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11.08.

Word watch Sudoku Mild No 11,740 Difficult No 11,741 Super fiendish No 11,

Josephine Balmer

Aichmophobia

a A fear of H-dropping
b A fear of pointed
objects

c A fear of itching

Aidant
a An opera lover

b A charity worker
c Helpful

Ailurophobe
a A medical examination
b A crystal
c A cat hater

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1676 by Tracy

Across

1 Tries again at rear of mule

train (8)

5 Animal in forest, a gazelle (4)

8 Be suspicious of party, but

relaxed (5)

9 Briefly board ship prior to

travel ban (7)

11 Have a meal, warm, without

husband (3)

12 Doctor and MA having part in

complex procedure (9)

13 Colas I ordered for party (6)

15 Drawing of small sailing vessel

(6)

18 Justify being very mean (9)

19 Cut fruit, then vegetable (3)

20 Daily in circulation, originally

thinner (7)

21 Leading group capsized (5)

22 Draw a circle round item of

jewellery (4)

23 Make light of losing on stage

show (4,4)

Down

1 Set right about frock (7)

2 Search round a place

frequently visited (5)

3 Conservative blocking

amendment causes heated

dispute (11)

4 Toboggan beginning to slide

over projecting shelf (6)

6 Come about act available (4,3)

7 Good to wander in small

wooded area (5)

10 A dark horse in the field of

children’s literature? (5,6)

14 Business worry (7)

16 Cheer that woman catching a

number (7)

17 Save about litre in cask (6)

18 Member of the clergy visiting

Civic Arena (5)

19 Bother with duck sauce (5)

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Yesterday’s solution on page 15

© PUZZLER MEDIA

15

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 queen of the
British Iceni tribe led
an uprising against the

Roman Empire in
AD60/61?

2 Bill Bryson’s book

Troublesome Words is a
guide to which language?

3 Used in preparing
coffee drinks, microfoam
is a finely frothed form
of which liquid?

4 Which Australian
airline was founded in

1920 by Paul McGinness,
Hudson Fysh and
Fergus McMaster?

5 Which Scottish
poet wrote Epistle
to James Tennant of

Glenconner (1789)?

6 Which Nobel
prizewinning musician

wrote the autobiography

Chronicles: Volume

One (2004)?

7 La Conquista is

Lorenzo Ferrero’s

2005 opera about the

Spanish conquest of

which empire?

8 Who completes this

familial superhero team:

Elastigirl, Violet, Dash,

Jack-Jack and ...?

9 Which English

cartoonist, who drew

about 10,000 “pocket

cartoons”, created

Maudie Littlehampton?

10 Which genus is

responsible for about

95 per cent of fatalities

resulting from toadstool

poisoning?

11 Published

posthumously in 1882,

God and the State is

an unfinished work

by which Russian

anarchist philosopher?

12 Named after a river

that no longer runs

through it, which

French department’s

capital is Toulon?

13 Founded by Minoru

Yoneyama, which

sporting equipment

company began

making badminton

racquets in 1957?

14 Retiring in 2019,

which goalkeeper

holds the Premier

League record for

clean sheets (202)?

15 Where did the pictured

meeting take place?

Suko No 2939

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