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Word watch Sudoku Difficult No 11,823 Fiendish No 11,824 Super fiendish No 11,
Josephine Balmer
Ojibwa
a A spirit guide
b An insult
c A language
Ojek
a A bicycle hawker
b To intervene
c A large mammal
Oisivity
a Stickiness
b A lack of sympathy
c Idleness
Answers on page 15
The Times Quick Cryptic No 1702 by Tracy
Across
1 Own a section of Fifth Avenue
(4)
3 Sets kilt out for game (8)
9 Send off wine wanted by
eccentric person (3-4)
10 Had in mind low time (5)
11 Respond concerning part of
play (5)
12 What Meg and Doug do in
close? (6)
14 Place in Leicestershire, town
memorably redeveloped (6,7)
17 One’s played Shakespearean
heroine mostly at home (6)
19 Amusing nobleman backed
Liberal (5)
22 Money in this, tied up,
reportedly (5)
23 Moving out in it, teaching (7)
24 Diagram that should appeal to
Desperate Dan! (3,5)
25 Raise back (4)
Down
1 Instrument that’s blown with
lips to make glasses (4-4)
2 Russian spirit very old duke
and king admired, initially (5)
4 Striker minded playing for a
Worcestershire town (13)
5 Lacking in confidence, not
very bright Italian turned up
(5)
6 Student needing job that pays
after end of school (7)
7 Place to rest close to home (4)
8 Display shabby articles also (6)
13 Look on ship for make-up item
(8)
15 The French island certainly
offers relaxation (7)
16 Involve oneself enthusiastically
with one entering Red Sea port
(4,2)
18 Door fastener in confessional
at church (5)
20 Love, as it happens, a stoned
fruit (5)
21 Stage favourites returned (4)
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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 Estimated to be about
1,000 years old, the
Major Oak is in which
Nottinghamshire forest?
2 The Dog in the Pond
pub regularly features in
which Channel 4 soap?
3 Asked what he thought
of western civilisation,
which political figure
replied: “I think that
would be a good idea”?
4 The ravens Huginn
and Muninn serve
which Norse god?
5 The gambler Sky
Masterson sings Luck Be
a Lady in which musical?
6 What was the name
of the orangutan voiced
by Louis Prima in the
1967 Disney film The
Jungle Book?
7 Founded by Marino
Iandiorio, which Italian
food brand has a name
that means “little Naples”?
8 In 2009, which Scottish
painter launched
Heartbreak Publishing
and his own gallery also
called Heartbreak?
9 Which Whig
politician was prime
minister when slavery
was abolished in the
British Empire in 1833?
10 Native to southeast
Asia, what are the
world’s only strictly
carnivorous primates?
11 Aureole (1962) and
Private Domain (1969)
are works by which US
choreographer, who
founded his “Dance
Company” in 1954?
12 Jürgen Prochnow
played which real-life
German undercover
journalist in the 1990
film The Man Inside?
13 The Club (1977)
by Australian
playwright David
Williamson is about a
team in which sport?
14 Which US-born
Swedish pole vaulter
is the men’s world
record holder with a
height of 6.18m?
15 Named from the
Mayan for “thrice-built”,
which Maya city in
Yucatan state is
pictured?
Suko No 2970
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