Daily Mail - 30.07.2019

Page 42 Daily Mail, Tuesday, July 30, 2019

BRIDGE MASTERCLASS

WIN

£500

PETER DONOVAN

plAYiNG pairs, your partner opens 1♦,
and rebids 2♣ after your 1♥ response. You
give simple preference to 2♦, and partner
then makes a game try. What action do
you take when he next bids
(a) 2Nt (b) 2♥, and (c) 3♦?

the really important point to understand, when
opener makes a further bid after you have already
limited your hand, is that he is showing extra values
and wants to be in game if your hand is better
than minimum.
here, your hand is an ace stronger than it might
have been for your bidding, so your problem isn’t
whether to bid, but which bid to make.
after 2Nt on (a), you can safely raise to 3Nt.
(b) is a bit more difficult because 2♥ is showing
secondary support for your suit, which may only be
a doubleton; it suggests that 4♥ might be a better
contract than 5♦ if you held a 5-card suit.
hand (c) is more difficult still, and you probably
have to risk 3Nt and hope you are going to
take nine tricks before the opponents get their
spades established.
the one thing you must not do is pass.

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5 Ba. 6 Navy DOWN: 1 Bien. 2 LD. 3 Chay. 5 BV

NINE TO FIVE

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SOLUTIONS TO TODAY’S PUZZLES

QUICK QUIZ: 1 France.

2 Slumdog Millionaire.

3 John Noakes. 4 December.

5 England.

MINDBENDER: 1 Fifty-six

pieces. 2 They all form new

words with the suffix -right

(copyright, downright,

outright). 3 Electric Avenue.

4 Sol, a South American

currency; the others are

Central American currencies.

5 Subtler (S-U-B-Tl-Er).

MASTERQUIZ: 1 Rugby

union. 2 BMW. 3 Stieg

Larsson. 4 Phillips.

5 Pomegranate. 6 Skell.

HONEYCOMB:

1 Carpet. 2 Racked. 3 Deploy.

4 Libido. 5 Divert.

6 Remind. 7 Neared.

8 Ration. 9 Notice. 10 Cipher.

11 Refers. 12 Repute.

30-SECOND CHALLENGE:

Beginner: 15.

Intermediate: 65.

Advanced: 1,350.

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Missing word: ALBION

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS DOWN

6 One of the greens

that’s mainly under

water? (7,7)

9 Solve a maths

problem (6)

10 Plain gold coin

(foreign) next

to yen (8)

11 Game on which

cat always

lands? (3,5)

13 Stern American

racket (6)

15 Old sea battle

avoids quiet

shelter (4-2)

17 Woman’s involved

in a medical

breakthrough (6)

19 Beat it to

impress English

comedian (6)

20 Shoot husband

and sailor in

perfect state

in Gulf (3,5)

22 Naughty kid grabs

a small quiet senior

officer (5,3)

24 Energetic girl

about a quarter

past five (6)

26 Marshal came and

knelt down to

accept grand

appreciation (14)

1 Locomotive lies

derelict in bits

around city (6-8)

2 Become engaged

during game

show (4)

3 Familiar feeling from

Dave broadcast

about June 1 and

June 2 (4,2)

4 Nice officer tosses

grenade across

motorway (8)

5 Lay out small

barrel (4)

7 Disheartened guy

conceals deficit in

magazine (6)

8 Spread over most of

Mumbai freely and

stroll about (14)

12 Very light burn (5)

14 One leaves German

city to eat (5)

16 Axe man with a bird

of prey (8)

18 Wrap religious books

bound by bloke (6)

21 How much has been

lost from dreadful

lager? (6)

23 Drop trendy boring

South Korean

leaders (4)

25 Struggle with

stance (4)

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD No. 16,106

No 16,109

4 6 9 5 2 3 8 1 7

3 7 1 4 6 8 2 9 5

5 2 8 1 9 7 3 6 4

2 1 5 3 4 6 7 8 9

8 4 6 7 1 9 5 2 3

7 9 3 2 8 5 6 4 1

6 5 4 9 7 2 1 3 8

1 3 2 8 5 4 9 7 6

9 8 7 6 3 1 4 5 2

WORD WHEEL

aver, carve, carved, carver,

cave, caved, caver, cove, coved,

cover, crave, craved, craver,

derv, deva, devo, dove, drove,

drover, hardcover, have, haver,

havoc, hove, hovea, hover, over,

overarch, overhard, rave,

raved, raver, rove, roved, rover,

vare, varec.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

CROSSWORD – ACROSS: 7 Buchan.

8 Prospero. 9 Piri-piri. 10 Nasser.

11 Disraeli. 12 Insole. 13 David Prowse.

18 Barrel. 20 Lorraine. 22 Warsaw.

23 Matt Goss. 24 Papillon. 25 Roadie.

DOWN: 1 Tunisia. 2 Chris Rea. 3 Engine.

4 Joan Miro. 5 Spasms. 6 Orderly.

8 Philip Pullman. 14 Idlewild. 15 Shanghai.

16 Faraday. 17 Onassis. 19 Russia. 21 Rotary.

SUDOKU PRIZE SUDOKU

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8976 9768

97 986 79

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2498 2513

124 421

3175 8942

89567

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YOUR

ANSWERS

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

Beginner 70

½

OF IT +5

÷ 8 x11 +8 ÷ 9 x60

¼

OF IT

÷ 7

Advanced 62 -35 x2^2 / 3 x2^3 / (^8) +5
75%
OF IT
(^5) / 6
OF IT
LESS
30% -2 x18
Intermediate 54 -9
(^11) / 15
OF IT
x12
(^5) / 99
OF IT
TIMES
ITSELF
(^4) / 5
OF IT
25%
OF IT
-2
(^5) / 6
OF IT
KUROSU:
ACROSS:
1 Self-control.
9 Halfway.
10 Sidebar. 11 Pie.
12 Airlift.
13 Bouquet.
14 Egg. 15 Ensue.
17 Trill. 18 Ictus.
20 Nadir. 22 Tic.
24 Diorama.
25 Essence.
26 Rev.
27 Basmati.
28 Entwine.
29 Yellowstone.
DOWN:
1 Self-righteously.
2 Lowlife.
3 Crypt.
4 Nosebleed.
5 Redoubt.
6 Labour-intensive.
7 Phrase.
8 Brutal.
16 San Marino.
18 In debt.
19 Sea wall.
21 Risotto.
23 Clever.
25 Evens.