Nor'West News: March 14, 2024
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Thursday <strong>March</strong> <strong>14</strong> <strong>2024</strong> 11<br />
CROSSWORD<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7<br />
8<br />
9 10<br />
339<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Every row, column and box should<br />
contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
WORDBUILDER<br />
239<br />
6<br />
T E N<br />
I C H<br />
11 12<br />
13 <strong>14</strong> 15<br />
16 17 18 19<br />
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 />
allowed. There's at least one six-letter word.<br />
once?<br />
TODAY<br />
Good 20 Very Good 25 Excellent 30<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 238: DEFORM, demo, doe, doer, dome,<br />
dorm, fed, foe, for, ford, fore, form, FORMED, fro,<br />
word. from, mod, mode, more, ode, ore, red, redo, ref,<br />
rod, rode, roe.<br />
Good 20 Very Good 25 Excellent 30<br />
20<br />
21 22 23<br />
24 25<br />
26 27<br />
Across<br />
1. Persistently annoy (6)<br />
4. Entry (6)<br />
9. Foreshadow (4)<br />
10. Comforting (10)<br />
11. Tawdry or tasteless (6)<br />
12. Noise (8)<br />
13. Famed (4-5)<br />
15. Fossil fuel (4)<br />
16. Particle (4)<br />
17. Sickened (9)<br />
21. Too young (8)<br />
22. Claim (6)<br />
24. Put in a trance (10)<br />
25. Lump of earth (4)<br />
26. Abandon (6)<br />
27. Pickled flower buds (6)<br />
Down<br />
1. Supply (7)<br />
2. Searches (5)<br />
3. Made of clay (7)<br />
5. Informal (6)<br />
6. Shocking (9)<br />
7. Sultry (7)<br />
8. BSE (3,3,7)<br />
<strong>14</strong>. Unfinished business (5,4)<br />
16. Irritated (7)<br />
18. Female relative (7)<br />
19. Absorb all attention (7)<br />
20. Trade (6)<br />
23. Money (5)<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 1. Pester, 4.<br />
Access, 9. Bode, 10.<br />
Reassuring, 11. Kitsch, 12.<br />
Clangour, 13. Well-known,<br />
15. Coal, 16. Atom, 17.<br />
Disgusted, 21. Underage,<br />
22. Allege, 24. Hypnotised,<br />
25. Clod, 26. Desert, 27.<br />
Capers.<br />
Down: 1. Provide, 2. Seeks,<br />
3. Earthen, 5. Casual, 6.<br />
Egregious, 7. Sensual, 8.<br />
Mad cow disease, <strong>14</strong>. Loose<br />
ends, 16. Annoyed, 18.<br />
Grandma, 19. Engross, 20.<br />
Barter, 23. Lucre.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
Cent, chi, chin, chine, cite,<br />
echt, etch, ethic, ETHNIC,<br />
hen, hie, hint, hit, ice, inch,<br />
itch, net, nice, niche, nit, nth,<br />
tec, tech, ten, tench, the,<br />
then, thin, thine, tic, tie, tin,<br />
tine<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 />
Decoder<br />
Sudoku<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