April 2026 Puzzles
Crossword
Across
- 6 Domestic eating into a supply across borders (13)
- 8 Woodlouse perhaps starts to ingest slime on pain of death (6)
- 9 Trace of drug found in Irish sportsman's horse (7)
- 10 Way of performing surgery with foundational software? (9,6)
- 11 Not loudly notified about issue (7)
- 13 Have companies succeeded? (7)
- 16 She recommended cake and crackers to trainee inmate (5,10)
- 19 Uh... limit distributing mood stabilizer (7)
- 20 One religious symbol is descriptive of this clue (6)
- 21 Recalls pay cut going off like fireworks (13)
Down
- 1 Sets down alternative for drunken haze (6)
- 2 Stupid idiot rants about the biggest celebrities being conservatives (15)
- 3 A hollow crunch in the setter's apparatus (7)
- 4 Work is put into comical lyrics translated with extreme precision (15)
- 5 Research 'slay', as in 'amazing' (8)
- 6 Flavourless fashionable dip is served up (7)
- 7 Significant features of molecular genetics (5)
- 12 Diseased tree gripped by lean that presages misfortune (8)
- 14 Meet crypto-fascist caught out by youth leader (7)
- 15 Put up with organ (7)
- 17 Ultimately failing to finish book of maps (5)
- 18 Panics, having ignored the original flaws (6)
Solution
Suduko
Instead of numbers, this puzzle uses letters. The usual rules of Sudoku apply. To help you, when read from left to right, the circled letters will spell out a 9-letter word.
Solution
Wordflower
Find as many words of three or more letters from those given in the flower. You must use the central letter in every word, and no letter can be repeated.
12 to 17 words = brainbox
8 to 11 words = brainstorm
to 7 words = brain drain
Under 5 words = birdbrain
Posted in puzzles on Apr 01, 2026