Daily Mail - 01.08.2019

Page 44 Daily Mail, Thursday, August 1, 2019

HIDATO

COMPLETE the

grid so that all

the numbers,

1 to 63, connect

consecutively —

horizontally,

vertically or

diagonally.

Hint: you

don’t have to

begin with

1 or 63. 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 wrote the 2003
   autobiographical book
   I Don’t Mean To Be
   Rude, But...?


2. What breed of animal is
   a Clydesdale?


3. Which milestone
   birthday did former
   motor racing driver
   Jackie Stewart celebrate
   in June?


4. In Greek mythology,
   how many eyes has
   a Cyclops?


5. On which island is
   the holiday resort of
   Ayia Napa?

SOLUTION:

PULLOUT BACK PAGE

QUICK QUIZ

MINDBENDER

MASTERQUIZ

KILLER

SUDOKU

Talc, e.g.

Awe

Reverse

Bit

Overthrow

Football

Edit

Tainted

Abraded

Act

Dale

Unspool

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 P

1 2 3 4 5 6

7

8

9

10

11

1. What kind of insects do
   sericulturists breed?


2. In which Cheshire village
   do the annual World Worm
   Charming championships
   take place?


3. Actress Bryce Dallas Howard
   is the daughter of which
   Hollywood director?
   4. Step Back In Time: The
   Definitive Collection is the new
   album by which singer?
   5. Which British novelist,
   in 1929, married a woman
   whose first name was
   identical to his own?
   6. Which French king revoked
   the Edict of Nantes?

SOLUTION:

PULLOUT BACK PAGE

1. Sam’s wheelbarrow is full
   when it is loaded with eight
   breeze blocks. It is also full when
   it carries five fence panels. Sam
   never carries blocks and panels
   at the same time on his barrow.
   He made 20 trips to the truck,

his barrow full on each trip. If he
transported a total of 121 breeze
blocks and fence panels to the
truck, how many fence panels
did he move altogether?

2. What connects box, home
   and post?


3. Which London-inspired song
   may PROBE DOLLAR TOO?


4. Which is the odd one out:
   The Promise, Sound Of The
   Underground, No Good Advice,
   I’ll Stand By You?


5. Starting with I, add a
   letter and shuffle to make
   a new word each time until you
   reach DEFOLIANT.

SOLUTION:

PULLOUT BACK PAGE

6d. Nice pea soup, with

no hostility (2,5)

4d. Non-legal ripoff, could be

cause of hay fever (6,5)

18a. Tin chokes up efforts to

feed the needy (4,7)

1a. Pry into table mat design

for your night vision (7,4)

13a. Ban on ad that’s

offensive for a dump (7)

1d. No hot tubs, OK? They

could close your coats (11)

9a. Matador’s crony for cop

in arid environment (7)

8d. Gets smaller, say

the ‘psychiatrists’ (7)

DOWN

7

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PITCHERWITS

TM

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue

5 Not high

enough to have

a bone? (5)

7 Try out easterly

stand (5)

9 Picture Clue

11 Born of

horsey talk? (3)

12 Tiny, tiny one,

unconditionally

taken in (3)

13 Picture Clue

16 Hope raised in

musical drama (5)

1 Picture Clue

2 Map out empathic

moral rule (5)

3 Give up the harvest (5)

4 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue

8 Picture Clue

10 Tawny owl’s bristle (3)

14 Spinal unit that’ll take

you by surprise! (5)

15 Opted to become terminus (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION — ACROSS: 1 Attesting. 5 Caw. 6 Awl. 7 Cure-all. 10 Tat. 11 Excuses. 12 Ilk. 13 Ramping. 16 Oat.

17 Hoe. 18 Excessive. DOWN: 1 Away team. 2 Talc. 3 Tyke. 4 Go fly a kite. 5 Centigrade. 8 U-turn. 9 Absinthe. 14 Pike. 15 Gobi.

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3 5 5 4 6 2 1 1

A

B

17 Macaroni, e.g.,

said to be like

church shepherd? (5)

18 Picture Clue