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Brain Gym
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Double Crossword
No.079
Each number in the grid represents a different letter of
the alphabet and every letter of the alphabet is used.
Use the given letters to the right of the main grid to start
you off.
1
14
Choose either quick or cryptic clues.
2
15
3
16
4
17
5
18
6
Across
1. Cook a chop like
this to make one
elated (4-1-4)
8. Its living quarters
may be in a
heap (3)
9. Women who have
no-one to mow
their lawns? (5,6)
11. Touch on what
brought Zulu
warriors to a
strange end (7)
12. Go round in high
circles (5)
13. Reason to include
a number in a
proviso (6)
15. He lets everybody
know he’s a
clerk (6)
17. Pass out with
many a twitch (5)
18. The cul-de-sac all
mortals reach (4,3)
20. When it’s
too humid to
hunt? (5,6)
22. Born in unending
need (3)
23. Carries away the
gates (9)
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C
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Quiz
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30
What is the capital of Bermuda?
3.
In financial terms, what do the initials IBRD
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2.
11
18
23
12
8
20
stand for?
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6
16
30
What did Elias Howe reputedly invent in 1846?
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5.
What is the German name for Gdansk?
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6.
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21
From which language is the world coleslaw
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10
18
13
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21
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derived?
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12
4
What is a fumarole?
8.
Who founded the Bauhaus in Germany in
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7
Circlegram
Replace the question mark with
a letter so that the letters within
each circle can be arranged to form
words on a common theme. What
are the three words, and the letter
represented by the question mark?
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11
12
13
14
15
C A
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17
18
19
20
U
Q
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Quick Clues:
Across
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Fill in the
white squares
with numbers
1 to 9. Each
horizontal
block must
add up to the
number in
the shaded
square to its
left, and each
vertical block
to the number
above.
Numbers may
be used once
in each block.
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A L L
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M T A
S O
Down
1. Overpraised (9)
2. Careless (3)
8. Kind of pigeon (3)
3. Vestige (5)
9. Wasteful (11)
4. Motive (6)
11. Generator (7)
5. Severe (7)
12. Laconic (5)
6. Question (11)
Alphamuddle
13. Slovenly (6)
7. Examined (9)
15. Confront (6)
10. Mean (5-6)
17. Leaves out (5)
11. Tomb (9)
18. Fruit grove (7)
14. Far (7)
20. Pellucid (11)
16. Rumple (6)
22. Employ (3)
19. Pursue (5)
23. Ergo (9)
21. And not (3)
Rearrange the letters in grid B to
make five words that read both
across and down. Five letters have
been placed to start you off.
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E
I
Wordsquare
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4.
Down
2. Row maker, or so it
sounds (3)
3. A clergyman lost
his head for this
crime (5)
4. Who could have
asked for more? (6)
5. Seek an
engagement – or
work, in plain
language (7)
6. Incredible
doctrines of a
bygone age (4,7)
7. Experienced initial
difficulty in speechmaking (9)
10. It pays an actor to
keep them up (11)
11. An insect’s
uninterrupted
development (9)
14. Undistinguished
character (7)
16. Arrival of a
modern-day
airway (6)
19. Possibly earn
a place in the
sporting world (5)
21. Be in the red – in
yellow even (3)
Kakuro
What is finocchio?
3
8
Cryptic Clues:
Codeword
2
A
Give yourself ten minutes to find as many words
as possible using the letters in the grid. Each word
must use the central letter and at least 3 others,
and letters may be used only once. You cannot
use plurals, foreign words or proper nouns, but
verb forms ending in ‘s’ are permitted. There is one
9-letter word to be found.
R
A
S L A S E
L E R I A
R E T T E
S E X E S
E V I V E B
How you rate:
E T R 20 words – average
– good
E C U 3040 words
words – very good
50 or more – excellent
N T A
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Sudoku
In which year did Chiang Kai-shek die?
Fill in the grids below so that every column, every row and each of the 3x3 boxes contains all the digits from 1 to 9.
Intermediate
8 2 4
8
3
7
2
9
SUDOKU: Simple:
1
3
7
4
8
5
6
9
2
8
2
6
7
9
1
5
3
4
Intermediate:
Difficult:
W S B A M C P L O Y E
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
I
25
D
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X J U R F Q V K Z H T N G
1
2
3
CODEWORD:
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
6 4 2
7 3
8 7 1 2
8 9 6
5 7
3 5
4 5
8 4
4 5 8 7 2 1 3
7 1
8 4
7 6
3 9
1 3 8 9
7 5 9
1 2 3 7
3 9
2 5 3 4 1 6
4 9 1 7
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KAKURO:
CIRCLEGRAM:
The letter represented by the question mark
is M. Macaque, mandrill, marmoset, all types
of monkey.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD:
Across: 1 Cock-a-hoop; 8 Ant; 9 Grass
widows; 11 Impinge; 12 Orbit; 13 Clause;
15 Teller; 17 Spasm; 18 Dead end; 20 Close
season; 22 Née; 23 Entrances. Down: 2 Oar;
3 Arson; 4 Oliver; 5 Propose; 6 Past beliefs;
7 Stuttered; 10 Appearances; 11 Incessant;
14 Someone; 16 Advent; 19 Arena; 21 Owe.
QUICK CROSSWORD:
Across: 1 Flattered; 8 Nun; 9 Extravagant;
11 Magneto; 12 Terse; 13 Untidy; 15 Accost;
17 Omits; 18 Orchard; 20 Transparent; 22 Use;
23 Therefore. Down: 2 Lax; 3 Trace; 4 Reason;
5 Drastic; 6 Interrogate; 7 Inspected; 10 Tightfisted; 11 Mausoleum; 14 Distant; 16 Tousle;
19 Chase; 21 Nor.
QUIZ:
1 A variety of fennel; 2 Hamilton;
3 International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development; 4 Sewing machine; 5 Danzig;
6 Dutch (koolsla); 7 A vent in or near a
volcano; 8 Walter Gropius; 9 1975; 10 Toronto.
NINER:
PARBOILED
WORDSQUARE:
acne, acre, acute, acuter, cane, caner, cant,
canter, care, careen, caret, cart, carte, cater,
cent, centaur, centre, crane, crate, create,
cruet, cuneate, curate, cure, curet, curette,
curt, curtate, cute, cutter, ecru, enact, erect,
eruct, eructate, nacre, nectar, race, react,
recant, recent, recta, tact, terce, trace, tract,
trance, truce, truncate, utterance.
ALPHAMUDDLE:
Sever, Exile, Visas, Elate, Reset.
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gives a dog
gives a cat
gives a fish
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Niner
Each number from 1 to 9 represents a different letter. Solve
the clues and insert the letters in the appropriate squares to
discover a word which uses all nine letters.
5
1
7
4
9
1
5
3
2
6
8
7
financial centre?
Difficult
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7
2
3
9
6
4
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5
Simple
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10. In which North American city is Bay Street the
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1919?
