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Word watch Sudoku Easy No 11,705 Difficult No 11,706 Fiendish No 11,

Josephine Balmer

Gaokao

a An exam
b A lizard
c A board game

Gimbals
a A percussion
instrument

b A bone disease
c A suspension device

Gimel
a An alleyway
b An alphabetic letter
c To jive

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1665 by Teazel

Across

1 Light fixture (5)

4 Fish’s small head (7)

8 Energetic backing for

detectives arresting large

numbers (7)

9 Prophet Amos esteemed, to

some extent (5)

10 Corruption of grown-up

portion, with Ecstasy in it (12)

12 Each solicitor to patronise

restaurant (3,3)

13 Consider an affront to be given

another errand (6)

16 Timid hangman’s developed

powerful strength (5,3,4)

18 Test for car, one following

distinctive pattern (5)

20 Place is curiously distinctive (7)

21 Happy about copper being an

element (7)

22 Walk over: time to pick up a

book (5)

Down

1 Think temperature’s dropped,

so intervene (7)

2 What Peter Piper did, for

example, is hard to say (6-7)

3 In reality, this is unwelcome to

hear (4,5)

4 Certain to keep city safe (6)

5 After losing the first two, claim

point (3)

6 Mail worker no longer in

theatre (4-9)

7 Got up in pink (4)

11 Most fashionable, but comes to

an end in river (9)

14 Confused as sharp taste came

first (7)

15 Planet extremely hazy and

boggy (6)

17 Prayer leader? I am a medium

(4)

19 Illness proceeded very rapidly,

we hear (3)

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Friday’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 Le Bureau (2006)
was the French
version of which BBC

mockumentary sitcom?

2 Richard Bean and
Clive Coleman wrote

a 2017 play about the
early life of which
co-author of The

Communist Manifesto?

3 The Housekeeper’s Diary
by Wendy Berry detailed

which royal couple’s life
“before the breakup”?

4 Which Ray-Ban
sunglasses style shares
its name with a Martin
Scorsese film about

Howard Hughes?

5 Released in 1980,

which 36-song triple
album by the Clash
refers to Nicaraguan
former insurgents?

6 Bridget Dowling

(1891-1969) was the

Dublin-born sister-in-

law of which dictator?

7 What is the fifth

book in the Old

Testament, its name

derived from the Greek

for “second law”?

8 Francis Edwin Elwell’s

bronze sculpture

Dickens and Little Nell

stands in Clark Park in

which US city?

9 Which German

carmaker produced

the Kapitän (1938-70)

and the Diplomat

(1964-77) luxury cars?

10 La Môme Pistache

owns the Montmartre

dance-hall, Bal du

Paradis, in which Cole

Porter musical?

11 In 1930, which US

artist painted portraits

of her friends, Ethel

Ashton and Rhoda

Myers with Blue Hat?

12 Which Japanese

crime writer wrote the

1961 novel Inspector

Imanishi Investigates?

13 The name of which

German trick-taking card

game for four players

means “double head”?

14 Ian Wright scored

90 goals in 225

appearances for which

London football club?

15 Often served at

weddings, which French

dessert is pictured?

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