Daily Mail - 27.08.2019

Page 38 Daily Mail, Tuesday, August 27, 2019

HIDATO

COMPLETE the

grid so that all

the numbers,

1 to 44, connect

consecutively —

horizontally,

vertically or

diagonally.

Hint: you

don’t have to

begin with

1 or 44. Working

on the

mid-numbers

might give you

a better start.

SOLUTION

TOMORROW

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

TOMORROW

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 TOMORROW

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1. Who was the first
   player to score a hat-
   trick in this season’s
   Premier League?


2. In the early 1500s, who
   painted the ceiling of the
   Sistine Chapel?


3. Which Olympic
   oarsman is to take part
   in the next series of
   Strictly Come Dancing?


4. Born in the 1780s, what
   nationality were the
   Brothers Grimm?


5. In which decade did
   the Cuban Missile Crisis
   take place?

SOLUTION: PULLOUT

BACK PAGE

QUICK QUIZ

MINDBENDER

MASTERQUIZ

KILLER

SUDOKU

Wonder

Mob

Trees

Stank

Discern

Stops

Moment

Beginner

Card game

Axioms

Beaches

Ogled

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 M

1 2 3 4 5 6

7

8

9

10

11

1. Which U.S. singer/songwriter,
   who died in 2003, was known as
   The Man in Black?


2. Hispalis was the ancient
   Roman name of which Spanish
   city?


3. What was the name of the
   royal summer residence of the
   House of Hanover in Germany?


4. Which English club signed

Ayoze Pérez from Newcastle

United for £30 million?

5. The Lion of Venice stands on
   top of one of the two granite
   columns in St Mark’s Square in
   Venice; which saint stands atop
   the other?


6. What was the name of the
   Mersey Ferry converted by Sir
   Peter Blake into a colourful
   moving artwork named
   Everybody Razzle Dazzle?

SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE

1. The ratio of full-price tickets

to concession tickets for a

sell-out concert was three to

one. If the sum of all the full-

price tickets and a quarter of
the concession tickets is 650,

how many full-price tickets

were sold?

2. What connects glycerin,

transparent and liquid?

3. Which astronaut may have
   HELD ACRID FISH?


4. Whose flag is the odd one out:
   New Zealand, Australia, Fiji,
   Samoa?


5. Using the chemical symbols,
   which discharge may include
   erbium, uranium, platinum,
   iodine, oxygen and nitrogen?

SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE

6d. Refrain from breaking

rare fob (7)

4d. Convent to wean off

fresh agreement (3,8)

15a. Log-on to ringtail flight

for comfortable walk (7,4)

1a. Minding, thus creating

‘Arctic dark’ (8,3)

14a. Accuse particular rule,

it’s said (7)

1d. Curlews to mope about

machine substitute (6,5)

5a. Say no to horrible fur

sale (7)

7d. Wish Ali could see this

as language! (7)

DOWN

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1 2 3 4

5 6 7

8 9

10 12

14

15

PITCHERWITS

TM

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue

5 Picture Clue

8 Early recipe for

chicken (5)

9 Isn’t out of auditions

for visual

accompaniment (5)

10 Help, as seen partly

in what is old-

fashioned (5)

12 Question said

to come

fourth (5)

14 Picture Clue

15 Picture Clue

1 Picture Clue

2 Grubby — like

Swayze’s

dancing? (5)

3 Old is the new

reliable (5)

4 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue

7 Picture Clue

11 Garden mollusc

with a pace

index (5)

13 Anne’s back

to being a

shrub! (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION — ACROSS: 1 Dishonesty. 7 Ovoid. 8 Quasi. 9 Premeditate. 11 Not remember. 14 Ounce. 15 Vigil. 16

Forty winks. DOWN: 1 Dropping on. 2 Stove. 3 Odd. 4 Enquire. 5 Tiara. 6 Fire drills. 10 Everest. 12 Tango. 13 Begin. 15 Vow.