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10<br />
Thursday <strong>October</strong> <strong>26</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
CROSSWORD<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7<br />
8<br />
9 10<br />
319<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Every row, column and box should<br />
contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
WORDBUILDER<br />
219<br />
6<br />
P L P<br />
O E R<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 />
allowed. There's at least one six-letter word.<br />
once?<br />
TODAY<br />
Good 11 Very Good 14 Excellent 18<br />
Solution 218: emir, eon, ion, ire, iron, men, MERINO,<br />
mien, min, mine, miner, minor, mire, moire, more,<br />
morn, nim, nor, norm, omen, one, ore, rein, rim, rime,<br />
word.<br />
roe.<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 />
20<br />
21 22 23<br />
24 25<br />
<strong>26</strong> 27<br />
Across<br />
1. Worn away (6)<br />
4. Documents (6)<br />
9. Lawsuit (4)<br />
10. To begin with (10)<br />
11. Hindu festival of light (6)<br />
12. Perpendicular (8)<br />
13. Soldier of fortune (9)<br />
15. Stare (4)<br />
16. Bacteria (4)<br />
17. Caretaker (Fr) (9)<br />
21. Glade (8)<br />
22. Gently mocked (6)<br />
24. Tough luck (colloq) (4,6)<br />
25. Partly open (4)<br />
<strong>26</strong>. Move about violently (6)<br />
27. Boil with anger (6)<br />
Down<br />
1. Shifty (7)<br />
2. Musical drama (5)<br />
3. Feeling (7)<br />
5. Place where bees are kept (6)<br />
6. Wipe out (9)<br />
7. Fabric edge (7)<br />
8. Persuasive (6-7)<br />
14. Divisive culinary herb (9)<br />
16. Chivalrous (7)<br />
18. Road marker (4,3)<br />
19. Hand explosive (7)<br />
20. Wealth (6)<br />
23. Separate (5)<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 1. Eroded, 4.<br />
Papers, 9. Case, 10.<br />
Originally, 11. Diwali, 12.<br />
Vertical, 13. Mercenary,<br />
15. Gaze, 16. Germ, 17.<br />
Concierge, 21. Clearing, 22.<br />
Teased, 24. Hard cheese,<br />
25. Ajar, <strong>26</strong>. Thresh, 27.<br />
Seethe.<br />
Down: 1. Evasive, 2. Opera,<br />
3. Emotion, 5. Apiary, 6.<br />
Eradicate, 7. Selvage,<br />
8. Silver-tongued, 14.<br />
Coriander, 16. Gallant, 18.<br />
Cat’s eye, 19. Grenade, 20.<br />
Riches, 23. Apart.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
lop, lope, LOPPER, lore,<br />
ore, pep, per, plop, pole,<br />
pop, pope, pore, prep, pro,<br />
prop, PROPEL, rep, roe,<br />
role, rope<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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