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02.12.

Word watch Sudoku Difficult No 11,999 Fiendish No 12,000 Super fiendish No 12,

David Parfitt

Ortanique

a A hybrid fruit
b A glass case for herbs
c An artistic method

using near-dry paint

Sarcous
a Acidic

b Ironic
c Muscular

Trade-last
a A compliment
proffered in return for
another

b The final day of the
tax year
c A shoe-shaped bracket

on a ship

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1757 by Jalna

Across

8 Where Joan of Arc died is in

question (2,5)

9 Japanese cartoon featuring in

seminars from the east (5)

10 Vet tailed by vehicle is cut up

(5)

11 Various different means of

being delivered (7)

12 Slump, depressed, next to item

in playground (9)

14 Very soft bread dipped in

gravy? (3)

16 It’s painful parking after fitness

centre closes early (3)

18 Biography of Fry mixed up

with Eliot’s (4,5)

21 Sailor originally rowed into

state by river (7)

22 North American company

importing hot food from

Mexico (5)

23 Charlie smuggled by decoy for

ill-gotten gains (5)

24 When shattered, I forgot to

strive for success (2,3,2)

Down

1 A boxer good at putting up a

guard? (8)

2 Bond needed in companies’

crowdfunding (6)

3 Fast runner — he holds a

record at first (4)

4 Karate instructor is seen

getting beaten up (6)

5 Salvage works outside small

desert city (3,5)

6 Intolerant people try to get

involved in scraps (6)

7 Sport: tired, endlessly (4)

13 Crooner pens a line for an

American author (8)

15 Work on the top of a bottle to

get port (8)

17 Crime of passion is initially

risqué (6)

19 A long time mostly producing

fodder (6)

20 Awards zero marks (6)

21 Whisky and mead oddly left at

the end of banquet (4)

22 In the first instance, niceties

usually feel fairly sufficient (4)

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Yesterday’s solution on page 15

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ALAMY

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 title of the 1980
song Stand Down
Margaret by the Beat

refers to which woman?

2 In 2005, which
former physical

chemist took office as
German chancellor?

3 Emma Corrin plays
which princess in
the fourth season of
The Crown?

4 The brachialis is a
muscle in which part

of the upper body?

5 Which American is
currently the world’s

richest man, with an
estimated net worth
of $182 billion?

6 A mastaba is a
type of ancient
Egyptian what?

7 Which 1968 Richard

Hooker novel, set during

the Korean War, is

subtitled A Novel About

Three Army Doctors?

8 The narrator in which

1972 song by the Eagles

mentions that he is

“standing on a corner in

Winslow, Arizona”?

9 Which mythical

bird of huge size

features in the

adventures of Sinbad

the Sailor?

10 Which two letters

indicate that the

cognac in the bottle

has been aged at least

six years?

11 Assassinated in 1960,

the sisters Patria,

Minerva and María

Teresa Mirabal were

activists who opposed

which president?

12 Dead Marilyn is

a 2008 painting by

which South African-

born artist?

13 Which Scottish

geologist imagined

how species will

evolve after humans

go extinct in the 1981

book After Man?

14 Poacher the Imp is

the mascot of which

football club?

15 Which “classic

family anagrams game”

is pictured?

Suko No 3036

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