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Word watch Sudoku Mild No 11,900 Difficult No 11,901 Super fiendish No 11,

David Parfitt

Va r v e

a A Swedish cheese
b Tenacious carpet fluff
c Sediment in a glacial

lake

Noctuary
a A night-time diary

b A watchman
c A sleeping mask

Libeccio
a A sweeper in football
b A poem performed
operatically

c A southwesterly wind

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1726 by Izetti

Across

1 Terrible failures that could

make celeb sad (8)

5 Drug supplied by ambassador

meeting politician (4)

8 Army officer to slip and go to

ground (8)

9 Duck beginning to dabble with

hesitation in river (4)

11 Bird’s preserved food? Could

be a problem (3,2,5)

14 Business folk are primarily

chaps (6)

15 Extracted from mine, the

necessary chemical (6)

17 Sit awkwardly in breeze,

becoming upset (10)

20 A man with a wicked wife gets

a good deal (1,3)

21 Close friend to regale excitedly

(5,3)

22 Ruler good, following relations

(4)

23 Extend piece of writing with

publicist’s introduction (8)

Down

1 Cut short weed (4)

2 Eat quickly and run off (4)

3 Letters or cards? (10)

4 School outside American

station (6)

6 Red-nosed drunk is given

support (8)

7 Surrounded by fairies, she dies

(8)

10 Most fretful sorceress, one

participating in experiment

(10)

12 Journalist has penned awfully

drab sort of book (8)

13 A pot’s one unusual kitchen

item (8)

16 Servant, awful brute about 50

(6)

18 Star seen in massive gallery (4)

19 Harbour drink left (4)

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Yesterday’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 The arrow in which
online retailer’s logo links
the letters “a” and “z”?

2 Pink fir apple, golden
wonder and Maris
Piper are varieties of

which vegetable?

3 Which band played

the Star-Club, Hamburg,
for the last time on
December 31, 1962?

4 Which actress links
the films Caligula,
The Queen and Fast &

Furious: Hobbs & Shaw?

5 In 1887, Rudolf Berlin
coined which term to

describe reading problems
that were not caused by
visual impairments?

6 The name of which ice
cream-like dessert means
“frozen” in Italian?

7 Which Jonathan

Larson rock musical

features the songs Ta ke

Me or Leave Me, Will I?

and Goodbye Love?

8 Which Roman silver

coin derived its name

from the Latin for

“containing ten”?

9 The fourth and

possibly final series of

The Trip, starring Steve

Coogan and Rob

Brydon, has what title?

10 The Killer (1959) is the

first of which Romanian-

French dramatist’s

Bérenger plays?

11 Which Tyrrhenian

Sea archipelago

includes the islands

of Ponza, Palmarola,

Zannone and Gavi?

12 Which South

American-born artist

painted his I AM THE

BEST ARTIST murals in

Downtown Manhattan?

13 Which Australian

body language experts

wrote Why Men Don’t

Listen and Women Can’t

Read Maps?

14 Liverpool Fútbol

Club plays its home

games at Estadio

Belvedere in which

South American capital?

15 Which luxury car

manufacturer’s E-Type

Series 1 is pictured?

Suko No 2999

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