The Guardian - 07.09.2019

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• The Guardian Saturday 7 September 2019

12

Ye ste r d ay ’s

solutions

Chris Maslanka’s puzzles

Pyrgic puzzles

1 I found the Pedanticus kicking his DAB radio

around the kitchen screaming “On his part!

On his part!”. What on Radio 4 (where would

we be without it, warts and all?) could have

triggered this fi t of calcitrant behaviour?

2 Meanwhile, in Gelignite Gulch, Marshal Law

was delighted at the number that rolled up to

be in his posse— a better showing than that

embarrassing time when only 4 had turned

up!— but the fact that it was again a perfect

square made it all feel quite propitious. He

therefore bought each of them the same

number of candies as there were members of

the posse. Just as they were about to set off

a number fewer than there had been joined

them. On sharing the sweets fairly among the

posse he found he had just 2 left over, which

he pocketed. How many in the original posse?

How many rolled up? How many sweets did

they each receive?

3 Andy was alarmed to be asked to sum this

series to infi nity:

x 2 + (3/2)x 4 + 2x 6 + (5/2)x 8 + 3x 10 + ...

Adding a couple of things seemed

reasonable. But how do you go about

adding an infi nite number of things together

anyway? Why, you’d be at it for ever. But it

didn’t phase Candy. What did she do?

4 In Gradus ad Parnassum we read of Ben

Netlark’s robotic fl ea (Miriam) starting at

the bottom of a fl ight of n stairs. Due to a

programming fault (yes, fl eas have bugs) the

only moves she can make are to jump up one

step or two. How many ways are there of her

jumping to the top of the stairs?

email: [email protected]

Twitter: @ChrisMaslanka

Killer sudoku

Easy

Codeword

Solution No. 27,919

TITIANSNAPUP

WA NO IOO

BOMB CORANGL A I S

SL IDEYN

COHERE ENTREATY

MNRY SE

SECRETION STAR

EFE

PAGE S TOPPRESS

RAS HA U

DERR I ERE SEARCH

CDVDT PR

DEL I BERATE POOL

DNRY ULS

ENGINEGREECE

Medium

Cryptic crossword

Wordplay

Wordpool

In each case fi nd the correct defi nition:

GARNISHEE

a) third party owing money to a debtor

instructed to pay it to a creditor

b) person dressed as a salad

c) medal-winner

d) salad-dressing

INFAUNA

a) period of junta

b) pets belonging to Spanish ruler

c) over-developed region bereft of wildlife

d) creatures living in lake sediment

TRIBOLOGY

a) rule by gangs

b) study of tribes

c) study of friction

d) collection of political papers

E pluribus unum

Rearrange the letters of CHALET PAINTER to

make a single word.

Brant Ub

What is the only word in English ending in

• sede?
  Which two words start in sede -?
  Tom Swifties
  “I’m a Stallone impersonator,” said Tom — (5).
  Cryptic
  Fellow following head of Oxbridge college—
  pronounced by some an ancient beast (8)
  Where W. C. Fields plays tennis? (8, 7)
  Unwilling? (9)
  Missing Links
  Find a word which follows the fi rst word in
  the clue and precedes the second in each
  case making a fresh word or phrase. E.g. the
  answer to fi sh mix could be cake (fi sh cake &
  cake mix) and to bat man it could be he (bat he
  & he -man)...
  a) soft gear b) fi nal board
  c) hand trap d) soft broker
  e) hard water f) table dog
  ©CMM 2019. Solutions on Page 62

Guardian cryptic crossword No 27,920 set by Picaroon

Down

1 Frenchman excited in ungodly

place (5)

2 Climbing, setter’s cutting palm

tree branch off (7)

3 Caught group in army base (4)

4 Slowcoach shaking off top cop (4)

5 Feller tricked about European

turtle (10)

6 Diviner Wessex girl mounted by

forward man (10)

7 Cryptic hint on vent into which

one disappears (4,3)

8 Boris: leader of party, awful sneak

and rat (9)

12 Ali G follows foreign character,

one foolish target (4,6)

13 His sentences add up to to life

(10)

14 Careless friends lifted very soft

grass skirts (4-5)

17 Greek First Lady’s assistant

straddling two gates (7)

19 Poet cut capers in the tube (7)

22 Turned around in cockney’s area

of London (3,2)

23 Stick around American island (4)

24 About to welcome group fl ying in

port (4)

Across

1 Able to restore compliance at fi rst

in central banks (9)

6 House fi xed in advance (3-2)

9 Leading Brexiteer Boris ending,

unfortunately, ruling people (9,6)

10,21 Bet everything Spain makes a

mark in football (4,4)

11 Amend E sharp bum note covers

(8)

14 Drunkenly outspoken,

narcissistic creature in the main

(9)

15 Retire, having left new regional

capital (5)

16 Use a description of cider? (5)

18 Transparent ornaments, say,

in some minimalist American

music? (9)

20 Maybe scratch both sides of

Hindustani hat (8)

21 See 10

25 For yours truly, where Trump is

certain to create tragedy (10,5)

26 Desire what’s fi nally in butterfl y

net (5)

27 Spy once noting criminal on edge

(9)

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14 15

16 17 18 19

20 21 22

23 24

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Killer sudoku

Hard No 674

The normal rules of Sudoku apply: fi ll each row, column and 3x3 box with all

the numbers from 1 to 9. In addition, the digits in each inner shape (marked by

dots) must add up to the number in the top corner of that box. No digit can be

repeated within an inner shape.

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