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20.08.

Word watch Sudoku Mild No 11,762 Fiendish No 11,763 Super fiendish No 11,

Josephine Balmer

Nard

a A plant
b To inlay
c An informer

Nooch
a A sniffer dog
b To explore a new place

c Yeast flakes

Nostrum

a A devotional prayer
b A quack medicine
c A two-seater bench

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1683 by Tracy

Across

7 Soil shortage initially ignored

(5)

8 Mongrel dog — what it wags

cut short (7)

10 Coach beginning to toil,

damaged in rear (7)

11 Show lack of interest in Irish

rugby (5)

12 Cromwellian’s plump leader (9)

14 My heart listened to (3)

15 Join band, briefly (3)

16 Find out when positive (9)

18 Come in to register (5)

20 Revolutionary spoke about

Conservative (7)

22 Credible number left in

Lincoln? (7)

23 Good scope for one working in

stable (5)

Down

1 Attend a sanctuary, and

withdraw (4,1,7)

2 Endless delight, of course,

producing riches (8)

3 Flimsy article, short (4)

4 Few panic catching cold (6)

5 Campaigner, more coarse,

when held up (8)

6 Pretty fine tune (4)

9 Drink can make me ill, a

danger when mixed (5,3,4)

13 Bitter speech from US

prosecutor about island breed

(8)

14 Unexpectedly find gamble

working (6,2)

17 Tooth decay — one probing is

concerned (6)

19 Pitch in the direction of

Geordieland? (4)

21 Some homeless GI driving

over to find accommodation

(4)

1 2 3 4 5 6

7 89

10 11

12 13 14

15 16 17

18 19 20 21

22 23

Yesterday’s solution on page 15

© PUZZLER MEDIA

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S&G/PA

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 The disorder
amblyopia is more
commonly known as

“lazy ...” what?

2 In 1990, which
Solidarity co-founder

succeeded Wojciech
Jaruzelski as president
of Poland?

3 Used by
meteorologists, a
pluviometer is also

known as what type
of gauge?

4 Which ITV drama
focused on members of
Blue Watch, based at
the fictional Blackwall

fire station?

5 Which all-female

Motown group had hits
with Dancing in the
Street, Nowhere to Run
and Jimmy Mack?

6 The son of an Ipswich

butcher, who was made

Bishop of Lincoln and

then Archbishop of

York in 1514?

7 Which British

co-founder of analytic

philosophy won the 1950

Nobel prize in literature?

8 Known for its luxury

fashion boutiques,

Via de’ Tornabuoni is in

the centre of which

Italian city?

9 Microsoft has held

talks to buy which

video-sharing mobile

app from Chinese

owner ByteDance?

10 The title of the

Lin-Manuel Miranda

musical In the Heights

refers to which New

York neighbourhood?

11 Which Peruvian

painter of pin-up

models created the

movie poster for The Sin

of Nora Moran (1933)?

12 A Penrose triangle

with “Palace” written

on each side, what is

the Palace Skateboards

logo called?

13 Dubbed “Asia’s

number one driving

range”, Phothalai

Golf Park is in which

capital city?

14 Chris Froome is

leaving Team Ineos to

race for which Israeli

cycling team?

15 Which cricket

writer and music critic

is pictured?

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