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07.08.

Word watch Sudoku Mild No 11,733 Difficult No 11,734 Fiendish No 11,

Josephine Balmer

Hesperidium

a A sunset
b Citrus fruit
c Evening dress

Vespertine
a Of a scooter
b Nippy

c In the evening

Événement

a An occurrence
b Dusk
c Devotional prayers

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1674 by Pedro

Across

1 See both wandering into shops,

identifying store for a later

date (8)

5 Female with weapon in ranch?

(4)

9 Strength is recalled not having

been used? (5)

10 Keen character at the end

showing envy after Judge

departs (7)

11 Fast-moving pedestrian waves

and runs beyond girl (6-6)

13 Analyse speed of light, getting

astronomical distance (6)

15 A great many nod off when

presented to bridge team (6)

17 Unprecedented cut in money

received by story (12)

20 Wrecked ship? Curiously intact

when one’s boarded (7)

21 Silly how love and hate both

end (5)

22 I will leave New Zealand

people, returning to travel (4)

23 Experts favoured limiting

constant expectation (8)

Down

1 Chaos seen in Times Square

(4)

2 Brown to depart for a dance

(5)

3 Risk enveloping crazier fellows

in confusion (12)

4 Point in Cornwall where you’ll

see reptile (6)

6 A holy man enthralled by E

European religious emissary

(7)

7 Be suspicious of some

nonconformist rusticated (8)

8 To support Conservative in

boast is wrong as a reassertion

of standards (4,2,6)

12 Small book producer, one

doing a run (8)

14 Cheese: actor appearing upset

with it (7)

16 Impudence, sitting on mother’s

last item of crockery (6)

18 Permission to go (5)

19 Run and hide (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 Agent Orange was a
defoliant used by the US
during which jungle war?

2 In 1998, Hugo
Chávez was elected the
youngest president in

which country’s history?

3 Which Asian country’s

22 “scheduled languages”
include Kannada,
Kashmiri and Konkani?

4 The intro of which
Dire Straits song has
Sting repeating the

lyric: “I want my, I want
my MTV”?

5 In 1982, which

Oscar-winning Italian
actress served 17 days
of a 30-day sentence for

tax evasion?

6 Both the Dome of
Discovery and the

Skylon were built for

which event in 1951?

7 What was the name

of the home secretary

played by Keeley

Hawes in the TV

drama Bodyguard?

8 Karl Malden won an

Oscar for playing which

role in the 1951 film A

Streetcar Named Desire?

9 Liebestod (“Love-

Death”) is the final

music from which 1865

Wagner opera?

10 Kitron is a citron

liqueur produced on

which Greek island in

the Cyclades?

11 The Penyal d’Ifac is

a 332m-high limestone

outcrop located in which

Spanish coastal town in

Alicante province?

12 In 1896, the Swiss

physicist Charles

Edouard Guillaume

invented which

nickel-iron alloy?

13 Which German

inventor of an

ammonia refrigerator

(1876) was the first

person to extract

oxygen gas from air?

14 Which Toronto

Raptors head coach

previously coached

Manchester Giants,

London Towers and

Brighton Bears?

15 Which Somali-born

American fashion

model is pictured?

Suko No 2936

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