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Wednesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2024</strong> <strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong> CROSSWORD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 8 16 17 18 19 Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz 329 SUDOKU Every row, column and box should contain the digits 1 to 9. PUZZLES 31 WordBuilder WORDBUILDER 229 6 R T O G F E How many words of three or more letters, How including many plurals, words can you of make three from or the more six letters, using each letter only once? No foreign words or words beginning with a capital are allowed. There's at least one six-letter word. once? TODAY Good 22 Very Good 27 Excellent 32 Solution 228: arm, far, farm, faro, flam, flora, foal, foam, for, fora, form, FORMAL, fro, from, lam, loaf, word. loam, mar, marl, moa, molar, moral, oaf, oar, oral, ram, roam. letters, including plurals, can you make from the six letters, using each only No words beginning with a capital are allowed. There’s at least one six-letter Good 22 Very Good 27 Excellent 32 20 <strong>21</strong> 22 23 24 25 26 27 Across 1. Medieval clown (6) 4. Trinket (6) 9. Stun (4) 10. Sentimental film or book (10) 11. Killjoy (colloq) (6) 12. Australian state (8) 13. Attacker (9) 15. Medal (colloq) (4) 16. Highlander (4) 17. Persecuted (9) <strong>21</strong>. Avoid (8) 22. Sunglasses (colloq) (6) 24. Hindrance (10) 25. Genuine (4) 26. Chop (6) 27. Sleazy (6) Down 1. Filled with envy (7) 2. Oozes (5) 3. Spellbind (7) 5. Alter (6) 6. Savage (9) 7. Close of day (7) 8. Seasoning (4,3,6) 14. Amends (9) 16. Of, or produced, by an earthquake (7) 18. Italian rice dish (7) 19. Precious stone (7) 20. Garb (6) 23. Pungent (5) Crossword Across: 1. Jester, 4. Bauble, 9. Daze, 10. Tearjerker, 11. Wowser, 12. Tasmania, 13. Assailant, 15. Gong, 16. Scot, 17. Oppressed, <strong>21</strong>. Sidestep, 22. Shades, 24. Impediment, 25. Real, 26. Cutlet, 27. Sordid. Down: 1. Jealous, 2. Seeps, 3. Enthral, 5. Adjust, 6. Barbarous, 7. Evening, 8. Salt and pepper, 14. Atonement, 16. Seismic, 18. Risotto, 19. Emerald, 20. Attire, 23. Acrid. WordBuilder eft, ego, erg, ergo, ergot, fetor, foe, fog, for, fore, forge, FORGET, fort, forte, fret, fro, frog, get, goer, gofer, gore, got, grot, oft, ogre, ore, ref, reft, ret, roe, rot, rote, teg, toe, tog, tor, tore DECODER Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out which letters are represented by the other numbers. Decoder Sudoku All puzzles copyright T H E P U Z Z L E C O M P A N Y www.thepuzzlecompany.co.nz Charitable Trust DRIVER EDUCATION TO FIND OUT WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY GO TO www.proactivedrive.org.nz