Daily Mail - 06.09.2019

Page 44 Daily Mail, Friday, September 6, 2019

HIDATO

COMPLETE the

grid so that all

the numbers,

1 to 78, connect

consecutively —

horizontally,

vertically or

diagonally.

Hint: you

don’t have to

begin with

1 or 78. Working

on the

mid-numbers

might give you

a better start.

SOLUTION

ON MONDAY

LAY tracks to

enable the train

to travel from

village A to

village B.

The numbers

indicate how

many sections of

rail go in each

row and column.

There are only

straight rails and

curved rails. The

track cannot

cross itself.

SOLUTION

ON MONDAY

TRAIN TRACKS

PUZZLES PRIZES

FILL in squares in the grid

so each row, column and

each 3x3 square contains

all digits from 1 to 9. Each

set of cells joined by

dotted lines must add up

to the number in the

top-left corner. Numbers

can’t be repeated within

each set of cells.

SOLUTION ON MONDAY

PIT your wits against

Pitcherwits — the

exciting puzzle where

some of the answers

are in pictures! The

solutions to the visual

clues fit into the shaded

spaces on the grid.

SOLUTION ON MONDAY

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6238 or text KILLER to 65700

and receive four clues to

today’s puzzle. Calls and texts

cost £1 plus your standard

network charges. Today’s

clues available between 00.01

today and 23.30 only.

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9 18 5

4 7 9 14

9 21 11 20

22 9 7 16

12 17 5

12 9 11 9

10 13 24 7

6 7 11

1. First published in
   1854, Hard Times was
   the tenth novel by
   which author?


2. Which band had a UK
   No 1 in 1989 with the song
   Back To Life (However Do
   You Want Me)?


3. Which milestone
   birthday did the actress
   Zoe Wanamaker celebrate
   in May?


4. Of what is antirrhinum
   a type?


5. Parkhead is the
   home ground of
   which Scottish
   football team?
   SOLUTION:
   PULLOUT BACK PAGE

QUICK QUIZ

MINDBENDER

MASTERQUIZ

KILLER

SUDOKU

Call

Grumble

Withdraw

Wavelet

Evades

Decrees

Beach

Restricted

Large canids

Goodness

Speaks

Slept noisily

SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

ALL the solutions read

clockwise around their

numbers. The solution

to clue number 1 starts

from the given letter.

HONEYCOMB

12 S

1 2 3 4 5 6

7

8

9

10

11

1. Chorlton-cum-Hardy is a
   suburban area of which large
   British city?


2. Where did Sir William
   Hamilton, Emma Hamilton’s
   husband, serve as Britain’s
   ambassador from 1764 to 1800?


3. What technique in art, the
   opposite of relief, refers to
   cutting into a surface to create
   the design?
   4. A former member of Small
   Faces, Kenney Jones plays
   which instrument?
   5. Which 1964 crime film,
   adapted from an Ernest
   Hemingway story, provided
   Ronald Reagan with his final
   film part?
   6. Which type of birds provide
   the basic ingredient for the
   Asian delicacy bird’s nest soup?
   SOLUTION:
   PULLOUT BACK PAGE


4. One-sixth of the people at a
   party are wearing brown shoes,
   one-quarter are wearing black
   shoes and the remaining 21
   people are wearing shoes that
   are neither brown nor black.
   How many people are at the
   party altogether?


5. What connects granny, love
   and reef?
   3. Which Strictly Come
   Dancing 2019 contestant
   may MISS ARCHERY?
   4. Which is the odd one out:
   Orinoco, Limpopo,
   Zambezi, Niger?
   5. Rearrange the letter
   groups to make three hobbies:
   DEN ELY GAR IDE PHI
   RMY LAT ING TAX.
   SOLUTION:
   PULLOUT BACK PAGE

6d. Says not, but

somehow continues (5,2)

4d. It’s always a

24/7 thing! (3,3,5)

16a. Keep gripped tight but

looked after everything (4,3,4)

1a. Remembered to have

binned minor quibbles (5,2,4)

11a. Old roan cut up

in Florida (7)

1d. Party drink source that

packs a wallop? (4,2,5)

8a. Donor at odds with

flighty fighter? (7)

7d. Maze said to be in

the ear (7)

DOWN

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11

1 2 3 4

5 6 7

9

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12 13

14 15

16

PITCHERWITS

TM

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue

5 Cutter, back

as it used

to be (3)

7 Decoy, ending up

being shy (3)

8 Picture Clue

10 A cut, any which way

for Mexican state (7)

11 Picture Clue

14 Religious type,

habitually clothed (3)

15 Catch a paper or

‘poly’ version (3)

16 Picture Clue

1 Picture Clue

2 Arab leader

from home,

miraculously (4)

3 Casa type is a star (4)

4 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue

7 Picture Clue

9 Lay an awkward way

for an antelope! (5)

12 Throw it high up in

the roof (4)

13 Is aware of, say,

what’s plain on

your face! (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION — ACROSS: 1 Dogger Bank. 6 Iota. 7 Roe. 8 Surf. 9 Freehand. 11 Bring low. 14 Kilt. 15 Eye.

16 Olio. 17 Glassy look. DOWN: 1 Dissembles. 2 Griffon. 3 Brake. 4 Norma. 5 Header tank. 10 Hawk owl. 12 Ideal. 13 Gloss.