32 Daily Express Tuesday, July 30, 2019
DX1ST
Puzzles
SUMMIT UP
Across:
1 Champions,
7 Actors,
9 Riot,
10 Outer,
12 Bode,
13 Increases,
14 Asks,
16 Guest,
18 Lava,
19 Learns,
20 Straddles.
Down:
1 Carriage,
2 Atom,
3 Motors,
4 Protested,
5 Opt,
6 Needed,
8 Trespass,
11 Insult,
12 Ballad,
15 Earl,
17 Err.
SMALL
CROSSWORD
WORD BUILDER
QUIZWORD
SAMURAI SUDOKU
If the number in
each triangle is
the sum of the
two below, what
is the top
number?
Solution
tomorrow
7 3 2
9 6 1
4 2 9 5
7 6 2
4 3 6
6 4 7 5
6 1 2
7 6 3
7 9 5
5
2
4 7
8
5
4
6
5
5
6
4
9
9
4
1
6
3
8
8
7
1
3
3
1
2
9
6
1
1 9
3 6
3 5
9 6 1
1 8 2
7 5 9
9 6
4 2
1 2
7 6 9
9 6
2 7 5
9 3 6
4 1 2 7
4 1 8
2 8 5 7 6
6 4 2
6 8 9
2 6 3
2 7 4
1 7 4
7 3 9 4
2 1 5
5 4 7
6 3 8 1
1 4 2
1 5 9
In Samurai Sudoku, normal sudoku rules apply, but the 9x9 sudoku at
the centre shares four of its 3x3 boxes with those of the outer sudokus.
Solution tomorrow
Answer each clue
so that every word
contains the same
letters as the
previous word, plus
or minus one.
Solution tomorrow
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 Consumed
2 Eleven
3 Mother
4 Meddle
5 Plod
6 Baby carriage
7 Average
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ACROSS
- Character in Charles Dickens’s
novel Our Mutual Friend who
marries John Rokesmith (5,6) - Variety of French bean with light-
coloured edible seeds (7) - Eurasian plant having daisy-like
flower heads (5) - The vertical part of a stair or
step (5) - Canadian river in S.W. Alberta
which flows southeast into the
South Saskatchewan River (3,4) - King of England 946-955 (6)
- Long handled implement having a
curved blade for cutting grass (6) - Plant of the East Indies,
Operculina turpethum, that has a
medicinal root (7) - Walled city in Apulia, Italy which
houses Greek and Roman
remains (5) - Paul, 1988 Olympic men’s 800m
champion (5) - 1983 novel by Elmore Leonard (7)
- Plant such as Centaurea
calcitrapa having spiny purplish
flower heads (4,7)
DOWN - Nick, author of the novels
Bachelor Kisses and Perfect
Skin (5) - Another name for alfalfa (7)
- John, director of the 1994 film
Serial Mom (6)
5. C.H., West Indies Test cricketer
who scored 242 n.o. against India
at Bombay in 1975 (5)
6. Rupert, writer, director and star of
the 2018 film The Happy Prince (7)
7. Gustave, French composer of the
1900 opera Louise (11)
8. 1967 Best Supporting Actor
Oscar nominee for Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Woolf? (6,5)
14. River in the Midlands region of
England upon which Derby
stands (7)
16. Leaf-eating Old World monkey
having reduced or absent
thumbs (7)
17. Town in ancient Palestine which
was a keeping place of the
tabernacle and the ark (6)
19. David, playwright whose works
include Maydays and Pentecost (5)
21. Swimming stroke in which the
feet are kicked like paddles while
the arms reach forward and pull
back through the water (5)
Solution tomorrow
6
17
5
12
1 486
1411
25 26
42 51
93
9
22
6
13
3 497
1613
29 29
51 58
109