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Word watch Sudoku Mild No 12,786 Fiendish No 12,787 Super fiendish No 12,788

David Parfitt

Repand
a Having a wavy margin
b An arithmetical
remainder
c To mend or replace a
protective covering

Vicinal
a Grapelike
b Pertaining to one’s
neighbours
c A deputy or understudy

Ghat
a Stairs leading down to
a river
b A narrow-jawed
crocodile
c An exclamation
indicating approval

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 2003 by Tracy

Across

1 Grey coat, out of place in class

(8)

5 Having little or no rain in

Kalahari Desert (4)

9 Philanthropic scientist in

Brazil’s capital during

Christmas (5)

10 Mixture of mostly tropical fruit

(7)

11 Sheep in wood, by the sound

of it (3)

12 Exercised control, with name

for duke proposed (9)

13 Put on leg pad, ultimately (6)

15 Lift boy picked up (6)

17 Has girl confused about an

imaginary paradise (7-2)

19 Daughter must leave expensive

organ (3)

20 A bitter drunk — it may go to

cardinal’s head (7)

21 Supporter with two sons gives

money (5)

22 Peculiar piano seat (4)

23 In excellent health all right

(4,4)

Down

1 Becomes the winner,

reportedly, in children’s game

(7)

2 Story involving British item of

furniture (5)

3 Health’s going, suffering in

disputed ME territory (5,7)

4 Royal domain in actual miles

(5)

6 Article misrepresented

performance (7)

7 Went out, being no longer

fashionable (5)

8 Head pupil at Eton, say, may

get a pantomime role (9,3)

14 What can make salt last? (7)

16 Soldier, in consequence, left

umbrella (7)

17 Frightful bores, sedate and

rational (5)

18 Furious, judge after one (5)

19 Delete part of chapter, as

expected (5)

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Yesterday’s solution on page 15

© PUZZLER MEDIA

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STEVEN MAY/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 Schott Perfecto
is a leather motorcycle
type of which garment?

2 Which term for a
car derives from the
Greek for “self” and
Latin for “movable”?

3 Which graffiti artist
created the street art
print I Fought the Law
in 2004?

4 Lyrical Ballads (1798)
was written by Samuel
Taylor Coleridge and
which other Lake poet?

5 In 2019, which
Snow Patrol song was
named the UK radio’s
most-played song of the
21st century?

6 Since 1933, Spaso
House in Moscow’s Arbat
district has been the

residence of officials in

what diplomatic role?

7 Terence Rattigan’s

Ross (1960) is a

biographical play about

which war hero and his

time in the RAF?

8 Who was the leader of

the Scottish Conservative

Party from 2011 to 2019?

9 Referring to a literary

device, the term “retcon”

is a blend of “retroactive”

and which word?

10 Which former

Staffordshire textile town

is known as “the Queen

of the Moorlands”?

11 Which former Pop

Will Eat Itself frontman

scored the Darren

Aronofsky films Pi and

Requiem for a Dream?

12 Which British

luxury fashion house

launched the online

game B Bounce?

13 Which Dutch

seaside town hosts the

prestigious Tata Steel

Chess Tournament?

14 Colombia, Denmark,

Egypt, Estonia, Great

Britain and the

Philippines won their

first Olympic golds in

which sport?

15 Which Booker

prizewinner is pictured?

Suko No 3331

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