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Word watch Sudoku Easy No 11,737 Difficult No 11,738 Fiendish No 11,

Josephine Balmer

Gunite

a A concrete
b To force
c An assassin

Gerah
a Go away!
b A sacred text

c A coin

Gault

a To be reluctant
b A type of soil
c Skinny

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1675 by Orpheus

Across

1 Appreciative, having this much

coal? (8)

5 About to demand a strong

wooden barrel (4)

7 Bag for Falstaff’s wine! (4)

8 One who conveys news about

alcoholic drink (8)

9 Wobbly: lacking capacity to

cross street (8)

11 Reportedly outstanding lyric

poem (3)

13 Mistakes made by English

kings at start of actions (6)

16 Groans frightfully, finding

skirtlike garment (6)

18 Scottish port involved in

Hogmanay revels (3)

19 The commercial centre of

Banbridge, for example? (8)

20 Put off carrying container, a

stoppered glass (8)

22 Unemployed superstar given a

hearing (4)

23 Boss demanding endless

academic application (4)

24 Former exam relating to rural

life (8)

Down

1 Signal from visitor dropping

union leader on river (7)

2 A northern church’s attempt to

establish origin (8)

3 Troublemaker sacked for

pinching grain husks (9)

4 Cut Liszt’s first work (3)

5 Abrupt old Republican ringing

a museum boss (7)

6 Pacify son, very small, just into

double figures (7)

10 Unhappy as steward, going in

this direction? (9)

12 Well-meaning type taking pet

initially over European river

(2-6)

14 First-class male in torn

clothing (7)

15 A Royal Marines orchestra’s

form of identification (7)

17 Refined chap set up shelter (7)

21 Most superior upper garment

(3)

12 34 56

7 8

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Friday’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 According to legend,
St Jerome removed
a thorn from which

animal’s injured paw?

2 Aged 93, June Brown
quit which EastEnders

role earlier this year?

3 What is the most

commonly grown
plant in the genus
Nicotiana?

4 Which 1989 Andrew
Lloyd Webber musical
features the song Love

Changes Everything?

5 What is the internet
country code top-level

domain for the
Netherlands?

6 The Torres Strait
separates Cape York
Peninsula in Australia
and which large island?

7 The Warden (1855) is

the first book in which

series of six novels by

Anthony Trollope?

8 Which Scottish

inventor entered a

business partnership

with the manufacturer

Matthew Boulton

in 1775?

9 Named after its

preferred berries,

which thrush was

known by the colloquial

name of stormcock?

10 The Ponseti method

is a manipulative

technique to correct

which foot deformity

without invasive surgery?

11 Which 1986 animated

movie features the Stan

Bush songs Dare and

The Touch?

12 Carved in southern

Italy, the Horn of

Ulph is preserved

in which English

cathedral’s treasury?

13 Which Swede,

a founder of

palaeogenetics, showed

in 1984 that DNA can

survive in ancient

Egyptian mummies?

14 The 32nd NHL

franchise, what is the

name of the new Seattle

ice hockey team?

15 Which species in

the blister beetle family

is pictured?

Suko No 2938

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