Daily Mail - 19.08.2019

Page 40 Daily Mail, Monday, August 19, 2019

YOUR

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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

we START by setting out the guidelines by which

you determine whether or not to make a take-out

double. There are basically two types of hand which

qualify for this.

First, when you want to compete, but don’t know

which suit to bid. By definition, this means that you

will be two- or three-suited, with a shortage in the

opponent’s bid suit.

If you are low on honour point values, you must

have compensating distributional values.

And second, when your hand is just too strong to

make a simple overcall. In this case you may have

any distribution, and you will be planning to

bid again.

The two further factors to consider are the vulner-

ability and your position in the auction. For

example, if your side only is vulnerable and your

partner has already passed, but opener’s partner

has not, you should not risk doubling with the

same minimum hand, which you might have for a

non-vulnerable double.

Most cases for the double are clear-cut; those

which are borderline will be a matter for your judg-

ment and, as always, your agreement with partner

about style.

examples follow tomorrow.

NINE TO FIVE

HIDATO KAKURO

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Missing word: SMITH

ACROSS:

1 Simulate.

5 Talent.

9 Contempt.

10 Saluki.

12 Lace.

13 Lovey-dovey.

15 Lackadaisical.

19 Environmental.

23 Personally.

25 Rune.

28 Wombat.

29 Appetite.

30 Render.

31 Sentence.

DOWN:

1 Sickle. 2 Manic.

3 Lees. 4 Tapioca.

6 Award.

7 Equivocal.

8 Tricycle. 11 Feta.

14 Scar.

15 Liveryman.

16 Dim. 17 Sate.

18 Sea power.

20 Naan.

21 Ellipse.

22 Renege.

24 Orate.

26 Union. 27 Seat.

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS DOWN

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people on Glorious

Twelfth? (7-5)

8 Vigilant amateur

tours British

province (7)

9 She rests possibly

after a debut in

comedy (7)

11 Firmly established

in comfy old

armchair? (4-6)

12 Grate fruit, removing

berry (4)

14 Like rare plant

for a fuel

complex (4-4)

16 Barrier securing

writer’s cell (6)

17 Contrary response,

one from horse, I

hear (3)

19 Old head swallows

one sedative (6)

21 Capital lager spilt in

unmade bed (8)

24 Expel American

plugging religious

books (4)

25 Borrow name

devised for

dog food

perhaps (10)

27 Carefree lecturer

wields pick once

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28 Make 11 popular

cereal (7)

29 Church feature

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1 Present a uniform for

static display (7)

2 Indecisive Irish

concerned with note

on instrument (10)

3 Chinese people invade

Georgia with Scot and

African (8)

4 Lecturer’s back

touring Germany and

Spain (6)

5 Vehicle needing

mobile to be fully

complete (4)

6 People wearing

ermine look

mature (7)

7 Union assistant had

uniform remade with

two rings (4,2,6)

10 Peru’s big men

worried about

eastern deity (7,5)

13 Western areas import

goods twice for Oz

city (5,5)

15 Fine sailor’s

wonderful (3)

18 Youth initially getting

wages in yen (8)

20 Study power in small

arthropod (7)

22 A new tree’s

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23 Stock Conservative

PM once short of

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26 House paper with

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SOLUTIONS TO SATURDAY’S PUZZLES

QUICK QUIZ: 1 Liverpool.

2 Gloucestershire. 3 Foyle’s War.

4 1970s. 5 The Police.

MINDBENDER: 1 Twenty-one

shoes. 2 They may all follow

show. 3 Dominic Raab. 4 Wilma,

a Flintstone; the others are

Rubbles. 5 Oar. Boar, roaring,

hoard, oared.

MASTERQUIZ: 1 Salmon.

2 May 29. 3 Hungary.

4 Newcastle United. 5 Jonathan

Swift. 6 Bulgarian.

HONEYCOMB:

1 Prayer. 2 Arrest. 3 Summit.

4 Magnum. 5 Unites. 6 Etcher.

7 Rector. 8 Tomato. 9 Tapped.

10 Epochs. 11 Shrubs.

12 Rebuke.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

CROSSWORD — ACROSS:

6 Friends. 7 Hergé. 9 Dram. 10 Icebreaker.

11 Tom Wolfe. 13 Tahiti. 15 Impi. 17 Pugin. 18 Gene.

19 Greene. 20 Eggplant. 23 Snow Patrol.

26 Gaga. 27 Albee. 28 Twitter.

DOWN: 1 Jimmy White. 2 O’Neill. 3 Ashe.

4 Sheraton. 5 Orca. 6 Fargo. 8 Everton. 12 Eagle.

14 Highlights. 16 Miranda. 17 Pleiades. 21 Goldie.

22 Niger. 24 Webb. 25 Ruth.

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WORD WHEEL: agio, argil,

argol, argot, atigi, gait, galiot,

gaol, gari, gilt, girl, giro,

girt, glair, glia, gloat, gloria,

goal, goat, goral, grail,

griot, grit, groat, grot,

largo, litigator, ragi, rolag,

toga, triglot, trog.

FOLLOWinG a reader’s request, i’ll be

dealing with the topic of the take-out

doubles for the next week or so.

Beginner 5

TIMES

ITSELF x3

DOUBLE

IT ÷^25 x7 +9 ÷^3 +60 ÷^7

Advanced 59 x8 -40

LESS

25%

50%

OF IT -10

LESS

12½% -8 x32

7½%

OF IT

Intermediate^2 / 3 x105 -18

(^7) / 13
OF IT
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(^1) / 12
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5%
OF IT
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30-SECOND CHALLENGE:
Beginner: 11. Intermediate: 108.
Advanced: 300.