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Word watch Sudoku Easy No 11,865 Difficult No 11,866 Fiendish No 11,

David Parfitt

Jo

a A sweetheart
b A baby wallaby
c A sixpence

Balmer series
a A minor-league
baseball competition

b A sequence of lines in
the hydrogen spectrum
c Soothing ointments

Bravo
a The ace of hearts
b A rugged stretch of

coast
c A hitman

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1715 by Wurm

Across

6 Swimmer in location without

current (6)

7 Bet here as coin thrown about

(6)

9 Drink around north is bargain

(4)

10 7 game allowed to get in way

(8)

11 Use machete repeatedly with

expedition! (4-4)

13 Good base for light (4)

15 Black rodent irritating child (4)

16 Become sunnier in resort, we

hear (8)

18 Precious stones found in suit

(8)

20 Prepare some korma kebabs

(4)

21 Relative brings us into money

(6)

22 Get to the point? (6)

Down

1 One to embrace decisive

argument (8)

2 Creature this puma moved

across river twice (12)

3 Beginning to deal with world

shortage (6)

4 Rugby-playing group quietly

steal apples (6)

5 Join outfit that protects knight

(4)

8 Tool has blade: hard to

smuggle into jail (12)

12 Rower in Tromso arriving (3)

14 Large liver OK cooked, but too

much (8)

16 Graduate meets fool in plant

(6)

17 Stupid and senseless to

incarcerate son (6)

19 Hero at home entertaining

company (4)

1 2 3 4 5

6 78

9 10

11 12 13 14

15 16 17

18 19 20

21 22

Friday’s solution on page 15

© PUZZLER MEDIA

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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 It is now widely
believed that the
cleric Bishop Odo

commissioned which
documentary artefact?

2 The igneous rock,

kimberlite, contains
which gemstones in its
rock matrix?

3 Which English
astronomer died before
the return of the comet

that he predicted would
come back in 1758?

4 The 12th-century
epic poem The Song of
Igor’s Campaign was
adapted by Borodin as

which opera?

5 The only two Quakers

to have been elected US
president are Herbert
Hoover and which
postwar leader?

6 The TV comedy

Blandings (2013-14)

was adapted from the

Blandings Castle stories

of which writer?

7 Giedi Prime, Caladan

and Kaitain are planets

in which 1965 Frank

Herbert novel?

8 DS Annie Cabbot is

the sidekick of which

fictional DCI?

9 Which part of the

body do you move when

you “nictitate”?

10 The seat of South

Africa’s Supreme Court

of Appeal, which city’s

Sesotho name,

Mangaung, means

“place of cheetahs”?

11 Once used as

a detergent, spirit

of hartshorn is an

aqueous solution of

which compound?

12 In 1731, Stephen

Gray became the first

recipient of which

Royal Society award,

for “his new Electrical

Experiments”?

13 Which 11ft sailing

dinghy was designed by

Ian Proctor in 1977 as a

One Design racing boat?

14 Complete the

title of the 2015

documentary: Dark

Horse: The Incredible

True Story of ....

15 The first version of

which device, invented

by Douglas Engelbart,

is pictured?

Suko No 2986

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