Friday July 24 2015
Puzzles SUDOKU
WORDWHEEL
Insert the missing letter to complete an eight-letter word reading clockwise or anticlockwise.
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MEDIUM
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9QUICK 8 6 2 5CROSSWORD 4 1 7 3 5 3 1 6 7 9 2 8 4 1 2 4ACROSS 7 2 3 1 8 5 6 9 1. Solitary (4) 1 3 9 (4,4) 8 5 4 2 7 63. Opposite 79. Sell 4 5to the 1 highest 2 6 3 9 89 2bidder 9 8(7) 7 4 3 6 1 5 10. 9 (5) 5 6 7 8 4 111 3 2Bare 11. Strong liking (12) 113.5Erase 4 8(6) 9 2 7 3 6 815.6Sickly 7 4(6) 3 1 9 5 2 17. More and more (12) 20. Beforehand (5) 21. Coffee maker (7) 22. United (8) 23. Spiral (4) DOwn 1. Run in panic (8) 2. Money (5) 4. Delay (6) 5. Prison (12) 6. Annoying (7) 7. Whirlpool (4) 8. Misunderstand (12) 12. Cooperate (colloq) (4,4) 14. Yearning (7)
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16. Wager (6) 18. Enthusiasm (5) 19. Minor argument (4)
WRITING SPACE
WORDBUILDER
R N G U T
How many words of three or more letters can you make, using each letter only once? Plurals are allowed, but no foreign words or words beginning with a capital. There’s at least one five-letter word. 16
EASY
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WORDWHEEL ANACONDA WORDBUILDER gnu, grunt, gun, gur, gurn, gut, nut, rug, run, rung, runt, rut, trug, tug, tun, tung, turn, urn. QUICK CROSSWORD 5 Across: 1. Sole, 3. Flip side, 9. Auction, 10. Naked, 11. Predilection, 13. Delete, 15. Unwell, 17. Increasingly, 20. Prior, 21. Barista, 22. Together, 23. Coil. Down: 1. Stampede, 2. Lucre, 4. Linger, 5. Penitentiary, 6. Irksome, 7. Eddy, 8. Misinterpret, 12. Play ball, 14. Longing, 16. Gamble, 18. Gusto, 19. Spat.
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WORDSEARCH
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