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Word watch Sudoku Mild No 11,717 Difficult No 11,718 Fiendish No 11,


Josephine Balmer


Pakoko


a An ant
b Irrelevant
c A bully


Choko
a A wagon
b A vegetable


c Very full


Iroko


a A tree
b A painting technique
c An eye complaint


Answers on page 15


The Times Quick Cryptic No 1669 by Breadman


Across
1 Defrost fruit after time (4)
3 Perhaps Martin’s partner in
sports car is hard to shock (8)
9 Dismissal is indicated by this
angry-looking oddball (3,4)
10 Rich cake a part of breakfast
or tea (5)
11 Fundamental part of fabric is
absent, on reflection (5)
12 Dead old detective backed
missile (6)
14 Coach identifying film from
1990s (13)
17 Type of train exits eastern line
(6)
19 Free kick is regularly providing
natural therapy (5)
22 Pure dairy product British
avoided (5)
23 Sailor briefly in middle of
spacious Corsican location (7)
24 Shifted tinker up toll road once
(8)
25 Beg Republican entering to
hand over money (4)

Down
1 Amount of data Rab found on
Yankee kept by French head
(8)
2 Mountain range also echoes
peripherally (5)
4 US filmmaker somewhere in
New South Wales having fish
(6,7)
5 Perform better than unpopular
party (5)
6 Middle Eastern air’s affected
priest (7)
7 Did some gardening, brick-
carrier saving energy (4)
8 Calf moving about on bird of
prey (6)
13 Lip in severe pain, bringing
medicinal herb (8)
15 Top celebrity left one in tears
when working (1-6)
16 Seaman, mostly crazy,
legendary strong man (6)
18 Band roles reversed (5)
20 Suffer at home with scoundrel
(5)
21 Depart from South American
capital, short of oxygen (4)

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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 What is England’s
largest island?


2 In 1992, Richard
Branson sold his record
company to EMI to help
finance which airline?


3 Launched in 2012,
which Versace fragrance


for men is named after a
god of love?


4 The 1971 Doctor Who


storyline Terror of the
Autons introduced
which archenemy of


the Doctor?


5 Which Beatles song
was a No 1 for Joe


Cocker, Wet Wet Wet
and Sam & Mark?


6 The critic Vivian
Mercier wrote of which
Samuel Beckett play:
“nothing happens, twice”?


7 Which knighted
actor married the
US singer Sunny
Ozell in 2013?

8 Which revolutionary
party was founded
in 1966 in Oakland,
California, by Bobby
Seale and Huey Newton?

9 Prospect Cottage in
Dungeness was the
home of which English
film director and artist?

10 The East Prussian
city of Königsberg was
renamed after which
Bolshevik revolutionary
(1875-1946)?

11 William Frith Powell’s
1853 painting The
Beautiful Grisette depicts
a scene from which
Laurence Sterne novel?

12 Which Berlin-based
search engine donates
at least 80 per cent
of its profits to
reforestation efforts?

13 The fitness-oriented
RPG video game
Ring Fit Adventure
(2019) was developed
for which console?

14 What is the diameter
of a regulation basketball
hoop in inches?

15 Giuseppe Donati
invented the modern
form of which musical
instrument (pictured)?

Suko No 2930


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