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FUN FACT
The deepest hole ever dug is the Kola Superdeep
Borehole in northern Russia at an incredible 7.6 miles

Race to make a spaghetti tower and draw aliens! Email

us before the holidays end at g2kids@ guardian.co.uk

Crisscrossword 4 letters
GOOD
Bean
Kale YOUR JOKE
Leek
Peas Why did the one-handed monster go
5 letters to the secondhand shop?
Cress
To get another hand.
Onion Robert William Reid, 6
Swede
6 letters
YOU AND YOUR PET
Carrot
Celery
Pepper Name: Meg
Potato Age: Three years old
Rocket
Squash
Turnip
LUCK Breed: Gingernut
Ranger
Best trick:
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Lettuce ­often tries to
Parsnip come into our

Word
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kitchen!
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Favourite food:

ladder
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Can you fit all the vegetable-related words into the grid? Beetroot eat almost anything
Four letters ­potato; rocket; squash; turnip Broccoli Daisy Allen, 9
Chickpea
Bean; kale; leek; peas Seven letters Can you get from the word at the
Five letters Cabbage; lettuce; parsnip; top of the ladder to the word at the YOUR REVIEW
shallot; spinach bottom by changing one letter to
Cress; onion; swede make a new word at each step? My nan very
Six letters Eight letters kindly gave me
Carrot; celery; pepper; Beetroot; ­broccoli; chickpea £10 and I spent
For answers see tomorrow’s G2
some of it on
Moshi Monsters,

How to marshmallows.
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competition
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Disco Mystery.
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build a tower of strength – you’d be • Now each team an alien friend computer. The number of possible
amazed at what you can make out of must test the you could win the winning ­design endings. The book
marshmallows and spaghetti! strength of the chance to see will be printed on is about one of the Fizzbangs and how
Just take the Science Museum’s other team’s your artwork a giant banner Dr Strangelove stole Avril Le Scream.
spaghetti challenge. tower by care- ­displayed outside and will decorate It is a fangtastic book and I loved
fully placing the Science the ­outside of the it. If you like Moshi Monsters, you
what you need the egg on it. Museum. museum while it ­really should read it.
• Two teams The egg must The picture is being cleaned Isabelle McBroom, 7
• A large handful of balance for should be of this autumn. Text
spaghetti 30 seconds. you and an inter- to vote for your Yesterday’s answers
Riddle: Grass
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