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Your weekly puzzle challenge
CROSS CODE
1 5 22 20 7 13 10 4 25
24 13 7 22 22 3 20 11 26 20
23 8 15 13 7 3 11 11 17
8 13 20 4 10 22 21 11 5 16
26 11 1 22 24 13 1 3 22
21 17 18 18 22 10 10 22 23 22 13 1
6 17 13 7 10 1
22 12 2 22 8 8 3 11 18 13 18 11
2 22 18 15 11 10 20 18 9
18 22 8 18 13 22 3 22 24 8
23 15 13 10 7 14 26 1 11
8 17 19 22 22 22 13 3 22 12
1 22 1 5 22 10 1 16 8
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
R O
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Each number in our Cross Code grid represents a different letter
of the alphabet. You have three letters in the control grid to start
you off. Enter them in the appropriate squares in the main grid,
then use your knowledge of words to work out which letters
should go in the missing squares.
As you get the letters, fill in other squares with the same number
in the main grid and control grid. Check off the alphabetical list of
letters as you identify them.
MAGIC SQUARE
REPAIRS SMALL POEM
Using all 16 letters of the phrase above, form
four words each of four letters which will fit in the
grid to form a magic square in which the words
can be read both horizontally and vertically.
SUDOKU
Easy
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4 2 1 8 6
8 4 5 3 2
3 9 8
1 7
6 9 8 3
8 5 4 1
4 9 7 2
7 3 8 6 4
5 3
NONAGRAM
How many words of four
letters or more can you
make from this
Nonagram? Each word
must use the central letter,
and each letter may be
used only once. At least
one word using all nine
letters can be found.
Guidelines:
38 Good; 46 Very Good;
53 Excellent.
Any word found in the Concise
Oxford Dictionary (Tenth Edition) is
eligible with the following
exceptions: proper nouns; plural
nouns, pronouns and possessives;
third person singular verbs;
hyphenated words; contractions
and abbreviations; vulgar slang
words; variant spellings of the
same word (where another variant
is also eligible).
Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9, and so must each 3 x 3 box.
Quiz Challenge
1. In which film, based on an
Agatha Christie novel, did Sean
Connery play Colonel
Arbuthnot?
2. The forces of which country
besieged Vienna in 1529?
3. The mythological gods Helios,
Sol and Ra are all
personifications of which
object?
4. Which cartoon character has a
boss called Charles
Montgomery Burns?
5. The world’s largest royal palace
can be found in which city?
S A D
E B O
R I D
WORD PYRAMID
Spell out a 15-letter word or
phrase by moving from one
chamber to another within
the pyramid. You may
only enter each of the
chambers once and
may only proceed
through openings
in the walls. The
first letter may
appear in any
chamber.
FIVE ALIVE
9 4
2 5 7
3 8 1 6
3 5
5 8 7 4
1 6
8 4 2
5 6 1 8
9
6. Comedian Lenny Henry was
married to which other
comedian for 25 years?
7. The climax of the Hitchcock
film North by Northwest
featured which American
mountain?
8. A damson is a type of what
foodstuff?
9. Which Aaron Copland
composition became a hit for
Emerson, Lake and Palmer?
10. Who became King of England
after the Battle of Bosworth in
1485?
MR IA DF AL EM
EU AO ME
RA NE LG EI LC
AT MS EO
YL EI AE GR NE
Hard
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L
G C L
O N A C
L O O R H
Here are two
miniature fivesquare
crosswords
using the same
grid – but the
letters have
been mixed up.
You have to
work out which
letters belong
to which
crossword.
EQUALISER
6 9
4 1 3
3 5
10 3 1
11 2
Place the four signs (add,
subtract, multiply, divide)
one in each circle so that
the total of each across
and down line is the same.
Perform the first calculation in each
line first and ignore the mathematical
law which says you should always
perform division and multiplication
before addition and subtraction.
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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
1
5
9
11
10
13
20
19
1
9
14
18
2
13
6
ACROSS
2. Almost bankrupt public
transport (3)
5. Writhe violently and dry
up (6)
7. Rogues found in the
pack (6)
9. Trip in the dark (5,6)
10. Odds on inexperienced
beginner having to fall in an
ungainly fashion (6)
11. Confused Ron with cob or
another horse (6)
13. Timid little fellow caught by
a surprise attack (6)
16. Organize a lottery held by
fanatic (6)
18. Making understood when
returning in one’s car (7,4)
19. Charge exorbitantly for
warm jacket (6)
20. Response to a news
broadcast is right (6)
21. Stocking filler (3)
1
8
12
18
26
29
21
2
16
19
13
3
13
3
11
20
28
2
15
21
9
8
12
16
18
21
QUICK CROSSWORD
21 25
3
7
11
14
16
20
DOWN
5
19
8
6
4
17
7
12
1. Steal a child while
asleep? (6)
2. Inhuman description, but
about right for Capone (6)
3. Blue area of research in
space station (6)
4. The man caught in charge
rushed (6)
6. Like a bird soaring when in
an elated state (4,2,1,4)
8. Move along with successors
accepting tool from
Germanic people (5-6)
10. Pa’s going round health
resort (3)
12. At first there’s nothing but
grass (3)
14. Time-consuming, like a
violin perhaps (6)
15. Speak rubbish about Verdi
being a Liberal (6)
16. One cannot go straight
along this path (6)
17. Key cricketer (6)
4
8
10
14
17
22
22
27
30
5
23
15
6
24 26
7
25
SOLUTIONS
31
32
NONAGRAM:
abed; abide; abided; abode; adobe; adsorb;
adsorbed; baddie; bade; bard; barded; bardo;
bare; bared; base; based; baser; bead; bear;
beard; bedad; bias; biased; bidder; bide;
bided; bier; bird; biro; boar; board; boarded;
bode; boded; bodied; bora; bore; bored;
boride; brad; brae; braid; braided; braise;
braised; bread; bred; bride; brio; brisé; broad;
BROADSIDE; brose; debar; debris; desorb;
disbar; disrobe; disrobed; dobra; drab; isobar;
rabid; rabies; rebid; ribose; roadbed; robe;
robed; sabre; seabird; sidebar; SIDEBOARD;
soba; sober; sorb.
