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Word watch Sudoku Mild No 11,986 Fiendish No 11,987 Super fiendish No 11,

David Parfitt

Epanodos

a A screen in front of a
tabernacle
b Lamb-filled tacos

c A return to the main
theme

Gaskin

a The lower part of a
horse’s thigh
b A braggart

c A medium-sized barrel

Impundulu
a Undecided matters

b A gathering
c A mythical bird

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1753 by Izetti

Across

1 Energetic person, 50, with

strange view, and anger (4,4)

5 Still an apartment (4)

9 Author to progress repeatedly,

reaching end of novel (5)

10 Mother’s wise doctor (7)

11 Endless row — inconclusive

result (3)

12 Not 3, and struggling at night?

(2,3,4)

13 Sign off please when the leader

has departed (6)

15 Second turning point (6)

17 Awaiting divorce maybe as red

tape is sorted out (9)

19 Tiny bit of money person has

not got left (3)

20 Stop publicity being given to

competition? (7)

21 Go off to the match

unexpectedly? (5)

22 Lacking caution in endeavour

— a shame (4)

23 Theo with shakes becoming

incandescent (5-3)

Down

1 Ignition device in vessel (7)

2 Five having fever hard to pin

down (5)

3 Dim feller now surprisingly

knowledgeable (4-8)

4 Send clock, perhaps, up (5)

6 Ale splashing — a keg ruined

— because of this? (7)

7 Slightly adjust end of saw

penetrating wood (5)

8 50 per cent of satellites orbited

off course in region of Solar

System (8,4)

14 Excellent folk seen in Cork,

first to last (7)

16 Ordeal around first half of

autumn making one most

tense (7)

17 Wonderful agent, American,

turning up (5)

18 Little person — bit of a pain

after short time (5)

19 Opening hotel, displaying

sluggishness (5)

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Yesterday’s solution on page 15

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EVENING STANDARD/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 The adjective
“paediatric” relates
to the medical care

of whom?

2 All Saints’ Day, aka All
Hallows’ Day, falls on the

first of which month?

3 Which movie duo had

an excellent adventure
and a bogus journey
and, in their third film,
face the music?

4 Deadheads are fans
of which US band, “the

pioneering Godfathers
of the jam band world”?

5 Bill and Hillary

Clinton National
Airport serves which
US state capital?

6 In Monty Python’s
Philosophers’ Football
Match sketch, the

teams represent which

two countries?

7 Chef Joël Robuchon

claimed he owed

everything to his take

on pommes purée, aka

which dish?

8 Which Stuart king’s

many mistresses included

Hortense Mancini, Moll

Davis and Winifred Wells?

9 Which animals

are thought to have

been domesticated in

southwest Asia about

10,000 years ago and

in Egypt about 3,

years ago?

10 Which English

supermodel is the

subject of Stella Vine’s

2005 painting Holy Water

Cannot Help You Now?

11 The Bass brewery

was founded in 1777

by William Bass in

which Staffordshire

market town?

12 Verona Rupes, the

tallest known cliff in

the solar system, is on

which moon of Uranus?

13 Co-founded by

Jensen Huang, which

US company launched

the GeForce 256 as

the world’s first GPU

(graphics processing

unit) in 1999?

14 The actor Jason

Statham represented

England at the 1990

Commonwealth Games

in which sport?

15 Which Israeli prime

minister is pictured?

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