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<strong>16</strong> th March <strong>2025</strong><br />
THURSDAY, JANUARY <strong>16</strong>, <strong>2025</strong><br />
connecting you with your neighbourhood<br />
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Pop-up hubs to open<br />
as South Library closes<br />
WITH DEMOLITION about<br />
to begin on the earthquakedamaged<br />
South Library and<br />
customer service hub, the city<br />
council is opening two new<br />
pop-up facilities to serve the<br />
community.<br />
The temporary library, South<br />
Colombo, will open at The<br />
Colombo shopping centre on<br />
Monday, February 24. The<br />
temporary customer service<br />
hub will open at Pioneer<br />
Recreation and Sport Centre on<br />
Monday, February 10.<br />
The last day for the current<br />
customer service hub will be<br />
Friday, February 7, and the<br />
last day for the library Sunday,<br />
February 9.<br />
“The south building<br />
was badly damaged in the<br />
2011 earthquakes, and the<br />
community has been very<br />
patient while we’ve worked to<br />
get a new, rebuilt facility in the<br />
pipeline,” said city council head<br />
of libraries and information<br />
Carolyn Robertson.<br />
• Turn to page 4<br />
PHOTOS: CCC<br />
Entries now open<br />
www.city2surf.co.nz<br />
Appeal<br />
for help<br />
finding<br />
missing<br />
plaques<br />
A RESIDENT is asking for help<br />
tracking down missing plaques<br />
stolen from historic sites.<br />
Leslie Gilder told<br />
chrislynchmedia.com she was<br />
shocked to discover the plaques,<br />
including one bought by the<br />
citizens of Christchurch in<br />
December 1963 for Ashgrove<br />
Reserve in Somerfield, had gone<br />
missing.<br />
Gilder told chrislynchmedia.com<br />
an Addington Cemetery plaque<br />
commemorating the lives lost to<br />
deadly diseases like typhoid in the<br />
1880s was also missing, as<br />
was a drinking fountain<br />
at Dickens Street Reserve,<br />
Addington, and another plaque in<br />
Ruskin Reserve, Addington.<br />
Gilder said the plaques were<br />
likely stolen but she believes scrap<br />
metal dealers in the city would<br />
recognise them.<br />
Gilder is part of a global<br />
treasure-hunting group called<br />
“Geocachers” where people use<br />
GPS or smartphones to find<br />
hidden containers.<br />
Landmarks and historic sites<br />
are often included in the clues to<br />
find the geocaches.<br />
Gilder told chrislynchmedia.com<br />
the plaques hold key information<br />
vital to the game.<br />
• Turn to page 5<br />
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JP Clinic<br />
Thursdays, 10.30am-1pm<br />
South and Spreydon Libraries<br />
A Justice of the Peace will be on site for<br />
services including: Witness signatures<br />
on documents, certification of document<br />
copies, taking oaths, declarations,<br />
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applications, and rates rebate applications.<br />
Free, no appointment is required.<br />
Knit ‘n’ Yarn<br />
Thursday, 1.30-3.30pm<br />
Opawa Baptist Church<br />
During South Library’s rebuild,<br />
our knitting group has found a<br />
temporary home at Opawa Baptist<br />
Church. Bring your current WIP,<br />
share your fibre art hopes and dreams<br />
and meet like-minded people.<br />
For more information contact<br />
Kaylene 021-1134819 or Bronwen<br />
022-0850<strong>16</strong>1<br />
Technology Help Drop-In<br />
Session (BYO Device)<br />
Tuesday, 10.30-11am<br />
Spreydon Library<br />
Do you need help using your<br />
smartphone, iPad, or tablet? Come<br />
along to our drop-in sessions with<br />
one of our librarians for help with<br />
email, searching the internet, using<br />
the library catalogue, eBooks, and<br />
general computer queries. Bring your<br />
laptop, tablet, or smartphone for help<br />
with anything digital.<br />
A Walk Through Time – The South Library Story: Timeline<br />
Exhibition, Saturday, all day at South Library. We invite you to visit South<br />
Library and walk along our South timeline showing events from 2003<br />
right up to today. There are photos, articles and information about South<br />
Library, community events, programmes, and familiar staff faces. There<br />
are many wonderful memories and opportunities for reflection as we<br />
consider what an important role South Library has played in people’s lives<br />
over the past 20+ years. This is also an opportunity for you to learn more<br />
about Ōmōkihi, our new South Library which will connect the building<br />
back to its riverside site. The timeline will be in place to view until<br />
Waitangi weekend.<br />
Mahjong Group<br />
