Easter Puzzle Time 2019

PUZZLE 12

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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1. In the crudest sense it’s the colour of unbleached linen (4) 4. Succeed or fail in riding a bicycle (4,3) 8. It’s like a film star to be well informed (2,3,7) 9. Offer for less than a guinea (8) 10. Grizzly speculator? (4) 12. Valley flowers? (6) 14. Church official attacked about ten (6) 16. Thanks General Secretary for the tickets (4) 17. Colin, her distributor of gas (8) 20. Skilled craftsman employed at No 10 (12) 21. Have a rest at length (3,4) 22. Detest a male at heart (4)

2. Coming from Acton with part of a long poem (5) 3. Opened an eye (8) 4. Making do with a stone (6) 5. Came from the club (4) 6. Work is socially acceptable during the period before Easter for the wealthy (7) 7. Eggs that cost nothing on the mountains? (4-5) 9. Petty officer landed, taking one state of government (9) 11. Can’t hope to remove the monument (8) 13. The foreign bilge rewritten to make clear (7) 15. Building prohibition going round an Asian country (6) 18. Nitre could be chemically inactive (5) 19. Ruin a foreign party (4)

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PUZZLE 13

PUZZLE 14

Difficulty level: Easy

Difficulty level: Medium

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Kakuro Fill in the blank squares in the grid with numbers so that each horizontal or vertical line adds up to the total given in the box either to the left or above it. Horizontal totals are given in the top right corners of the shaded boxes; vertical totals in the bottom left corners. You can use the numbers 1 to 9, but may not use the same number more than once in any run. The number may be used again, however, in the same row or column but as part of another run.

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