Times 2 - UK (2020-07-28)

28.07.

Word watch Sudoku Mild No 11,708 Difficult No 11,709 Super fiendish No 11,

Josephine Balmer

Palmitin

a A hand cream
b To dismiss a friendship
c A glyceride

Piquillo
a A pepper
b With vigour

c A pointed hat

Pteranodon

a A Greek bread
b A traveller
c A dinosaur

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1666 by Corelli

Across

1 Boxer taking in r-row leading

to afters? (7)

5 Aircraft abandoning its initial

path (4)

7 Prove wrong potato perhaps

has been sent back (5)

8 Artist in East End district, one

using a series of colours (7)

10 Little jerk not quite recalling

quote (3)

11 Remiss not to initially put on

short nightdress (9)

13 Minister’s peculiar circle (6)

14 Old person using their teeth in

passing (6)

17 The desire of a Billy No-

Mates? (5,4)

19 Bird unable to fly, somewhat

bemused (3)

20 Caught noise from empty

tummy finding pudding (7)

22 Finish in French in front of

Irish politicians (3,2)

23 Inferno you witness got finally

put out (4)

24 Attempt to swathe girl, in place

of skin treatment (7)

Down

1 Like fireworks going off in

porch etc, around end of day

(11)

2 Disaster when large taxi

reverses into river (7)

3 Fashionable decades provided

unknown boost (9)

4 Auto business backing for

example a charity event (6)

5 Garland that is left upside

down (3)

6 Enjoy ballet every so often,

being aristocratic (5)

9 Wet spray plus short, weird

thing needed for firefighting

(5,6)

12 Some certain bet we enjoy,

amongst other things (2-7)

15 Related to dance, it gets your

feet moving! (7)

16 Dress right for a boy (6)

18 Gold in vase turned up in

Pacific island (5)

21 Flutter to be in (3)

123456

7 89

10 11 12

13 14 15

16

17 18 19

20 21 22

23 24

Yesterday’s solution on page 15

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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 life of which
former US secretary of
state is reimagined in

Curtis Sittenfeld’s 2020
novel Rodham?

2 Which princess has

married the property
developer Edoardo
Mapelli Mozzi?

3 Which Labour Party
leader lost the 1987 and
1992 general elections?

4 The literary magazine
Granta was founded

in 1889 by students at
which university?

5 What is the Earth’s

northernmost circle
of latitude at which
the sun can be directly

overhead?

6 Who wrote the
songs Help Me Make It

Through the Night

and Sunday Morning

Coming Down?

7 Louella Parsons

(1881-1972) was known

as the “Queen of

Hollywood ...” what?

8 In 1786, the Anglo-

Italian artist Maria

Cosway had a romantic

liaison with which

future US president?

9 What type of savoury

dish is a Moroccan

bastilla or pastilla?

10 James McAvoy voices

Dream, aka Morpheus,

in the 2020 Audible

audiobook of which

Neil Gaiman comic?

11 Charles the Bold,

duke of Burgundy was

killed at which battle on

January 5, 1477?

12 In 1963, which

German developer of the

Klischograph invented

the first scanner for

colour images?

13 Featuring an

audiovisual Kurosawa

Mode, which 2020 video

game casts the player as

the samurai Jin Sakai?

14 Which country won

the first Rugby World

Cup in 1987?

15 Which herding dog

breed is pictured?

Suko No 2927

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