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Word watch Sudoku Mild No 11,884 Difficult No 11,885 Super fiendish No 11,
David Parfitt
Oliphant
a A water-pumping
device
b A fan made of palm
leaves
c A hunting horn
Sauve qui peut
a A lifeboat
b An insufferable bore
c A stampede
Shanghai
a A mooring knot
b A catapult
c A decorative fabric
Answers on page 15
The Times Quick Cryptic No 1721 by Trelawney
Across
1 Mum and family catching cold
with rubbish raincoat (10)
8 Send back first five bits of non-
explosive element (5)
9 See you acclaim icon regularly
(7)
10 Prepare to cook fish, heading
for event that’s black tie,
perhaps (5,4)
12 Writer’s enclosure (3)
13 Live in Barcelona I reckon (2,3)
15 Starts to order dinghy, despite
losing yacht in a strange way
(5)
17 Bounce explosive, eliminating
dam finally (3)
18 Label I ran represented a
dancer (9)
20 Sneer at shabby grave (7)
21 Scheme to capture Ireland’s
first aviator (5)
22 Garden ably designed, for the
most part (2,3,5)Down
1 Stirred large drinks for
Wimbledon match (5,7)2 Heaving ocean, small boat (5)
3 Pub’s requirement for
Guinness (3)
4 Hurriedly add policy — no
getting upset! (4,2)
5 Dock worker to wear down old
soldiers heading north (9)
6 Fall over extremely outdated
photography gear (6)
7 Clean-cut boys rebuilt blown-
up fortress? (6,6)
11 Small, hard, and chewy
collection of plants (9)
14 Reddish-brown and gold torch
(6)
16 Protein in wheat initially
needed to support muscle (6)
19 Novel riled a lazy person (5)
21 Friend father left (3)123456 78 910 11 1213 14 151617 18 1920 2122Yesterday’s solution on page 15
© PUZZLER MEDIA15
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 correctThe Times Daily Quiz Olav Bjortomt
Answers on page 15
1 Fitzgerald was
the middle name of
which 20th-century
US president?
2 According to one
legend, which bird got
its coloured breast as a
reward for protecting
the Christ Child?
3 Henry Fuseli based
the painting Titania and
Bottom (c 1790) on which
Shakespeare play?
4 Francis Barber was
the Jamaican-born
servant of which 18th-
century lexicographer?
5 The 18th-century
Westbury White
Horse is a hill figure
in which county?
6 Son of Zeus and
Europa, which
legendary Cretan
king was the husband
of Pasiphae and father
of Ariadne?7 Created in 1894 by
a Waldorf-Astoria
bartender, which
whisky-vermouth
cocktail shares its name
with a Scottish outlaw?8 The collapse of a
structure designed by
Thomas Bouch caused
which 1879 disaster?9 Who played Andrew
“Combo” Gascoigne
in This Is England
and Anthony “Tony
Pro” Provenzano in
The Irishman?10 Which one-word title
links Emma Gannon’s
2020 debut novel with a
British food magazine?11 Donna Lucia
d’Alvadorez is the
Brazilian title character
in which 1892 farce by
Brandon Thomas?12 Hogg Island is the
largest of the 365
islands in which river,
the largest in Guyana?13 The World Without Us
is a 2007 nonfiction book
by which US journalist?14 The aim of the
traditional Chilean game
of pillar el chancho is to
catch a greasy what?15 Which retired
cricketer is pictured?Suko No 2993
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