The Guardian - 01.08.2019

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• The Guardian Thursday 1 Aug ust 2019

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Ye ste r d ay ’s

solutions

Killer sudoku Codeword

Easy

Medium

The normal rules of

Sudoku apply: fi ll each

row, column and 3x3 box

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.

Each letter of the alphabet makes at least one appearance in the grid,

and is represented by the same number wherever it appears. The letters

Killer sudoku decoded should help you to identify other letters and words in the grid.

Easy

Codeword

Guardian cryptic crosswordNo 27,888 set by Puck

Down

1 See way out of folly that’s greed

(8)

2 You sell feminist underwear,

bottoms only, leading to end of

bra? That’s radical (5)

3 An obsession, perhaps, with

something found on the French

Riviera? (7,7)

4 Like some trousers to appear hot

on high priest (7)

5 Experts backing spies’ routine (7)

7 A meal best canned in tin, say

(4,5)

8 Gift books coming under ‘Fiction’

(6)

9 Was unsure about European

wearing the French underwear as

outer garments sometimes (6-8)

15 Show up with energy Mars Bars

produced (9)

16 Extremely large number upset by

a new dealer in Cheddar? (8)

18 Unlucky, like chap that’s caught

short (7)

19 Jaw about everyone before nine

in the morning (7)

20 Bad smell around a wee stunted

tree (6)

23 Roots supply trunk (5)

Across

1 Dating an old tennis champion’s

cool (9)

6 Neighbour displaying a 26 after

sun comes out (4)

10 Accommodate going back and

forth (3,2)

11 Roman offi cial for and against

Muslim ruler having no function

(9)

12 Potentially the cause of most

damage inside a restaurant (7)

13 White male husband, regularly

drunk (7)

14 ‘X’ on map might show

whereabouts of this diabolical

theatre’s curse (8,5)

17 Live with a friend: British female

one’s put up at the seaside (5,8)

21 Around one hour in Paris? Sadly,

it could fl y by (7)

22 Special quality that’s needed by

female member of cast (1,6)

24 One holding 26 in small room

shows some intellectual

capability (5,4)

25 Cut thread ... half of which lost by

hesitating? (5)

26 Journalist thrown by boy band

not working (4)

27 Withdraw from sun, with its

required eff ect now lost on 26,

largely (5,4)

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Medium

Solution No. 27,887

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CHOOCHOO EARTH

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SCONCE COVENANT

AA T ES

CLIMATEELLIPSE

EED LT

GLISSADETHEMAN

ANPCH G

DRYASABONE HIGH

VMR R I E E

AGENT UPSTA I RS

LSYMMTS

Cryptic crossword

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