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Word watch Sudoku Mild No 11,820 Difficult No 11,821 Super fiendish No 11,
Josephine Balmer
Squint
a A tool
b To move across
c A group of kestrels
Squirage
a Chaperoning
b Inappropriate anger
c An aristocratic book
Squalus
a A shark
b A bird’s nest
c Untidy
Answers on page 15
The Times Quick Cryptic No 1701 by Wurm
Across
1 A scale showing quantity (6)
5 Harry rowed around one
strange fish (6)
8 Drunken pirate provided
opening shot (8)
9 On reflection, humour brings
unpleasant fate (4)
10 Composer seen in November
gathering (4)
11 Obscure period without Sun
and Times? (4,4)
12 Mock name for the common
herd (6)
14 Street vendor one clearing
throat? (6)
16 Back winner (8)
18 Capital generated in two
American states (4)
20 Some para inevitably drops
from sky (4)
21 He has dog rolling barrel (8)
23 Small son retaining very
French accent (6)
24 Delegate stuck in river (6)
Down
2 Mike cored apple in wood (5)
3 Honourable leading Tories? (7)
4 Dram from non-drinker
getting round in (3)
5 Narrow victory keeping father
excited (5-4)
6 Nation appears in Kremlin
dialogue (5)
7 See church featured in OED is
replaced (7)
11 Say Snoopy battles Red Baron
in these? (9)
13 Essentially a nasty threat (2,5)
15 Love having dispute about
vessel (7)
17 Chopped meat Charlie
dumped in pit (5)
19 Tissue transplant is hard work
(5)
22 Lord to leave with daughter (3)
12 3 4 567
8 9
10 11
12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19
20 21 22
23 24
Yesterday’s solution on page 15
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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 A teenage Davy Jones,
later of the Monkees,
played Ena Sharples’s
grandson Colin on
which TV soap?
2 Royce Ryton’s 1972 play
Crown Matrimonial is
about which 1936 crisis?
3 What has been the
highest officer rank in the
British Army since 1736?
4 Which 1884
invention was the
first recoil-operated
machine gun in
production?
5 A creature described
as a mouthbrooder
displays what specific
behaviour?
6 Balochistan is which
country’s westernmost
province?
7 Which Swedish actress
married the Stray Cats
drummer Slim Jim
Phantom in 1984?
8 The Innocents
Abroad (1869) was the
bestselling of which
US writer’s books
during his lifetime?
9 Which alternative
name for weathering
steel refers to its
properties of corrosion
resistance and tensile
strength?
10 Which US author
created the sports
agent and former
FBI investigator
Myron Bolitar?
11 Barthélemy Boganda
was poised to become
which independent
country’s first president
when he died in a
plane crash?
12 In Samoan culture,
fa’afafine are people
who identify themselves
as having what?
13 Lisa-Kaindé Diaz
and Naomi Diaz form
which Parisian music
duo, whose name means
“twins” in Yoruba?
14 Austria’s biggest
football stadium is
named after which coach,
who won the European
Cup with Feyenoord
and Hamburg
15 Which American
businesswoman and
cosmetics company
co-founder is pictured?
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