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5 2 4
8 4 1
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4 3 1 8 5
9 7 6
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5 7 3 2 4
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5 7 1 8
6 1 5 2
5 1 4 8
6 3
8 2 1 5 9 6
3 5 6 4
9 6 7 8 5
5 1 3
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3 7 8
6 5
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Puzzles
THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD
ACROSS- Put on your best
clothes (7,2) - South American
ruminants - Ornamental ribbon
- Endurance
- Give commentary
to a film - Pirates Of The Caribbean
actor, ... Bloom - Substantial
- Rest your feet (3,4)
- And so on (abbrev)
- Bound about,
like a puppy - Amphibian introduced
into Queensland (4,4) - Quick doze
- Lure into danger
- Grain container
- Medicinal amount
- Fish hook
- Perform in a play
- Professor Snape in
the Harry Potter films, ...
Rickman - Emma Stone’s Spider-
Man role, ... Stacy - Harvests
- England/Australia
cricket “trophy” - Winter sport participant
- Squeeze
- Row (of seats)
- Irish Republic
- Controlled a vehicle
- Original inhabitant
of New Zealand - More eminent
- Beatles’ drummer
- NZ mountain range,
Southern ... - Jumbo
- Travelling salesman
(abbrev) - Physicist, ... Einstein
- Flatten
- Church table
- UK actress,
... Bonham Carter - Church council
- Powerful
- Irish writer, Oscar ...
- Dive forward
- Serenely
- Ill will
- In a tidy way
- Communicate via
the internet - Heraldic badge
- Zone
- Tropical root vegetable
- Gateau
- Cauterise
- Showy daisy
- Army rank
98. Humid
100. Cairo’s country
102. Open vans
103. Chauffeur driven car
(abbrev)
104. Dispute
106. Old fashioned
108. Localities
111. Bert’s friend in
Sesame Street
113. Consumes food
114. Pile untidily
116. Tot up
117. Measure of paper
119. Extreme happiness
120. Freezes
121. Extent from end to end
123. Accept as a
challenge (4,2)
126. Harsh voiced
127. Removed the inside of
129. Boiling
131. Whole number
134. Contingency
measure (4,1)
135. Nervous strain
136. Skilled craftsperson
137. Neither here nor
there (2,5)
138. Upper body sculpture
139. Loses vital fluid
140. Gets sidetracked
DOWN- Disney’s quacking
character (6,4) - Sign up
- One of four periods
of the year - Control of calorie intake
- Child’s stick on a spring
- Young pride member (4,3)
- During the time that
(2,4,2) - Write comments upon
- Stardom
- Flat round token
- Cuban music and dance
- Air raid warning device
- Instrumental composition
- Disheartened
- Of the highest quality
(3,3) - Lacking colour
- Narrow
- Lascivious looks
- Prepare food
- US golfer, ... Woods
- Recreational activity
- Less risky
- Rowing boat for one
- Debase
- Corresponded
- Units of electrical
resistance - Devonshire tea food
- Impressive line ups
43. Lose your temper (3,3)
44. Moral wrong
45. Much loved actor
48. Omelette ingredient
50. Fury
55. Strong in quality
56. Article of clothing
57. Arithmetic mean
58. Anticipate (3,4)
60. Getting on in years
62. Fastener for a bicycle
64. Personal suitcases
65. Noisy American snake
66. Attorneys
67. Smallish rural settlement
71. Annoying bark
72. Meryl Streep film,
... Of Africa
77. Indian spiced pastry
78. Conjured up
79. Surpasses
83. Subtraction
84. Row of backbones
85. Cliched classification
86. Underground chapel
87. Porridge cereal
89. High playing card
91. Boxer, Muhammad ...
92. Tennis champion,
... Wawrinka
93. Heavenly messenger
95. Foot digit
96. Tricks
99. Children
101. Spreadable substance
105. Correct
107. Dermatologist’s interest
109. Clear headed
110. Sticky stuff
112. Crane or pulley
operator
114. Courageous person
115. Roast, mashed or
chipped vegetable
117. TV viewing figures
118. Nothing more than
122. Tortoise like aquatic
animal
124. US actor, ... Reeves
125. Satellite’s course
128. Elephant teeth
129. 2003 film starring
Eric Bana
130. Mausoleum
132. Informed
133. Group of criminals
- Disney’s quacking
$500
PRIZE
See ‘How To Enter’
(last page)SUDOKU
Fill in the blank squares with the numbers 1 to 9
so that each row, each column and each smaller
3 x 3 block contains all the numbers from 1 to 9.