The Guardian - 03.08.2019

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• The Guardian Sat urday 3 Aug ust 2019

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Ye ste r d ay ’s

solutions

Chris Maslanka’s puzzles

Pyrgic puzzles

1 Pedanticus stalked the kitchen of his

Marylebone pad, sawing the air with his

hands like a bad actor, intoning “Dramatist!

Dramatist!” Was this a ritual akin to calling

“author!” in the theatre? No. It turned out

he’d been listening to our fl agship network

radio station again. What could they have got

wrong this time?

2 Mrs Maguire had G good pupils and B bad

pupils to be put into single fi le. No two

baddies were to be next to each other. How

many ways could her G + B pupils be ordered

consistent with that constraint? What is the

answer if we have 7 Goodies and 4 Baddies?

3 Garabaggio’s latest eff ort My Red Lines

currently on display at The Rogue’s Gallery

on Poppycock Terrace shows half a regular

hexagon with the lines crossing it as shown.

From the

catalogue I saw

that F was half

way along AB and

E was half-way

along AF (my

lettering). Which has the greater area— EFGH

or ADH? Find the area of all the segments.

4 “I’ll fl ip 4 silver dollars,” Sheriff Einstein

told Gullible Gus down at The Last Chance

Saloon. “If they’re all heads or all tails I’ll buy

the next round; if there are the same number

of heads as tails Bart Ender here will do the

honours; if not you can buy the next round.”

he said. What are the relative chances?”

email: [email protected]

Twitter: @ChrisMaslanka

If you’re at the Wilderness Festival in Cornbury

Park this weekend come to the Lyceum tent

and let’s crack some puzzles together.

Killer sudoku

Easy

Codeword

Solution No. 27,889

COBBLESDISTAFF

AAOAIASO

P I LOT BLUEPETER

S EEORLUF

WATCHTHEB I RD I E

H R HSTNY I

EX I T L I NGU I ST

PCFGCSNU

TR I BADES USER

ASCTSGC E

MU L T I F A C T O R I A L

EAL LAORE

TANTIVIES WILES

EDTF I EET

RESTYLESCRATCH

Medium

Cryptic crossword

Wordplay

Wordpool

In each case fi nd the correct defi nition:

CIUPAGA

a) ancestor to the capybara

b) riverine predator

c) sherpa

d) shepherd’s axe of the Carpathians

DOGU

a) alien-like fi gurines of the late Jomon

period

b) canine stew

c) the star Gamma Canis Minoris

d) Sumo referee

NUMBAT

a) termite-eating marsupial ant-eater

b) numerical rebus

c) cricketer out for a duck

d) fool

Tom Swifties

“I have not put on weight!,” said Tom (7)

E pluribus unum

Rearrange the letters of CANE CHAIRS to

make another word.

Curtailables

Delete the last letter of the fi rst word(s)

clued to get the second word(s) clued:

a) fodder spice bud b) mineral measure

c) throng bird d) round fruit

e) loathe headgear f) world tree

Missing Links

Find a word which follows the fi rst word in

the clue and precedes the second in each

case making a fresh word or phrase. E.g. the

answer to fi sh mix could be cake (fi shcake &

cake mix) and to bat man it could be he (bathe

& he-man)...

a) cry steps b) capital say

c) root way d) body down

e) ship dog f) safe barrel

©CMM 2019. Solutions on Page 54

Guardian cryptic crosswordNo 27,890 set by Enigmatist

2 Not appropriate to doze during

sex (5)

3,4 Electrician’s knack with repairs

— can this help with ladies’

upkeep? (7,7)

5 Slicing a fi sh, this number is

recommended (8)

6 Sarply moving major piece about

a national swimmer — I like this

work’s power (8-7)

7 Skirmish can grimly set out

useless employer’s problem (13)

8 Press slammed Omen sequel —

end of countdown cut (5,8)

15 Like impressionists’ work? Mr

Goodman retains one in two (5-3)

17,18 Buttonholing guy on lake, one

does delay rising star (7,7)

22 In which antique Greek weighed

two Bolivian pots? (5)

Across

1 What’s deer caught? It’s a fi sh (11)

9 Bread fellow’s given around

lunchtime? (7)

10 Bed wicked nurses? One goes

further (7)

11 Study image in it? (9)

12 Mum’s feller securing a feather

for this cap? (5)

13 Peter’s good ... (4)

14 ... not very accommodating

airliner for vacation (10)

16 Doing business, perhaps, but not

ready for fi ring (2,4-4)

19 Honey bun (4)

20 Kilo of gold centimes deposited

for timber in New Zealand (5)

21 One circuit of Paris or relief work

of printer? (1,2,6)

23 Prize-winning author left union

of workers on retirement (7)

24 Catty papal successor to

Damasus II? (7)

25 Personal message-sender about

to lose bottle? (5,6)

Down

1 Address mess in which husband

and wife fi nd themselves?

(5,2,3,5)

123456

7 8

910

11 12

13 14

15

16 17 18 19

20 21 22

23 24

25

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Killer sudoku

Hard No 669

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.

AEF

G

B

D C

H

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