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05.08.

Word watch Sudoku Difficult No 11,727 Fiendish No 11,728 Super fiendish No 11,

Josephine Balmer

Dogie

a A cigarette stub
b To snap
c A calf

Dentelle
a Book ornamentation
b A country dance

c Precise

Dentex

a A typeface
b A teeth whitener
c A fish

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1672 by Hurley

Across

1 Large area, no doubt — maybe

Asia, some suggest initially (8)

6 Got up to display national

emblem (4)

8 Time of day to return

unchanged (4)

9 Renegade can’t tour after

review (8)

10 Sweetheart’s lively valley do (8)

12 Recalling a number one island

(4)

13 Pair, ignoring me, come up

with article in French (6)

15 Credit facility line (6)

17 End street work (4)

19 Highlights importance of

introduction of safety locks (8)

21 Something loathed in

gymkhana, the mare? (8)

23 Forgo leer every so often —

this one? (4)

24 Sadly it may fall — hurry! (4)

25 Nit-picking editor briefly in

small room off kitchen? (8)

Down

2 Fuss about vocab omitting

British fruit (7)

3 Daughter with Yankee beau (5)

4 Skill at crossing river (3)

5 Test racer smashed vehicle! (9)

6 Welcome referring to Church

the writer’s supporting (7)

7 Country health resort,

fashionable (5)

11 Be out longer than intended

having finished taking skins up

(9)

14 Dad’s Army, right for Elvis,

say? (3,4)

16 Like Great Bear, some

mariners tell a rookie (7)

18 Maybe past worrying (5)

20 Second trite idea leading to

derision (5)

22 Commercial securing India’s

support (3)

12 3 4 5 67

8 9

10 11 12

13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20

21 22 23

24 25

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 Which carrack-type
warship of Henry VIII’s
navy saw her last action

on July 19, 1545?

2 Using absolute zero as
its null point, the Kelvin

scale is a scale of what?

3 Which term for the

text of an opera is
derived from the Italian
for “little book”?

4 In the House of
Commons, which
silver gilt ornamental

club is the symbol of
royal authority?

5 Which language

was the lingua franca
of ancient and
medieval India?

6 A variety of beryl, which
gemstone is named from
the Latin for “sea water”?

7 Which 1978 Kenny

Rogers song’s title

character said: “Son,

I’ve made a life/ Out of

readin’ people’s faces”?

8 Which Futurama TV

character is named after

a 1949 “symphonie” by

Olivier Messiaen?

9 Invented in 1906 by

Gabriel Janka, the Janka

hardness test applies to

which material?

10 Located on the Cape

Verde peninsula, Senegal,

which lake’s pink colour

is caused by Dunaliella

salina micro-algae?

11 Which late Georgia

congressman co-wrote

the graphic novel trilogy

March (2013-16) with

Andrew Aydin?

12 In which 1997

Satoshi Kon anime film

does former J-pop star

Mima Kirigoe have an

identity crisis?

13 Which flower is

depicted on the club

crest of Bolton

Wanderers FC?

14 Who is England’s

leading Test wicket-

taker against

Australia with 148

wickets in 36 matches?

15 Appearing in Kill Bill:

Volume 1, which Japanese

rock trio is pictured?

Suko No 2934

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