The Times - UK (2022-06-13)

13.06.22

Word watch Sudoku Easy No 13,273 Difficult No 13,274 Fiendish No 13,275

David Parfitt

Predy
a Quaintly attractive
b A treatment applied
before adding a colorant
c (Of a ship) prepared
for sailing

Unguentarium
a A recently discovered
chemical element
b A vessel for holding
ointments
c A prehistoric relative
of the elephant

Ichor
a The fluid in the gods’
veins
b An alloy of copper
and gold
c A solo singer in a choir

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 2155 by Jalna

Across

1 Toy soldier cannot aim when

broken (6,3)

6 Football, perhaps gold and

black (3)

8 Everything considered as part

of final lesson (2,3)

9 It’s used by artists in moderate

amounts, initially (7)

10 Pathogen changing shape (8)

11 Time to request some work (4)

13 Polish front of sideboard with

rag? (9)

16 Shout about everything (4)

17 Small metropolitan area

accepting vehicle shortage (8)

20 French country house

requiring gas and local water?

(7)

21 More evil packing material,

unopened (5)

22 Had lunch in canteen,

occasionally (3)

23 Acted up, finally, with respect

to what a barworker did? (9)

Down

1 Come down to earth after a

match (6)

2 March right up in front of a

politician (5)

3 Artist’s colour I left inside in a

pot, possibly (3,5)

4 New competition providing

a home for extremely

unfamiliar film (6,7)

5 Celebrity in the morning

visiting Tyneside? (4)

6 Candid atmosphere displayed

outside? (4-3)

7 Stockpiles containing fifty

empty cartridges (6)

12 Piece of software put up for

review (8)

13 Rescue fierce creature,

grabbing end of tail (7)

14 Plant’s account supported by a

covert US group (6)

15 Cross, somewhat tetchy

bridegroom (6)

18 I was the manager after days,

and did very little! (5)

19 Spring meadow with the first

sign of poppies (4)

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Friday’s solution on page 15

© PUZZLER MEDIA

15

Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the spaces so

that the number in each circle is equal to

the sum of the four surrounding spaces,

and each colour total is correct

The Times Daily Quiz Olav Bjortomt

Answers on page 15

1 The Egyptian
hieroglyph Akhet
represents which
celestial body rising
over a mountain?

2 Cartography is the
study and practice of
making which symbolic
visual representations?

3 Granted city status in
2002, Lancashire county
council sits where?

4 The 1842 Treaty of
Nanjing ceded which
territory to Britain?

5 Which historian
wrote The History of the
Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire (1776-88)?

6 Which 20th-century
event was known in the
Republic of Ireland as
“The Emergency”?

7 Who won a best

actor Oscar for his

1948 Shakespeare

adaptation Hamlet?

8 On an Ordnance

Survey map, the

abbreviation FB

refers to which type

of structure?

9 The largest known

example of European

Iron Age silver work,

the Gundestrup

cauldron was found in

which country?

10 Tara Air is a

subsidiary of which

Nepalese airline?

11 Noam Chomsky

composed the sentence:

“Colorless green ideas

sleep furiously” for

which 1957 book?

12 Which British dance

band released the 1964

single March of the Mods?

13 Established in 2007,

which online social

game maker is named

after co-founder

Mark Pincus’s late

American bulldog?

14 Which US-born

Chinese teenager is the

first freestyle skier to

win three medals at a

single Olympics?

15 Which English

engineer and inventor

(1887-1979) is pictured?

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