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PUZZLE CHALLENGE CHALLENGE WORD WORDSEARCH­PUZZLE DOUBLE CROSSWORD CROSSWORD

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Can you find all of the words meaning energy in this grid?

Activity Ardour

Drive

Efficacy Endurance Fire

Fortitude Get-up-and-go Intensity

Juice

Might Muscle Pizzazz Pluck Punch Spirit Verve Vigour Vitality Zest

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Sick, aches all round, and a scoundrel to boot! That's my weakness (8,4)

7. Cheque reinforcem­ent (5)

8. Indicate the tip (5)

9. How nice to have possession­s (3)

10. Gardener's advice in drought, and source (5,4)

11. At home with the act, and that's a fact (6)

12. Endless eggs broken. But it should be strong (6)

15. From whence temptation was plucked for

Adam? (5,4)

17. Man's own. History not politics (3)

18. Sensationa­l piece of luck getting free (5)

19. Give way to victory note in war (5)

21. Will – he has rights; though possibly they are paperthin (4-8)

Down

1. Speaking of bones – here's a nuclear friend! (12)

2. Tract of pleasure garden (3)

3. Sent it yesterday. It has existence (6)

4. Exaggerati­on – over trunk? (9)

5. In a hotel, it entertains only the best (5)

6. Sprinter's measure – his 1 across? (12)

7. Dunderhead in East Delhi capital had supper (5)

10. Small Scots know Communist's back – the short holiday man? (9)

13. Pusher lost his head and became a doorkeeper (5)

14. Pull over and come to a halt (4,2)

16. Pucker money holder (5)

20. Half a dozen have a way (3)

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QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Incivility (12)

7. As before (5)

8. Kindle (5)

9. Rodent (3)

10. Turgid (9)

11. Decapitate (6)

12. Disgust (6)

15. Ring (9)

17. Reverence (3)

18. Compass (5)

19. Serious (5)

21. Inexorably (12)

Down

1. Helping (12)

2. Permit (3)

3. Tempestuou­s (6)

4. Story (9)

5. Gush (5)

6. 300th anniversar­y (12)

7. Trench (5)

10. Speak profanely (9)

13. Scoundrel (5)

14. Purchased (6)

16. Spear (5)

20. Mimic (3)

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