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21.07.

Word watch Sudoku Mild No 11,692 Difficult No 11,693 Super fiendish No 11,

Josephine Balmer

Astraphobia

a Fear of storms
b Fear of predictions
c Fear of artificial grass

Astrantia
a A branch of yoga
b Clumsiness

c A shrub

Ataraxia

a Calmness
b A skin rash
c The forgetting of words

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1661 by Hurley

Across

1 Rest as site’s revamped (6)

4 Mail job (4)

9 Bearing left in Heathrow, say

(7)

10 The Spanish court accepting

English make a choice (5)

11 Looking back, some declare

Bill is intolerant (9)

12 Heads off awful snake,

poisonous — this one? (3)

13 Exclamation of surprise about

old language in Northern

river? (6)

15 Bitterness with operation,

move fast (6)

17 Effect of sun cheers by noon

(3)

18 This adjunct shows program

finish time (9)

21 Tons wander around store with

valuables (5)

22 Give account of return of

managed price (7)

23 Indication one’s engaged in

call (4)

24 Coming publicity opening (6)

Down

1 Admits allowing United in to

play — here? (7)

2 In from France, with theatrical

part, we hear — register (5)

3 Mark rebel out, needing

reform — me? (12)

5 Finished calls avoiding

outsiders on the whole (7)

6 Young child out of bed? Put

two and two together! (3,2)

7 Celebrity’s scornful expression

when upset (4)

8 Polite lender lawmen

represented (4-8)

14 Disparage cricket score,

reduced (3,4)

16 Gift here (7)

17 Teacher’s mild rebuke over

lacking heart (5)

19 Weak play on words,

ultimately ropy (4)

20 Proverb used by head, a

gentleman (5)

123 45 6

7 8

9 10

11 12

13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20

21 22

23 24

Yesterday’s solution on page 15

© PUZZLER MEDIA

15

ALAMY

Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the spaces so

that the number in each circle is equal to

the sum of the four surrounding spaces,

and each colour total is correct

The Times Daily Quiz Olav Bjortomt

Answers on page 15

1 The Professor’s Cube
is the 5x5x5 version of
which puzzle toy?

2 Chartered in 1964, the
Country Music Hall of
Fame and Museum is in

which Tennessee city?

3 On July 9, 1816,

Argentina declared its
independence from
which country?

4 Jeannette Charles (b 1927)
famously impersonated
which woman for about

40 years?

5 In 2017, Tony
Blackburn became host

of the Radio 2 show
Sounds of the ... what?

6 Which one-word
exclamation comes
from the Hebrew for
“praise the Lord”?

7 Appearing in the

second issue (in 1977),

who is the longest-

running character in

the comic 2000 AD?

8 The Blue Cross (1910)

was the first short

story GK Chesterton

wrote about which

detective cleric?

9 Which sitcom

character lived in

apartment 5A, 129 West

81st Street, Manhattan?

10 Born Henriette

Theodora Markovitch,

which French

photographer modelled

for Picasso’s The

Weeping Woman?

11 L’Interdit, Dahlia

Divin and Organza

are perfumes by which

French fashion house?

12 In Norse mythology,

which son of Hreidmar

killed his father, became

a dragon and was slain

by Sigurd?

13 Science in Action

(1987) and We Have

Never Been Modern (1991)

are books by which

French sociologist?

14 In rugby union, which

Wales team captain is

the world’s most-capped

lock forward?

15 Which pictured

canid (Otocyon

megalotis) is named

after its large ears?

Suko No 2921

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