Wednesday, 2-3pm<br />
Spreydon Library<br />
Learn to play Mahjong at Spreydon<br />
Library. For beginners and advanced<br />
players alike. Come along and join in<br />
a friendly game every Wednesday. You<br />
are welcome to bring your own set.<br />
Mirrored Monster Mayhem<br />
Friday, 9.30am-3pm<br />
South Library<br />
Cut out your own cute creature! This<br />
is an unsupervised activity.<br />
Picnic in the Park<br />
Friday, <strong>January</strong> 24, 11am-12.30pm<br />
Spreydon Library<br />
Bring you blankets, bring your<br />
whānau, and come and join us at<br />
Barrington Park for a picnic in the<br />
summer sunshine! There will be fun<br />
and games with a Storywalk, giant<br />
board games, crafts and a delicious<br />
sausage sizzle! You can join the<br />
Summertime Reading Challenge and<br />
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Brick Your Book – International<br />
Lego Day<br />
Tuesday, <strong>January</strong> 28, all day<br />
Spreydon Library<br />
Do you love Lego? Come to the library<br />
to build and play with giant Lego and<br />
celebrate International Lego Day at<br />
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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2025</strong> 3<br />
Threat of fire and traffic issues<br />
on the agenda for this year<br />
• By Jack Ward<br />
THE THREAT of fire<br />
and roading issues are key<br />
priorities for the Westmorland<br />
Residents Association this<br />
year.<br />
Chair Ryan<br />
Brinch said<br />
the fire risk<br />
was lower<br />
than in the<br />
past, due to<br />
fewer grassy<br />
areas as a<br />
result of<br />
more houses<br />
being built<br />
Ryan<br />
Brinch<br />
and a wet summer to date,<br />
but caution still needed to be<br />
taken.<br />
“The pine trees up on<br />
Worsleys Rd, if there are any<br />
embers we don’t want them<br />
blowing down to lower areas,”<br />
he said.<br />
Vice-chair Lindsay Richards<br />
echoed Brinch, saying the<br />
residents’ association was<br />
“very conscious of our<br />
vulnerability to fires on the<br />
Port Hills”.<br />
Last year’s 650-hectare<br />
Port Hills fire brought back<br />
unwanted memories from the<br />
2017 fires, which burned more<br />
than <strong>16</strong>00 hectares of land<br />
and claimed the life of pilot<br />
UP IN SMOKE: Last year’s Port Hills Fire burnt about 650 hectares.<br />
and war hero Steve Askin.<br />
Askin had been a member<br />
of the SAS and was wounded<br />
in a firefight with the Taliban<br />
in Kabul, Afghanistan, in<br />
2011.<br />
Last year’s fire was a “vast<br />
improvement” in terms of<br />
management, Brinch said.<br />
“It was well handled and coordinated<br />
by FENZ, and the<br />
community was constantly<br />
informed – a lot of anxiety<br />
was alleviated from the<br />
shambles of 2017.”<br />
Brinch said roading accessibility<br />
is also on the agenda<br />
for <strong>2025</strong>, given Westmorland’s<br />
lack of services, such as gas<br />
stations and retail stores, and<br />
its dependence on arterial<br />
route Penruddock Rise.<br />
“There is another exit on<br />
Worsleys Rd, but that takes<br />
you away and increases the<br />
drive, so more consultation<br />
with council on roading<br />
issues on Cashmere Rd (too),”<br />
PHOTO: FENZ<br />
he said.<br />
Brinch also said pedestrians<br />
and cyclist access to the<br />
Sparks Rd Wetland was something<br />
to address this year with<br />
the city council.<br />
“Access on Henderson Rd,<br />
you run a bit of a gauntlet at<br />
the moment because there<br />
isn’t a path,” he said.<br />
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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2025</strong><br />
Temporary<br />
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• From page 1<br />
“We’re set to start<br />
construction on Ōmōkihi,<br />
the new library and customer<br />
service hub, in <strong>2025</strong>. Because<br />
we’re retaining the same<br />
picturesque riverside location<br />
that our customers know and<br />
love, we first need to demolish<br />
the existing building – and<br />
unfortunately, that means<br />
displacing our much-loved<br />
library and customer services<br />
for the duration,” Robertson<br />
said.<br />
Both temporary facilities will<br />
operate until December 2026,<br />
when Ōmōkihi is expected to<br />
open.<br />
The South Colombo library<br />
will offer a collection of about<br />
10,000 items, an area for children’s<br />
sessions and spaces for<br />
people to relax and study. It will<br />
be open seven days, 9am–5pm<br />
weekdays and 10am–4pm Saturdays<br />
and Sundays.<br />
The pop-up customer service<br />
