Eye infection (4)<br />

16. Composed (4)<br />

17. Sign up to (9)<br />

<strong>21</strong>. Earlier (8)<br />

22. Take for granted (6)<br />

24. Unintelligible (10)<br />

25. Expel (4)<br />

26. Expensive (6)<br />

27. Defeated (6)<br />

Down<br />

1. Embarrassed (7)<br />

2. Ledge (5)<br />

3. Version (7)<br />

5. In the same place (L) (6)<br />

6. Person in play, film or book (9)<br />

7. Alleviate (7)<br />

8. Celebrated (13)<br />

14. Unaware (9)<br />

16. Persistent (7)<br />

18. Surprise (7)<br />

19. Perplexed (7)<br />

20. Of the north (6)<br />

23. Yell (5)<br />

Crossword<br />

Across: 1. Answer, 4.<br />

Pincer, 9. Cage, 10.<br />

Inimitable, 11. Shufti, 12.<br />

Teenager, 13. Adjoining,<br />

15. Stye, 16. Calm, 17.<br />

Subscribe, <strong>21</strong>. Previous, 22.<br />

Assume, 24. Incoherent, 25.<br />

Oust, 26. Costly, 27. Bested.<br />

Down: 1. Abashed, 2. Shelf,<br />

3. Edition, 5. Ibidem, 6.<br />

Character, 7. Relieve, 8.<br />

Distinguished, 14. Oblivious,<br />

16. Chronic, 18. Startle, 19.<br />

Bemused, 20. Boreal, 23.<br />

Shout.<br />

WordBuilder<br />

let, lev, lore, lot, love, lover,<br />

ore, ort, over, overt, ret,<br />

rev, REVOLT, roe, role, rot,<br />

rote, rove, toe, tole, tor, tore,<br />

trove, vert, vet, veto, vole,<br />

volt, vote, voter<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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