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03.12.

Word watch Sudoku Mild No 12,002 Fiendish No 12,003 Super fiendish No 12,

David Parfitt

Vanitas

a A short-lived political
party
b Spanish fried meatballs

c An artwork acting as a
memento mori

Wuther

a To blow forcefully
with a roaring sound
b To tower precipitously

c To overwhelm with awe

Afflatus
a The absence of wind

when sailing
b Divine inspiration
c Intestinal bloating

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1758 by Teazel

Across

1 Calmer, therefore different (7)

5 Miserable sounding, what the

wind did (4)

7 Friend regularly looking

embarrassed (3)

8 Records go — in weaving this?

(8)

10 Body temperature, roughly (5)

11 Fixed small issue finally:

healthy again (7)

13 Have a holiday, and leave me

alone (2,4)

15 Crossing major road, eye

problem is a frustration (6)

17 Company splashing money

around, not practising this (7)

18 Allow a daughter to join US

college (5)

20 Fellow goes out with

instructions (8)

22 Only half rate this beast (3)

23 Marathon record broken by

Briton at last (4)

24 Disgracefully dismiss money:

that is, rupees (7)

Down

1 Start siege, developing plans

(10)

2 Instruct British to avoid

frontier (5)

3 One cooking in jacket, tricky

problem (3,6)

4 Engineers finished meal (6)

5 Vehicle endlessly crowded? (3)

6 Part of hearing involves a

murder (7)

9 Man with a message tries out

short part of speech first (10)

12 Purging of emotions has racist

converted (9)

14 A noisy short party offering

fruit (7)

16 Spiritual seeker uses my wand

no end (6)

19 One wound up in US resort (5)

21 Starts to delve into ground,

doing this (3)

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Yesterday’s solution on page 15

© PUZZLER MEDIA

15

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 Which child of the
Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, their eldest,

was born in 2013?

2 Which prime
minister was killed

by two of her own
bodyguards on
October 31, 1984?

3 Chopin Airport is
located in the Wlochy
district of which

capital city?

4 Which TV personality

(1939-2013) used the
signature greeting:
“Hello, good evening
and welcome”?

5 Pictures of Burt
Bacharach and the

footballer Rodney
Marsh feature on the
cover of which Oasis
album, their debut?

6 Which Star Trek

character will be born

on March 22, 2233 in

Riverside, Iowa?

7 Which Turner

prizewinning British

director created the

anthology film series

Small Axe?

8 Which Nestlé-owned

chocolate bar’s name

echoes a Japanese phrase

that roughly translates

as “surely win”?

9 Centring on northeast

England shipbuilders,

The Last Ship (2014) is

which English musician’s

first stage musical?

10 The name of which

prominent Munro near

Crianlarich village,

Perthshire, means

“Big Hill”?

11 In 1950, the Polish

virologist Hilary

Koprowski demonstrated

the world’s first

effective oral vaccine for

which disease?

12 Which Bosnian-

German author won the

2019 German Book prize

for Herkunft (“Origin”)?

13 “Garden Gate”

is a bingo call for

which number?

14 Who scored the

winning drop-goal in

the 2003 Rugby World

Cup final?

15 Considered Burma’s

national dish, which

soup is pictured?

Suko No 3037

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