The Puzzle Pages

Brain-twisters to challenge you. By Owen Connors

Find the words and win a prize

EASY MEDIUM ADVANCED

Across

2. “You shouldn’t put your

man like that.”

4. Forbidden by law.

7. Financial help.

8. Highly unsuccessful.

9. Ridicule or contempt.

12. In Australia, the chief minister of a

state or province.

13. “A(n) meeting will decide the

government’s education policies.” 15. “When he was upset, he would turn

to her for and support.”

16. To keep wages or prices at a fixed

level.

Down

in a

1. Quickly settling an issue.

3. “The budget could be used to

hire and train more nurses.”

5. Like the end of the world.

6. A disease that spreads over the whole

world.

10. “He will training as soon as the

injury is better.”

11. “You can get a(n)

trade.”

14. Political supporters. to learn a

Show and tell

Now, find out more about the history of tattoos.

The practice of tattooing the skin with ink is over 4,000 years old. Tattoos have been found on bodies in Egypt, China, Mongolia, Russia, Alaska, Greenland and the Philippines. Ötzi, the Neolithic “iceman” found in the Alps in 1991, had as many as 61 tattoos.

The word “tattoo” probably comes from the Samoan word for a tattoo: tatau.

In Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, tattoos were popular with soldiers and sailors. A tattoo of a turtle meant that a sailor had crossed the equator, and a tattoo of a swallow symbolized a journey of 5,000 miles.

These days, tattoos are done with an electric tattoo pen, originally designed by Thomas Edison. Edison actually made his pen for copying paper documents — but a New York tattooist, Samuel O’reilly, saw the potential to use it on skin.