Daily Mail - 04.03.2020

Page 42 Daily Mail, Wednesday, March 4, 2020

hidato

CoMplete the

grid so that all

the numbers,

1 to 60, connect

consecutively —

horizontally,

vertically or

diagonally.

Hint: you

don’t have to

begin with

1 or 60. Working

on the

mid-numbers

might give you

a better start.

Solution

toMoRRoW

lay tracks to

enable the train

to travel from

village a to

village B.

the numbers

indicate how

many sections of

rail go in each

row and column.

there are only

straight rails and

curved rails. the

track cannot

cross itself.

Solution

toMoRRoW

tRaiN tRaCKS

puzzles prizes

Fill in squares in the grid

so each row, column and

each 3x3 square contains

all digits from 1 to 9. each

set of cells joined by

dotted lines must add up

to the number in the

top-left corner. Numbers

can’t be repeated within

each set of cells.

Solution toMoRRoW

need a clue? Call 0901 293

6238 or text KilleR to 65700

and receive four clues to

today’s puzzle. Calls and texts

cost £1 plus your standard

network charges. Today’s

clues available between 00.01

today and 23.30 only.

pit your wits against pitcheRWit S book offeR

pitcherwits — the

exciting puzzle where

some of the answers

are in pictures! the

solutions to the visual

clues fit into the shaded

spaces on the grid.

Solution toMoRRoW

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1. Which British
   author coined the
   phrase doublespeak?


2. What colour are
   the flowers of
   the dandelion?


3. In football, who
   is Tottenham
   Hotspur’s highest
   ever goalscorer?


4. Helena is the
   capital of which
   American state?


5. In which year did
   Ronald Reagan first
   become president of
   the United States?

Solution: pullout

back page

quiCK quiz

miNdbeNdeR

maSteRquiz

KilleR

SudoKu

erstwhile

Sturdy

african fly

Stems

thin

idea

Grunted

light

Go off track

eye part

imprison

Welcomes

Solution: pullout back page

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11.

12.

all the solutions read

clockwise around their

numbers. the solution

to clue number 1 starts

from the given letter.

hoNeyComb

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1. What was the maiden name
   of the former First Lady
   Eleanor Roosevelt?


2. McCarran International
   Airport serves which U.S. city?


3. Which peninsula is separated
   from mainland Greece by the
   Corinth Canal?
   4. Treat Myself is the new
   album by which American
   singer-songwriter?
   5. On which Caribbean island did
   Horatio Nelson marry Frances
   Nisbet in 1787?
   6. In Dickens’s Little Dorrit, in
   which debtors’ prison is Amy’s
   father detained?

Solution: pullout back page

1. Becky is driving back home
   after a short break. If she travels
   at an average speed of 60mph,
   the journey will take 50 minutes
   longer than if her average
   speed was 15mph faster. How
   far is she from home?


2. What connects egg, milk
   and sweet?
   3. Which recently appointed
   Cabinet member possibly
   UNRAVELS A MARBLE?
   4. Which of the following is
   the odd one out: UFO,
   Blake’s 7, Space Precinct,
   Space: 1999?
   5. Crack the code to find
   three muscles: HDATJH,
   QXRTEH, STAIDXS.

Solution: pullout back page

6d. For a reindeer with his

own day? (3,4)

4d. Could be a ban for Browne

on arrival (7,4)

16a. Boar, in enclave, could

lean too much (11)

1a. Pinks cannot be picked,

scrubbing’s not needed (3-5,3)

14a. Vassalage deforms all

changes (7)

1d. Malaysian place could be a

thorn in Oberon’s side (5,6)

5a. Calls in using gravity? (5,2)

8d. Can be outed or caused

by (2,3,2)

DOWN

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PitCheRwitS

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ACROSS

1 Picture Clue

5 Picture Clue

9 Niche edition has its

own attention (4)

10 Carthaginian royalty

who acted at

nothing (4)

11 Run he built round

Indian statesman (5)

12 Portfolio, with mixture

at the back (4)

13 Smooth out singular

odds? (4)

14 Picture Clue

16 Picture Clue

1 Picture Clue

2 Merely a gesture,

when back from

Indonesia (3)

3 Pray without a chance

to be nosy (3)

4 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue

7 Launch (or get

lost!) (4,3)

8 Picture Clue

14 Airbrushes out the

woman (3)

15 Half the population is a

bit demented! (3)

YeSteRdaY’S Solution — aCRoSS: 1 And so to bed. 5 Ballroom. 9 Imam. 10 Afar. 11 Their. 12 Eras. 14 Atop. 15 Lockwood.

18 Rose quartz. DoWN: 1 All is well. 2 Submits. 3 Oil. 4 DSO. 6 Liken to. 7 Oaf. 8 Mark Spitz. 10 Arcadia. 13 Arc. 16 Oar. 17 Woe.