PuzzleLife Collection - 23 June 2022

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Wordsearch

Can you find all these edible oysters and related words hidden
in the grid? The answers appear forwards, backwards, up, down
and diagonally, but always in a straight line. You can use letters
in the grid more than once.

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AUCKLAND MANGROVE PORTUGUESE
CANCALE MARINE SAN LEANDRO
CLACKERS MIDDEN SELENIUM
ECOSYSTEM MUCUS SUMINOE
FILTER FEEDERS MUD OYSTER SYDNEY ROCK
FRESH NATIVE FLAT TABBY
HARVESTED OLYMPIA WHITSTABLE

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Straight crossword

ACROSS
1 Insulated flask (7)
7 Revolve (5)
8 Ambiguous (7)
12 Dollar (collog.) (4)
14 Divided Asian country (5)
15 Levee (4)
17 Trend (7)
21 Indian string instrument (5)
22 Gorge (7)

DOWN
1 Ballerina's costume (4)
2 Heroic tale (4)
3 Excavation site (4)
4 Celestial body (4)
5 Spicy rice dish (5)
6 Group of sheep (5)
9 Marine force (4)
10 Fancy (4)

11 Heart artery (5) 15 Smelting impurities (5) 18 Close (4)
12 Party (colloq.) (4) 16 Scottish garments (5) 19 Gist (4)
13 ___ Chanel, fashion icon (4) 17 Minks, sables, eg (4) 20 French Riviera resort (4)

Leftovers

The eight-letter answers to each clue have been hidden in with other
letters, but the letters have been kept in the right order. The unwanted
letters, if placed in the correct order, will spell out four words linked
by a common theme.

Strongman of myth

Spaceship launch

Depot

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Ribbed fabric

West End staples
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13 Latin American coin
14 Hair colourants

15 Disinfect
18 Inconsiderate

20 Watch
21 Lovers' rendezvous 7 Data program
22 Follow a course 8 Group of followers
9 Pass a law
DOWN 11 Beast of burden
1 Relinquish 12 Caustic soda
2 Lowest body parts 16 Gaze
3 ___ Kush, Asian 17 English county which
mountains includes Canvey Island
5 Sailor's trousers 19 Song of praise

Masterword

Your task is to discover the mystery
five-letter word at the bottom, which
consists of five different letters.

The number given to the right of the
each grid word shows the number
of letters that it shares with the
mystery word and the number given
to the left of each grid word shows
the number of letters that are in the
same place in both the grid word
and the mystery word.

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In symmetry

The answers to these clues are all five-letter words. Each pair of
words starts with the same letter, and go round to the right in the
clockwise answers, and round to the left in the anti-clockwise
ones. We’ve placed two starters to show you how it’s done.

Clockwise Anti-clockwise
1 Purity 1 Moneythotder
2 Musical piece 2 Principles
3 Dispense with 3 Globe
4 Occupation 4 Piquant
5 Trim neatly 5 Arrogance
6 Fetch 6 Phonetic alphabet's 'B'
7 Asian country 7 Lewd
8 Retaliate 8 Major European river
9 Pigs 9 French river
10 Fasten tightly 10 Plucked string noise
11 Miscalculated 11 Heather genus
12 Ditch 12 Snort

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Cryptic

ACROSS
7 A mete trifle of a game (9)
8 More than a couple out

there (5)

10 20 around to pay attention (6)

11 Settle abroad around
hermitage — not happy to start
with (8)

12 Outfitter will follow as an
alternative (6)

14 Not speaking about 9 (6)

16 Valiant fellow — obviously that
girl's love (4)

17 To question aggressively makes
monarch unwell (5)

18 Spindle from chopper left
inside (4)

19 Amateur toff, too (2,4)

21 Pain created when sewing? (6)

24 Steps over unruly tot in female
footwear (8)

26 Not wearing as much for
class (6)

27 Former English captain is
nearby (5)

28 Composer put plant beside hot
cooker (9)

DOWN
1 Held a demo at university for
material (5)
2 Crumpled 1 in the past at
capital city (8)
3 Man meets another returning
home for dog (6)

—8 Code sums

Each letter represents a

4 Depressed? Spend, spend,
spend! (4)

5 28's last symphony from
church or a lake (6)

6 Shape of ruined vessel that's
reported a mess (9)

9 22 changes for Christmas
decoration (6)

13 Tracks birds (5)

15 Relatives, performing, are able

and gifted (9)

17 Frozen food and pork pie
brought up in turn (6)

18 In France, stories of
forebear (8)

20 10 possibly join up (6)

22 Bays where 14 got in
trouble (6)

23 Dog in the ring? (5)

25 Hasn't paid up, so in we

go (4)

different digit. You can work
out what they all are by looking
at the mathematical sums
reading both across and down.
As a help, we’ve given you a
starter number below.

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242 686 9126 21155 87383 718699 9517444
303 750 5274 34617 89660

305 826 6453 35618 95431 7 digits 8 digits
313 879 6505 38816 1434750 12885970
330 6883 44515 6 digits 2065166 14227983
371 4digits 7434 54184 193703 2368742 66106338
532 1012 7736 68635 233529 2421281 71318291
551 1504 8305 69532 269000 3342641 80901866
559 1577 9268 70843 403234 6256151 98763477

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ACROSS
9 Unlucky number (8)
11 Sickening (10)
12 Elephant handler (6)
13 Be jubilant (5)
14 Ship's mooring device (6)
15 Mount Rushmore State (5,6)
17 Pale (5)
20 Make known (9)
21 Beauty products (9)
24 Empty (5)
26 Seaside resort in Kent (11)
29 Holy building (6)
30 Professional fighter (5)
32 Musical beat (6)
33 Enjoy your meal! (3,7)
34 Uzbekistan's capital (8)

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DOWN
1 In advance (5)
2 Liquid obtained from coal tar (8)
3 Penniless (9)
4 Unfortunate (7)
5 Phrases coined by others (10)
6 To do with punishment (5)
7 Twigs (6)
8 Impertinence (9)
10 Born as (3)
16 Apportion (10)
18 Maturity (9)
19 Shame (9)
22 Japanese cooking sauce (8)
23 Aluminium ore (7)
25 In a foreign place (6)
27 Flogs (5)
28 Object (5)
31 Decompose (3)

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