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Word watch Sudoku Easy No 11,961 Difficult No 11,962 Fiendish No 11,

David Parfitt

Kajawah

a An island in a shallow
lake
b A bejewelled headdress

c A pannier bag for a
camel

Nympholepsy

a Extreme vanity
b Violent emotion
caused by wanting

something unobtainable
c An interruption in an
insect’s life cycle

Rusma
a A Turkish hair-
removing fluid

b A grammatical
contradiction
c Particles of corroded
metal

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1745 by Wurm

Across

1 Applaud catch that’s rubbish?

(8)

6 New beer knocked back in

style (4)

8 Shakespeare nasty about

Romeo (4)

9 First course study with French

department (8)

10 Carer she misled in fact-

finding (8)

12 Comprehensive with no spare

places? (4)

13 Benefit sheltering theologian

in breeze (6)

16 Write critical assessment on

Panorama? (6)

17 Small vehicle showing damage

(4)

18 Bumpkin holding hearts in

game (8)

21 Tea bag so explosively causes

destruction (8)

22 The setter’s rich source (4)

23 Supreme creator gets racket on

ball (4)

24 Race generating more than

local interest? (8)

Down

2 Rental contract to satisfy

without pressure at first (5)

3 Shell in Aleppo detonates (3)

4 Fast driver expert in Rolls-

Royce (5)

5 Leopard one breathless

catching horse? (7)

6 Game is on TV — fee to be

arranged (4,5)

7 Animal savaged Edinburgh’s

foremost author (1,1,5)

11 Bedcover has colour that is

turning blue (9)

14 Where one grows fruit or

vegetable (7)

15 Describe partner that was

unattractive (7)

19 Personage finally opening

show? (5)

20 Assassin hiding in town in

Japan (5)

22 Low feeling daughter ignored

(3)

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Friday’s solution on page 15

© PUZZLER MEDIA

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MUSTAFA ABUMUNES/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

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 Sylvester
Stallone movie
character is nicknamed

“The Italian Stallion”?

2 Selenology is the
scientific study of what

celestial body?

3 In 2016, who stepped

down after 13 years as
the host of the TV
show QI?

4 Paramaribo is the
capital of which South
American country?

5 In 1927, which
Turkish leader
delivered a 36-hour

speech, known as the
“Nutuk”, about Turkey’s
1919-23 history?

6 Which Asian
country’s Songbun
system divides the

population into the

“core”, the “wavering”

and the “hostile”?

7 In 1979, Air New

Zealand Flight 901 flew

into which active

volcano on Ross Island,

Antarctica?

8 Cleopatra supposedly

won a bet by drinking a

cup of vinegar containing

a dissolved what?

9 Stanley Myers’s 1970

classical guitar piece

Cavatina was used as the

theme for which

Vietnam War film?

10 Per capita, which

Nordic country drinks the

most coffee in the world?

11 Which alternate

name for a hex key

comes from a hand

tool brand from

Hartford, Connecticut?

12 Led by Hasdrubal

Barca, a Carthaginian

invasion of Italy was

thwarted at which June

207BC battle?

13 Which pioneering

physical educator (1875-

1957) in the French

military developed a

training system called la

méthode naturelle?

14 Winston Smith,

nicknamed “Jeeves”, is

the butler of which

video game heroine?

15 Who is the pictured

British sprinter?

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