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10<br />

Thursday <strong>November</strong> <strong>23</strong> 20<strong>23</strong><br />

CROSSWORD<br />

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8<br />

9 10<br />

3<strong>23</strong><br />

SUDOKU<br />

Every row, column and box should<br />

contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />

WordBuilder<br />

WORDBUILDER<br />

2<strong>23</strong><br />

6<br />

T O E<br />

N T R<br />

11 12<br />

13 14 15 16 17<br />

18 19 20<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 19 Very Good <strong>23</strong> Excellent 27<br />

Solution 222: age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, erg, gar,<br />

gat, gate, gear, get, grate, great, rag, rage, rat, rate, ret,<br />

word. tag, tar, tare, TARGET, tart, tat, tater, tea, tear, teat, teg,<br />

tetra, treat.<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 19 Very Good <strong>23</strong> Excellent 27<br />

21 22 <strong>23</strong> 24<br />

25 26<br />

27 28<br />

Across<br />

1. Authorise (7)<br />

5. Pacify (7)<br />

9. Longs for (5)<br />

10. Incubation period (9)<br />

11. Clear of blame (9)<br />

12. Morsel (5)<br />

13. Move (5)<br />

15. A delicate situation (2,4,3)<br />

18. Head of state (9)<br />

19. Slogan (5)<br />

21. Plain or functional (5)<br />

<strong>23</strong>. Change order (9)<br />

25. Fair and decent (9)<br />

26. Assumed name (5)<br />

27. Impaled (7)<br />

28. Spirit, nature (7)<br />

Decoder<br />

Down<br />

1. High-speed train (7)<br />

2. Christmas theatre (9)<br />

3. Refuse (5)<br />

4. Palaver (9)<br />

5. Spread (5)<br />

6. State of lawlessness, chaos (9)<br />

7. French for farewell (5)<br />

8. Confer an honour upon (7)<br />

14. Con artist (9)<br />

16. Conversation between two (Fr)<br />

(4-1-4)<br />

17. Aim (9)<br />

18. Own (7)<br />

20. Supervise (7)<br />

22. Serious (5)<br />

<strong>23</strong>. Fanatical (5)<br />

24. Brings up, nurtures (5)<br />

Crossword<br />

Across: 1. Empower,<br />

5. Placate, 9. Pines, 10.<br />

Gestation, 11. Exonerate,<br />

12. Crumb, 13. Shift, 15.<br />

On thin ice, 18. President,<br />

19. Motto, 21. Stark, <strong>23</strong>.<br />

Rearrange, 25. Equitable,<br />

26. Alias, 27. Speared, 28.<br />

Essence.<br />

Down: 1. Express, 2.<br />

Pantomime, 3. Waste, 4.<br />

Rigmarole, 5. Paste, 6.<br />

Anarchism, 7. Adieu, 8.<br />

Ennoble, 14. Trickster, 16.<br />

Tête-à-tête, 17. Intention,<br />

18. Possess, 20. Oversee,<br />

22. Acute, <strong>23</strong>. Rabid, 24.<br />

Rears.<br />

WordBuilder<br />

eon, net, nor, not, note, one,<br />

ore, otter, rent, ret, roe, rot,<br />

rote, ROTTEN, ten, tenor,<br />

tent, tern, toe, ton, tone, toner,<br />

tor, tore, torn, tort, torte,<br />

tot, tote, trot<br />

Sudoku<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 />

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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