12 PAGES OF PUZZLE FUN! Super puzzler
WIN! A SHARE OF $2000
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Cane broke by church by accident (6)
4. Never move over East – it’s superficial (6)
9. Pub in part of Hobart (3)
10. Surname I’d rewrite for nanny (9)
11. Pole fast moving about hotel (5)
12. Brightest thing in the sky sounds like Lassie! (3,4)
14. Eg, confine arts movement (3,8)
17. Free from germs, a pest shifts 1 to 100 (7)
18. I score, when angry (5)
20. The brightest 150 are on top of tallest mountain (9)
22. Silent parent (3)
23. Appoint donkey spilling gin (6)
24. Commendation for ability to purchase on trust (6)
DOWN
1. Picasso, for example, sounds like a square! (6)
2. A poor rota for vessel (5)
3. Inhibit tailless crushing snake (9)
5. Sheep sounds like you (3)
6. Laciest new stretchy material (7)
7. This type of detection device works both ways (5)
8. Start decree about firm’s private knowledge (5,6)
13. Old fighter glad to air changes (9)
15. First batsmen prove useful in the kitchen! (7)
16. Her Tim returns to be a recluse (6)
17. Anzac craft in central African port (5)
19. Dream about bearing guns (5)
21. Peggy holds a little urge (3)
SUDOKU
Fill in the blank squares with the numbers 1 to 9 so that each row, each column and each smaller 3x3 block contains all the numbers from 1 to 9.
THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Almond paste confectionery
5. Deaden, … your gums
8. Russia’s capital
11. Cows’ milk glands
16. Prolific pale green vege, … vine
17. Joking around, just …
19. Much-mourned NZ fast-food chain, … Pie
20. Senseless, an … comment 21. Rodents, water …
22. Lavatory
23. In the forefront of fashion, very …
25. Burning slightly
27. Released, … the pressure
30. Baffling, mysterious
31. Instrumental composition
32. Podium
33. Bill-paying method, direct …
37. Sing to,
