Daily Mail - 23.08.2019

Page 48 Daily Mail, Friday, August 23, 2019

YOUR

ANSWERS

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

(a) ♠ K 10 7 4 ♥ 6 ♦ K J 6 4 ♣ K Q 8 4

(b) ♠ K Q 10 4 ♥ 7 ♦ K Q 6 4 ♣ A Q 9 3

(c) ♠ K Q 10 4 ♥ 7 ♦ A K 6 4 2 ♣ A Q 3

(d) ♠ A K 3 ♥ 8 ♦ A Q 4 ♣ A Q J 9 7 3
Your rHo has opened 1♥, and you have made a
take-out double on each of the above hands. What
action do you take next after LHo passes and
partner bids 1♠?
Players too frequently forget, when considering
their next action after a double, that they have
forced their partner to bid. The worst scenario, he
could be sitting with a yarborough and only three
spades. We are going to study responses to the dou-
ble next week, but, for now, he has less than eight
honour and distributional points.
With this knowledge you do not bid again unless
you are extra strong and want to suggest game, if
partner has a little bit more than he might have.
It is, therefore, easy to pass on hand (a). Hand (b)
is a borderline case for raising to 2♠ (with four losers
assuming a fit).
Hand (c) is even stronger, so you invite with a
jump to 3♠. On hand (d), you bid 3♣, which shows
your great strength and is absolutely forcing; most
importantly, it denies holding four spades, which
the initial double would imply.

SMALLEST HARDEST CROSSWORD — ACROSS: 1 Scar. 5 Aga.

6 Usu. 7 Teem. DOWN: 2 Case. 3 Ague. 4 Ra. 6 Ut.

NINE TO FIVE

HIDATO KAKURO

CROSS NUMBER TRAIN TRACKS

NEED A CLUE? Text TIP to 65700 to receive FOUR answers

to today’s crossword, or call 0901 293 6236. Texts and

calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. Today’s

clues available between 00.01 today and 23.30 only.

PUZZLES PRIZES

30-SECOND CHALLENGE

KENKEN SUDOKU X

SUDOKU PRIZE SUDOKU

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FOR your chance to win, solve the crossword to reveal the word reading down the

shaded boxes. HOW TO ENTER: Call 0901 293 6233 and leave today’s answer and your

details, or TEXT 65700 with the word CRYPTIC, your answer and your name. Texts and

calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. Or enter by post by sending completed

crossword to Daily Mail Prize Crossword 16127, PO Box 28, Colchester, Essex CO2 8GF.

Please include your name and address. One weekly winner chosen from all correct daily

entries received between 00.01 Monday and 23.59 Friday. Postal entries must be date-

stamped no later than the following day to qualify. Calls/texts must be received by 23.59;

answers change at 00.01. UK residents aged 18+, exc NI. Terms apply, see Page 68.

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SOLUTIONS TO YESTERDAY’S PUZZLES

WORD WHEEL

clint, clink, clonk, coin, colin,

confit, conk, fino, flint, flintlock,

font, icon, ikon, info, inlock, into,

kiln, kino, knit, knoll, knot, link,

lino, lint, lion, loin, nick, nicol, nill,

nock, noil, oink, oint, ontic, tonic.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

CROSSWORD — ACROSS: 1 Live and

Let Die. 8 Omar. 9 Centigrade.

10 Police. 11 Epiphany.

12 Monastery. 14 Eros. 15 Kiss. 16 Ed

Sheeran. 20 Beer Hall. 21 Carter.

23 Schlieffen. 24 Bugs. 25 Prairie

oyster. DOWN: 1 Limpopo. 2 Verdi.

3 Ancient. 4 Daniel Radcliffe.

5 Elixir. 6 Dark horse.

7 Endings. 13 Australia.

15 Kneecap. 17 Hackney.

18 Avenger. 19 Paneer. 22 Rabat.

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SOLUTIONS TO TODAY’S PUZZLES

QUICK QUIZ: 1 Memory.

2 60. 3 Brad Pitt. 4 Venus.

5 Pakistani.

MINDBENDER: 1 40 eggs.

2 They are all breeds of

chicken. 3 Theresa Villiers.

4 Mercutio; the other

Shakespeare characters

have moons of Uranus

named after them.

5 Beethoven, Buxtehude,

Meyerbeer.

MASTERQUIZ: 1 Helmut

Haller. 2 Robert Walpole.

3 Trumpet. 4 Downton Abbey.

5 Cincinnati. 6 King John.

HONEYCOMB: 1 Mashes.

2 Sample. 3 Eluded. 4 Divide.

5 Dimple. 6 Parcel. 7 Circle.

8 Craves. 9 Severe.

10 Remind. 11 Neared.

12 Seraph.

KUROSU

Missing word: LOOT

ACROSS:

6 Reception

rooms.

9 Evince.

10 Desolate.

11 Unsaddle.

13 A level.

15 Locust.

17 Adagio.

19 Eclair.

20 Aircraft.

22 Unlawful.

24 Choice.

26 Venture

capital.

DOWN:

1 Driving

licence. 2 Scan.

3 Spread.

4 Inkstand.

5 Goal.

7 Indeed.

8 Matter-of-

factly. 12 Accra.

14 Eager.

16 Sure-fire.

18 Garlic.

21 Recipe.

23 Alto.

25 Otto.

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS DOWN

1 Bar is initially having

to stock large

issue (7)

5 Stock extremely

mediocre bunch

of flowers (6)

9 Charles’s painter

impressed a royal

German mostly (7)

10 Right and left

enclosed in

diamonds (7)

11 Prince dreads losing

regulars (3)

12 Cannery uses fluid

that’s not required (11)

13 Former Ottoman

leader’s civilian

dress (5)

14 Support new chief

brought in for second

time in station (9)

16 A bar got annoyed

about very empty

vessel on table (5,4)

17 A northerner’s racing

venue (5)

19 Frank’s ideas about

one writer receiving

fine (5-6)

22 Setter’s beginning to

patronise unruly

youngster (3)

23 Exploit is in vain after

leader goes off (7)

24 Former soldiers

surround West End

radical (7)

26 Niche holiday (6)

27 Lady of rank starts to

dress up game (7)

1 Bunyan’s hero,

devout student,

dour (7)

2 Guide forbids march

round island to see

colourful flyers (5,2,8)

3 Hostility that is

enveloping

Conservative (3)

4 Composer hadn’t lost

tempo around end of

symphony (5)

5 Disinclined to rave

about cryptic clue,

first of two (9)

6 Prepares to fire piles

of hay (5)

7 Canned Irishman

scrambled European

language (8,7)

8 Extent of knowledge

about any suspect

Nairobi local (6)

12 Make one bun if

you’re eating it (5)

14 Breaking tension,

work quietly to

obtain latest

news (4,5)

15 Part of cycle range (5)

16 Chalky stuff’s unique

selling point raised

during PE (6)

18 Headgear for

executioners? (7)

20 Green resident wastes

time (5)

21 Work requirement, by

the sound of it (5)

25 Twitch every now and

then (3)

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD No. 16,124

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Beginner 88

(^1) / 4
OF IT +50
÷9x3 +8÷ 8 x25 -4 ÷ 12
Advanced^1 / 5 x225 x8
LESS
10%
(^4) / 9
OF IT x1¾ +1
(^4) / 11
OF IT
150%
OF IT
PLUS
33 1 / 3 %
Intermediate 77 +40
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30-SECOND CHALLENGE:
Beginner: 8.
Intermediate: 75.
Advanced: 184.