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1 English poet not going as far as

Burns? (8)

6 They could be out with rep (6)

9 Forecast return of European

unspoken composition for voice

or piano (13)

10 Knife worn with tips reversed (6)

11 Top soldier in anti-aircraft defence

(8)

13 Dashing jet-black hue, less hot for

navy man (10)

15 Identical twin’s a meanie,

somewhat (4)

16 Returning birds, a thousand lost,

are blown across the sky (4)

18 Job equality corporation provides

on maternity leave? (10)

21 Layabout’s habitual route round

cemetery? (8)

22 Motorcyclist maintaining

maximum speed is to go on (6)

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23 Wow supporter of Israel but not

unknown painter (13)

25 Spirit yielding name to current

age, ... (6)

26 ... one such near decade’s end

curtailed grand desire (8)

Down

2 Royal Academy help a struggling

artist (7)

3 Misguided man has to rove about

in baffled wonder (5-6)

4 Successful competitor missing

wide part of target (5)

5 Breathing aid genetically

modified, when inserted on

request (3,4)

6 Both sons leave the thing here

without pause, having no mop!

(4,2,3)

7 Essentials for reproduction:

volume in old amp (3)

8 Umpire misrepresented maiden’s

great worth (7)

12 Leaderless rabbles start off the

disturbance in bar (11)

14 Get software run with what

purpose? (9)

17 Crack squad almost on top of

immorality (7)

19 To meet, for example, it’s fine

inside (7)

20 Last from menu to make more

presentable still on the plate? (7)

22 A place’s living occupants, born

with very little (5)

24 Letter from Web access company

being set up (3)

Times Crossword No 28,164

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opened on Thursday. Enter by post to: Times Crossword No 28,164, PO Box 2164, Colchester, Essex
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Times Crossword No 28,164

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.

Solution MindGames in Saturday Review

Suko No 3363

Quiz answers 1 The Nile. 2 Idi Amin.

3 Bobby Shafto. 4 George Cross.

5 Carbon dioxide. 6 Snakes. 7 David

Livingstone. 8 Max Wall. 9 Kenneth

More. 10 Antibiotics. 11 Battle of

Towton. 12 Michael Lewis. 13 Brad

Pitt. 14 Arms and the Man. 15 Odessa.

16 Kindred Spirits. 17 Julia Wolfe.

18 Calcutta Cup. 19 Sergey Bubka.

20 Tapir.

Quintagram answers 1 Grand

2 Mother 3 Nature 4 Reserve

5 Currency.

The Cairo islands of Gezira and

Roda are located on which river?

Which African dictator is played
by Forest Whitaker in the 2006
film The Last King of Scotland?

In a nursery rhyme, which
character has “gone to sea/ Silver
buckles at his knee”?

Which “cross” is the highest award
for heroism that can be awarded
to civilians?

Carbonic acid is the hydrated form

of which gas?

Ophiophagous animals feed on

which reptiles?

In his 1857 book Missionary
Travels, which Scottish explorer
describes discovering Mosi-oa-Tunya
now known as Victoria Falls?

What was the stage name of
the English comedian Maxwell
George Lorimer (1908-90)?

Who played the pilot Douglas
Bader in the 1956 film Reach for
the Sky?

The beta-lactam family of what
broad type of drug includes
amoxicillin and methicillin?

In 1461, which battle was fought
on Palm Sunday, about ten miles
southwest of York?

Which American financial
journalist wrote the books
Liar’s Poker, The Blind Side and
The Big Short?

Who guest starred
as the commodities
broker Will Colbert in the 2001

Which Ukrainian athlete broke

the indoor and outdoor world

records a combined 35 times in the

men’s pole vault?

The South American or

Brazilian species of which

mammal is pictured?

Thanksgiving episode of Friends?

Oscar Straus’s operetta

The Chocolate Soldier was

based on which play by George

Bernard Shaw?

In which Ukrainian city has a

statue of Vladimir Lenin been

transformed into Darth Vader?

Thomas Cole stands with

William Cullen Bryant on

a rocky outcrop in which 1849

painting by Asher Durand?

Which US composer won the

2015 Pulitzer prize for music for

her oratorio Anthracite Fields?

In 1879, the national rugby sides

of England and Scotland first

competed for which trophy?

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Clues, which may

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mildly cryptic,

always lead to

answers in Latin

Across

1 Nos ad cenam ____, they have us

over for dinner (8)

5 Donans, ministrans, praebens (4)

9 Non heri, non cras, sed ____ (5)

10 ____ me vitae meae, I was sick of it

all, Eccl. 2.17 (7)

11 Copper; ____ alienum, someone

else’s cash, so a debt (3)

12 He looks out for, longs for and

anticipates (9)

13 She was standing up and upright

(6)

15 He gives me the proper heebie-

jeebies (6)

17 Torchbearing (fem. nom. sing.);

Ceres est ____ dea (9)

19 The lower atmostphere, one down

from the aether (3)

20 Civis qui in Urbe habitat (7)

21 For the witness (5)

22 With a penny; haeres ex ____, the

sole inheritor (4)

23 Entwined and tied, including in

close combat, vide eg ____ acies,

Tacitus, Ann. 6.35 (8)

Down

1 Gaping and eagerly gazing, ut Mars

in Venerem, DRN 1.36 (7)

2 In the shallows or (poet.) in the

depths, vide Epod. 16.26 (5)

3 They make tremble, ut dei caelum

nutu (12)

4 Born a son (5)

6 Homines pane, agnelli gramine

____; they’re fed and nourished (7)

7 He’s right parched, he could do

with a cuppa (5)

8 Extremely stylish and fine (c. nom.

and acc. pl. adj.) (12)

14 Let’s approach and undertake (7)

16 Frightened and alarmed (fem. nom.

sing.) (7)

17 Backs; hostes ____ verterunt, the

enemy legged it (5)

18 I stand forth and am prominent (5)

19 Avis qui ova aurea efferebat (5)

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