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THURSDAY’S SOLUTION (No 8,324): ACROSS: 1 Superlative. 7 Cake. 8 Carnage. 9 Fee.
10 Edict. 11 Secret. 13 Spread. 16 About. 18 Lea. 19 Sainted. 20 Lead. 21 Acrimonious.
DOWN: 1 Seance. 2 Prefer. 3 Recent. 4 Agree. 5 Imagine. 6 Elected. 11 Swansea.
12 Crosier. 13 Sold on. 14 Rialto. 15 Always. 17 Totem.ACROSS
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10 Snake sound (4)
12 Indicates or
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14 Gets away (7)
16 Fizzy water (4)
18 Feral (4)
20 Send a bill to (7)21 Vertical rock
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22 Underground
passages (7)DOWN
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informally (7)
2 Bottomless pit (5)
3 A pulsation of
the heart (4)
4 Comes into
view (7)5 Kind and
courteous (8)
6 Expand (6)
11 Deadlock or
stalemate (5-3)
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15 Moves in
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or spiralling
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please recycle it977030775715036SPORTS NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
DOUBLE
TROUBLE
Shambolic England
drop a clanger as
Smith smashes 211
Relentless:
Smith put
England to
the sword
yet again
GETTY IMAGES
It was the sight of Steve Smith
walking off after edging to slip
only to turn round and come
back because Jack Leach had
overstepped that really did it.
that was the moment England
knew they had wasted all their
magical work at Headingley.
Or, more specifically, they had blown
all that Ben Stokes had done on that
dizzy Sunday in Leeds to not only keep
them in the Ashes but hand them the
psychological edge over an Australian
side who should have been beaten
and demoralised.
Not a bit of it. Instead it has been
England who have been flat, sloppy and
at times downright shambolic in two
dismal days at Old trafford that haveBy PAUL NEWMAN
Cricket Correspondent at Old TraffordTURN TO PAGE 86, COL 1
«THE ASHES: 4th TEST
DAY THREE
TODAY, 11AMTHE Cardiff City member of staff
who formed the closest
relationship with the late
Emiliano Sala during his
tragically brief time on their
books has left the club.
Sportsmail has learned that
Callum Davies, Cardiff’s player
liaison officer, has moved on for
family reasons after six years
working at a club he joined
immediately after graduating
from university.
Davies had been responsible for
planning Sala’s travel following
his £15million signing from
Nantes on January 15 this year
before the Argentinian striker
took the decision to accept a
private flight organised by agent
Willie McKay. The Piper MalibuEXCLUSIVE
By MATT HUGHES and
ADRIAN KAJUMBATURN TO PAGE 82, COL 4
«Tragic Sala’s
liaison officer
quits Cardiff
tHE Premier League’s proposed
takeover of the Women’s Super
League is set to be delayed for three
years amid ambitious plans for the
competition to be aligned with the
men’s game and form part of the
next domestic television deal.
the tender document for the
next Premier League rights deal is
due in about 12 months with the
bidding to be concluded in 2021.
the Premier League clubs agreed
to conduct a feasibility study into
taking over the WSL but Sports-
mail has learned any relaunch is
unlikely until the 2022-23 season.
the WSL returns this weekend
with bumper crowds expected fol-
lowing England’s run to the World
Cup semi-finals this summer,
which has led several clubs to seek
a breakaway from the FA.EXCLUSIVE
By MATT HUGHES
Chief Sports ReporterPL takeover
of women’s
league stalls