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Re: Weekend Puzzles

This weekend puzzle is a small crossword, consisting of a grid of squares and blanks into which words crossing vertically and horizontally should be written according to clues.
Each number in a square is the beginning point of a word, either horizontally or vertically, or both.


┌────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┬────┐
│1   │2   │3   │    │4   │5   │6   │
├────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┤
│7   │    │    │****│8   │    │    │
├────┼────┼────┤****├────┼────┼────┤
│9   │    │    │****│10  │    │    │
└────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┼────┘
     │11  │    │12  │    │    │
     ├────┼────┼────┼────┼────┘
     │13  │    │    │    │
     └────┼────┼────┼────┘
          │14  │    │
          └────┴────┘

DESCRIPTIONS

Horizontally: (number of letters: 7,3,3,3,3,5,4,2 resp.)
1. Ordinal number
7. End of message
8. Mineral deposit
9. Africa Rainfall Project
10. Dog once owned by Ronald Reagan
11. Family of operating systems
13. Dynamic random-access memory
14. Extended play

Vertically: (number of letters: 3,5,6,5,4,3,3 resp.)
1. Widely consumed drink
2. Earth and all life on it
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman ..., book by Edward Gibbon
4. Designated space for public expression
5. Tyrannosaurus
6. Pseudonym of the puzzle writers Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
12. Short period of sleep

Note: The space with asterisks should be left alone, it isn't a square. laughing

Good luck with this weekend puzzle,
Adri

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[Apr 1, 2023 9:16:34 AM]

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Re: Weekend Puzzles

A nice puzzle. I will refrain from posting the answers so others can have the pleasure of solving it and I won't spoil it for others.
Thank you

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[Apr 1, 2023 3:13:15 PM]

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Re: Weekend Puzzles

When are you going to post a solution so I can check my answers. I have had fun, now you should revel in your victory - Sgt.

[Apr 4, 2023 1:02:30 PM]

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Re: Weekend Puzzles

It's good to discover that there is more than one participant. peace

[Apr 4, 2023 1:52:20 PM]

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Re: Weekend Puzzles

OK
1 across - Twelfth
7 across - Eom
8 across - Ore
9 across - ARP
10 across Rex
11 across - Linux
13 across - Dram
14 across - EP

1 down - Tea
2 down - World
3 down - Empire
4 down - Forum
5 down - TRex (for Tyrannosaurus Rex)
6 down - Hex

Hopefully this is all correct. If not, let me know.

Cheers

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[Apr 4, 2023 1:58:26 PM]

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Re: Weekend Puzzles

Correct, Sgt.Joe! rose

[Apr 4, 2023 3:41:06 PM]

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Re: Weekend Puzzles

This weekend's crossword has 7 boxes (only one letter - or digit - per box allowed) on each side, good luck!


┏━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━┓
┃1      │2      │3      │*******│4      │       │5      ┃
┃       │       │       │*******│       │       │       ┃
┠───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┨
┃6      │       │       │*******│       │*******│       ┃
┃       │       │       │*******│       │*******│       ┃
┠───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┨
┃       │*******│7      │8      │       │9      │       ┃
┃       │*******│       │       │       │       │       ┃
┠───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┨
┃*******│10     │       │       │       │       │       ┃
┃*******│       │       │       │       │       │       ┃
┠───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┨
┃11     │       │       │*******│*******│12     │       ┃
┃       │       │       │*******│*******│       │       ┃
┠───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┨
┃*******│13     │       │14     │15     │       │       ┃
┃*******│       │       │       │       │       │       ┃
┠───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┨
┃16     │       │       │       │       │       │       ┃
┃       │       │       │       │       │       │       ┃
┗━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━┛

DESCRIPTIONS

Horizontally:
1. Object-oriented programming
4. Cyclic redundancy check
6. Flightless Australian bird
7. Bear from The Jungle Book
10. Be the same as in number
11. European currency unit
12. One tenth of a second
13. Lionel "Hello" ...
16. Perplexed

Vertically:
1. Outsmart Ebola Together
2. Oman
3. Bar trivia (3+4)
4. Brown carbonated drink
5. Mixed, especially of order two
8. Gold
9. Well known song from long ago
10. Very light brown in colour
14. International code for Czech Republic
15. One hundred litres

Adri

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[Apr 8, 2023 9:36:28 AM]

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Re: Weekend Puzzles

Adri,

Thanks for that -- it gave me something [else] to do online whilst trying to shepherd uploads this afternoon :-)

Like Sgt. Joe last week, I won't post answers now (time zone advantage?) - hopefully someone else will have a go too...

Cheers - Al.

[Apr 8, 2023 3:41:40 PM]

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Re: Weekend Puzzles

Solution last weekend's crossword:
┏━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━┓
┃1      │2      │3      │*******│4      │       │5      ┃
┃   O   │   O   │   P   │*******│   C   │   R   │   C   ┃
┠───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┨
┃6      │       │       │*******│       │*******│       ┃
┃   E   │   M   │   U   │*******│   O   │*******│   R   ┃
┠───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┨
┃       │*******│7      │8      │       │9      │       ┃
┃   T   │*******│   B   │   A   │   L   │   O   │   O   ┃
┠───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┨
┃*******│10     │       │       │       │       │       ┃
┃*******│   E   │   Q   │   U   │   A   │   L   │   S   ┃
┠───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┨
┃11     │       │       │*******│*******│12     │       ┃
┃   E   │   C   │   U   │*******│*******│   D   │   S   ┃
┠───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┨
┃*******│13     │       │14     │15     │       │       ┃
┃*******│   R   │   I   │   C   │   H   │   I   │   E   ┃
┠───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┨
┃16     │       │       │       │       │       │       ┃
┃   P   │   U   │   Z   │   Z   │   L   │   E   │   D   ┃
┗━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━┛

Adri

[Apr 13, 2023 10:51:46 AM]

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Re: Weekend Puzzles

Thanks, Adri.

I was wondering whether to [finally] post my solution as most of the week had passed - no need now! :-)

I wish there was some way of posting answers without them being generally visible, but as there's no private messaging...

Once again, thanks for an interesting puzzle.

Cheers - Al.

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