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<strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Wednesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>14</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
20<br />
PUZZLES<br />
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7<br />
8 9<br />
10 11<br />
12 13 <strong>14</strong><br />
15 16 17<br />
18 19 20<br />
21 22<br />
23 24<br />
16/2<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Across<br />
1. Is not well, yet could have fun with sex<br />
appeal (5)<br />
4. Stretch forth and send it out to start dinner<br />
(7)<br />
8. German woman started deliberate<br />
deception (5)<br />
9. A smile’s crooked, there being no point<br />
to it (7)<br />
10. A strike-breaker would rather do without<br />
a female (3)<br />
11. It draws out car, or text written about it (9)<br />
12. Destroys the objects aimed at (4)<br />
13. Lean upon a bath that’s been put back<br />
(4)<br />
18. To torment one with a talent is a different<br />
form of it (9)<br />
20. A whole lot of animals allowed back into<br />
the boozer (3)<br />
21. Pass night in open air and turn Vic about<br />
endlessly (7)<br />
22. Give one a turn with an artist in the<br />
market-place (5)<br />
23. Signs on the street in waving lines (7)<br />
24. Is prepared to study at the beginning of<br />
the year (5)<br />
Down<br />
1. It is always with one, fortune, let bag go as<br />
it may (13)<br />
2. Ate largely of fat, seed being distributed (7)<br />
3. In getting knotted, I’d made it neat (6)<br />
4. Money orders may be fat among medical<br />
people (6)<br />
5. Weller would harshly review craft in China<br />
(6)<br />
6. In preference choose to pick top off (5)<br />
7. Unrestricted credit in a rosy arrangement<br />
(13)<br />
<strong>14</strong>. Rocket-launcher showing A-Z in a 19<br />
coming to a finish (7)<br />
15. Thinks a lot of us having minced veal (6)<br />
16. Odd bits and chessmen, perhaps (6)<br />
17. Betake oneself to it to mend it (6)<br />
19. A book for Christmas, when about five (5)<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Fill the grid so that every column, every row and 3x3<br />
box contains the digits 1 to 9.<br />
QUICK CROSSWORD<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7<br />
8<br />
9 10<br />
11 12 13<br />
<strong>14</strong> 15 16<br />
17 18<br />
19 20 21<br />
22 23 24<br />
25<br />
26 27<br />
Across<br />
1. Chase after (6)<br />
5. Conclusion (6)<br />
8. Repair (3)<br />
9. Faith (6)<br />
10. Loving touch (6)<br />
11. Larva (4)<br />
13. Believable (8)<br />
<strong>14</strong>. Send out buds (5)<br />
15. Type of coffee (5)<br />
19. Banner words (8)<br />
21. Ancient form of<br />
exercise (4)<br />
22. Counsel (6)<br />
23. Part of the foot (6)<br />
25. Pole (3)<br />
26. Avaricious (6)<br />
27. Symbol (6)<br />
Down<br />
2. Dig up (7)<br />
3. Device for snow travel<br />
(3)<br />
4. Consequence (6)<br />
5. Go beyond (6)<br />
6. Sleeping room (9)<br />
7. Relating to the nose (5)<br />
12. Fierce verbal attack<br />
(9)<br />
16. Cleanliness (7)<br />
17. Extreme unhappiness<br />
(6)<br />
18. Make up your mind<br />
(6)<br />
20. Church official (5)<br />
24. Weep convulsively (3)<br />
CODECRACKER<br />
QUICK CROSSWORD<br />
Across: 1. Pursue, 5. Ending, 8. Fix, 9. Belief, 10. Caress, 11. Grub, 13.<br />
Credible, <strong>14</strong>. Shoot, 15. Mocha, 19. Headline, 21. Yoga, 22. Advice, 23.<br />
Instep, 25. Rod, 26. Greedy, 27. Emblem.<br />
Down: 2. Unearth, 3. Ski, 4. Effect, 5. Exceed, 6. Dormitory, 7. Nasal, 12.<br />
Broadside, 16. Hygiene, 17. Misery, 18. Decide, 20. Elder, 24. Sob.<br />
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD<br />
Across: 1. Unfit 4. Distend 8. Fraud 9. Aimless 10. Rat 11. Extractor 12.<br />
Ends 13. Abut 18. Tantalise 20. Zoo 21. Bivouac 22. Agora 23 Enlists 24.<br />
Ready.<br />
Down: 1. Unforgettable 2. Feasted 3. Tidied 4. Drafts 5. Sampan 6. Elect<br />
7. Discretionary <strong>14</strong>. Bazooka 15. Values 16. Pieces 17. Repair 19. Novel.<br />
TARGET<br />
cere crest cruet cruse crust<br />
cues cure curer cures curse<br />
curser curt curter cute cuter<br />
cuts ecru erect erects recur<br />
recurs recuse rescue rescuer<br />
resect RESURRECT scree<br />
scut scute secret sect secure<br />
securer sucre terce truce<br />
MEDIUM HARD<br />
EASY<br />
TARGET<br />
E E U<br />
R C T<br />
S R R<br />
Good 17<br />
Very Good 24<br />
Excellent 31+<br />
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ending in s unless the word is also a verb, e.g.<br />
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