Times 2 - UK (2020-08-11)

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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; 21, very good; 25, excellent

 
 

 



  


 


   

  


 


  



 

  

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IE A

SET C

EI T

COS

THAY

SAVE

POTA

ARL

TWELVE

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1 Boudica aka Boadicea 2 English 3 Milk 4 Qantas. It

was founded as Queensland and Northern Territory

Aerial Services 5 Robert Burns 6 Bob Dylan

7 Aztec Empire. It is also known as Montezuma

8 Mr Incredible — as in The Incredibles

9 Osbert Lancaster 10 Amanita 11 Mikhail Bakunin

12 Va r 13 Yonex 14 Petr Cech 15 Camp David. The

three men are Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter and

Menachem Begin

1 Rxe6! Bxe6 2 Bc3 sets up

winning threats against g7.

Black must surrender the

queen as, for example, 2 ... Qe

gets mated by 3 Bh7+! Kf

4 Qxg7+ Ke8 5 Bg6+ and

mate follows

Aichmophobia (b) A fear of

pointed objects

Aidant (c) Helpful

Ailurophobe (c) A cat hater

Kakuro 2715

Futoshiki 3756 Lexica 5432

Cell Blocks 3920 Set Square 2718 Lexica 5431

Suko 2939

Train Tracks 1092

Chess — Winning Move Word watch

1 Deck

2 Sedan

3 Windsor

4 Electric

5 Sit tight

Quintagram

Quiz

Easy 126; Medium 270; Harder 132

Brain Trainer

Yesterday’s answers

hin, hip, his, ink, ish, kin, kip, knish, nip,

phi, pin, pink, pish, psi, punish, punkish,

shin, ship, sin, sink, sip, ski, skin, skip, snip,

spin, unhip, uni, unship

times2 CrosswordNo 8354 Brain Trainer

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Across
5 Streetlightsupport( 8 )
7 Reducetopulpby
crushing( 4 )
9 Toolsandother
hardware( 11 )
10 Beabouttohappen( 6 )
12 Germanartsongs( 6 )
113 Ediblefffish( 6 )
15 Forwarddsurge(( 6 ))
16 Adequatelyfffunctioning( 11 )
18 Bird;sillyperson( 4 )
19 Scowled( 8 )
Down
1 WWWatercoursedryexceptin
therainyseason( 4 )
2 Fated;undersentence( 6 )
3 Composedwithoutusing
keys( 6 )
4 Impossibletoenter( 12 )
6 Statecontrolledby
another( 12 )
8 Nervoustimidity( 7 )
11 Getsby( 5 , 2 )
14 Mean,miserly( 6 )
15 NorthwestUSstate( 6 )
17 Largejug( 4 )
SolutiontoCrossword 8353
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9
10 11 12
13 14 15
16 17
18 19
D B S M S
HAIRPINS ACHE
H A L C L A
SLEIGH AXIOM
N O N G B
RESOUNDINGLY
A E A E
STORYTELLERS
I A T I L
FUNGI SODIUM
I K N I E N
FELL GENERATE
D E G S O
Cell Blocks No 3921
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Polygon Set Square No 2719
Please note, BODMAS does not apply
Killer Moderate No 7293 Solutions
Killer Tough No 7294
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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Although you normally lead top of
two cards as a defender, you should
lead low from a doubleton trump
(indeed almost any trump holding).
You play high-low from a double-
ton when leading a side suit to flag
your ability to ruff — clearly this
does not apply to trumps.
Seldom does a deal crop up bet-
ter to illustrate the folly of leading
top of a doubleton trump than
today’s — from an Andrew Robson
Bridge Online duplicate on Bridge
Base Online (do come and play —
see andrewrobson.co.uk).
With a blind lead v 6♠, West at
both tables opted for a trump lead.
At Table One, West led the nine of
spades. Declarer correctly won
dummy’s ace — play low, and East
wins the king and returns a second
spade: no longer can declarer ruff
two diamonds in dummy.
Declarer crossed to the ace of dia-
monds and ruffed a diamond (cor-
rectly refraining from playing the
king before a ruff — which would
make an overruff more likely). She
ruffed a heart back to hand and
ruffed a third diamond with the
eight (West could only discard).
She ruffed a heart back to hand
(East’s ace appearing was not rele-
vant), and led the queen of spades.
East won the king but it was all
over — declarer’s diamonds were
established and that was 12 tricks
and slam made.
At Table Two, West led the four
of spades (key play). Declarer rose
with the ace (as he had to), and
yyy
played identically, crossing to the
ace of diamonds and ruffing a dia-
mond. He ruffed a heart back to
hand and led a third diamond.
However, on this trick West could
ruff in with the nine of spades,
higher than dummy’s eight. With
East still holding the king of
spades, that was one down. West
had found the one card in his hand
to beat 6♠ — the four of spades.
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Contract: 6 ♠, Opening Lead: ♠ 4 /♠ 9
Dealer: North, Vulnerability: Both
N
W E
S
1 ♣ Pass
1 ♠( 1 ) Pass( 2 ) 2 ♠( 3 ) Pass
6 ♠( 4 ) End
(1) “High sixes” (the “high fives” principle
— start high, finish low).
(2) Vulnerable, a heart bid would be far too
cheeky with such a broken suit.
(3) The key bid. It is wiser to raise 1♠ to 2 ♠
(despite the lack of a fourth card) than rebid-
ding 2 ♣ (ugh) or 2 ♥ (overstating the val-
ues). Lest you are concerned that raising to
2 ♠ may result in missing an eight-card
heart fit, reflect that if South has four
hearts, she’ll have five spades (she’d respond
the cheaper 1 ♥ with 4 ♥- 4 ♠). If you have
a heart fit, you also have a spade fit.
(4) Practical leap. Absent such highfalutin
treatments as 5 ♥ exclusion keycard (ask-
ing for keycards outside hearts), it will be
very hard to find out whether 7 ♠ is on. The
advantage of the leap to 6 ♠ is South hides
her hand.
S W N E
♠K 3
♥A
♦Q 873
♣KJ 964
Pairs ♠A 82
♥KJ 93
♦ 10
♣A1085 2
♠QJ107 65
♥-
♦AK 6542
♣ 3
♠ 94
♥Q10 8 6542
♦J 9
♣Q
Bridge Andrew Robson
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Sudoku 11,
Killer 7291
Sudoku 11,
Killer 7292
Sudoku 11,
Quick Cryptic 1675
KenKen 5029
Codeword 4037