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Take a break TARGET PUZZLE
SUDOKU by Papocom Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3 x 3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9. With no repeats, that means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box. Level:
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MEDIUM
HARD
See how many words of four or more letters you can make from the given nine letters. In making a word each letter may be used only once. The key letter must be used in each word.
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1-5 Poor 6-12 Average 13-19 Good 20-22 Excellent
1-7 Poor 8-15 Average 16-23 Good 24-26 Excellent
The following are not allowed: - Words beginning with a capital letter - Words with a hyphen or apostrophe - Plural words ending in “s” The 9-letter word WATERFALL
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1. Present to secure a mutual concession. (4--3-4) 9. Performed respectfully and kept in flower garden area. (7) 10. Blockhead banished to a reserved corner, perhaps? (5) 11. Engage in open roll-call. (5) 12. The way a girl is heard to assist by wearing synthetic rubber. (7) 13. Acting group of soldiers? (6) 15. Robs church motion to offer up Eastern European soup. (6) 18. Tan ever so seasoned. (7) 20. First, call sign mark. (5) 22. Crews steam about. (5) 23. I am taking one to gallery showing counterfeit copy. (7) 24. Get sent a tea service for accommodating vendor. (6,5)
2. Choir rehearsing to praise Gods legendary life blood. (5) 3. Surround unfinished letter holder. (7) 4. One not dressed for recreation. (6) 5. Take this 60’s boy to bed, possibly? (5) 6. Stricken Nelson revealing tykes boarding establishments. (7) 7. Civet bit Joy with absolute detachment. (11) 8. Calm receded a cool outlook. (5-6) 14. Relatives (col, sl) in bad Western company. (7) 16. Ten, might grant assembly discourse. (7) 17. Seemingly close, we hear, to provoking an urge. (6) 19. A star reborn to defend Haile Selassie. (5) 21. Jane is such an artless person? (5)
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2. Something annular is in the shape of a what: Leaf; Ring; Brick; or Pyramid?
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3. Sfumato is a technique in what: Painting; Cooking; Martial Arts; or Meditation?
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5. Rest needed to keep one looking young? (6,5) 7. Rod attachment to wheels (4) 8. (Beat with a) heavy stick (8) 9. Kind of bit - take without permission (7) 11. It removes 2 (5) 13. Irritating smile (5) 14. Plaited hair (7) 16. Ship's non-fare-paying passenger (8) 17. Thwart - contrasting thing - sword (4) 18. Plant with a pungent edible root (11)
1. (Make into a) bundle of hay (4) 2. Pre-beard growth (7) 3. Bring out - children (5) 4. Estrange (anag) (8) 5. Bout (6,5) 6. Close ending to a race (5,6) 10. Banger, for example (8) 12. Frog's seat on a pond? (4,3) 15. Candy item (5) 17. Be unsuccessful (4)
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6. If you dropped three solid steel spheres, weighing 1kg, 2kg and 3kg, at the same time from a height of ten metres, in what order would they hit the floor: 1kg 2kg 3kg; 3kg 2kg 1kg; All at the same time; or Some other order? SOLUTION FOR QUIZ
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14. Pigtail 16. Stowaway 17. Foil 18. Horseradish
5. Beauty sleep 7. Axle 8. Bludgeon 9. Snaffle 11. Razor 13. Smirk
15. borsch 18. veteran 20. alpha 22. teams 23. imitate 24. estate agent
1. give and take 9. behaved 10. dunce 11. enrol 12. styrene 13. troupe
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1. Bale 2. Stubble 3. Issue 4. Sergeant 5. Boxing match 6. Photo finish 2. Ichor 3. envelop 4. nudist 5. teddy 6. kennels 7. objectivity
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SOLUTION FOR SUDOKU
SOLUTION FOR CRYPTIC / QUICK CROSSWORD
4. In summer 2010 Ofcom (regulatory/complaints body for UK communications industries) found that broadband service providers were on average giving customers what percentage of the connection speeds they had contracted to receive: 46%; 75%; 98% or 120%? 5. Sprinter Merlene Ottey, age 50, was a member of which nation's 4 x 100 metres relay squad at the 2010 European Championships: Bermuda; Slovenia; Jamaica; or Bahrain?
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1. Which English royal house held the throne between 1154 and 1485: Stewart; Tudor; Plantagenet; or Lancaster?
1. Plantagenet 2. Ring (from the Latin anulus and anus, meaning ring) 3. Painting 4. 46% 5. Slovenia 6. All at the same time
Cryptic
The 9-letter word EDUCATING
Multiple choice QUIZ
CROSSWORD
10. Firework 12. Lily pad 15. Sweet 17. Fail 8. level-headed 14. outlaws 16. orating 17. incite 19. Rasta 21. plain