hub will be near the pool front<br />
counter at Pioneer Recreation<br />
and Sport Centre.<br />
To help fill the gap during<br />
construction, hours will be<br />
extended at Spreydon Library<br />
and the mobile library van<br />
will service locations such as<br />
schools, community hubs,<br />
the Cashmere Club and She<br />
Chocolaterie.<br />
Stitching for a cause part of<br />
healing journey for Heather<br />
• By Jack Ward<br />
HEATHER SMITH has been<br />
through dark times during her<br />
life.<br />
But those days have passed<br />
and sewing has been a big part<br />
of the 68-year-old’s recovery.<br />
On Saturday, the St Martins<br />
resident will lead a sewing bee in<br />
a bid to make 120 sensory mats<br />
for students at Ferndale School<br />
– a specialist school for students<br />
with varying levels of special<br />
needs.<br />
“Sewing helps me keep the<br />
mental demons away. It gives me<br />
something to focus on and it is<br />
therapeutic,” said Heather.<br />
Her mental demons stem from<br />
four years of domestic abuse<br />
she suffered while living in<br />
the Australian Outback before<br />
returning to Christchurch three<br />
years ago.<br />
Heather had been based in<br />
Australia for 28 years working<br />
as a music therapist performing<br />
for dementia patients in<br />
hospitals and rest homes, which<br />
gave her an idea – making<br />
sensory mats.<br />
A sensory mat is an interactive<br />
surface that engages the senses<br />
through different textures,<br />
colours, and patterns. They can<br />
GOOD CAUSE: Rachael Okey (left) and Heather Smith with<br />
a completed sensory mat from their first sewing bee.<br />
deliver a calming effect for users<br />
and help to relieve tension.<br />
“I started making sensory<br />
mats for dementia patients at<br />
Christchurch Hospital as a way<br />
to keep people calm,” she said.<br />
Heather made 80 mats herself.<br />
From there, she put out a<br />
call for help and people started<br />
offering donated materials.<br />
This is where Rachael Okey<br />
joined in.<br />
Okey has 35 years of sewing<br />
experience and runs Sew Far<br />
Sew Good studio in Hoon Hay.<br />
“I saw on a local community<br />
page that Heather was looking<br />
for bits and pieces so I reached<br />
out and said ‘let’s get together to<br />
do some sewing and education at<br />
the same time’,” Okey said.<br />
“It is pretty cool. I’m a firm<br />
believer that if you learn a skill<br />
you should share it. There is a<br />
huge amount of joy from making<br />
something for someone else.”<br />
The first sewing bee in<br />
September yielded 28 sensory<br />
mats with up to eight people<br />
working at any one time.<br />
Heather said the team wanted<br />
to do more.<br />
Her daughter-in-law Sharon<br />
de Garnham, a teacher aide<br />
at Ferndale, saw the mats and<br />
suggested making some for the<br />
students there.<br />
“She thought they would be<br />
wonderful as a learning aide<br />
for (teaching) how to dress,”<br />
Heather said.<br />
The mats will be equipped<br />
with zips, clips, button-holes,<br />
and laces to tie, which will help<br />
the students learn important<br />
skills.<br />
Going forward, Heather has<br />
two full bookshelves of donations<br />
to keep her busy long after<br />
the sewing bee as she continues<br />
her focus on supporting others.<br />
“Sewing gives me structure<br />
and helping other people helps<br />
me.”<br />
• The sewing bee is on<br />
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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2025</strong> 5<br />
Elephant slide brought<br />
to life in children’s book<br />
FIFTY YEARS after it was built,<br />
the elephant slide in Bishopdale<br />
Park has been immortalised in a<br />
new children’s book.<br />
Elephant Park tells the story of<br />
Elly the elephant, who is feeling<br />
a bit tired and run down. A little<br />
boy invites her home for the<br />
weekend and with his dad’s help,<br />
Elly receives a makeover and a<br />
new lease on life.<br />
Author Melanie Koster was<br />
inspired by the way renowned<br />
writer Margaret Mahy often<br />
blurred the line between fact and<br />
fiction in her books.<br />
“My early childhood was spent<br />
on the West Coast but when<br />
we came over to visit family<br />
in Christchurch, my sister and<br />
I would meet our cousins at<br />
Bishopdale Park and spend<br />
hours playing on the elephant<br />
slide.<br />
“When we moved to<br />
Christchurch, I was delighted<br />
our new home was a quick bike<br />
ride from both the Bishopdale<br />
Library and ‘Elephant Park’ as<br />
we called it. Having spent many<br />
