BIG PUZZLE PAGE crossword 1
ACROSS 1 In a quantifiable manner( 14) 10 Pork strips( 5) 11 Grease( 9) 12 Pushes forcefully( 7) 13 Constructed( 7) 14 Ice or roller( 5) 16 Facing numerical superiority( 9) 19 Bellicose nationalists( 9) 20 Pulsate( 5) 22 Not reptiles( 7) 25 Choose to refrain( 7) 27 Derived from hunches( 9) 28 Labor organization( 5) 29 Distinguishes( 14)
DOWN 2 Not sure( 9) 3 9 9 9 9( 5) 4 Magic tricks( 9) 5 Stroll( 5) 6 Travelling from place to place( 9) 7 Decree( 5) 8 Ceded( 7) 9 Slackens( 6) 15 Serving to bring to mind( 9) 17 Will( 9) 18 Standardize( 9) 19 Levered( 7) 21 A yellow fruit( 6) 23 A design of recurring shapes( 5) 24 Contemptuous( 5) 26 Steam bath( 5)
ACROSS 9. Cold symptom( 7) 10. Renowned( 7) 11. Annoying( 7) 12. Embossment( 7) 13. Outlying areas( 9) 15. Astound( 5) 16. A plant with pricklyedged leaves( 7) 19. A California baseball team( 7) 20. Kind of spray( 5) 21. Expansive( 9) 25. Paving material( 7) 26. Gleam( 7) 28. Take under one’ s wing( 7) 29. Let go( 7)
ANSWERS PAGE 30 crossword 2
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DOWN 1. Inuit( 6) 2. A labor protester( 6) 3. A type of hair style( 4) 4. Asteroid( 6) 5. Fair( 8) 6. A folding portable ladder( 10) 7. Renounce( 8) 8. Fidgety( 8) 14. Tympani( 10) 16. A run-down apartment house( 8) 17. Lacking self-confidence( 8) 18. Restrain( 8) 22. Whim( 6) 23. Expenditure( 6) 24. Recessed( 6) 27. Doing nothing( 4)
To solve a Sudoku puzzle, every number from 1 to 9 must appear in: Each of the nine vertical columns Each of the nine horizontal rows Each of the nine 3 x 3 boxes Remember, no number can occur more than once in any row, column or box. Good luck!
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To solve a Sudoku puzzle, every number from 1 to 9 must appear in: Each of the nine vertical columns Each of the nine horizontal rows Each of the nine 3 x 3 boxes Remember, no number can occur more than once in any row, column or box. Good luck!
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