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1. How many degrees are there in a semi-circle?

2. In 2023, the singer Beyoncé made Grammy Awards history with the most wins ever. How many has she been awarded?

3. Drive and approach are names given to two types of shot in which sport?

4. In the world of antiques, what is an epergne?

5. The Gaelic name of which bird means ‘horse of the woods’?

6. Which republic was formerly known as the Dutch East Indies?

7. Sally Wainwright wrote and created which TV drama series starring Sarah Lancashire as a tough police sergeant in Yorkshire?

8. What does the abbreviation LPG stand for?

9. Which astronomical term is also used metaphorically for the lowest point?

10. The Vincent van Gogh painting called The Starry Night hangs in which city?

Here are two miniature five-square crosswords using the same grid –but the letters have been mixed up. You have to work out which letters belong to which crossword.

5. Help needed with a Verdi opera (4)

7. Self-centred, for instance, with no American coin, but endlessly wealthy (10)

8. We hear top tennis player give up (4)

9. To be all for another sportsman (10)

12. Pip accepted credit for long speech (6)

13. Put up with last flower (6)

14. Go up as large number object (6)

16. Disinclined to be neat in duty order (6)

17. Figure that is more than twofaced – five times so (10)

20. Keen about the opening passage right away (4)

21. Put on inadequate clothes for the occasion (10)

22. What a pity a girl was cut short (4)

ACROSS

1. Friendly (8)

5. Jar (4)

9. Affair (7)

Killed (5)

Spin around (5) 13. Consecutive (6) 15. Bidet (anag.) (5) 17. Measure of length (4) 19. Pike-like fish (3) 20. Colours (4) 21. Trimmed, shaved (5)

1. Fine fabric (4)

2. Conflict (5)

3. Ridiculous (6)

4. Wound dressing (4)

6. State of being impervious to light (7)

7. Unmelodic (8)

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.

1. Unable to hear four notes (not B, C or G) (4)

2. Old bird goes to two parties (4)

3. Away from the sea in the country (6)

4. Young woman upset with the French grating (6)

5. Attributed to unruly cad producing credit note inside (10)

6. Good, I dried out the instrument (10)

10. Table not used every day? (10)

11. Some turned out to be aweinspiring (10)

15. Last month had poem to decipher (6)

16. Not injured, but Teresa leaves treasure hunt in a mess (6)

18. Rush about with Edward (4)

19. Monstrous loch? (4)

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.

Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9, and so must each 3 x 3 box.

Solutions

SCHOLARLY; schorl; shall; shaly; shay; shoal; shoaly.

achy; ahoy; arch; archly; ashy; cash; chaos; char; chary; chloral; cholla; choral; chorally; clash; cosh; crash; hall; hallo; halo; hoar; hoary; holla; holly; holy; hora; horsy; hoya; larch; lash; loach; loch; ochry; orach; rash; rashly; roach; scholar;

EQUALISER:

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:

22 Good; 26 Very Good; 31 Excellent.

3 7 41 7 8 3 81 4

Carmine; 21 Plumb; 22 Dimple; 25 Elope; 26 Data; 27 Tees.

Tuneless; 8 Asset; 12 Legal; 13 Siren; 14 Virtuous; 16 Bar; 18

Down – 1 Silk; 2 Clash; 3 Absurd; 4 Lint; 6 Opacity; 7

Careless.

Thrall; 24 Niger; 28 Odium; 29 Approve; 30 Shed; 31

Serial; 15 Debit; 17 Inch; 19 Gar; 20 Dyes; 21 Pared; 23

Across – 1 Sociable; 5 Jolt; 9 Liaison; 10 Slain; 11 Whirl; 13

QUICK CROSSWORD:

Screed; 13 Endure; 14 Ascend; 16 Untidy; 17 Decahedron;

Across – 5 Aida; 7 Egocentric; 8 Cede; 9 Footballer; 12

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD:

Capercaillie; 6 Indonesia; 7 Happy Valley; 8 Liquefied petroleum gas; 9 Nadir; 10 New York.