happy hours playing on the slide<br />
as a child, I had fun imagining<br />
what this inanimate object<br />
might do or say if it had a voice,”<br />
Koster said.<br />
Twenty-one months after the<br />
idea was seeded the finished<br />
book was published with<br />
SLIDING INTO HISTORY: Author Melanie Koster in front of<br />
the elephant slide that inspired her children’s book.<br />
Scholastic NZ. It is illustrated by<br />
Jenny Cooper.<br />
It wasn’t until after publication<br />
that Melanie discovered the<br />
origin of the famous slide. It was<br />
the brainchild of Alida Pickard,<br />
who had come second in a local<br />
schools’ competition.<br />
Said Pickard: “In the<br />
1970s my family and I were<br />
living in Stretton St and<br />
attending Burnside High<br />
School. Bishopdale was a new<br />
subdivision back then, so they<br />
were developing a sports ground<br />
and a playground.<br />
PHOTO: CCC<br />
“There was a competition for<br />
children in the area to submit<br />
ideas for what they wanted,<br />
and as I have a passion for<br />
elephants, I decided to make<br />
a paper mâché elephant with<br />
the idea of it being a slide or for<br />
climbing on.<br />
“I was delighted when they<br />
picked my elephant as second<br />
place. I received a Canterbury<br />
Savings Bank Account with $5<br />
as my prize – plus my elephant<br />
got built, with a slide going up<br />
and over top of her. I was very<br />
proud,” she said.<br />
GONE: Some of the missing historic plaques.<br />
PHOTO: CHRISLYNCHMEDIA.COM<br />
Missing plaques ‘robs<br />
us of shared history’<br />
• From page 1<br />
“I’m also a huge fan of plaques,<br />
and I absolutely love history,”<br />
Gilder told chrislynchmedia.com.<br />
“Losing these plaques robs us<br />
of pieces of our shared heritage<br />
and makes it harder for others to<br />
connect with the past.”<br />
Said Christchurch City Council<br />
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concerns about the disappearance<br />
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“We take these incidents<br />
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“To address the rise in thefts<br />
targeting plaques for scrap<br />
value, the council is exploring<br />
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book, it’s outdated with no relevance today.<br />
But is it? What if it turns out to be the<br />
most important book you will ever read?<br />
Courses run during term times on<br />
Thursday evenings at the Rolleston<br />
Community Centre. These are entirely<br />
free (you will never be asked for money)<br />
and are run by volunteers from the<br />
Christadelphian community. No pressure<br />
is ever applied, as we believe in freely<br />
providing everyone with the tools to begin<br />
reading the Bible for themselves and so to<br />
discover a real treasure!<br />
Term 1 – Discover the Bible<br />
Term 2 – New Testament Unpacked<br />
Term 3 – Practical Lessons from<br />
New Testament Characters<br />
Term 4 – God’s Promise for the Earth<br />
Enrol now:<br />
bibleeducationnz@gmail.com<br />
Need more information?<br />
Phone Alan on 021 105 3544<br />
LESSONS, ENSEMBLE, AND INSTRUMENT HIRE<br />
FOR ALL AGES<br />
IT’S NEVER TOO<br />
LATE FOR MUSIC!<br />
The Christchurch School of Music offers a<br />
wide range of opportunities for adults to<br />
learn a musical instrument and play in an<br />
ensemble. Come along and join us – you<br />
won’t regret it!<br />
Enrol now for 2024!<br />
office@csm.org.nz<br />
csm.org.nz/enrol<br />
or (03) 366 1711
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continuing education<br />
Focus on learning for fun<br />
Do you seek intellectual challenge in<br />
history, philosophy, science or politics?<br />
Does the idea of a new hobby, like<br />
photography or drawing appeal to you?<br />
Would you like to explore cuisines from<br />
other cultures or health through your diet?<br />
This year why not make learning part of<br />
your life through a course at the WEA?<br />
Participants describe WEA as:<br />
• a fun and friendly environment<br />
• with highly qualified tutors, eager to<br />
share knowledge<br />
• excellent value for money<br />
• having improved their knowledge, skills<br />
and confidence.<br />
CWEA has successfully provided<br />
community-based education, in a central<br />
location, for over 100 years. Whatever your<br />
Papanui High School is one of the<br />
longest standing providers of Community<br />
Education Courses in Christchurch and<br />
New Zealand. Our proud history of catering<br />
for the lifelong learning needs of Adult<br />
Students started in 1937.<br />
The sight of our beautiful,<br />
