PUZZLES

BULB CROSSWORD NO. 4

Clues Across:

1. Second city of Sicily (7)   5.  Male head of a monastry (5)                   8. Works by Dali, Picasso, etc.  (6,3)

       9.    His wife became a pillar of salt   10.  Bay of Naples island (5)

       12.  Geological eon (7)   13.  South eastern state (5,8)

       15.  Dark-green silicate (7)   17. Follow behind (5)                                       19. ‘Here’in French (3)

       20. Danish-Swedish crime drama (3, 6)                                                     22. Give out steady light  (5)    23. Goes with peaks  (7)

Clues Down:

1. Amusing person (5)   2.  A small amount  (3)                                 3.   Largest city of East Anglia  (7)

    4.   Driest place on earth (7,6)   5.  Caper (5)   6.  Principal dancer (9)

     7.   Queen of the fairies (Shakespeare) (7)   11.   Italian fishing                   village  on Riviera (9)

  13.  Former Chinese capital (7)   14.  Central Canadian provence (7)     16. Greek letters  (5)

   18.   City of Yorkshire  (5)   21.  Break ground  (3)

FLAGS AND ANAGRAM

Identify the country each flag belongs to.

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Solve the nine clues shown below, taking the letter shown in the bracket from each solution. These nine letters will give you a nine letter anagram. Solve the anagram to complete the puzzle.

Example: If the solution is the word ‘Edinburgh’ (4) = take the

letter ‘n’

1. Australian capital     ­­_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  (2)

2. Second name of English 19th century author of ’Bleak House’     _ _ _ _ _ _ _  (5)  

3. Cathedral city of Normandy, France    _ _ _ _ _  (5)

4. Unit of power   _ _ _ _  (1)

5. Surrealist Spanish artist from Figueres                                                 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _   /  _ _ _ _  (3)

6. Abundant element   _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  (1)

7. Saltwater and Nile are two examples of this large                      reptile  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  (7)

8. ‘Jimmy’, 1970’s American president  _ _ _ _ _ _  (5)

9. Planet nearest the sun   _ _ _ _ _ _ _  (1)

Nine letter anagram:         _   _   _   _   _   _   _   _   _ 

Nine letter word :              _   _   _   _   _   _   _   _   _