Reader\'s Digest Australia - 05.2019

134 | May• 2019

TEST YOUR MENTAL PROWESS

Puzzles

BRAIN POWER

24 Renovate (9)

25 Plant life of

a region (5)

26 Common

synthetic fibre (5)

27 Costly (7)

DOWN

01 Change

appropriately (5)

02 Wildly happy (8)

03 Briefly notice (4)

04 Amount of

goods provided (6)

05 Partisan,

follower (8)

06 Bold pioneer (10)

07 Student who works

without pay (6)

08 Mimic, copy (7)

14 Revelling loudly (10)

17 Make-up item (8)

18 Over-anxious (8)

19 Portion (7)

21 Walk like an infant (6)

22 Drowsy (6)

23 Provide food and drink (5)

25 Specific size and style

of type (4)

Challenge yourself by solving these puzzles and mind stretchers,

then check your answers on page 133.

BY MARCEL DANESI

ACROSS

09 Short-legged dog (9)

10 Tough cotton used for jeans (5)

11 Fall guy (5)

12 Guiding instance (9)

13 Covered with heavenly bodies (6)

15 Vanished (species) (7)

16 Tending to have mishaps (8, 5)

20 Authorise (7)

22 Green vegetable or young shoot (6)

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