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Thursday <strong>September</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2023</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 />

315<br />

SUDOKU<br />

Every row, column and box should<br />

contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />

WordBuilder<br />

WORDBUILDER6<br />

215<br />

E H M<br />

O Y L<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 />

allowed. There's at least one six-letter word.<br />

once?<br />

TODAY<br />

Good 12 Very Good 15 Excellent 19<br />

Solution 214: let, lev, lore, lot, love, lover, ore, ort,<br />

over, overt, ret, rev, REVOLT, roe, role, rot, rote, rove,<br />

word. toe, tole, tor, tore, trove, vert, vet, veto, vole, volt,<br />

vote, voter.<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 />

Good 8 Very Good 12 Excellent 17<br />

19 20 21 22<br />

23 24<br />

25 26<br />

Across<br />

7. Benevolent (8)<br />

9. Savage (6)<br />

10. Clue (4)<br />

11. Peach or plum (5,5)<br />

12. Forcefully request (6)<br />

14. Magnificent (8)<br />

15. Neighbourhood (6)<br />

16. Make great efforts (6)<br />

19. Appear like (8)<br />

21. Strongly against (6)<br />

23. Give new life or vigour to (10)<br />

24. Drench (4)<br />

25. Prickly plant (6)<br />

26. Prudent (8)<br />

Down<br />

1. Come to a conclusion (6)<br />

2. Cried (4)<br />

3. Think carefully (8)<br />

4. Descend by rope (6)<br />

5. Enforced isolation (10)<br />

6. Cleanse, purify (8)<br />

8. Companion (6)<br />

13. Shorten (10)<br />

15. Painfully thin (8)<br />

17. Travel across or over (8)<br />

18. To the rear (6)<br />

20. Tastelessly showy or loud (6)<br />

22. Frightened (6)<br />

24. Certain (4)<br />

Crossword<br />

Across: 7. Generous, 9.<br />

Brutal, 10. Hint, 11. Stone<br />

fruit, 12. Demand, 14.<br />

Splendid, 15. Suburb, 16.<br />

Strive, 19. Resemble, 21.<br />

Averse, 23. Revitalise,<br />

24. Soak, 25. Cactus, 26.<br />

Discreet.<br />

Down: 1. Decide, 2. Wept,<br />

3. Consider, 4. Abseil, 5.<br />

Quarantine, 6. Sanitise, 8.<br />

Spouse, 13. Abbreviate,<br />

15. Skeletal, 17. Traverse,<br />

18. Behind, 20. Brassy, 22.<br />

Scared, 24. Sure.<br />

WordBuilder<br />

elm, elmy, helm, hem, hey,<br />

hoe, hole, holey, holm, holy,<br />

home, HOMELY, homey,<br />

homy, hoy, ley, lye, mole,<br />

moly, ohm, ylem<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 />

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T H E P U Z Z L E C O M P A N Y<br />

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