The Times - UK (2020-11-26)

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1 Dreadful chaos, mostly — very? (5)

4 Winter landscape feature melting

down first? ( 9 )

9 Chased by colonist, consider

looking back ( 9 )

10 All I give in return for watch? Not

all ( 5 )

11 Fruit ice with wrong coatings

removed (6)

12 Part of train bearing Victoria or

Gladstone, say (8)

14 Stop going on, as one may if boot’s

too big? (3,1,4,2,2)

17 Stubborn dope stopping on the way

( 12 )

20 Backsliding secretary disheartened

by job in support group (8)

21 Amount of liquid consumed’s

endless, everyone being drunk (6)

23 Asian language, second on distant

island ( 5 )

24 Modern images from one book

backed by right-wingers ( 9 )

25 Opposing players step round

vacated tee, as requested ( 9 )

26 It’s fine after love in New York ( 5 )

1 Printed output from PC grabbed by

writer (4,4)

2 Idle surgeon worried nurses for

instance ( 8 )

3 Health precaution a rare

condition’s brought about? (6,9)

4 Expelled for minor disagreement

( 4 )

5 Public prepared to wait for case

that’s not admitted ( 10 )

6 Branching out, this writer had

taken up poetry ( 15 )

7 Dressed, ready to drive off? (2,4)

8 £50 in bank that navigator gets

hold of (6)

13 Record of two sides getting under

twenty? (10)

15 Loaded spring not yet set in motion

(4-2-2)

16 Waits in the wings for champions

(6,2)

18 Rabbit food regularly impressed ( 6 )

19 Investigator going up first round

Olympic site (6)

22 Enterprising bachelor getting on

( 4 )

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2GM Thursday November 26 2020 | the times

Sp ort

In the hands

of God

Diego Maradona

1960 - 2020

Clive Petty

Special tribute

Pages 70-73

Maradona celebrates

beating West Germany in

the 1986 World Cup final

Diego Maradona, regarded by

many as the greatest footballer of

all time, died yesterday only a few

weeks after his 60th birthday.

The playmaker, who almost

single-handedly won the 1986

World Cup for Argentina, led

them to the final again four years

later and was the national team

coach in South Africa in 2010.

Argentina was plunged into

mourning over one of the greatest

and most controversial sports stars

of all time. It was reported that

Maradona had suffered a fatal

heart attack at his home. He was

thought to have been making a

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