Chichester Observer

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You have 10 mins to find as many words as possible using the letters in the wheel. Each must use the hub letter and at least 3 others. Letters may be used only once. You cannot use plurals, foreign words or proper nouns. There is at least one 9-letter word to be found.

Cryptic Clues Across

Skilled craftsmen? (11) All bent on making a game of it (7)

A body’s strength (5) Attack on TV? (5) Birds I hide in a ship (7)

Attacked and bombed perhaps (6) A colourless individual (6) Exertion makes us alter our belt (7)

Vessel carrying fuel from

Loire (5)

All right, a sanctimoni­ous creature (5) Terminated the sitting, perhaps (5,2) Boring possibly, but shrewd (11)

Down

Can’t bear inordinate haste (5)

Money from a priest (7)

Very much like sauce (6)

Presents one’s natural talents (5) Extremely important stations (7) Intelligen­ce in the making (11) It records world-shaking events (11)

Rich fabric with an outstandin­g design (7)

The prospect for a guardsman (7) Woolworker is something of a problem (6)

She’s been banned! (5)

Like a ship taking many to port (5)

Quick Clues Across

Curse (11) Annuls (7) Upright (5) Handle (5) Hopelessne­ss (7) Whiten (6) Discard (6)

Make coarse (7) Scholar (5) Lowest point (5) Oblivious (7) Sceptic (11)

Down

Abundant (5) Stretching (7) Internally (6) Lock (5)

Work (7) Sticking out (11) Narrator (11) Divided (7) Elucidate (7) Sufficient (6) Steed (5)

Aspect (5)

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DOUBLE CROSSWORD:

Cryptic: Across: 1 Spurious;

5 Clan; 9 Seam; 10 Allergic; 11 Billy; 12 Creates; 13 Depressed area; 18 Audition; 19 Amps; 20 Isolate; 21 Repay; 22 Take; 23 Asserted. Down: 2 Preside; 3 Rambler; 4 Ugly customers; 6 Lighter; 7 Nicosia; 8 Legend; 13 Diarist; 14 Padlock; 15 Extras; 16 Amateur; 17 Expiate. Quick: Across: 1 Unwieldy; 5 Slab; 9 Opus; 10 Estrange; 11 Guard; 12 Neglect; 13 Recrudesce­nce; 18 Fingered; 19 Draw; 20 Element; 21 Smite; 22 Test; 23 Adjacent. Down: 2 Neptune; 3 Insurer; 4 Disinteres­ted; 6 Lantern; 7 Breathe; 8 Tragic; 13 Reflect; 14 Confess; 15 Uneven; 16 Endemic; 17 Chasten.

SUDOKU:

CODEWORD: 1=R, 2=S, 3=H, 4=V, 5=N, 6=K, 7=L, 8=I, 9=T, 10=B, 11=D, 12=C, 13=O, 14=Q, 15=Y, 16=P, 17=G, 18=F, 19=U, 20=M, 21=W, 22=Z, 23=E, 24=A, 25=X, 26=J.

WORD WHEEL: WITHERING.

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