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SOLTIMES JUNE 2012
coffee break STANDARD CROSSWORD
Down
1 Pottery oven (4) 2 Become more extreme (8) 3 One who is absent without permission (6) 4 Where you live (7) 5 Hiccup (8) 6 Sensual (6) 7 Loyal (archaic) (4) 14 Twisted and tight (5) 16 A literary style (5) 18 Digitalis (8) 20 Bum (8) 21 Elongated squares (7) 23 One of the Gorgons (Greek mythology) (6) 25 The gas we need to live (6) 27 At one time (4) 29 As well (4)
surrounding diagram (10) 7 Tangy pie cooked from an African country (8) 8 Large numbers shudder all over the place, taking in new leader (8) 13 Enough ribs to change those living nearby (10) 15 Switch former partner’s money? (8) 16 Snaring and bugging without redhead (8) 17 Dens duly collapsed without warning (8) 21 Holds on tight to China’s first adapted sling (6) 22 The East part of Bangor I enthralled (6) 23 Half of soap covers shapes (6) 26 Smooth element (4)
Very Hard!
CRYPTIC crossword
CROSSWORD
SUDOKU PUZZLE SOLUTIONS
9 Country morning girl (7) 10 Relative to a thousand thousand before Asian leader (7) 11 Took a photo of Shanghai initially, then had a short sleep (7) 12 A nest lies disturbed, as is vital (9) 14 Lift more money? (5) 15 Incomings of headless guards (7) 18 Counts on parts of swimming pools lacking extra opening (7) 19 Train manager? (5) 20 Choices made by icon’s side? (9) 24 Sanction a very soft wander (7) 25 First in Italy, almost - I moved around (7) 27 All-purpose military man? (7) 28 Good start, way to go outside - northeast complained (7) Down 1 Complication of Taiwan’s first fish (6) 2 Came across Alex’s substances (6) 3 Bound to be on the same score (4) 4 Starts to help animal with an increasingly irate state (6) 5 Card game came first, and made a shrill sound (8) 6 Parts of a text are standard, as
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.
8 An indefinite period (4) 9 Diameters (5) 10 Assist (4) 11 Riddle (6) 12 Lately (8) 13 Stirs up (8) 15 Loss by evaporation or leakage (6) 17 Appear larger (7) 19 “The whole ________” (7) 22 Culmination (6) 24 Spots (8) 26 House of ill repute (8) 28 Flunky (6) 30 Freezes (4) 31 Current popular taste (5) 32 Plate (4)
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across
HARD SUDOKU
Across
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Charles Spurgeon
STANDARD SUDOKU
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