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Word puzzler

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Can you identify the words that may be made from the letters of IMPERATIVE from the clues listed below? Words are written horizontal­ly or vertically, but not diagonally or backwards.

THE CLUES

1. 3. 5.

Flesh 2. Rant

Slope 4. Swerve

Domesticat­ed 6. Animal doctor 7. Ceremony 8. 9.

Harvest

Deserve 10. Couple

1763: After the Seven Years War, the Treaty of Paris was signed with France ceding Canada to Britain.

1824: Samuel Plimsoll, naval reformer, was born in Bristol. He devised the Plimsoll Line, a regulation for the weight ships might safely carry.

1840: Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

1894: Harold Macmillan, Tory prime minister 1957-63, was born.

1898: Bertolt Brecht, dramatist and poet, was born in Augsburg, Bavaria. 1913: The bodies of Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Scott and his party were found 13 months after they disappeare­d on their South Pole mission.

1942: Bandleader Glenn Miller was presented with the first gold disc, for selling more than one million copies of Chattanoog­a Choo Choo.

1944: Pay As You Earn income tax was introduced.

1947: Crowds gathered at shop windows in Paris to see Christian Dior’s New Look fashions - longer skirts, nipped-in waists and padded shoulders. 1962: In Berlin, US spy-plane pilot Gary Powers, shot down by the Russians, was exchanged for KGB agent Rudolf Abel, captured in New York five years earlier. 2014: Shirley Temple, the child-star darling of US cinema who went on to become a prominent diplomat, died at the age of 85.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: A motorist had a lucky escape after his car fell into a huge sinkhole in Essex following wild weather caused by Storm Ciara.

 ?? Hulton Archive ?? Captain Scott equipped for his last journey to the South Pole. The whole world followed the tragic fate of Captain Scott and his colleagues
Hulton Archive Captain Scott equipped for his last journey to the South Pole. The whole world followed the tragic fate of Captain Scott and his colleagues

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