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Word watch Sudoku Easy No 11,913 Difficult No 11,914 Fiendish No 11,

David Parfitt

Mese

a A high plateau
b A lyre string
c Yak milk

Nithing
a Procrastination
b A dog’s whisker

c A dishonourable
coward

Piccadill
a A duelling sword
b A hot chilli pepper
c A high stiff collar

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1730 by Teazel

Across

1 Punish, in this case wrongly (8)

5 A service returned from a

distance (4)

8 Bone in heap, not quite dead?

(8)

9 Lock up penguin killer (4)

11 Lower a foot (5)

12 Revolutionary is wrong to back

heaven (7)

13 Small lake in view (6)

15 Almost transfix a native of

Africa (6)

18 Turncoat’s characteristic:

wanting gold (7)

19 Without leader, nearer failure

(5)

21 Not an Irish county crop (4)

22 An east European impressed

by no French emperor (8)

23 After a month, seek disguise

(4)

24 Uncontrolled teen lust is to

cause restlessness (8)

Down

1 On a ship, comprehensive

direction-finder (7)

2 A short test in lobbies (5)

3 Standard menu elated both

going out (5,5)

4 After treatment, stay in

normal frame of mind (6)

6 Delivers one a flower (7)

7 Bank holding a sort of race (5)

10 The first recipe, perhaps, for

track sport (7,3)

14 A script: it’s about girl

underground, mostly (7)

16 Organise a run over some

mountains (7)

17 Other ranks row about a

decree (6)

18 Child with me picked up an

emblem (5)

20 Cleaned out, son displayed

sorrow (5)

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Friday’s solution on page 15

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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 Which spiritual leader
co-wrote The Book
of Joy (2016) with

Desmond Tutu?

2 Which fish in the
family Clupeidae is

cold-smoked to make
a kipper?

3 Thomas Young
“made a number of
original and insightful
innovations” in the

decipherment of what
writing system?

4 Which Gilbert and
Sullivan operetta has
the alternate title The
Lass that Loved a Sailor?

5 Vientiane is the capital
of which Asian country?

6 Launched in 2010,
EcuRed is which
Caribbean country’s

state-run version of

Wikipedia?

7 Formerly called the

Sac à dépêches, which

Hermès handbag

is named after the

“Hitchcock blonde” star

of Rear Window?

8 The Silence of the Girls

(2018) is Pat Barker’s

retelling from the female

characters’ view of which

epic poem by Homer?

9 Which Burmese

diplomat was the first

UN secretary-general

from Asia?

10 The jukebox musical

On Your Feet! is The Story

of Emilio & ... whom?

11 Founded in 2011,

which Berlin-based

company is the largest

meal-kit provider in

the USA?

12 Featuring a sound

hole, which percussion

instrument from Peru

is a hollow wooden box

designed to be sat on?

13 Which Spanish

sculptor completed the

Cristo del Otero, the

symbol of his birthplace

of Palencia, in 1931?

14 Which fencer, and

2017-18 minister of

sports, has won the

most Olympic medals of

any Frenchwoman?

15 Which constellation

is pictured?

Suko No 3004

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