The Guardian - 30.07.2019

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• The Guardian Tuesday 30 July 2019

12

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 27,886 set by Qaos

5 Stopped being quiet to break

record (6)

6 Liberating, free and paradoxically

humorous (10)

7 Special artifi cial intelligence

takes in hill for enlightenment (6)

8 Prepare carbon monoxide at

absolute zero (4)

13 Fruit bat home? Not in, defi nitely

out (5)

14 A trap to steal pound loses

penny? That’s surprising (10)

16 Dwarf, for example, acquires

second name after retiring (5)

19 Old girlfriend inclined to be

stretched (8)

21 Follow progress of time by lines

(8)

23 Scottish nobles retreat down

south (6)

24 Kind of piece, decorated with

colour (6)

26 Limit of returned books (4)

28 By wearing glasses, start to notice

county briefl y (4)

29 Call round (4)

Across

9 Healthy society shapes futurist

(5)

10 Reading two articles about crime

problem over coff ee (9)

11 Radiation in school’s not right,

doctors say (5,4)

12 Bear or blackbird? (5)

13 Secret soldier (7)

15 Dear, dear! Tablet dropped by

Heather (7)

17 Angry over spill (5)

18 Look both ways (3)

20 Prelude to main trombone part

(5)

22 Water plant or shrub vigorously

about mid-July (7)

25 Weight of silver in 1,000kg (7)

26 Cooked food really is excellent,

deserves tips (5)

27 Might they reserve fellow’s prize?

(3,6)

30 Tory disrobed in and around

church ceremony (9)

31 Newspaper roaming all over the

place? I’m lost (5)

Down

1 The Yorkshire hairpiece? Get it!

(4)

2 Simply awful catching cold after

29 competition (8)

3 China is ascending here? (4)

4 Secretary in ripped jeans grasps

English language (8)

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910

11 12

13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25

26 27 28 29

30 31

Medium

Solution No. 27,885

OFFICERCERTAIN

BAAEHEDO

OSIER TRANSIENT

I SMRMT LE

SCALEMODEL RAMP

TLLLF IA

SINGLEHANDED

AMTUOLES

SMOKE S I GNALS

CUS LAKI

EARN ATTRACT I ON

NNB LA IMT

DEFERMENT OZONE

EUASEUNN

ROLLERSLASTOUT

Cryptic crossword

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