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3 Workman;are 23 Most arguments 4 Deceitfulness; about celebrity (4)
Pu E ut n i l Q
Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so the each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Sunday
● The Target uses words in the main body of Chambers 21st Century Dictionary (1999 edition)
HOW many words of four letters or more can you make from the letters shown here? in making a word, each letter may be used once only. Each must contain the centre letter and there must be at least one nine-letter word. no plurals or verb forms ending in “s”. TODAY’S TARGET Good 15; very good 22; excellent 30 (or more). Solution tomorrow
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BATTLESHIPS CRYPTIC PUZZLE Across 1 One growing up in a cave (10) 6 Means of transport sometimes sprung (4) 10 Extra capital (5) 11 Give up on French return (9) 12 Biblical swine are eager and wild (8) 13 Kill a doctor and confess (5) 15 We can do with it (7) 17 They may lift or bring down (7) 19 Great at organised water sports (7) 21 I earn it from a sort of selling (7) 22 What is left of a fire at the end of three months (5) 24 Teach one to give orders (8) 27 Flying - up and down the touchline? (2,3,4) 28 Animal arrived then left (5) 29 Can take on a girl’s name (4) 30 Two containers make a musical instrument (10)
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Down 1 Thus duplicated it’s Across: 1 Towards, 5 Means, mediocre (2-2) 8 Put on airs, 9 Sue, 10 Zoom, 2 Attractive method of 12 Decadent, 14 Rustic, 15 Design, 17 Peaceful, 18 Myth, preventing 21 Sag, 22 Willpower, 24 Entry, injustice? (9) 25 Cursory. 3 Big vessel in Down: 1 Topaz, 2 Wit, 3 Rank, sea or tank (5) 4 Sliver, 5 Mistaken, 6 Austerity, 4 Control may rest in the 7 Sweeten, 11 Onslaught, wrong position (7) 13 Give-away, 14 Riposte, 5 Torture people in 16 Public, 19 Hardy, 20 Spur, 23 Woo. the wrong (7) 7 Took a ride round the Wild West show (5) 8 Perhaps a party ends a school occasion (7,3) Yesterday’s Cryptic Solution 9 A problem of pain (8) 14 Accomplished Across: 1 Studded, 5 Rifts, boxers are unhappy 8 Fantastic, 9 Cut, 10 Rapt, if they have to 12 Previous, 14 Plover, 15 Brainy, be (7,3) 17 One-sided, 18 Used, 16 He’s denied freedom to 21 Art, 22 In retreat, 24 Curry, express his political views 25 Waiters. (8) Down: 1 So far, 2 Urn, 3 Dean, 4 Dotard, 5 Recovery, 6 Factories, 18 He turns up after all (9) 7 Satisfy, 11 Protector, 13 Felicity, 20 Is a back number being 14 Prosaic, 16 Hebrew, 19 Dates, stupid (7) 20 Etui, 23 Eye. 21 Visible discernment? (7) 23 Carry on playing for the club (5) 25 A fringe gathering of lacemakers (5) 26 Shellfish a hundred pound a thousand (4) Down Across 1 Potentially 1 Instance (4) complex problem 6 7 8 2 Severe pain along (3,2,5) nerve (9) 6 A failure (4) 9 3 Boxing match (5) 10 Overcharged (5) 4 Weigh heavily on 11 Eternal (9) 12 All the gods of a (7) religion (8) 5 Seafarer (7) 13 Desert watering 13 7 Name of 18 place (5) French kings (5) 15 Female wild cat 8 Having nothing in (7) 18 17 Gather in (5,2) common (5,5) 19 Tableland (7) 9 Determined (8) 21 An English 14 Arrest a long cheese (7) decline (4,3,3) 22 Place much 16 Strenuous effort frequented (5) (8) 24 A binding 25 agreement (8) 18 Amount 27 Make a copy of subtracted (9) 26 (9) 20 Boorish (7) 28 Originate (5) 28 21 Be about (7) 29 A limited period 23 Superior (5) (4) 30 Something 25 Kingdom (5) remarkable (10) 26 To incline (4)
EASY PUZZLE
FIND where the fleet of ships shown is hidden in the grid. The numbers to the right of and below the grid indicate how many of the squares in that row are filled in with ships or parts of ships. The ships do not touch each other, even diagonally. Some squares have been filled in to start you off. Solution tomorrow 1
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