Times 2 - UK (2020-08-03)

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MindGames

© PUZZLER MEDIA

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.

How you rate 12 words, average;

17, good; 23, very good; 29, excellent

  

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1 Antarctica 2 USA and Russia 3 Nell Gwyn 4 Simon

Cowell 5 Haiti. They were François Duvalier and his son

Jean-Claude 6 Costa 7 Scarlet or red 8 Kate Humble

9 Seminole Tribe [of Florida] 10 Goldie 11 Pierre Coffin

12 Amy Liptrot 13 Nicolas Fouquet 14 Jon Rahm

15 Anthony Bourdain

Kokako (b) A crow (NZ)

Keta (a) A type of salmon

Keltie (c) The forfeit of

having to take an extra

drink for not having drunk

fairly before

Kakuro 2709

Sudoku 11,

Killer 7279

Futoshiki 3750

Cell Blocks 3913 Set Square 2712

Suko 2932

Train Tracks 1085

Word watch

Quiz

Saturday’s answers

deep, deprive, drip, empire, épée, epimer,

impede, peedie, peer, peerie, peeve,

peever, père, peri, perm, permit, pert,

perv, perve, peter, pied, pier, preemie,

pride, prim, prime, privet, redemptive,

ripe, temp, temper, tepee, tepid, trip, tripe,

veep, viper

times2 CrosswordNo 8347 Brain Trainer

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MEDIUM 23 +^58 –^35 +^5

(^11) / 5
OF IT
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IT

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(^22) / 3
OF IT

• 387
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  EASY 19 TREBLE WER
  IT

• 6 CUBE ÷^6
  IT

(^33) / (^44) + 2 4 + 18
OF IT
DOUBLE ÷ 8
IT
TREBLE
IT
x 8
A
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HARDER 63 +^777 /^99 ÷^6 WER
OF IT
+^222 / 55
OF IT
(^33) / (^444) + 34 8
OF IT
+^333 / 444
OF IT

• 584

Across

1 Declaring(something)no

longersecret( 1113 )

8 Digup( 7 )

9 Syntheticfffabric( 5 )

10 VVVerywarm( 3 )

11 Quality;building( 8 )

113 Breatheout( 6 )

14 Humanancestor( 6 )

17 —Scaleofwindspeed( 8 )

19 Expanseoffwater(( 3 ))

21 Passageusingall

instruments( 5 )

22 Emphaticffformofhe( 7 )

24 Flightdirectors( 6 , 7 )

Down

1 Familyrelatiiive( 8 )

2 Fast-runningcat( 7 )

3 Broadcast;express( 3 )

4 Educate( 6 )

5 Plantcontainer( 9 )

6 Aitoreyot( 5 )

7 Criminalgroup( 4 )

11 Contamination( 9 )

12 Illegal( 8 )

15 Massageprovider( 7 )

16 Architecturalstyle( 6 )

18 Poeticinspiration;store

(anagramm)( 5 )

20 Maledeer( 4 )

23 Fellows,chaps( 3 )

SolutiontoCrossword 8346

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9

10 11

12

13 14 15

16

17 18 19

20

21 22 23

24

ERATO AERATOR

L M A F E H O

BEAUTIFUL ORB

O L H R I N B

WAGE HARANGUE

A A Y B R

PIMPLE CLUMSY

R A A E A

OBSTRUCT IDOL

V W M C H E A

EWE ISOLATION

R L S R Z R C

BELATED ELATE

Cell Blocks No 3914

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Polygon Set Square No 2713

Please note, BODMAS does not apply

Killer Gentle No 7280 Solutions

Killer Tricky No 7281

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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This deal from an ARB/BBO

duplicate caught my eye. It tested

South’s character too, for as soon

as she saw dummy, she could see

3 NT would have made plus one;

even making her 5♦ was not going

to score that well. Still, better than

going down in 5 ♦, as most others

in that contract did. Plan the play

on West’s ten of hearts lead.

You read West’s heart to be sin-

gleton — why else lead a suit

shown by both North and South,

rather than a club shown by both

East and West? You win the ace

and cross to the ace of clubs to

unblock the suit. You must now

decide which top diamond to play

first, ie which opponent (if either)

yy

is more likely to be void.

Given West’s apparent singleton

heart lead, clearly We st w ill not

also have a void diamond. At trick

three, you cross to the ace of dia-

monds, and indeed watch East dis-

card. You then cash the king of

clubs, eliminating the suit and dis-

carding a heart from dummy,

keeping all dummy’s spades. You

lead a second diamond to the jack

and cash the king, felling West’s

queen. You cash the king of hearts

(in case West held a second heart).

We have reached the ending

across. It may appear you have to

lose two spades and a heart but

bear in mind you know West had

five spades headed by the ace for

his 1♠ bid. As long as East holds

one of the ten, jack or queen in his

doubleton, you are home. You lead

a low spade and, when East plays

low (the jack wouldn’t help), you

y

insert the eight (key play).

Let West win the ten and cash

the ace, for he is now endplayed. A

club gives you a ruff and discard

(ruff in one hand, discard the heart

y

loser from the other). West’s actual

choice of the queen of spades

works no better. You ruff, cross to

dummy’s nine of diamonds, and

shed your losing heart on dummy’s

nine of spades. Game made.

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Contract: 5 ♦, Opening Lead:♥ 10

Dealer: North, Vulnerability: North-South

N

W E

S

Pass Pass

1 ♦ 1 ♠ Dbl( 1 ) 2 ♣

2 ♦ 3 ♣ 4 ♦( 2 ) Pass

4 ♥( 3 ) Pass 5 ♦ End

( 1 ) Negative, promising hearts.

(2) Judges her hand is a tad good for 3♦.

Reasonably so, although the 4♦ bid

bypassed the ubiquitous 3NT, which would

have made an overtrick in some comfort.

( 3 ) In case North held five hearts.

S W N E

♠J

♥QJ 942

♦-

♣QJ107 65

Pairs ♠^9532

♥K7 53

♦KJ 92

♣A

♠K 8

♥A8 6

♦A1087 63

♣K 3

♠A Q 10 7 6

♥ 10

♦Q5 4

♣ 9842

N

W E

S

♠J

♥QJ

♦-

♣QJ

♠ 9532

♥ 7

♦ 9

♣-

♠K

♥ 8

♦ 1087

♣-

♠AQ 107

♥-

♦-

♣ 98

Bridge Andrew Robson

SM

COOL

EBM

NO I SE

ILE

CREAKY

BR

DAMPO

SEMU

WENTT

AE

EGG

1 Humber

2 Morgan

3 Jaguar

4 Triumph

5 Reliant

Easy 54; Medium 396; Harder 371

White can achieve a classic

smothered mate with 1 Rf8!

Rcxf8 (1 ... Rgxf8 2 Qg8+!)

2 Qxg8+! Rxg8 3 Nf7 mate

THAW ASTONISH

E N F Y U S O

REDCARD TORTE

A E L N D A D

BASIC EXOCET

Y O Y L A

TRAINSPOTT ING

E L O A R

DIESEL RE I K I

Q S T L Z N M

UTTER AJACCIO

I E A C N U N

TURNPIKE PRAY

Lexica 5420

Lexica 5419

Chess — Winning Move

Quintagram

Brain Trainer

Quick Cryptic 1669

KenKen 5022

Codeword 4030

Square Routes

73

Tredoku 1641

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