Nor'West News: February 29, 2024
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10<br />
Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>29</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
CROSSWORD<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8<br />
9<br />
10 11<br />
337<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Every row, column and box should<br />
contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
WORDBUILDER<br />
237<br />
6<br />
T M R<br />
E P I<br />
12 13<br />
14 15 16 17 18<br />
many words of three or more letters,<br />
How<br />
including<br />
many<br />
plurals,<br />
words<br />
can you<br />
of<br />
make<br />
three<br />
from<br />
or<br />
the<br />
more<br />
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 24 Very Good 30 Excellent 37<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 />
Solution 236: fag, far, flag, flu, frag, frug, FRUGAL,<br />
fug, fugal, fur, furl, gal, gar, gaur, guar, gulf, lag, lug,<br />
word. rag, rug.<br />
Good 24 Very Good 30 Excellent 37<br />
19 20 21<br />
22 23 24 25 26<br />
27 28<br />
<strong>29</strong><br />
Across<br />
1. By the shortest and most direct<br />
route (2,3,4,5)<br />
10. Protective garment (5)<br />
11. Appear again (9)<br />
12. Stress (7)<br />
13. Drastic reorganisation (5-2)<br />
14. School group (5)<br />
16. Climax (9)<br />
19. Go right ahead (2,2,5)<br />
20. Annotations (5)<br />
22. Hard worker (colloq) (7)<br />
25. Organise (7)<br />
27. Wash kit (6,3)<br />
28. Measure of liquid (5)<br />
<strong>29</strong>. Formal close to a letter (5,9)<br />
Decoder<br />
Down<br />
2. Bully (6-3)<br />
3. Capital of Vietnam (5)<br />
4. Account (9)<br />
5. Calm spot (5)<br />
6. Arrangement of people or things<br />
(9)<br />
7. Hopping mad (5)<br />
8. Spire (7)<br />
9. Of milk (6)<br />
15. Blind (9)<br />
17. Sluggish (9)<br />
18. Before birth (9)<br />
19. Discrimination (7)<br />
21. Metal pin (6)<br />
23. Farewell (Fr) (5)<br />
24. Jewish scholar or teacher (5)<br />
26. Sovereign (5)<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 1. As the crow flies,<br />
10. Apron, 11. Resurface,<br />
12. Tension, 13. Shake-up,<br />
14. Class, 16. Culminate,<br />
19. Be my guest, 20. Notes,<br />
22. Grafter, 25. Arrange,<br />
27. Toilet bag, 28. Litre, <strong>29</strong>.<br />
Yours sincerely.<br />
Down: 2. Strong-arm, 3.<br />
Hanoi, 4. Chronicle, 5.<br />
Oasis, 6. Formation, 7.<br />
Irate, 8. Steeple, 9. Lactic,<br />
15. Sightless, 17. Lethargic,<br />
18. Antenatal, 19. Bigotry,<br />
21. Skewer, 23. Adieu, 24.<br />
Rabbi, 26. Ruler.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
emir, emit, imp, ire, item,<br />
merit, met, mire, mite,<br />
mitre, per, pet, peri, perm,<br />
PERMIT, pert, pie, pier, pit,<br />
prim, prime, remit, rep, ret,<br />
rim, rime, rip, ripe, rite, temp,<br />
tempi, term, tie, tier, time,<br />
timer, tip, tire, trim, trip, tripe<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