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Word watch Sudoku Easy No 11,945 Difficult No 11,946 Fiendish No 11,

David Parfitt

Seston

a Organic particles in
water
b An inscribed standing

stone
c A church warden

Volplane

a An undesirable street
b To glide
c A tree with mottled

bark

Regmaker
a An archive worker

b A hangover cure
c An engine part

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1740 by Oink

Across

1 Some feared capricious

military cop (6)

4 Records entitlements of the

Speaker (6)

8 Bet your eyelashes can do this!

(7)

10 Have fun in small place like

Dover? (5)

11 Doctor loves crack (5)

12 Friend in Paris, clever and

cheerful (7)

13 Reader put off leaving (9)

17 A group working in desert (7)

19 Eliminate king in peace (5)

20 Reportedly the most important

US state (5)

21 Festival given name from

China? (7)

22 Goods in river an annoyance

(6)

23 Conservative failure is not so

far away (6)

Down

1 Say no to waste! (6)

2 Handing cards out twice?

That’s cheating (6-7)

3 An idiot in Belgian port (7)

5 Dish served in bistro’s tinned!

(5)

6 Maturer blokes somehow

becoming rabble-rousers (13)

7 Dolly, an artist’s model (6)

9 Change in bottom line (9)

14 Help in the kitchen? Cook let

us in (7)

15 Nag mom to make something

to eat (6)

16 Small amount earned from

singer, I hear (6)

18 Live with wife in valley (5)

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Friday’s solution on page 15

© PUZZLER MEDIA

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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 Argentine marines
seized the British-
controlled South

Georgia island at the
start of which conflict?

2 The term “rhinal”

relates to which part of
the face?

3 A mihrab is a niche
in a mosque’s qibla wall
indicating the direction
of which city?

4 Bessie Blount, Madge
Shelton and Mary

Boleyn were mistresses
of which king?

5 The name of which

Disney movie title
character is slang for
a “born-again, middle-

aged biker”?

6 The groundnut,
goober, pinder and

monkey nut are alternate

names for which “nut”?

7 Which river flows

through Turin,

Piacenza, Cremona and

Ferrara before emptying

into the Adriatic?

8 Which British-French

author of Cautionary

Tales for Children was

Liberal MP for Salford

South (1906-10)?

9 The only Wisconsin-

born cast member,

Kurtwood Smith

played Red Forman,

father of Eric, in which

US sitcom?

10 The trishula is a

trident wielded by

which Hindu god?

11 Known for its Big

Bang collection, which

Swiss luxury watch

brand was founded in

1980 by Carlo Crocco?

12 Which Frenchman

won the 2018 Prix

Goncourt for his

deindustrialisation

novel, And Their

Children After Them?

13 Anya Taylor-Joy

plays a prodigy in

which game in the 2020

Netflix miniseries The

Queen’s Gambit?

14 Also known as Dods,

the amateur sport of

death diving holds its

world championships in

which country?

15 Recently sentenced

to community service

for tax evasion, which

Israeli model is pictured?

Suko No 3016

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