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Quick Clues:

1. Go to new owner (6,5)

9. Chopper (3) 10. Fool (9) 11. Swarthy (5) 13. Prickly (7) 14. Use (6) 16. Pound (4,2) 18. Ease (7) 19. Class (5) 20. Issuing (9) 21. Deed (3) 22. Most surprisingly

(11)

2. Colour (3)

3. Objectionable (5)

4. Entangle (6)

5. Omniscient (3-4)

6. Took away (9)

7. Callous (4-7)

8. Gluttonous (11)

12. Entreating (9)

15. Outdoor (4-3)

17. Pardonable (6)

19. Newspaper (5)

21. Everybody (3)

Across DownCryptic Clues:

1. Whichever way you look at it, it adds up to the same thing (5,6)

9. It provides ac-commodation in Norway’s capital (3)

10. Bad enough to cause alarm (9)

11. He cuts the werewolf ’s head and tail off! (5)

13. Unyielding threads, per-haps (4,3)

14. They don’t do much to earn their descrip-tion (6)

16. Quiet seat (6) 18. They have no

settled occupa-tion (7)

19. Fill a pot, per-haps (3,2)

20. Do meteorolo-gists gain little by forecasting it? (3,6)

21. Follow the returning deity (3)

22. Looking for golden oppor-tunities? (11)

2. Two points at the bottom of a beard (3)

3. What could be finer to imply? (5)

4. It’s not grossly offensive (6)

5. To unseat one may make a Hun sore! (7)

6. Decline to accept some advice - it’s a load of rubbish! (6,3)

7. Bird unpopular with sailors? (11)

8. Clippers of the line? (7,4)

12. What an execu-tor has? (4-5)

15. Horsemen sur-round a group of attackers (7)

17. Put it on with-out being told? (6)

19. Principle of having it both ways? (5)

21. Assume he’s from university (3)

How you rate: 15 words, average; 20 words, good;

25 words, very good; 30 or more, excellent.

You have 10 mins to find as many words as possible using the letters in the wheel. Each must use the hub letter and at least 3 others. Letters may be used only once. You cannot use plurals, foreign words or proper nouns. There is at least one 9-letter word to be found.

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Codeword is the crossword puzzle with no clues. The number in each square corresponds to a letter. Work out the words in the grid using the letters provided. Fill in these known letters first, then use skill and judgement to work out the others.

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DOUBLE CROSSWORD: Cryptic: Across: 1 Base ; 3 Spurious; 9 Riotous; 10 Diets; 11 Overbalances; 13 Lupine; 15 Chaste; 17 Feather-brain; 20 Lasso; 21 Enthuse; 22 Sidesmen; 23 Less. Down: 1 Barn-owls; 2 Stoke; 4 Pestle; 5 Riding-habits; 6 Oneness; 7 Sash; 8 Combinations; 12 Meanders; 14 Pleased; 16 Recede; 18 Acute; 19 Plus.Quick: Across: 1 Cite; 3 Strength; 9 Mariner; 10 False; 11 Down the drain; 13 All out; 15 Plague; 17 Intercession; 20 Exact; 21 Milling; 22 Stealing; 23 Stir. Down: 1 Comedian; 2 Throw; 4 Target; 5 Effortlessly; 6 Galling; 7 Heed; 8 Instrumental; 12 Teenager; 14 Lineage; 16 Acumen; 18 Idiot; 19 Ness.

WORD WHEEL: MODERNISM.

SUDOKU:

CODEWORD: 1=A, 2=G, 3=V, 4=C, 5=Q, 6=M, 7=S, 8=B, 9=E, 10=I, 11=L, 12=Y, 13=N, 14=Z, 15=P, 16=J, 17=D, 18=F, 19=U, 20=X, 21=R, 22=T, 23=W, 24=O, 25=K, 26=H.

SUDOKU: CLOCKWORD: 1 Infant, 2 Mullet, 3 Outset, 4 Garnet, 5 Escort, 6 Nougat, 7 Select, 8 Target, 9 Upbeat, 10 Bright, 11 Bonnet, 12 Sorbet.

CELEBRITY: Imogen Stubbs.

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Cross out one of the two letters in each divided square to reveal a completed crossword grid.

Fill in the white squares with the numbers 1 to 9. Each horizontal block of squares must add up to the number in the shaded square to its left, and each vertical block must add up to the number in the shaded square above it. No number may be used more than once in any one block.

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Each number from 1 to 9 represents a different letter. Solve the clues and insert the letters in the appropriate squares to discover a word which uses all nine letters.

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THE CLUES:32996 gives a musical instrument;46753 gives a musical interval;13892 gives a musical term.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS

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WORDWHEEL

CLOCKWORD KAKURO SUDOKU

DOUBLE CROSSWORD CODEWORD

NINERSPLIT DECISION

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS

The solutions from 1 to 12 are all six-letter words ending with the letter D in the centre. Moving clockwise from 1, the letters in the outer circle will spell out the name of a late U.S. actor.

NINER: RESULTING

L O L L YA O ES A U N AE S RR E E D S

SPLIT DECISION:

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8 6 7 5 1 41 2 4 9 2

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KAKURO:

1. Astute 2. Portion of

time 3. Surpass 4. Required 5. Sinuous

6. Exhilarated 7. Plump 8. Rotated 9. Destroyed 10. Ridiculous 11. Stopped 12. Pulled

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