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bridge masterclass

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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

North opened 1♦, and raised his partner’s

1 Nt to 2Nt. Your partner leads ♠2, dummy

plays low and your queen wins. What next?

Defence becomes great fun when you are able to

play detective, and assemble the clues which enable

you to defeat a contract.

In this instance, you have a mass of information

available from the bidding, the lead, and dummy. ♠ 2

is a fourth best lead, which means that declarer has

concealed a 4-card spade suit with his 1nT response;

he also has a minimum 6-7HcPs or he would have

raised to game, and he won’t have four diamonds or

he would have supported partner.

A quick calculation tells you that partner must

therefore have 9-10HcPs (including ♠K). You can

also see that dummy has six certain winners, and

you’ll gain the lead once more with ♦K.

You’ve now worked out that partner is marked

with honours in clubs, so you must attack in this

suit now, rather than passively returning partner’s

suit or exiting with a heart. The question now is

which club to lead, and we’ll see the full

deal tomorrow.

east

♠ Q 6

♥ 10 9 8 4

♦ K 5 2

♣ J 8 4 2

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solutions to yesterday’s PuZZles

WOrd WhEEL

arvo, avian, aviator, grav,

graviton, navar, navigator, nova,

ovarian, ravin, raving, roving,

vagrant, vain, vair, vang, vara,

variant, varna, vina, vino, virago,

virga, voting.

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crOSSWOrd — cra OSS:

8 Tunstall. 9 Abrams. 10 Peter

Andre. 11 Antz. 12 Tuvalu. 14 Earl

Grey. 15 Zermatt. 17 f orrest.

20 Shagreen. 22 De Sica. 24 Brad.

25 Torricelli. 27 Nivôse.

28 Wheatear. dOWN: 1 Juneau.

2 Ashe. 3 Catapult. 4 f lodden.

5 Zaheer. 6 Dreamgirls.

7 Smithers. 13 Armageddon. 16 Ed

Harris. 18 Old timer. 19 Andrews.

21 Esther. 23 Callas. 26 Etty.

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Orwell. 2 Yellow. 3 Jimmy

Greaves. 4 Montana. 5 1981.

mINdBENdEr: 1 250 miles.

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tooth. 3 Suella Braverman.

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4 Meghan Trainor.

5 Nevis. 6 Marshalsea.

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5 Skinny. 6 Notion.

7 Oinked. 8 Kindle. 9 Derail.

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10 Counter. 11 t ar. 12 Battlefield.

13 p olio. 14 Heartache. 16 e phemeral.

17 Cargo. 19 Genealogist. 22 Sue.

23 o rigami. 24 Dilemma. 26 a genda.

27 e nd user.

dOWN: 1 t wo-step. 2 Lateral thinking.

3 Yam. 4 o wlet. 5 Local call. 6 Gruff.

7 Father Christmas. 8 t rudge.

12 Broom. 14 Harmonica. 15 t acit.

16 e ggnog. 18 o pen-air. 20 a gain.

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cryPtic crossword

acrOSS dOWN

1 Boycott island

church’s treacherous

conditions (5,3)

5 Church caretaker

very nearly secures

some work (6)

9 Hollywood genre a

sort of 1 Across? (4,4)

10 Yell from a topless

Greek, excited,

grasping essence

of fluid (6)

12 Not demanding a

piece of cake (4)

13 Shorts in uS and

articles from

Europe? r ubbish (10)

15 She may succeed,

cooking new corn

crisps (5,8)

19 Getting used to new

ways, college sect

invested in gold

quota (13)

23 General clergy

gets worsted

perhaps (10)

25 Writer’s short

article’s a

fabrication (4)

28 Attraction that

leads to MOT

failure? (6)

29 Medic has tug

positioned for men

on board (8)

30 Sister company

hosts one rC

ambassador (6)

31 Superior Sioux

struggled to retain

gold dedicated to

wife (8)

1 Polish and french

self-service food (6)

2 An ancient mariner

climbs mountains (5)

3 Generous type (4)

4 A politician ignores

mushroom in Paris

bun (7)

6 Stock joke on the

web? (5)

7 Simple embargo

protecting European

vegetable (5,4)

8 Assign another

rating to idiots in

residence (8)

11 Aristocrat exercises

monarch (4)

14 Head count (4)

15 Dipstick stops crony

moving accelerator (9)

16 Average couple avoids

one (3)

17 Arrest American

wearing nothing (4)

18 Pub roughly put in

wine store tower at

entrance (8)

20 unattractive guy

managed to drink

litres (4)

21 Personnel brought

in a new levy that’s

dreaded by farmers (7)

22 Article is about son’s

dissertation (6)

24 Policeman seizes

fashionable Asian

garment (5)

26 Beast loves grass

coming up (5)

27 feline sound partly

interrupts rising (4)

crYPTIc crOSSWOrd No. 16,261

No. 16,264

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30-SEcONd chaLLENGE:

Beginner: 300.

Intermediate: 195.

Advanced: 228.

Beginner 33 -19 x3 +30 ÷ 6 x9 +4 ÷ 7 +9 x12

advanced 18 x15

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