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Crossword

Down
1 Island divided between
Greece and Turkey (6)
2 Time of year (6)
3 Written composition (5)
4 Upper-case letter (7)
5 Bordering (8)
6 Small air-breathing
arthropod (6)
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14 Female spirit who wails to
warn of impending death (7)
16 Space where wines
are stored (6)
18 Solitary man (6)
19 Thief who takes property
from a person (6)
20 Cite a passage or saying (5)

Across
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against attack (6)
7 Getting to one’s feet (8)
8 Popular vegetable (3)
9 Hunting expedition (6)
10 Region (4)
11 General conscious
awareness (5)
13 Painter’s board (7)

15 Agile performer (7)
17 Alternative (5)
21 Smooth-tongued (4)
22 Item of crockery (6)
23 Disorderly crowd of people (3)
24 Soonest (8)
25 Time of celebration in the
Christian calendar (6)
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IQ Puzzle

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Crossword

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2 Memory loss (7)
3 Semi-precious stone (5)
4 Rear (4)
5 Drinking greedily (8)
6 Street plan (4,3)
7 Port in northern Belgium (7)
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15 Creation of the highest

excellence (7)
16 Pulled (7)
18 Scarf worn around the neck (7)
21 Groundwork (5)
23 Group of musicians (4)

Across
1 Eastern marketplace (6)
5 Nepalese soldier (6)
8 ___ Karenina, novel (4)
9 Fervent proponent (6)
10 Birthstone for November (5)
11 Small area of land (4)
12 Performance using gestures (4)
13 Light-sensitive membrane (6)
15 Stiff paper (4)
17 Grandeur (4)
19 Shelter from danger (6)
20 Vocal music (4)
21 Medium to dark tan colour (4)
22 Darkest part of a shadow (5)
24 Existing alone (6)
25 Brood (4)
26 Recognition (6)
27 Want strongly (6)
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Codeword

Every letter in this crossword has been replaced by a number, the number
to cross off the letters either side of the grid to keep track of progress, and
the reference box showing which numbers have been decoded can also aid

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Sudoku

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Crossword

Across
1 Apex (4)
3 Music tape container (8)
9 Standard or typical example (7)
10 Plenty (5)
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14 Brownie (3)
16 Earlier in time (5)
17 ___ Khan, Islamic
religious leader (3)

18 Moving to a different
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Excessively fat (5)
Irresponsibly frivolous (7)
Ability (8)
Consistent with fact
or reality (4)

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1 One who gives a sermon (8)
2 Foreigner, stranger (5)
4 Expert (3)
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6 Milk pudding ingredient (7)
7 Garden of Adam and Eve (4)
8 Defendant charged with
adultery in a divorce
12 Inhale audibly through
the nose (5)
13 Ornamental waterspout (8)
15 Become alcohol (7)
19 Fluid product of
20 Popular carbonated drink (4)
22 Cult (3)

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Crossword

Across
1 Parentless child (6)
4 Praised vociferously (6)
7 Cut-down trousers (6)
9 Gave one’s approval to (8)
11 Heroic tale (4)
14 Relating to the stomach (7)
15 Asterisk (4)
16 Word expressing a motion
towards the centre (4)
17 Reaches out (7)
18 Corrode, as with acid (4)
21 Parallelogram with adjacent
sides of unequal lengths (8)
22 Inferior substitute
or imitation (6)
24 Beam over doorway (6)
25 Earnest or urgent request (6)

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Down
1 Watering-hole (5)
2 Pointed projection on a fork (5)
3 Astern (3)
4 Explosive device designed
to be thrown (4,7)
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6 Tinted (4)
8 Causing intense interest,
10 From or characteristic of
another part of the world (6)
12 Fix together (6)
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19 Faintly detectable amount (5)
20 Light brown colour (5)
21 Horizontal bar, track 4)
23 Tear (3)


13

IQ Puzzle

Can you place the hexagons into the grid, so that where any hexagon
touches another along a straight line, the contents of both triangles is the

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Sudoku

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Sudoku

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Logic Puzzle

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discover each man’s full name and the number of nieces and nephews he

1
2 Mr Harte has the same number of nieces as his friend Ronnie has
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Patrick
Ronnie
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8 nephews
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Across
1 Right (7)
8
arranging (7)
9 Obtain (7)
10 Responsible for a
reprehensible act (6)
12 Go round (6)
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17 To descend by rope (6)
20 Capital of Cuba (6)
23 Tapering stone pillar (7)
24 Sphere of vision (7)
25 Tiredness (7)

Crossword

Down
1 Become different (6)
2 Mass celebrated for the dead (7)
3 Legally binding command (5)
4 Row or level (4)
5 Musical instrument (5)
6 Molten rock (5)
7 Theatrical dance routine (6)
11 Mountain call (5)
12 Limits within which something
can be effective (5)
14 Being in charge of (7)
15 Hairdresser (6)
16 Fishing gear (6)
18 Less dangerous (5)
19 Muslim religion (5)
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22 Predatory carnivorous canine (4)
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