historic main building lit<br />
up at night has greeted<br />
our Night Class students<br />
for over 87 years. Papanui<br />
is renowned for offering<br />
a diverse array of quality<br />
evening courses and<br />
weekend workshops,<br />
and Term 1 <strong>2025</strong> is no<br />
exception.<br />
Along with our ever<br />
popular Watercolour<br />
interest we are sure to find classes that suit<br />
your timetable, budget and style of learning.<br />
Term 1 begins 29th <strong>January</strong> <strong>2025</strong>. Discover<br />
more at www.cwea.org.nz. Also onsite is<br />
our newly opened second-hand Bookshop:<br />
WE Are Books. Browse the shelves and<br />
find some book bargains! Monday-Friday,<br />
10am-3pm. Saturdays 11-3pm<br />
Italian Singers performing at the<br />
North West Branch Christmas function<br />
Term 1 Night Classes at Papanui<br />
Painting, Sewing, Cooking and Woodwork<br />
courses, new in Term 1 are Wine and Food<br />
Matching, Strength2Balance Exercise, and<br />
Small Business Set-up and Skills. Weekend<br />
Workshops include our popular Barista<br />
Weekend Workshop,<br />
Basket Weaving, An<br />
Introduction to Genealogy<br />
and Making Beeswax<br />
Wraps.<br />
Term 1 courses begin<br />
the week of 10 February.<br />
For a complete list of<br />
courses and to enrol,<br />
visit our website, https://<br />
www.papanui.school.nz/<br />
adult-education phone<br />
03 3520701 or email<br />
ace@papanui.school.nz.<br />
New Year and New<br />
Courses at Risingholme<br />
Enrolments are open for Risingholme’s<br />
<strong>2025</strong> courses. Take a look at what’s on offer<br />
and come learn with us!<br />
The new programme offers an extensive<br />
array of courses designed for individuals at<br />
all stages of life. Whether you’re seeking to<br />
enhance your professional skills, explore a<br />
new hobby, or engage in creative pursuits,<br />
our diverse range of courses cater to a variety<br />
of interests and can help enhance your<br />
overall wellbeing.<br />
Some of the new courses on offer next year<br />
include:<br />
• Budgeting Tips: The current cost of<br />
living crisis has contributed to financial<br />
stress for many people. In this 3-week course<br />
you’ll dive into your money goals, find<br />
strategies to manage debt, reduce expenses,<br />
and make a financial plan that you can<br />
implement straightaway.<br />
• Printmaking for Beginners Workshop:<br />
Make your own stamps and stamp pads<br />
with recycled materials, try monotype<br />
printing and more! With an emphasis on<br />
experimentation and fun, this course will<br />
be a friendly introduction to printmaking<br />
without the need for specialist equipment.<br />
• The Art of Smocking: Smocking is<br />
used in everything from babies’ clothes,<br />
floaty summer dresses, and home décor<br />
like cushions. This course will teach you<br />
basic smocking stitches to help you make a<br />
decoration or item of clothing.<br />
• Introduction to GarageBand for Mac:<br />
Great for those interested in podcasting<br />
and sound editing! Learn to put audio and<br />
sound effects on to a video clip, record and<br />
edit yourself or a friend singing or playing<br />
an instrument and create a multi-track<br />
recording.<br />
• Plaster Mould Making 101 Workshop:<br />
This 2-week workshop will teach you to<br />
make a model for a mould using sculpture<br />
construction methods and make moulds<br />
using readymade objects.<br />
• Creative Visual Story Workshop: Have<br />
you got a poem you’ve wanted to expand on<br />
and colour in? Do you have delicious recipes<br />
that need illustrations? Or a short story to<br />
illustrate? This 2-week workshop will teach<br />
you to translate the written word into hand<br />
drawn pictures using the French ‘aux trois<br />
crayon’ technique to bring your ideas to life.<br />
Reflecting on the importance of adult<br />
education, Risingholme’s Director, Lynda<br />
Megson, notes that “lifelong learning is not<br />
just a buzzword for us, it’s a mission we are<br />
deeply committed to realising and is part of<br />
our purpose as an organisation to exist at the<br />
heart of wider learning communities. For<br />
many of our learners, lifelong learning is a<br />
pathway to personal and professional growth<br />
that is deeply rewarding. It provides people<br />
with new knowledge, experiences, and a<br />
social connection which enriches not just<br />
the individual but our communities too.”<br />
If you’re feeling inspired to try<br />
something new you can browse all our<br />
courses and enrol by heading to<br />
www.risingholme.org.nz or see the<br />
Risingholme team in person at their<br />
Opawa office.
