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2 Revive
3 Negatives
4 Serviette
5 Card game
6 A great deal
7 Occasion
8 Subtract
9 Slavery
10 Heartily
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Swamps
New Zealander (coll)
Hotness
Main point
Continue
Assume
Dash
Bleed
Ale
Absent
Comprehends
Pleated skirt
Ignite (3,6)
Small amount (coll)
Lets off
Indication
Fix fast
Small house
Mails
Labyrinth
Solutions to both puzzles page 63
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Trevor Chappell
quiz show Pick A Box?
14. What is the carbohydrate
ingredient of jambalaya?
15. Who plays Will in the TV series
Will & Grace?
16. Is Manly on Sydney Harbour’s
North or South Head?
17. Wicketkeeper Paul Nixon played
for which national cricket team?
18. In energy terms, what does
OPEC stand for?
Solutions page 63
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ACROSS
1 Ornithologist
5 Praiseworthy
11 Particle
12 Flair
13 Giver
14 Killers
15 Barrier of stakes
17 Hears
18 Rocket launcher
20 Flap
23 Condition
25 Deities
27 Heavy
30 Labels
32 Troubles
33 Clergyman
34 Experience
35 Greek capital
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19. Nick Riewoldt captained which
AFL team this year?
20. Is a polacca a type of bike, boat
or car?
21. Who was America’s first female
Space Shuttle commander?
22. Who was Romulus’s twin
brother?
23. Nikki Garrett is a leading
professional in which sport?
24. Is a sequoia an animal, bird or
tree?
25. Cricketer Trevor Chappell
bowled his famous underarm
delivery in which year?
26. The Staaten River is in which
Australian state?
27. Footballer Ronaldo came from
which country?
28. Sudan is on which sea?
29. Who lived in a wigwam?
30. Who played Queen Elizabeth II
in the movie, The Queen?
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1. Who were named Best Artists of
the Year at the Deadly awards?
2. Was Yothu Yindi formed in the
1960s, 1970s or 1980s?
3. Who won the New Zealand v
France Rugby World Cup match?
4. The Counter-Reformation took
place within which Church?
5. Which actress starred in the
movie The Wizard of Oz?
6. Is a flounce a piece of lace, ribbon
or fabric trim?
7. What is Elvis Presley’s daughter’s
name?
8. Which group’s Bible is
traditionally left in hotel rooms?
9. Which comedian wrote the book
My Life In Shorts?
10. Hagiology is the study of what?
11. Singer and actor Normie Rowe
was born in which year?
12. Horology is the science of
measuring what?
13. Who hosted the Australian TV
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Today is Sunday, October 2,
275th day of 2011. There are 90
days left in the year
Highlights in history on this date:
1608 - First telescope is demonstrated
by Hans Lippershey of Middelburg.
1804 - England’s populace is mobilised
to resist invasion attempt by France’s
Napoleon Bonaparte.
1839 - New Zealand comes under
jurisdiction of the Governor of NSW;
Scotsman Kirkpatrick McWilliam
invents what is described as the
world’s first successful bicycle.
1870 - Rome is made the capital of
Italy.
1941 - German army launches all-out
drive against Moscow in World War II.
1950 - Comic strip Peanuts, created by
Charles M Schulz, is first published.
1964 - The Gladesville Bridge in
Sydney opens, at the time the world’s
longest concrete bridge or masonry
arch (302m).
1985 - Death from AIDS of Rock
Hudson, US film star.
1990 - Australian opera diva Dame
Joan Sutherland announces her
retirement.
1996 - Former Bulgarian prime
minister Andrei Lukanov is shot dead
outside his Sofia home in an apparent
contract killing.
1999 - Rebels release some 40
diplomats and foreigners they took
hostage at the Burma Embassy in
Bangkok.
2003 - An Indonesian court sentences
the Islamic militant Mukhlas to death
for leading bombings on Bali.
2006 - A gunman storms an Amish
schoolhouse in Pennsylvania, killing
five girls before committing suicide. It is
the third deadly US school shooting in
less than a week.
2007 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il
welcomes South Korea’s president to
Pyongyang for the start of the secondever summit between the divided
Koreas since World War II.
2009 - The International Olympics
Committee awards the 2016 Games
Rio de Janeiro, the first for a South
American country.
Today’s birthdays: Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian statesman-reformer
(1869-1948); Groucho Marx, US
comedian (1890-1977); Don McLean,
American folk singer (1945-); Sting
(Gordon Sumner), UK singer (1951-).
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To solve this puzzle each 3x3 box, each
row and each column must contain all the
numbers from 1 to 9.
Solution, tips and computer program at
www.sudoku.com
Solution published tomorrow
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Yesterday’s Solution Easy
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2 Big Bird is popular with golfers (5)
3 How boring is this! (5)
4 The effect is resounding when Stan meets
Nero (8)
5 Get those feet moving at the festival (4)
6 The saint gets at us for standing like this
(6)
7 Travels, gets left out and made to go
hungry (6)
12 Art’s needed to become a top performer
(4)
14 Lil and Bette make them appear to be less
important (8)
15 Hear about that swift little creature? (4)
17 Mental acuteness is needed to end a
prayer, you see (6)
18 Lied to a former partner so was banished
(6)
20 A hackneyed portion of the Last Rites (5)
21 The Thing comes out in the darkness (5)
23 David was beheaded for being greedy
(4)
Sudoku Medium
ACROSS
1 Or get to meet a heavenly body (6)
8 Despite being toothless one may attend to
it with ease (8)
9 Secret ones have been seen in the
Territory for ages (6)
10 The sort of proposition one might expect
from musicians? (8)
11 Is one left with such an injury? (6)
13 Being caught by surprise, this morning the
President is to meet our editor (8)
16 For mums and dads a planter is the ideal
present (8)
19 Meaning camping out? (6)
22 The little one gets in showing spirit and
chews the cud (8)
24 The pair begin getting a pain (6)
25 Tending to cure anger by bestowing a
medal (8)
26 At such happenings we serve tea at seven
(6)
PUB:
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