Bay Harbour: March 20, 2024
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<strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Wednesday <strong>March</strong> <strong>20</strong> <strong>20</strong>24<br />
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PUZZLES<br />
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD<br />
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Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Across<br />
1. A mud-filled hollow near Windsor (6)<br />
4. Got over an adaptation by two gentlemen<br />
from here (6)<br />
9. Give one new upholstery and one will get<br />
better (7)<br />
10. Sort of caper one can’t cut (5)<br />
11. Wickedness is broadcast as it happens,<br />
but in reverse (4)<br />
12. A case for sewers in domestic science<br />
tuition (4)<br />
13. A person, indefinite, but of unit number (3)<br />
15. First schoolmaster to make searching<br />
questions is nimble (4)<br />
16. It is a stretch of water, just that and<br />
nothing more (4)<br />
19. Furrow starts running under track (3)<br />
21. Form of acne schoolboys used to suffer<br />
from (4)<br />
22. A periodical one followed for the giftbearers<br />
(4)<br />
24. Makes me lie about a resin that’s fragrant<br />
(5)<br />
25. That lady is in the church to nurture one (7)<br />
26. The kind an editor categorised (6)<br />
27. Empty spaces are not live rounds (6)<br />
Down<br />
1. Four make up a crossroads in town (6,7)<br />
2. His cord is fashioned into ladies’ slippers<br />
(7)<br />
3. Yielded in a vague, non-u way (4)<br />
5. Studied how pit was in for being axed<br />
somehow (8)<br />
6. Go one better than the Joneses with a<br />
party al fresco (5)<br />
7. Old property’s right to have rush-candles?<br />
(7,6)<br />
8. Otherwise react to the box (5)<br />
14. Rehearsal for a professional person’s<br />
business (8)<br />
17. No one to save up for the dodging of it (7)<br />
18. Tins put up by kitchen’s first light meal (5)<br />
<strong>20</strong>. It is not our turn to give it her (5)<br />
23. It is fit to be an oil supplier (4)<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 />
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7<br />
8 9<br />
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Across<br />
1. Siren (5)<br />
4. Noisy insect (6)<br />
7. Fuss (3)<br />
8. Load (6)<br />
9. Subtle difference (6)<br />
10. Thin lining (8)<br />
12. Limp and straggly (4)<br />
13. Pandemonium (6)<br />
15. Soldier’s steel helmet<br />
(inf) (3,3)<br />
16. Remain (4)<br />
17. Germs (8)<br />
19. Exit (3,3)<br />
<strong>20</strong>. Overfamiliar, outdated<br />
(3-3)<br />
22. Go wrong (3)<br />
23. Performer on ice (6)<br />
24. Bird of prey (5)<br />
Down<br />
1. Funfair (9,4)<br />
2. Assist (3)<br />
3. Craze (5)<br />
4. Link (7)<br />
5. Dare (9)<br />
6. Sterilise (13)<br />
11. Male animal, related<br />
to sheep (5,4)<br />
14. Criminal, gang<br />
member (7)<br />
18. Tedious task (5)<br />
21. Hound (3)<br />
CODECRACKER<br />
QUICK CROSSWORD<br />
Across: 1. Alarm, 4. Cicada, 7. Ado, 8. Burden, 9. Nuance, 10.<br />
Membrane, 12. Lank, 13. Bedlam, 15. Tin hat, 16. Stay, 17. Bacteria, 19.<br />
Way out, <strong>20</strong>. Old-hat, 22. Err, 23. Skater, 24. Eagle.<br />
Down: 1. Amusement park, 2. Aid, 3. Mania, 4. Connect, 5. Challenge, 6.<br />
Decontaminate, 11. Billy goat, 14. Mobster, 18. Chore, 21. Dog.<br />
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD<br />
Across: 1. Slough 4. Verona 9. Recover 10. Antic 11. Evil 12. Etui 13.<br />
One 15. Spry 16. Mere 19. Rut 21. Cane 22. Magi 24. Elemi 25. Cherish<br />
26. Sorted 27. Blanks.<br />
Down: 1. Street corners 2. Orchids 3. Gave 5. Examined 6. Outdo 7.<br />
Ancient lights 8. Crate 14. Practice 17. Evasion 18. Snack <strong>20</strong>. Their 23.<br />
Well.<br />
TARGET<br />
deify dime dimer dire edify<br />
emir fiery fire fired firm firmed<br />
fried idem imide midi midwife<br />
MIDWIFERY mire mired miry<br />
reify ride rife rime rimed rimy<br />
weir weird wide wider wife wire<br />
wired wiry<br />
MEDIUM HARD<br />
EASY<br />
TARGET<br />
I E M<br />
Y I R<br />
D F W<br />
Good 16<br />
Very Good 23<br />
Excellent 29+<br />
ALL PUZZLES © THE PUZZLE COMPANY<br />
How many words of four letters or more can you<br />
make? There is at least one nine-letter word.<br />
Each letter may be used only once and all<br />
words must contain the centre letter.<br />
No words starting with a capital, no plurals<br />
ending in s unless the word is also a verb, e.g.<br />
he fires the gun.<br />
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