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SOLTIMES JUNE 2011
coffee break STANDARD CROSSWORD
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1 Keepsake (8) 5 Anew (6) 9 Penetrating (8) 10 Panther (6) 12 Snares (5) 13 Well-kept (9) 14 Notable initial occurrences (6) 16 Blueprint (British spelling) (7) 19 Lend honor to (7) 21 Change for the better (6) 23 Snarls (9) 25 A glowing piece of coal (5) 26 H ave as a logical consequence (6) 27 Deactivates (8) 28 Candies (6) 29 Feelings of ardent love (8)
1 Garments of the torso (6) 2 Never stopping (9) 3 S S S S (5) 4 Buys into shares or bonds (7) 6 Flagpole (9) 7 Mediterranean herbs (5) 8 Reaps (8) 11 Decorate with gold leaf (4) 15 Laboratory researcher (9) 17 A loose high-necked blouse (9) 18 Inactivity (8) 20 Shout (4) 21 Breathe (7) 22 Came up (6) 24 What a book is called (5) 25 Muse of lyric poetry (5)
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
1 Artist in front’s colourful arc (7) 5 Blokes return with English sister goddess (7) 9 In hippo, lion might find disease (5) 10 Brief moment up in Andorra explosion - usually long and straight (5,4) 11 Carry upside-down creature and mother at Republican church (4-5) 12 Loft a two-timer one century (5) 13 Small, yet funny infection (4) 15 Might it amount to change? (8) 18 The East, without being torn asunder beneath the surface (8) 19 Must not initially point at journalist (4) 22 Surplus tax mixes with Queen (5) 24 Little creature would reportedly love you and me, and the French outside (9) 26 8 taps breaking food (9) 27 Cost of soft grain? (5) 28 Padre’s servant showing chest! (7) 29 Uneven surface at first newspaper in 7 (7)
7 KO’d after quiet call (5) 8 Entice journalist into Sun (nearly) and church (6) 14 I reportedly initially love trees’ facial hair (9) 16 Ascot I see strangely keeping your drinks warm? (3,6) 17 6 balls (American) in Gateshead employing too much (9) 20 Thoroughly acquainted with 5 English reds, sort of (6) 21 Slippery eel in 7 vegetable (6) 23 “Annoy”, as in “support” (5) 24 Conflict without drink - almost liquid (5) 25 Fickle person might hide outcast (5)
Down 1 Overcharge Post Office in semi-riot (very loud) (3,3) 2 G.N. Elliott’s novel improperly obtained (3-6) 3 Flower toilet in British motorway (5) 4 Crew’s arm I adapted with offences in conflict (3,6) 5 City speed goddess? (5) 6 A new hotel taken by Matthew Short with a new cocktail (9)
HARD SUDOKU
Very Hard!
CRYPTIC crossword
CROSSWORD
SUDOKU PUZZLE SOLUTIONS
Theodore Roosevelt
SUDOKU PUZZLE
Sudoku is a placement puzzle. Enter the numbers 1 to 9 in each row and column of a grid, made up of 3 x 3 subgrids. The catch is that each row, column and grid must contain only one instance of each number or letter.
Across
Across
Believe you can and you’re halfway there
STANDARD SUDOKU
26