Southern View: November 27, 2025

The Star, November 27, 2025
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CROSSWORD
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9
10 11
12 13
14 15 16 17 18
428
SUDOKU
Every row, column and box should
contain the digits 1 to 9.
WordBuilder
WORDBUILDER
R N I
G E O
6
328 328
G E O
words of three or more letters,
How
including
many
plurals,
words
can you
of
make
three
from
or
the
more
six
letters, using each letter only once? No foreign
How words or beginning with a capital are
from many the words six letters, of three using or more each letters, only
allowed. There's at least one six-letter word.
including once? plurals, can you make from the six
TODAY
letters, Good using 13 each Very letter Good only 17 once? Excellent No 21 foreign
No words beginning with a capital are
words or words beginning with a capital are
allowed. allowed. Solution There's 327: There’s arm, at lam, least loam, at one least loan, six-letter lorn, one man, six-letter
manor, word.
word. mar, marl, moa, moan, molar, moral, morn, nor, norm,
NORMAL, oar, oral, ram, TODAY ran, roam, roan, roman.
Good 13 Very Good 17 Excellent 21
letters, including plurals, can you make
19 20 21
Solution 327: arm, lam, loam, loan, lorn, man, manor,
mar, marl, moa, moan, molar, moral, morn, nor, norm,
NORMAL, oar, oral, ram, ran, roam, roan, roman.
22 23 24 25
26 27
28 29
Across
1. Bitter (6)
5. Expensive edible fungus (7)
10. Relating to audible sound (5)
11. Handle a situation badly (9)
12. Pecking order (9)
13. Wading bird (5)
14. Breadth (5)
16. Short-lived, fleeting (9)
19. Sureness, conviction (9)
20. The same (L) (5)
22. Circle (5)
24. Unofficial count of votes (5,4)
26. Menacing (9)
27. Killed (5)
28. Clad (7)
29. No. 1 or 2 batsman (6)
Decoder
Down
2. Challenger (9)
3. Russian country house (5)
4. Confess (colloq) (4,5)
5. Delicious (5)
6. Showing no embarrassment (9)
7. Style (5)
8. Immortal (7)
9. Abstain from (6)
15. Merciless (9)
17. Phrase used by conjurers (3,6)
18. Logic (9)
19. Congested (7)
21. Rectangular (6)
23. Overindulge (5)
24. Rebuke (5)
25. Squander (5)
Crossword
Across: 1. Acidic, 5. Truffle, 10. Sonic, 11. Mismanage, 12. Hierarchy, 13.
Heron, 14. Width, 16. Ephemeral, 19. Certainty, 20. Ditto, 22. Orbit, 24.
Straw poll, 26. Dangerous, 27. Slain, 28. Dressed, 29. Opener.
Down: 2. Contender, 3. Dacha, 4. Come clean, 5. Tasty, 6. Unashamed, 7.
Flair, 8. Eternal, 9. Eschew, 15. Heartless, 17. Hey presto, 18. Rationale,
19. Crowded, 21. Oblong, 23. Binge, 24. Scold, 25. Waste.
WordBuilder
Ego, eon, erg, ergo, gen, gin, girn, giro, goer, gone, goner, gore, grin, groin,
IGNORE, ion, ire, iron, nog, noir, nor, ogre, one, ore, REGION, reign, rein,
rig, ring, roe.
DECODER
Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the
given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out
which letters are represented by the other numbers.
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