New Zealand Listener - 09.07,2019

SEPTEMBER 7 2019 LISTENER 63

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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: Arsenal’s Alexandre scored 14 goals, Manchester United’s Romelu scored 16 goals, Manchester City’s Raheem
scored 18 goals and Leicester City’s Jamie scored 20 goals. Scatterword: UNDRESSED, rudeness, endured, dressed, ensured, undress, redden,
denser, endure, nursed, sunder, duress, ensure, udder, ender, under, dress, sneer, nurse, deer, reed, nerd, rend, rude, rued, nurd, surd, erne,
seer, sere, rune, ruse, suer, sure, user. 35 words. Permutate: GOALS, SOLAR, AROSE, ARISE/RAISE, PRIES/PRISE/SPIRE, PRIZE Clueless crossword:
VARIETY REGION YEAR
Cabernet merlot
Chardonnay
Riesling
Sauvignon blanc
LOGIC PUZZLE A GOOD YEAR
Four of New Zealand’s finest wines from the past decade are being used in a
wine tasting:

1. The cabernet merlot is from one year earlier than the chardonnay.


2. The riesling is from a later year than the wine from Hawke’s Bay.


3. Regarding the chardonnay and the sauvignon blanc, one is from the year
   2015 and one is from Auckland.


4. The wine from 2016 is either from Auckland or Otago.


5. The wine from Hawke’s Bay is one year older than the wine from Auckland.

Using these clues and the grid below, can you work out the region and the year
of each wine?

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write your

answers in

this grid:

19 GOOD

23 VERY GOOD

27+ EXCELLENT

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Your aim is to create words of

four letters or more using the

given letters once only 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.