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PUZZLES

BRAIN BUSTERS

1. Whose book of short stories was adapted into the film The Turning in 2013? 2. What is the capital city of North Korea? 3. Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond currently host which television program? 4. The San Diego Padres play which sport? 5. Singer Lauryn Hill is best known for her work in which group? 6. What is the longest river in the Czech Republic? 7. Who wrote the novel A Clockwork Orange ? 8. What movie tied with Fantastic Four for Worst Picture at the 2016 Golden Raspberry Awards? 9. Which classic 1980s cartoon featured characters such as Rumble, Sunstreaker and Jazz? 10 . Who preceded François Hollande as president of France?

SUPER SUDOKU

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 and each of the nine 3 x 3 boxes. Remember no number can occur more than once in any row, column or box.

7 5

3 4

3 7 8

5

6

3

4 1 7 5

2

9 1

5

3

3 4 6 9 7

4 7 2 9 5

7 2 1 3 1 9 3 5 6

3 7

4

1

4

8

9

4

5 8 1 9

9 6 4

8 3

6 7

DIFFICULTY RATING 

DIFFICULTY RATING 

No. 1105

No. 1106

CROSSWORD

No. 3591

Shades of Grey . 9 Transformers. 10 Nicolas Sarkozy.

4 Baseball. 5 The Fugees. 6 Vltava. 7 Anthony Burgess. 8

Fifty

DOWN 1 Driven (9) 2 Microbial bread additive (5) 3 Limitation (11) 4 Photos (9) 5 Japanese seaport (5) 6 - Guevara (3) 7 Incompetency (9) 8 Entrance (4) 13 Things built on beaches (11) 15 Insect similar to a moth (9) 16 Creator’s protection (9) 17 Hundreds and - (9) 21 Skimping (5) 23 Perturb (5) 24 Semi (4) 26 Billiard rod (3)

ACROSS 1 Town leader (5) 4 Displaying bad posture (9) 9 Defrosts (5) 10 Awe (9) 11 Democracy participant (5) 12 Rareness (8) 14 Cigarette filling (7) 16 Join (7) 18 Particulars (7) 19 Famous painter (7) 20 Christmas animal (8) 22 Adult male deer (plural) (5) 25 Influencing (9) 27 Cloth (5) 28 Boxing category (9) 29 Eyelid inflammations (5)

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The Grand Tour

SOLUTION: 1 Tim Winton. 2 Pyongyang. 3

No. 1105

No. 1106

9 4 1 3 2 7 6 8 5 2 3 8 4 5 6 7 1 9 7 5 6 1 8 9 3 4 2 3 2 4 5 6 8 9 7 1 6 7 5 2 9 1 4 3 8 8 1 9 7 3 4 5 2 6 1 9 7 6 4 2 8 5 3 5 6 2 8 7 3 1 9 4 4 8 3 9 1 5 2 6 7

5 8 7 9 6 1 2 4 3 3 4 2 8 7 5 6 9 1 9 6 1 2 4 3 7 8 5 7 5 9 3 8 6 4 1 2 6 1 4 7 2 9 5 3 8 2 3 8 5 1 4 9 7 6 4 7 3 6 5 8 1 2 9 8 2 5 1 9 7 3 6 4 1 9 6 4 3 2 8 5 7

answers

Solve a sudoku, crack a crossword, test your trivia

1603 150622

CROSSWORD

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