Times 2 - UK (2020-09-07)

07.09.

Word watch Sudoku Easy No 11,801 Difficult No 11,802 Fiendish No 11,

Josephine Balmer

Appledrain

a A bore
b A wasp
c An alcoholic drink

Appleringie
a A plant
b A round ladder

c A soft drink

Apple-polish

a A fake remedy
b An unnecessary
improvement
c To curry favour

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1695 by Tracy

Across

7 Nasty predator may show little

sign of grief (8)

8 Servant: male help (4)

9 Sign of injury from run in

country (6)

10 Speed in heats, uncommon (5)

11 Pass round sticky stuff (3)

12 Chess piece left in class (6)

14 Novel hat (6)

16 Alternative route after start of

digging? (6)

18 Guard southern passageway

(6)

19 Old vessel, unlit, heading off

(3)

20 Initially glimpsed weaving

machine in partial darkness (5)

21 Stoat in mere, swimming (6)

23 Conceited, sticks around (4)

24 Sport in Los Angeles annoyed

English (8)

Down

1 Model short-term office

worker, delayed (8)

2 Song from Callas, perhaps

needing no introduction (4)

3 Bang bell cast in iron (6)

4 Result of winning stroke (6)

5 Neglect? Ring embassy (8)

6 Healthy, some golf in

Edinburgh (4)

13 Utter nothing in between (8)

15 Titled lady one’s seen in pubs

(8)

17 Take a long walk with thriller

writer, right to the top (6)

18 Outline of small two-master

(6)

20 Match in Georgia, then Maine

(4)

22 Low northern celestial body

(4)

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Friday’s solution on page 15

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DAVID WILLIAMS/GETTY IMAGES

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 Janet Brown played
which real-life figure in
the 1981 Bond film For

Your Eyes Only?

2 Which future princess
worked at the Pimlico

nursery school, Young
England Kindergarten?

3 In 2008, Sheryl
Sandberg was
recruited as which
social networking

site’s first COO?

4 Germany replaced the

reichsmark with which
currency in 1948?

5 Which comedian,

father of the actress Lucy
Davis, hosted the ITV
game show Golden Balls?

6 Which Japanese
statesman has
announced his

resignation as prime

minister, citing health

concerns?

7 Which contemporary

London-centred dialect

is abbreviated to MLE?

8 Greensboro, Durham,

Fayetteville, Cary and

Asheville are cities in

which US state?

9 A piece of

“brontosaurus skin”

(actually mylodon or

giant sloth) inspired

Bruce Chatwin to visit

which region?

10 Which Swiss

composer wrote the

1927 opera Antigone

and the Symphonie

Liturgique (1946)?

11 Which financier,

founder of the

commodities firm

Glencore, received a

controversial presidential

pardon from Bill Clinton?

12 Created during the

late Pleistocene, the

oldest-known drawing

was found in which cave

in the Western Cape,

South Africa?

13 Located in Tajikistan,

what is the world’s

longest glacier outside

the polar regions?

14 What is the first

tennis grand slam of

the calendar year?

15 Which Anglican

cathedral in Cardiff is

pictured?

Suko No 2962

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