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Dog's Mead and the Dunk Family
Problem: Find Ms. Grooby's age.

This puzzle is tough but can be solved by using logic, a little educated guesswork, and a lot of patience. It is English in origin and concerns a farm in southern England that has been in the Dunk family for some years. A part of the farm is a rectangular piece of ground known as Dog's Mead.


Across
1 Area of Dog's Mead in square yards
5 Age of Farmer Dunk's daughter, Martha
6 The difference between the length and breadth of Dog's Mead in Yards
7 The number of roods in Dog's Mead times number nine down
8 The year Littly Piggly came into occupation by the Dunk Family
10 Farmer Dunk's age
11 The year Farmer Dunk's youngest child, Mary, was born
14 The perimeter of Dog's Mead in yards
15 The cube of Farmer Dunk's walking speed in miles per hour
16 Number fifteen across minus number nine down

Down
1 The value of Dog's Mead in shillings per acre
2 The square of Ms. Grooby's age
3 The age of Mary
4 The value of Dog's Mead in pounds sterling
6 The age of Farmer Dunk's first born, Edward, who will be twice as old as Mary next year
7 The square, in yards, of the breadth of Dog's Mead
8 The number of minutes Farmer Dunk needs to walk one and one third times around Dog's Mead
9 See number ten down
10 Ten across times nine down
12 One more than the sum of the digits in the second column down
13 The length of tenure, in years, of Little Piggly by the Dunk family

Miscellaneous Information
20 shillings = 1 pound sterling
1 acre = 4,840 square yards
1 rood = 1/4 acre