The Guardian - 09.09.2019

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• The Guardian Monday 9 September 2019

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Saturday’s

solutions

Killer sudoku Codeword

Easy

Medium

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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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Killer Sudoku 674

Guardian cryptic crosswordNo 27,921 set by Arachne

6 Help idiot start to improve

posture (10)

7 Lower status of French ace (6)

13 When all else fails, option Carry

On Cleethorpes? (4,6)

16 Gets excited over detailed

porcelain plates (8)

18 Bitterness of American crook,

regularly missing bounty (8)

19 Content to leave alcohol, rising

QC consumes a lime and soda? (7)

21 Seli shness perhaps is in order (6)

22 Tipsy Chechens, full of spirit (6)

24 Girls losing useful devices in

coach seats (4)

Across

8 Unl appability of working-class

men (8)

9 Sense of time wasted knowing no

bounds (5)

10 One exploits setters about to

retire (4)

11 Met privileged groups carrying

large revolvers (10)

12 Lots of powerless lackeys (6)

14 Warning triangle is broken (8)

15 Part of somebody’s Seychelles

journey (7)

17 Briel y anointed barbarous Boris

Johnson? (7)

20 Male rewriting article using feet

(8)

22 French revolutionary losing

clothes in US capital (6)

23 Tory’s buccaneering plot (10)

24 Dull sound of rubbish piano (4)

25 Little growth in season once

November’s gone (5)

26 Stupid bears smell beastly (8)

Down

1 Old men perhaps foil security

measure (8)

2 First of advance military units

reach river on the Russian-

Chinese border (4)

3 Against poetry being recited (6)

4 Wrong to assume husband butts

in here (7)

5 Most inactive and poorly during

Second International (8)

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Solution No. 27,914

CBCSPSAS

AVALANCHE E IGHT

SRTOALOR

TOBACCO HEL LUVA

OLH PEOT I

FOUR FORNOTHING

TEO UAH

HASAF IT TYPESET

OMOE MF

UNTHINKING HALL

SHR I YR SU

ANAGRAM BEACHE S

NNOOEDHH

DAKAR NONFINITE

S S SONOT S

Cryptic crossword

Puzzles

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O aly, Eire; Rebecca Arthur,

Dunfermline; Fred Peeling,

Soham, Ely

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