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Brain Gym
1
Double Crossword
No.085
1
Choose either quick or cryptic clues.
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.
Quiz
15
3
16
17
5
18
6
19
7
20
8
21
9
22
10
23
11
24
12
25
13
26
10
18
11
24
17
8
45
12
30
11
1929?
5
9
11
What is the highest mountain in the
11
12
Cairngorms?
15
8
21
9
13
7
13
What type of creature is the mudskipper?
19
By what name was Robert MacGregor better
23
9
12
16
known?
12
11
21
Which sport s principal forms are strokeplay
11
17
13
30
and matchplay?
3
8
7.
Who is the patron saint of Scotland?
8.
Which disease is also called Hansen’s
3
M L B T
W
O
R
?
A
R
S E
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P
N
S E
Down
1. Attacker (9)
2. Brotherly (9)
4. Inferior (4)
5. Boredom (5)
6. Voucher (6)
7. Particular (4)
9. Lid (5)
11. Prepared (5)
12. Not too bad (9)
13. The accused (9)
17. Proposer (5)
19. Revolve (6)
22. Lukewarm (5)
23. Raise (4)
24. Daybreak (4)
Alphamuddle
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.
I
I
D
E
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.
S
A
D E S I P
C E I L I
D R I D S
R I S T E
D A I P E B
How you rate:
P N R 15 words – average
– good
I P A 2535 words
words – very good
40 or more – excellent
A G E
9
Sudoku
What is a saluki?
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.
Solutions
Difficult:
N M H V W Y O R K D C P G
15
I
1
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
Q X A T E L B J
2
3
CODEWORD:
4
5
6
7
8
9
8
14
6
Intermediate:
9
SUDOKU: Simple:
8
3
5
6
7
8
4
1
2
9
7
4
7
9
1
2
3
6
5
8
6
1
8
2
6
9
5
7
4
3
5
7
2 6
2
7
8 5
8 9
8 7
5 2
1
3
2
5
1
3
2
7
8
9
6
4
4
2
4 3
8 7
2
9
4
5
3
6
8
1
7
3
1
7
8
4
5
1
7
1 9
9
5
8
6
7
4
1
9
5
3
2
2
gives a pastry
gives a dairy product
gives a spice
2 4
3
9
9
2
8
3
6
1
4
7
5
479865
75483
72361
5 9
7
4
1
9
5
2
3
8
6
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.
1
4
8
7 2
1
6
9
4
9
8
5
9 7
6
9
3
6
8 1
3
3 9
1
7
1
2
7
Difficult
6
3
5
8
4
7
2
9
1
Niner
Intermediate
9
1
4
3
6
2
5
7
8
Games?
Simple
5
3
2
7
1
8
9
6
4
three-day event at the 1994 World Equestrian
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8
7
9
4
5
1
2
3
10. Which country’s all-woman team won the
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24
25
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F Z U S
10
11
12
4 2
8 5 9 6 2
2 3
3 6
7 5
8 1
4 8
4 3
1 4
4 8
7 9
6 7 8
6 9 4 3 8
1 7
9 5
2 4
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KAKURO:
1 6
2 7
8 9
3 1 7
6 5
7 8
1
3 5
8 4
6 5
CIRCLEGRAM:
The letter represented by the question mark
is E. Marlowe, Webster, Spenser, all early
modern playwrights.
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD:
Across: 3 Stand fast; 8 Rook; 9 Musicians;
10 Jet set; 11 Feint; 14 Class; 15 Dune;
16 Event; 18 Opts; 20 Annie; 21 Eight;
24 Rubber; 25 Conscious; 26 Cuba;
27 Adiposity. Down: 1 Projector; 2 Posthaste; 4 Tout; 5 Naive; 6 Friend; 7 Send; 9
Meuse; 11 Fleet; 12 Turn about; 13 Rehearsal;
