Christmas TV and Puzzle Book 2018

PUZZLE 22

TWO-IN-ONE CROSSWORD Two sets of clues both leading to the same answers

QUICK CLUES

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CRYPTIC CLUES

3. Erudition (9) 7. Total (5) 8. Boy or girl (9) 9. Below (poetic) (5)

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3. The ignorant do not have it (9) 7. Complete part of a golf course, say (5) 8. One right gutsy sort of child (9) 9. Then moved round a town in Wales (5) 10. Discouraged when it cooled down (7) 13. Some describe veldt as having a sloping edge (5) 14. Priest to reject the poet (5) 16. We accept her question (5) 17. One or two birds (7) 21. Go round the edge of a garment (5) 22. Throw bullet from catapult (9) 23. Three – odd number (5) 24. Ambidextrous pair, factory worker with newsman (3-6) 1. Rocky craft found at the fair? (9) 2. Case of puff pastry coming out of the oven vault (3-2-4) 3. Essential opening a door might have (7) 4. Hoist used by Wesleyan leader in church (5) 5. Artistic supporter? (5) 6. Bird not in charge of digging up lettuce (5) 10. Ringing sound in jail (5)

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10. Filled with dread (7) 13. Slant to a surface (5) 14. George -----, Victorian novelist (5) 16. At what place? (5) 17. Songbird (7) 21. Item of women’s clothing (5) 22. Thin gloss (anag.) (9) 23. Anaesthetic (5) 24. Designed for two people (3-6) 3. Small aperture in door (7) 4. Winding mechanism (5) 5. Painting frame (5) 6. Diving bird (5) 10. Light metallic sound (5) 11. Public eye (9) 12. Written acknowledgement of a debt (9) 15. Formed into a spiral shape (7) 18. Relation by marriage (2-3) 19. Midday repast (5) 20. Increased (5) 1. Fairground attraction (9) 2. Canapé (3-2-4)

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11. I’ll get him awful publicity (9) 12. Be putting in false teeth as an investment (9) 15. Danced in a distorted way? (7) 18. One legally related? (2-3) 19. Start off without a meal (5) 20. Having got up from the corner, is entertaining (5)

PUZZLE 23

Telephone dialling pads combine several letters on one key. Here several sets of words or items have been encoded by using numbers rather than letters. Then they have been divided into groups of three characters and all the names have been run one after another to make your task a little more difficult. Can you crack the code?

words associated with farms

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Dialling Codes

parts of a car

famous scientists

6. 287 431 327 232 912 355 134 678 346 127 244 633 371 928 813 536 464 172 783 871 425 453 614 295 464 126 737 642 871 334 766 132 891 327 946 754 773 712 564 172 632 512 764 831 946 553 742 537 166 222 746 176 325 371 685 317 226 818 724 637 142 567 415 623 371 923 371 754 642 225 types of footwear

4. 286 737 129 531 228 837 914 323 526 719 433 519 463 727 336 143 272 691 723 428 671 897 312 666 381 776 453 717 453 623 717 478 661 258 824 225 417 424 591 824 926 162 874 848 715 262 422 129 778 712 677 422 146 674 814 249 212 676 361 528 214 735 263 142 924 412 673 817 862 872 islands of the world

5. 756 844 146 673 122 761 427 769 187 228 671 269 172 273 276 917 456 174 478 912 253 174 337 126 624 631 427 837 837 138 251 244 253 614 628 337 227 837 127 478 685 315 268 178 773 551 627 913 742 878 717 278 731 643 897 243 176 272 837 154 375 342 273 179 842 467 271 266 382 487 philosophers

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2 ABC

3 DEF

4 GHI

5 JKL

6 MNO

7 PQRS

8 TUV

9 WXYZ

Spaces and any punctuation marks are represented by 1.

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