Across – Madam; Angel; Yearn.
Down – Meaty; Dogma; Melon.
Across – Rifle; Relic; Liege.
Down – Rural; False; Emcee.
(2)
FIVE ALIVE:
(1)
QUICK CROSSWORD:
Across – 1 System; 4 Massif; 8 Unable; 10 Labour; 11 Angel; 12
Orchid; 14 Senile; 16 Hers; 17 Said; 19 Post; 22 Ogre; 26 Crater;
27 Beetle; 28 Rosin; 29 Ensued; 30 Tedium; 31 Sonnet; 32
Damson.
Down – 1 Stupor; 2 Search; 3 Eclair; 5 Azalea; 6 Stolid; 7 Ferret;
9 Ends; 10 Less; 13 Helot; 15 Nitre; 18 Access; 19 Parson; 20
Serene; 21 Trod; 22 Obit; 23 Genera; 24 Ethics; 25 Sermon.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD:
Across – 2 Bus; 5 Wither; 7 Knaves; 9 Night flight; 10 Sprawl; 11
Bronco; 13 Afraid; 16 Zealot; 18 Driving home; 19 Fleece; 20
Answer; 21 Leg.
Down – 1 Kidnap; 2 Brutal; 3 Skylab; 4 Hectic; 6 High as a kite; 8
Anglo-Saxons; 10 Spa; 12 Oat; 14 Fiddly; 15 Drivel; 16 Zigzag;
17 Opener.
U
A
EQUALISER:
Clockwise from top
left – multiply; add;
divide; subtract.
Total: 7.
WORD PYRAMID:
Chronologically.
MAGIC SQUARE:
Alps; lore; pram;
semi.
26
13
Q
X
25
12
G
O
24
11
V
R
23
10
6 8 9 4 7 2 3 1 5
1 4 2 3 6 5 9 8 7
3 7 5 9 8 1 2 4 6
4 9 6 1 3 7 8 5 2
2 5 3 8 9 6 1 7 4
8 1 7 5 2 4 6 9 3
7 3 1 6 5 8 4 2 9
5 6 4 2 1 9 7 3 8
9 2 8 7 4 3 5 6 1
E
W
22
9
B
S
21
8
N
M
20
7
Z
J
19
6
T
D
18
5
4 2 9 1 8 3 5 7 6
8 6 1 4 7 5 3 2 9
5 7 3 9 2 6 1 4 8
1 9 7 8 3 4 2 6 5
2 5 4 7 6 1 9 8 3
3 8 6 5 9 2 4 1 7
6 1 8 3 4 9 7 5 2
7 3 5 2 1 8 6 9 4
9 4 2 6 5 7 8 3 1
EASY SUDOKU HARD SUDOKU
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16
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15
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CROSS CODE
1 2 3
QUIZ CHALLENGE: 1 Murder on the Orient Express; 2 Turkey; 3 The Sun; 4 Homer Simpson; 5 Beijing; 6 Dawn French; 7 Mount Rushmore;
8 Plum; 9 Fanfare for the Common Man; 10 Henry VII.
ACROSS
1. Plan of action (6)
4. Mountainous
area (6)
8. Incapable (6)
10. Toil (6)
11. Heavenly
messenger (5)
12. Tropical plant (6)
14. Mentally infirm
with age (6)
16. Possessive of
she (4)
17. Uttered (4)
19. Mail (4)
22. Man-eating
monster (4)
26. Shell hole (6)
27. Insect (6)
28. Irons (anag.) (5)
29. Resulted (6)
30. Boredom (6)
31. Short poem (6)
32. Small plum (6)
DOWN
1. Daze (6)
2. Seek (6)
3. Cream cake (6)
5. Deciduous shrub (6)
6. Impassive (6)
7. Polecat (6)
9. Concludes (4)
10. In smaller
quantity (4)
13. Serf (5)
15. Saltpetre (5)
18. Entrance (6)
19. Clergyman (6)
20. Calm (6)
21. Stepped (4)
22. Notice of death (4)
23. Varieties (6)
24. Moral values (6)
25. Religious
address (6)

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