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Each number in our DECODER grid represents a different
Local
Puzzles
letter - there is a number for all 26 letters of the alphabet.
Enter the given letters into all squares with matching numbers. News
•Solutions, page 45
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©THE PUZZLE COMPANY
Across
1. New Zealand’s first commercial ski
field, opened in 1947 (7,4)
8. Disastrous (7)
9. Mistake (5)
10. Despatch (4)
11. Give permission (7)
12. Hundred (colloq) (3)
13. Distant (4)
15. Stink (4)
17. Large cooking dish (3)
19. April, in Maori (7)
20. NZ Breweries changed name to this
in 1976 (4)
23. Name used by blues musician Keith
Douglas Marsden (5)
24. In front (7)
25. South Canterbury sheep station,
CHRISTCHURCH
CREMATORIUM
FUNERAL SERVICES
22
40
named by English writer Samuel Butler
(11)
Down
1. Stroke (6)
2. Rule (5)
3. Corner (4)
4. Longest glacier in the Southern Alps
(6)
5. Main venue for 1950 British Empire
Games (4,4)
6. Pub singing (7)
7. Wonder (6)
12. Coaches (8)
14. Liberty (7)
16. Heat (6)
17. Hit hard (6)
18. Mystery (6)
21. Dialect (5)
22. A thing known to be true (4)
The challenge now is to work out which letters are represented
by the other numbers. As you get the letters, enter them into
the main grid, and the reference grid. To keep track of the
letters you have found, cross them off the alphabet provided.
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17 22 8 2 9 13 3 12 9
13 18 4 14 6 16 6 18 8 25 14
18 9 24 26 1 18 13 9
8 3 24 18 16 2 3 9 24 19 19
H E R
SUDOKU
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19 9 5 13 4 12 18 5 7 18 12 9
11 12 19 18 21
18 25 2 4 5 11 10 15 9 6 2
24 15 3 2 18 16 12 6
5 4 4 14 15 6 2 2 6 14 20
17 18 13 8 19 18 18 14 17
10 19 9 8 23 9 5 18 14 24
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SOLUTION
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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. As you get the
letters, write them into the main
grid and the reference grid.
Decoder uses all 26 letters of
the alphabet.
Y
A
How many words of three or more letters can you
make, using each letter only once? Plurals are
allowed, but no foreign words or words beginning
with a capital. There’s at least one five-letter word.
Good 9 Very Good 13 Excellent 17
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