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Word watch Sudoku Mild No 11,714 Fiendish No 11,715 Super fiendish No 11,

Josephine Balmer

Moko

a Almost fashionable
b A tattoo
c A small engine

Mastodon
a An elephant-like
mammal

b An expert
c A breast plate

Menhaden
a A stone circle
b A cocktail
c A fish

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1668 by Izetti

Across

1 Please get her to translate this

minimalist language (12)

8 King meets honoured people

in ceremonial garb (5)

9 Form of hostility that never

heats up? (4,3)

10 You will get a positive response

(3)

11 Little devil wandering around,

making progress (9)

13 Final word in notice that is at

front of university (5)

14 Old lover with trick said to do

well (5)

16 Fruit in vessel, a lot getting

mixed up (9)

17 Name of man in telephone

directory (3)

19 Old trade union to celebrate

caring profession (7)

21 Head off as an animal doctor,

crossing river (5)

22 Student, I ne’er worked, being

not bothered (12)

Down

1 Fellow providing towelling

material (5)

2 Sign to precede terrible rain?

I may help you find the

literature (9)

3 Acting out lies deviously with

hand signals? (13)

4 Put up with deed that keeps

church quiet (6)

5 One pal cheesed off said

nothing (4,4,5)

6 Witnessed something in the

woodshed? (3)

7 Apples, pears, etc. cut by half

with girl anxious to avoid

waste? (6)

12 Performing on stage with a

common plan? (2,7)

13 Secret arena newly built to

accommodate a hundred (6)

15 One part of body or another in

which gun is deviously hidden

(6)

18 Labelled with year? That’s old-

fashioned (5)

20 Managed to curtail row

(3)

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Yesterday’s solution on page 15

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GARY GERSHOFF/GETTY IMAGES

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 What does the Latin
phrase “tempus fugit”
mean?

2 What is the zodiac
sign for someone born
between September 23

and October 22?

3 Which Protestant

evangelical minister
founded the Democratic
Unionist Party (DUP)
in 1971?

4 The nappy-wearing
orphan mouse Nibbles,

aka Tuffy, features in
which duo’s cartoons?

5 Which chef took over

the Bray gastropub, The
Hind’s Head, in 2004?

6 The Winchester pub
becomes a refuge from
zombies in which Edgar
Wright film?

7 In physics, which

quantity designates how

fast and in what direction

a point is moving?

8 Which Polish president

shares his surname with

a traditional eastern

European bagpipe?

9 Endemic to Sumatra

and Borneo, Rafflesia

arnoldii produces the

world’s largest what?

10 Harry A Trask

won a Pulitzer for his

photographs of the

1956 sinking of which

Italian ocean liner?

11 Paul Proteus is

the protagonist of

Player Piano (1952),

the first novel by which

US writer?

12 Courtney Cox and

Nikki Stringfield are

guitarists in which

all-female Iron Maiden

tribute act?

13 A 1633 painting by

Van Dyck features

Queen Henrietta

Maria and which

teenage member of court

said to have been 18

inches tall at the time?

14 Which Swindon-

born National Hunt

champion jockey rode

the last of his 1,

winners on April 8, 1985?

15 Which creator and

star of the TV comedy-

drama I May Destroy

Yo u is pictured?

Suko No 2929

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