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11.09.

Word watch Sudoku Mild No 11,813 Difficult No 11,814 Fiendish No 11,

Josephine Balmer

Pigeon pea

a Last one left
b To miss a shot
c A spicy seed

Pigeon pair
a Inseparable
b Two children

c Mismatched

Pigeon-blood

a Dark red
b Timid
c A theatre prop

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1699 by Mara

Across

7 Desert shade (6)

8 Charm in a hybrid tree,

originally (6)

9 Muscle complaint (4)

10 Silver-tongued quality, mixed

blessing (8)

11 Stoppered vessel, vessel

secured by stop! (8)

13 White part of horse (4)

15 Employer held back by chores,

unfortunately (4)

16 Male in fancy red coat, US

politician (8)

18 Battle, as things going to

pieces (8)

20 Dissolute fellow’s garden tool

(4)

21 In a mo, the dancing (2,4)

22 King in play destroying

Borneo (6)

Down

1 Travelling salesmen, unknown

(8)

2 Fire Tory with standard quota

(13)

3 Reportedly dark piece (6)

4 Back up, holding good sword

(6)

5 Finally improve, or go round

the bend? (4,3,6)

6 Reported information, all

points! (4)

12 Look at yours truly when

speaking (3)

14 Crazy attempt on prize (8)

16 Biblical character in deal that’s

dodgy (6)

17 Pole saving company, is that

lucky? (6)

19 Agreements initially missing

for book (4)

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Yesterday’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 Kerosene is
a combustible
hydrocarbon liquid

that is obtained from
which fossil fuel?

2 In a 1629 Rembrandt

painting, who is
“Returning the Thirty
Pieces of Silver”?

3 On November 16,
2000, which actor
was knighted at

Buckingham Palace as
Maurice Micklewhite?

4 Psoriasis is a chronic
autoimmune condition
causing the rapid
build-up of which cells?

5 Which Tennyson
poem refers to “the

ringing plains of windy
Troy”, “the great
Achilles” and “mine
own Telemachus”?

6 Which Jane Austen

heroine is briefly

attracted to Frank

Churchill before marrying

George Knightley?

7 The proton pack is a

capture device used by

which quartet in two

1980s films?

8 Fritz Fend’s three-

wheeled KR200 bubble

car was made (1955-64) in

which German aircraft

company’s factory?

9 Star of the 1999 film

But I’m a Cheerleader,

which US actress plays

Nadia Vulvokov in

Netflix’s Russian Doll?

10 Who wrote or

co-wrote ten songs on

Scarlett Johansson’s

debut album Anywhere

I Lay My Head?

11 The roe of which

marine fish in the family

Cyclopteridae is an

affordable alternative to

sturgeon caviar?

12 Which rebellious

Neapolitan fisherman

is the hero of Daniel

Auber’s 1828 opera La

muette de Portici?

13 A former Millwall FC

chairman, which

Dragons’ Den investor

owns the lingerie

retailer Boux Avenue?

14 Which Spanish

golfer won a record 50

European Tour titles to

go with his five majors?

15 Which Russian

jeweller designed the

pictured Imperial

Coronation egg?

Suko No 2966

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