Times 2 - UK (2020-07-28)

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MindGames

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Divide the grid

into square or

rectangular

blocks, each

containing one

digit only. Every

block must

contain the

number of cells

indicated by the

digit inside it.

Enter each of

the numbers

from 1 to 9 in

the grid, so that

the six sums

work. We’ve

placed two

numbers to get

you started.

Each sum

should be

calculated left

to right or top

to bottom.

From these letters, make words of

three or more letters, always including

the central letter. Answers must be in

the Concise Oxford Dictionary, excluding

capitalised words, plurals, conjugated

verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending

in LY, comparatives and superlatives.

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1 Hillary Clinton 2 Princess Beatrice of York 3 Neil

Kinnock 4 Cambridge. It was originally called The

Granta 5 Tropic of Cancer or the Northern Tropic

6 Kris Kristofferson 7 Gossip 8 Thomas Jefferson

9 A filo pastry pie 10 The Sandman 11 Battle of Nancy

12 Rudolf Hell. The Klischograph is an electronically

controlled printing block engraver 13 Ghost of Tsushima

14 New Zealand (All Blacks) 15 Border collie

Palmitin (c) A colourless

glyceride occurring in oils

and fats

Piquillo (a) A sweet pepper

grown in N Spain

Pteranodon (c) A tailless

winged dinosaur

Kakuro 2705

Futoshiki 3746 Lexica 5412

Cell Blocks 3908 Set Square 2708 Lexica 5411

Suko 2927

Train Tracks 1080

Word watch

1 Amber

2 Subtle

3 Secret

4 La Belle

5 Northern

Quintagram

Quiz

Easy 19; Medium 12; Harder 558

Brain Trainer

Yesterday’s answers

est, ewe, née, nest, net, new, news, newt,

see, sen, sene, sent, sente, set, sew, stew,

sweet, sweeten, tee, teen, ten, tense,

twee, wee, ween, wen, west, wet

times2 CrosswordNo 8342 Brain Trainer

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IT

÷ 4 10 ÷ 12

(^33) / 1
OF IT

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  EASY 44 ÷ 4x^6 +^50 ÷^12 x^3 DOUBLE +^10
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ANSWER

HARDER 1101 –^25 +^3 x^9

CUBE

IT

(^33) / 555
OF IT
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• ÷ 7

Across

1 Reboundingbullets( 9 )

6 Bar,inn( 3 )

8 WWWoundbinding( 7 )

9 Largesea( 5 )

10 Basisffforcheese( 4 )

11 Acountry'sffflyingregion( 8 )

113 USrailcompany( 6 )

14 Genuine,legitimate( 6 )

17 Typeoffsugar(( 8 ))

18 Nolongerliiiving( 4 )

20 Formofpoison( 5 )

21 Mineralinmanyclaaays( 7 )

22 Spoil,impair( 3 )

23 Olditemof

confffectionery( 9 )

Down

1 Girl'sname;noveltitle( 7 )

2 Deviceusedby

constructors( 8 , 5 )

3 Claaawedcrustacean( 4 )

4 Causingvomiting( 6 )

5 Arcticfffootwear( 8 )

6 PaintersuchasMillais((( 3 - 10 )

7 Indulgentspree( 5 )

12 Facialadornments( 8 )

15 Brightlyshining( 7 )

16 Bringintoexistence( 6 )

17 Pieceofinffformation( 5 )

19 Broken;sculpture( 4 )

SolutiontoCrossword 8341

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9

10 11

12

13 14 15

16

17 18

19

20 21

22 23

VISA ACIDRAIN

E U O E C A

REDDEER SACKS

O A N T P U A

NONETHELESS

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CHINTZ ZAGREB

A M L Z T I

PREMONITION

A L M M O N I

GLOVE BENEFIT

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SWEETPEA ARGO

Cell Blocks No 3909

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Polygon Set Square No 2709

Please note, BODMAS does not apply

Killer Moderate No 7271 Solutions

Killer Tough No 7272

As with standard Sudoku, fill the grid so that every column,

every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Each set

of cells joined by dotted lines must add up to the target number

in its top-left corner. Within each set of cells joined by dotted

lines, a digit cannot be repeated.

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I’ve been enjoying running through

a few deals played in the Andrew

Robson Bridge duplicates on Bridge

Base Online (you can find the

videos on YouTube, they’re free to

watch). Here’s number 06.

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North-South did well to reach

3NT after East-West’s barrage bid-

ding. West led a somewhat reluc-

tant two of spades (but swap the

king and queen of spades, and fail-

ing to lead a spade would not be so

clever). Declarer beat East’s ten

with the king and at trick two

crossed to the ace of clubs.

When East’s queen of clubs

appeared, declarer used restricted-

choice thinking to place the jack of

clubs with West (East might have

played the jack from the queen-

jack). She crossed to the ace of dia-

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monds and led a second club to

West nine and dummy’s ... ten.

Phew, East discarded and

declarer could now run all the

clubs. She then cashed the king of

diamonds and, in this ingenious

endgame, crossed to her queen of

diamonds.

If East discarded a heart, declarer

could next lead the queen to pin

his jack; so East let go a spade. If

West discarded a heart, declarer

could lead the ten of hearts to the

(king and) ace and cross to her

promoted queen. So West also dis-

carded a spade, choosing the ace

to avoid being endplayed.

At trick 11, declarer exited with

her spade. East won the queen and

led a heart but declarer inserted

the ten, beating West’s king with

the ace and crossing to her queen.

That was an amazing 12 tricks —

and a top. The joy of the frozen

heart suit — there was nothing the

defence could do to prevent 12

tricks — after West had led a

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Contract: 3NT, Opening Lead:♠ 2

Dealer: East, Vulnerability: North-South

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Pass

Pass( 1 ) Pass 1♣ 1 ♠

Dbl( 2 ) 3 ♠( 3 ) Dbl( 4 ) Pass

3NT( 5 ) End

(1) Disciplined pass — the good intermedi-

ates do tempt one into a cheeky 1NT opener.

The vulnerability, however, is off-putting.

( 2 ) Negative, showing hearts.

(3) Raising pre-emptively to the (nine-card)

level of the fit.

(4) Action (not penalty after the opponents

have bid and supported). “Do something

sensible, partner.”

(5) That sensible something is 3NT — with

the king of spades stopping the suit (the

lead coming from her left).

S W N E

♠QJ107 5

♥J 83

♦J9 84

♣Q

Pairs ♠ 3

♥A 65

♦K 76

♣AK108 62

♠K 64

♥Q109 2

♦AQ

♣ 743

♠A98 2

♥K 74

♦ 532

♣J

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♠QJ

♥J

♦-

♣-

♠-

♥A 65

♦ 7 (led)

♣-

♠ 6

♥Q

♦Q

♣-

♠A

♥K

♦-

♣-

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KenKen 5017

Codeword 4025