Puzzles

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH

DIFFICULT

Place numbers into the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains each of the digits 1 to 9. No guessing is needed.

EASY

THE JURY'S STILL OUT

Across

1. Expression of contempt 4. Friend 8. Debutante 11. Wood sorrel 12. Cut with laser 13. Mast 14. Orthodox Jewish school 16. Twinned crystal 17. Freeze 18. Wharf labourer 19. Dense 22. Covered with coal dust 23. Endanger 24. E Indian shrub yielding hemp 25. Donkey 28. Eggs 29. Footwear 30. Groove 31. Two-year old sheep 32. Hour 33. Whirlpool 34. Giraffe-like animal 36. Out of date 37. Keyboard instruments 39. Vapour 40. Corporation 41. Having teeth 45. Adult nits 46. Desire 47. Tatter 48. Abstract being 49. Female sheep 50. Work unit

Down

1. Lad 2. Top card 3. Owns 4. Slight sharp sound 5. Possess 6. America (Abbr) 7. Objective case of I 8. Establishments where ships are built and repaired 9. Australian super-model 10. Ale 13. Agreement 15. Rube 16. Satellites 18. Recipient 19. Canter 20. Bee nest 21. Introductory studies 22. Finnish name of Finland 24. Ocean craft 26. Soap lather 27. Eye inflammation 29. Get up 33. The Orient 35. Cabbagelike plant 36. Trousers 37. Leer 38. Wreck 39. Hereditary factor 41. Black bird 42. Land measure 43. Road surfacing 44. Ovum 46. Plural of I

Ladderword puzzles are like crosswords but with a twist. The words in the middle column are anagrams of the words of the first column. The words in the last column are anagrams of the middle column plus one additional letter. The anchor words (the down clues) are related by a common theme.

Across

1. Rituals 3. Non-sleeping compartment 5. Willies 6. Adolescent years 7. Goes in 8. Holdings 9. Cave 10. Eye part 11. Alight from a train 12. Skimp 13. Giants 14. Sampling 15. Liberates 16. Absconders 17. Insect antennae

Down

2. Ordeal 4. Pass legal judgment