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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
Lighted match? (8,4)
Too high a price to be on the level (5)
The business end of a loop line? (5) One may strain to improve it (3) Turning quite sour and bluegreen (9) Be exceptionally kind to a taxpayer? (6) Descriptive of a man who can’t settle (2,4) Drivers of it can give one a lift no more (3-6)
Ivan has a novel need for this garden tool (3) Either way it’s essential to a helicopter (5) Downtrodden rogues? (5)
They throw things around in a spirited way (12)
Down
How one knows immediately that someone is surprised (4,3,5) Proper charge (3) I’m left with something from abroad (6)
One taking part in the arms race? (3-6)
Moira confused an islander (5)
It’s always the greater, however (12) Wildly paces the room (5)
It’s highly mysterious (3,6) So the reformed show spirit (5) He may scratch a living (6) Go beyond an alfresco celebration (5) With it one sees the end of a needle (3)
Quick Clues Across
Middle (12) Automaton (5) Sham (5)
Pull (3) Meddle (9) Weird (6)
Cask (6)
Merry (9)
Mist (3)
Pair (5)
Engine (5) Illogical (12)
Down
Dumb (12)
Thieve (3) Existence (6) Enrage (9)
Double (5)
News (12)
Rascal (5) Powerlessness (9) Allude (5) Universe (6)
Corn (5)
Tawny (3)
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DOUBLE CROSSWORD:
Cryptic: Across: 4 Embrace; 8 Amazed; 9 Plenary; 10 Madcap; 11 Nearly; 12 Striking; 18 Adroitly; 20 Cleric; 21 Stupor; 22 Contain; 23 Across; 24 Hearing.
Down: 1 Palmist; 2 Pandora; 3 Remark; 5 Malinger; 6 Rental; 7 Circle; 13 Inaction; 14 Stepson; 15 Cypress; 16 Alcove; 17 Writer; 19 Optics.
Quick: Across: 4 Rivalry; 8 Reveal; 9 Sparing; 10 Clause; 11 Defile; 12 Probable; 18 Retrieve; 20 Aplomb; 21 Blithe; 22 Restore; 23 Height; 24 Retract. Down: 1 Precept; 2 Aviator; 3 Nausea; 5 Impudent; 6 Adrift; 7 Rankle; 13 Barbaric; 14 Vertigo; 15 Beneath; 16 Apiece; 17 Porter; 19 Relief.
SUDOKU:
CODEWORD: 1=S, 2=X, 3=H, 4=C, 5=Q, 6=O, 7=P, 8=I, 9=F, 10=J, 11=V, 12=W, 13=Y, 14=M, 15=E, 16=D, 17=Z, 18=R, 19=A, 20=B, 21=G, 22=K, 23=L, 24=N, 25=T, 26=U.
WORD WHEEL: LIBERTINE.