Western Daily Press (Saturday)
Sudoku challenge Quick crossword
Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers from 1 to 9. There’s no maths involved – solve the puzzle with reason and logic!
Gentle
Moderate Across
4 Walk quietly (6) 7 Throw this at
weddings (8) 8 Expects (6) 10 Defence plea (5) 13 Grain husks (4) 14 Sport (4)
15 Tolerate, endure (4) 16 Dowel (3)
17 Burden (4)
19 Tumult (4) 21 American leader (9) 23 Flat circular plate (4) 24 Eat dinner (4) 26 Hairpiece (3)
27 Elm, say (4) 29 Walk doggedly (4) 32 Podium (4)
33 Small lump of rock (5) 34 Dessert, informally (6) 35 Marsupial (8)
36 Wears away (6)
Down
1 Fragment (5) 2 Slow-moving
creature (5) 3 Abominable
snowman (4) 4 Jewelled headdress (5) 5 Scheme (4)
6 Start, beginning (6) 9 Boy's name (6) 11 Auction item (3) 12 Louts (5)
13 Apart from (7) 15 Clippie's vehicle (3) 16 Container (3)
18 Any delicious drink (6) 20 Clumsy, incompetent (5) 21 Farm animal (3) 22 Cease living (3)
23 Be unlike (6)
25 Put on (3)
28 Hazards (5)
30 Truck (5)
31 Lure (5)
32 Action (4)
33 Savant (4)
1542: I die a Queen but I would rather have died the wife of Culpepper – said to be the last words of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, before she was beheaded on Tower Green.
1692: The Glencoe massacre took place in the Scottish Highlands, when the MacDonalds were murdered by their traditional enemies, the Campbells.
1867: Johann Strauss’s waltz The Blue Danube was first performed at a ball in Vienna.
1945: Hundreds of allied planes bombed Dresden, devastating one of the world’s most beautiful cities.
1958: Dame Christabel Pankhurst, British suffragette and daughter of Emmeline, died.
1974: Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union.
1987: London’s property boom resulted in a 5ft 6in x 11ft broom cupboard opposite Harrods being offered for sale at £36,500 – more than £600 per square foot.
On this day last year: Japan announced its first death from coronavirus.