Daily Mail - 30.08.2019

Page 48 Daily Mail, Friday, August 30, 2019

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BRIDGE MASTERCLASS

WIN

£500

PETER DONOVAN

START on left with number given and follow instructions as you go across. In 30 seconds, beginners have to

complete their own challenge; intermediates have to complete their own challenge and the beginner’s;

advanced players have to complete their own challenge and the intermediate’s. SOLUTION BELOW

SMALLEST, HARDEST CROSSWORD — ACROSS: 1 Acta.

5 Hay. 6 Gap. 7 Tres. DOWN: 2 Char. 3 Tape. 4 Ay. 6 GT.

NINE TO FIVE

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PUZZLES PRIZES

30-SECOND CHALLENGE

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SOLUTIONS TO YESTERDAY’S PUZZLES

WORD WHEEL

aargh, agami, agamid, agar, agha,

agma, agria, airgap, amiga, apgar,

argh, darga, dargah, diagram,

diagraph, diaphragm, digraph,

drag, gadi, gamp, garda, gari,

gimp, gird, grad, gram, grama,

gramp, graph, grid, grim, grip, magi,

marg, pagri, paradigm, prig,

raga, ragi.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

CROSSWORD — ACROSS: 1 Downing

Street. 8 Snag. 9 Neapolitan.

10 Saints. 11 Dead heat. 12 Neil

Young. 14 Nike. 15 Riga. 16 Joan

of Arc. 20 Tartaric. 21 Asthma.

23 California. 24 Avon. 25 Edgar

Allan Poe.

DOWN: 1 Dan Dare. 2 Wigan.

3 Ionesco. 4 Grand Union

Canal. 5 Thomas. 6 Edith Piaf.

7 Teacake. 13 Lightning.

15 Real ale. 17 Niagara.

18 Rumpole. 19 Armour. 22 Tramp.

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KILLER SUDOKU GOGEN

SOLUTIONS TO TODAY’S PUZZLES

QUICK QUIZ: 1 Jacob Rees-

Mogg. 2 Lancashire. 3 Ben

Foden. 4 1969. 5 The Exorcist.

MINDBENDER: 1 Forty-nine

acorns. 2 They are all types

of wasp. 3 Helen Sharman.

4 Donny; the others were

Don Corleone’s sons.

5 Cymbeline, Pygmalion,

Cavalcade.

MASTERQUIZ: 1 Magenta.

2 Three Men in a Boat.

3 Chatsworth House.

4 Wembley. 5 The Cellar

Tapes. 6 Godfrey Kneller.

HONEYCOMB:

1 Bodies. 2 Docile. 3 Elapse.

4 Sparse. 5 Esteem.

6 Edible. 7 Befall. 8 Affair.

9 Ribald. 10 Lastly.

11 Lately. 12 Seethe.

KUROSU:

Missing word: PULP

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS DOWN

1 Extreme racist

worried Democrat

at the front (7)

5 Shrinks question

trouble in America (6)

9 Release TV at

no charge (3,4)

10 A uniform part

circling head

of evangelist? (7)

11 One side of Lord’s past

its sell-by date? (3)

12 Treat old animal

to drink (11)

13 Conservative comes

in to draw money (5)

14 Suffering mother

tackles outbreak of

dry rot (9)

16 A drunk lady hugs

male worker

with conviction (9)

17 This country upset

party’s prestige (5)

19 Superior nappies

destroyed in NHS,

causing despair (11)

22 It’s pointless driving

away one carrier (3)

23 Vehicle professional

removed from

semicircle (7)

24 Writer and expert

describing intro to

novel ‘Atonement’ (7)

26 Small fish pong (6)

27 Periodic table item,

last of very dry spirit

I swallowed (7)

1 I’d worked with Poles,

getting sack (7)

2 Pump on bypass hit

trailer – facia

smashed (10,5)

3 Mariner finally hit

centre of Mars (3)

4 Visibly embarrassed,

probing firm

statement

of beliefs (5)

5 Two pints in the

morning without

a magazine (9)

6 Woman left, demoted

due to hearing (5)

7 Advanced in oil or

fantastically expert

in it? (8,2,5)

8 Change club

in London (6)

12 Stadium takes an age

to climb (5)

14 Top woman’s time in

shabby armchair (9)

15 My key is

misplaced (5)

16 University in a

metropolis? Smart

thinking (6)

18 Light problem

limits northern

airline once (7)

20 Aid for climber

operating

under mine (5)

21 Useless odd type

keeping minutes (5)

25 Clear goal (3)

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD No 16,129

No 16,132

8 9 3 5 1 7 2 6 4

1 4 6 9 2 3 5 7 8

7 5 2 6 8 4 1 3 9

2 6 4 7 5 1 8 9 3

3 7 9 2 4 8 6 1 5

5 8 1 3 6 9 4 2 7

6 3 8 1 9 5 7 4 2

4 1 7 8 3 2 9 5 6

9 2 5 4 7 6 3 8 1

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(a) ♠ 7 4 3 ♥ 10 7 4 ♦ Q J 4 2 ♣ Q J 4

(b) ♠ J 10 8 5 3 ♥ 10 7 4 ♦ 6 4 ♣ Q 6 4

(c) ♠ A J 8 4 ♥ 10 7 4 ♦ 6 4 ♣ 10 9 4 2

(d) ♠ 9 4 ♥ 10 7 4 ♦ Q J 9 7 6 3 ♣ K 4

(e) ♠ K J 5 ♥ 10 7 4 ♦ Q 10 4 3 ♣ A 6 3

LHO opens 1♥, and partner doubles. What

action would you take on each hand after next

hand raises to 2♥?

Far from obstructing your auction, an opponent’s

pre-emptive intervention sometimes can be bene-

ficial for your side, because it absolves you from the

need to bid.

Thus it follows that when you do bid, partner will

know you have something useful to say.

It’s important to bid if you can after intervention

and, while hand (a) is a sensible pass, I’d advocate

2 ♠ on both (b) and (c), and 3♦ on (d).

The last hand is an interesting case, because you

have a surprisingly large number of points in the

light of the auction thus far, but you have no sensible

suit bid available.

The solution is to make a ‘responsive’ double,

which describes the hand perfectly. You deny four

spades or a 5-card minor with 8+HCPs.

There are no clearcut answers to meet all the

situations with which you are faced. That is why the

good bidder needs to combine a set of principles

with sound judgment.

Beginner 100 ÷4-4÷ 7 x60 +7 ÷ 11 x20 +10

(^1) / 2
OF IT
Advanced 1000
(^13) / 40
OF IT
LESS
20%
5%
OF IT
TIMES
ITSELF +7
LESS
37 ½ % +100
(^6) / 15
OF IT
125%
OF IT
Intermediate^2 / 5 x 2000
(^4) / 25
OF IT
(^3) / 8
OF IT
(^2) / 3
OF IT
x125
(^3) / 10
OF IT
(^13) / 100
OF IT
75%
OF IT
(^4) / 9
OF IT
30-SECOND CHALLENGE:
Beginner: 175.
Intermediate: 52.
Advanced: 105.
ACROSS:
6 Nil
desperandum.
9 Gossip.
10 Innuendo.
11 Aspirins.
13 Fedora.
15 Indian.
17 Dynamo.
19 Gneiss.
20 Upstairs.
22 Oblation.
24 Breast.
26 Representative.
DOWN:
1 Unconscionable.
2 Plus.
3 Delphi.
4 Crane fly.
5 Once.
7 Prissy.
8 Undernourished.
12 Indri.
14 Drama.
16 Abscissa.
18 Turn in.
21 Subway.
23 Airy. 25 Emit.