New Zealand Listener – June 08, 2019

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SCATTERWORD PERMUTATE
TEMPERATE
CLUELESS
CROSSWORD
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a different number
from 1 to 26. Use your knowledge of English to solve the
crossword. Some clue letters are given.
Your aim is to change
the top word one
letter at a time, each
time rearranging the
letters to create a new
word. Perform one
such permutation for
each blank line below
until you arrive at
the last word. There
is usually more than
one correct solution.
See how many you
can find in 15 mins.
Last week’s solutions. Logic Puzzle: Barbara will swim in the butterfly event at 11.30, Geoff will swim in the freestyle event at 11.00,
Hannah will swim in the backstroke at 11.45, and Raj will swim in the relay at 11.15. Scatterword: CONFLUENT, flounce,
confute, funnel, teflon, fluent, cleft, felon, flute, often, flout, fount, futon, clef, floe, felt, flet, left, flue, fuel, loft, foul, font. 23
words. Permutate: SWIFT, FIRST, ASTIR/SITAR/STAIR/STRIA/TARSI, ARISE/RAISE, LASER, RELAY Clueless crossword:
PROBE PLANET MONTH
Envoy
Intrepid
Seeker
Vital
LOGIC PUZZLE MAKE SPACE
Four interplanetary probes are to be launched in consecutive months to
four different planets:

1. Regarding the Seeker and the Vital, one will be launched in January
   and the other will go to Saturn.


2. The Vital will take off two months after the probe headed for Venus.


3. The Intrepid will either be launched in March or be sent to Venus.


4. The Saturn-bound probe will be launched sometime after the Envoy.


5. The Intrepid will be launched a month after the probe bound for Mars.

Using these clues and the grid below, can you work out which probe is to
go to which planet and when it will be launched?

You may

write your

answers in

this grid:

11 GOOD

16 VERY GOOD

20+ EXCELLENT

PROBE PLANET

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January

February

March

April

Mars

Mercury

Saturn

Venus

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Sa

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W OR LD

VENUS

A B C D E F G H I J K L M

N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Your aim is to create words of four

letters or more using the given

letters once, but always including

the middle letter. Do not use

proper names or plural/verb forms

that add only “s”. See if you can

find the nine-letter word that uses

all the letters.