Page 40 Daily Mail, Wednesday, August 7, 2019
BRIDGE MASTERCLASS
WIN
£500
PETER DONOVAN
AGAINST the bidding 1♠ - 3♠ - 4♠, you lead
your singleton ♥2. Declarer wins and, with no
spade honours on the table, plays his ♠A. Which
card do you play and why?
you play the ♠6, not ♠3. In this particular instance,
it is possible that declarer is missing the ♠K, but
is still going ahead with drawing trumps as quickly
as he can, because he has recognised your lead as
a singleton.
At any rate, it can do no harm to tell your partner
that you have three trumps, so that, if he does win
the second round of the suit, he will know that it is
not too late to give you a ruff.
This is another instance when the normal petering
to show two or four gives way to a special signal,
the message of which is that, not only have you
got three trumps, but you also have an interest in
getting a ruff.
Don’t use it if you’ve nothing to ruff anyway:
keep it to pass the twofold message — I have a
third trump, and something I can do with it!
West
♠ 8 6 3
♥ 2
♦ J 10 7 4 3
♣ Q 7 6 4
SMALLEST, HARDEST CROSSWORD: ACROSS: 1 Blew. 5 Rode.
6 Aida. 7 Gnar. DOWN: 1 Brag. 2 Loin. 3 Edda. 4 Wear.
NINE TO FIVE
KENKEN
HIDATO KAKURO
TRAIN TRACKS
SUDOKU X
CROSS NUMBER
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SOLUTIONS TO YESTERDAY’S PUZZLES
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WORD SEARCH
KILLER SUDOKU GOGEN
SOLUTIONS TO TODAY’S PUZZLES
QUICK QUIZ:
1 Wembley. 2 Lincolnshire.
3 Ed Sheeran. 4 Swiss franc.
5 SpongeBob SquarePants.
MINDBENDER:
1 Sixteen seconds.
2 They may all precede pea.
3 Garbine Muguruza.
4 Calgary; the others are
capitals of Canadian
provinces and territories.
5 Radius, scapula,
mandible (A becomes H,
B becomes I, etc).
MASTERQUIZ:
1 Charing Cross Road. 2 Ivy.
3 Hungary. 4 Bill Murray.
5 Five. 6 Grant.
HONEYCOMB: 1 Linger.
2 Nickel. 3 Leader. 4 Deride.
5 Dimple. 6 Parcel. 7 Eclair.
8 Alkali. 9 Lasted. 10 Tingle.
11 Genial. 12 Injure.
30-SECOND CHALLENGE:
Beginner: 200.
Intermediate: 72.
Advanced: 34.
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Missing word: CONDOR
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS DOWN
1 Note accepted
by more pious
innkeeper (8)
5 Like rackets
Serena oddly
designed
with gut (6)
9 Ethnic sect beside
Russian river (8)
10 Trainee pursues
V&A hooligan (6)
12 One water-carrier,
or another with
no top (4)
13 Nasty secret
about tense
radical’s urban
conformity (6,4)
15 Perhaps Matilda
presides over
party game (7,6)
19 Personalities
engaged in boring
monarch’s
sport (6,7)
23 Pulled money out
after student
leaves, jobless (10)
25 Book used in
Requiem Mass (4)
28 Treble let rip
in panic (6)
29 Well-known old
American replaces
one in family (8)
30 Distant meteor
explodes (6)
31 Get shot of plane?
It’s on ground (8)
1 Someone gaining illicit
access for chopper (6)
2 Material university
students supplied
during half-term (5)
3 Garish lady regularly
impresses Open
University (4)
4 Revolutionary Castile able
to bounce back (7)
6 Raise your glasses to a
good person (5)
7 Yankee abandons
basic lackey (9)
8 Contents of forty-niner’s
pan like hen’s teeth (4,4)
11 Live without wife
in valley (4)
14 Typically severe autocratic
Russian initially (4)
15 It burns brilliantly,
amusing me somehow (9)
16 Arab king’s floating
menagerie (3)
17 Trouble following
husband’s cold shower (4)
18 A Flight Lieutenant, say,
in tremulous state (8)
20 Pack in time-consuming
broadcast (4)
21 Normal hail storm (7)
22 Cut fruit covering top
of young tree (6)
24 One’s in bed for
trial run (5)
26 Painter Grandma’s son
leaves green plants (5)
27 England captain loves
being in arts centre (4)
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD No. 16,112
No 16,115
1 6 8 4 7 5 2 9 3
9 5 7 3 1 2 4 6 8
2 3 4 6 8 9 5 7 1
5 8 9 2 4 1 6 3 7
7 2 1 8 3 6 9 4 5
6 4 3 5 9 7 8 1 2
3 9 2 1 6 8 7 5 4
4 7 5 9 2 3 1 8 6
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Beginner 60
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OF IT x2 x6
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Advanced 93 +51
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250%
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OF IT
Intermediate 80
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5%
OF IT
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ITSELF
(^7) / 18
OF IT
x25
10%
OF IT
(^3) / 5
OF IT
(^6) / 7
OF IT
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
30-SECOND CHALLENGE
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ACROSS:
1 Archaic.
5 Sewage.
9 Garment.
10 Marconi.
11 Boo. 12 Flying
squad. 13 Awful.
14 Blind date.
16 Prognosis.
17 Itchy.
19 Superimpose.
22 Use. 23 Elitist.
24 Exalted.
26 Stroll.
27 Aspired.
DOWN:
1 Algebra.
2 Carbon
footprint.
3 Axe. 4 Catty.
5 Semantics.
6 Works.
7 Globular
cluster. 8 Birdie.
12 Felon. 14 Base
metal. 15 Drive.
16 Pester.
18 Yielded.
20 Rhino.
21 Opera. 25 Amp.
WORD WHEEL:
Deke, dork, eked, keen, kendo,
keno, kent, kente, kern, kerne,
kerned, ketone, knee, kneed, knew,
knot, knotweed, know, knower,
kore, krone, nerk, network,
networked, reek, reknot,
rewoke, rewoken, terek,
token, trek, twerk, week, woke,
woken, wonk, work, worked.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD —
ACROSS: 7 The Birds. 9 Mahler. 10 Icon.
11 Bela Lugosi. 12 Carbon. 14 Cat’s-eyes.
15 Caroline Flack. 17 Ethiopia. 19 Amazon.
21 Ruud Gullit. 22 Katy. 23 Attlee.
24 Yorktown. DOWN: 1 Cha-cha.
2 Oban. 3 Tribunal. 4 Amulet. 5 Che
Guevara. 6 Newspeak. 8 Silicon Valley.
13 Barbie doll. 15 Catsuits. 16 Fracture.
18 Phuket. 20 Ottawa. 22 Kite.
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