8<br />
Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2025</strong><br />
CROSSWORD<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8<br />
9 10<br />
383<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Every row, column and box should<br />
contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
WORDBUILDER<br />
283<br />
6<br />
B E D<br />
N L O<br />
11 12<br />
13 14 15 <strong>16</strong> 17<br />
18 19 20<br />
How 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 17 Very Good 26 Excellent 36<br />
Solution 282: bel, berm, blue, bluer, blur, bum,<br />
bur, burl, elm, emu, lemur, leu, lube, LUMBER, lure,<br />
mule, rub, rube, ruble, rue, rule, rum, RUMBLE,<br />
word.<br />
umbel, umber.<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 />
Good 17 Very Good 26 Excellent 36<br />
21 22 23 24<br />
25 26<br />
27 28<br />
Across<br />
1. Green vegetable (7)<br />
5. Female line (7)<br />
9. Bitter or pungent (5)<br />
10. Custom (9)<br />
11. Clement (9)<br />
12. Surmise (5)<br />
13. Vomit (5)<br />
15. ‘Don’t look a __ __ in the mouth’<br />
(4,5)<br />
18. Capitulate (9)<br />
19. Gradually reduce (5)<br />
21. Aromatic spice (5)<br />
23. Silly or superficial (9)<br />
25. Devoted (9)<br />
26. Fight (5)<br />
27. Postponed (7)<br />
28. Neither here nor there (7)<br />
Decoder<br />
Down<br />
1. Section of a book (7)<br />
2. Weather gauge (9)<br />
3. Mix up, confuse (5)<br />
4. Alienated (9)<br />
5. Male duck (5)<br />
6. Catapult (9)<br />
7. Nimble (5)<br />
8. Flair (7)<br />
14. Public clamouring (3,3,3)<br />
<strong>16</strong>. Prohibited (9)<br />
17. Unprincipled (9)<br />
18. Broke away (7)<br />
20. Determination (7)<br />
22. Prototype (5)<br />
23. Foul-smelling (5)<br />
24. U-shaped bend in a river (5)<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 1. Cabbage, 5.<br />
Distaff, 9. Acrid, 10. Tradition,<br />
11. Temperate, 12. Guess,<br />
13. Retch, 15. Gift horse,<br />
18. Surrender, 19. Taper, 21.<br />
Cumin, 23. Frivolous, 25.<br />
Dedicated, 26. Brawl, 27.<br />
Delayed, 28. Nowhere.<br />
Down: 1. Chapter, 2.<br />
Barometer, 3. Addle, 4.<br />
Estranged, 5. Drake, 6.<br />
Slingshot, 7. Agile, 8.<br />
Finesse, 14. Hue and cry, <strong>16</strong>.<br />
Forbidden, 17. Reprobate, 18.<br />
Seceded, 20. Resolve, 22.<br />
Model, 23. Fetid, 24. Oxbow.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
bed, bel, ben, bend, bled,<br />
blend, blond, BLONDE,<br />
bode, bold, bole, bond,<br />
bone, boned, den, dob, doe,<br />
dole, don, done, ebon, eld,<br />
end, eon, led, lend, lob,<br />
lobe, lobed, lode, loden,<br />
lone, neb, noble, nod, node,<br />
ode, old, olden, one.<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 />
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