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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

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