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Word watch Sudoku Difficult No 12,783 Fiendish No 12,784 Super fiendish No 12,785

David Parfitt

Adytum
a The wing case of a
beetle
b A place in a temple
inaccessible to the laity
c An alloy of gold and
silver

Siddha
a A deep lascivious
laugh
b A person who has
attained perfection
c The leaves of the
lemon tree

Stroam
a White water created
by rough weather
b A narrow
mountainside gully
c To wander about idly

Answers on page 15

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Across

1 Runs from disagreement?

That’s a lie (7)

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second check for fingerprints?

(4)

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© PUZZLER MEDIA

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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 song in West
Side Story is named
after the lead female
character?

2 Slices of which fruit
are used to cover a
tarte Normande?

3 Thomas More’s
original name for which
fictional island was
“Nusquama”, Latin for
“no-place”?

4 Which 1977 Mike
Leigh play centres on
a drinks party for new
neighbours Angela
and Tony?

5 The 421BC Peace of
Nicias was a treaty
during which ancient
Greek war (431-404BC)?

6 Ashbourne,
Swadlincote, Bakewell

and Belper are towns

in which county?

7 The Wife of Willesden

is Zadie Smith’s new

translation of which

prologue by Geoffrey

Chaucer?

8 Actress Gayle Rankin

was the first Scot to

win a place at which

New York performing

arts school?

9 Played on TV by

Alexander Skarsgard,

Randall Flagg is a

villain in which 1978

Stephen King novel?

10 In 1979, Brian

Setzer, Lee Rocker and

Slim Jim Phantom

formed which US

rockabilly band?

11 Which 1951 Vittorio De

Sica film ends with the

characters flying into

the sky on broomsticks?

12 Which composer has

collaborated with Ken

Loach on 17 films,

starting with Ladybird

Ladybird (1994)?

13 Which game

franchise introduced

the jewel thief Rouge

the Bat in a 2001 Sega

platform game?

14 Jess Thirlby is the

current head coach of

which England team?

15 Which Labour Party

leader (1906-63) is

pictured?

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