17 Tagus; 19 Sits up; 22 Heirs; 23 Word;
24 Rust.
QUICK CROSSWORD:
Across: 3 Appertain; 8 Sort; 9 Connected;
10 Author; 11 Rivet; 14 Large; 15 Tome;
16 Realm; 18 Near; 20 Obese; 21 Lofty;
24 Demand; 25 Disappear; 26 Plan;
27 Attendant. Down: 1 Assailant; 2 Fraternal;
4 Poor; 5 Ennui; 6 Ticket; 7 Item; 9 Cover;
11 Ready; 12 Tolerable; 13 Defendant;
17 Mover; 19 Rotate; 22 Tepid; 23 Lift;
24 Dawn.
QUIZ:
1 Zambia; 2 Ralph Vaughan Williams; 3 Ben
Macdhui; 4 A fish; 5 Rob Roy; 6 Golf; 7 St
Andrew; 8 Leprosy; 9 A dog; 10 Great Britain.
NINER:
NUMERICAL
WORDSQUARE:
agape, aping, appear, appearing, gape, gaper,
grape, grip, gripe, grippe, nape, neap, nipper,
paean, pagan, page, pager, pain, pair, pane,
pang, papa, papain, paper, papering, parang,
pare, paring, pear, pier, pigpen, pine, ping,
pipage, pipe, piper, prang, prep, prig, rape,
rapine, raping, rapping, reap, reaping, repp,
ripe, ripen.
ALPHAMUDDLE:
Trips, Radii, Idled, Piece, Sides.
1
17
20
4
5
9
6
7
3
8
1
2
9.
13
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.
21
6
disease?
13
8
2
3
5
9
1
7
4
6
6.
12
15
1
7
6
8
2
4
3
9
5
5.
11
2
6
5
1
8
9
4
3
7
4.
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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?
3
4
1
2
5
7
6
8
9
3.
Circlegram
Wordsquare
13
Who wrote the opera Sir John In Love in
7
10
Kakuro
Of which country is Lusaka the capital?
6
9
Down
6
2.
5
3. Leave your seat
1. Plan an alternative
quickly and remain
piece of film
equipment (9)
solidly unmoved (5,4)
14
2. Hurry after a job
8. Fleece a man on the
quickly (4-5)
16
board (4)
4. He hopes to pick up
9. Players who should
tips
for
everything
in
18
19
know the score (9)
France (4)
10. Fast plane fixed for
21
22
5. In part of the
smart clique (3,3)
church there’s one
11. Deceptive movement
23
showing unaffected
not easily discerned,
simplicity (5)
we hear (5)
25
6. You’ll find Fred in
14 and 25Ac. Snobbish
confusion, mate (6)
teachers always
7 and 23Dn. Convey a
are! (5-9)
message to divert Dr.
27
15. The result of
Downes (4,4)
some of the sand
9. Think about east
unearthed! (4)
French river (5)
Quick Clues:
16. Level the top of
11. Fast-moving
Across
armada (5)
the track for sports
12. To change the course
3. Belong (9)
item (5)
of a fight, face the
18. Show preference
8. Kind (4)
other
way
(4,5)
for work near back9. Joined (9)
13. Receives information 10. Writer (6)
street (4)
in genuine
20. She can become
11. Clinch (5)
practice (9)
inane (5)
14. Big (5)
17. A current feature of
21. Number all in the
15. Volume (4)
Lisbon (5)
same boat? (5)
16. Province (5)
19. Becomes alert
24. This will delete a
and refrains from
18. Close (4)
game of bridge (6)
retiring (4,2)
20. Corpulent (5)
25. See 14 Across
22. They are expected to 21. High (5)
26. Young animal near
succeed (5)
24. Claim (6)
a West Indian
23. See 7 Down
25. Vanish (9)
location (4)
24. Furrow round the
27. So pity Ida affected
south reveals fungus 26. Scheme (4)
27. Accompanying (9)
by fattiness (9)
disease (4)
M
4
4
7
9
8
4
3
6
2
5
1
1.
Across
14
I
2
3
8
Cryptic Clues:
Codeword
2
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