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12 PAGES OF BRAIN TEASERS! Super puzzler

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Sects hope to redesign doctor’s instrument (11)
8. Some choose toffees then depart (3,3)
9. Salesman gets ute due to good name (6)
10. Animal’s lair on east of paradisal garden (4)
11. Priest lain by fellow (8)
12. Illegal seller is a swordsman (6)
14. Search for polecat (6)
15. Swot up on a way to find passenger in hiding (8)
17. Epic story turns up inb Madagascar (4)
18. Anne holds former lover in lean-to building (6)
19. Earned new way to make beloved (6)
20. End to end a narrow victory (5,6)

DOWN

2. Strident gent in new fashion is influencing fashion (12)
3. Turning north is prickly (5)
4. Military man right by place of work (7)
5. Circus drops us a roundabout (5)
6. You, we hear, in tree that’s well-liked (7)
7. Designs a last layout for church window (7,5)
13. Percussion instrument – soundly a heard thing! (7)
14. Endlessly faff about Lyle at end of book (7)
16. Cuts up swede and unwanted plants (5)
17. Dan meets us returning from country (5)

SUDOKU

Fill in the blank squares with the numbers 1 to 9 so that each row, each column and each smaller 3x3 block contains all the numbers from 1 to 9.

THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1. Make happen, … an accident
4. Quick doze
8. Oldest in a group, … member
12. Ethiopian capital, … Ababa
16. Right-hand page of a book
18. Catering to, … your needs
19. People you know slightly, passing …
21. Star of Jojo Rabbit, … Johansson
23. Wrongdoings
24. Hunger
26. Malign micro-organism
28. Ball mounts
31. Stranger, more peculiar
32. Crone
34. Leaked slowly, seeped
35. Hairdressing establishment

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