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21.12.21

Word watch Sudoku Mild No 12,876 Difficult No 12,877 Super fiendish No 12,878
David Parfitt

Buskin
a A small open carriage
b A boot worn to make
an actor appear taller
c A penny whistle

Beadroll
a A game resembling
marbles
b A list of people for
whom prayers are to be
offered
c An aerobatic
manoeuvre

Cithara
a An ancient
mechanical calendar
b A lizard of New
Zealand
c A lyre-like instrument

Answers on page 11

The Times Quick Cryptic No 2031 by Tracy

Across

1 Letter from Greece written by

an old music producer (5)

4 Caretaker’s rent reduced on

New Year’s Day (7)

8 Large landed properties in

European countries (7)

9 All right to go in for every

game (5)

10 Far superior ways associated

with a school principal (7,5)

12 Definitely not included in

declaration of earnings (2,4)

13 Decree, one in Jordan judge

disregarded (6)

16 UK releases my suspect, a

political refugee (6,6)

18 Indicate fielding position (5)

20 Pinch milk (7)

21 Drank a rum after initially

taking pot (7)

22 Smart tyrant abroad getting

rid of leader of rebellion (5)

Down

1 Persons working keep going

(5,2)

2 An affair those compromised,

somehow or another (5,1,7)

3 Informed about article ahead

of social event (2,3,4)

4 Precisely in that way, I agree

(4,2)

5 Short sleep in between, a

priority (3)

6 Become less active in ancestral

home after shock (4,1,4,4)

7 Uncommon poison copper

overlooked (4)

11 Clown in RU team, second to

be dismissed (9)

14 Garden centre in northern

Surrey, refurbished (7)

15 Entertained, in the morning,

American editor (6)

17 Notice caps raised (4)

19 Drink with group of players no

end (3)

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Yesterday’s solution on page 11

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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 11

1 Who wrote the 1958
children’s book A Bear
Called Paddington?

2 The term “smog” was
coined by blending
which two words?

3 Great Britain, France
and Turkey fought the
Crimean War (1853-56)
against which empire?

4 Which port city in
Hampshire stands
on land between the
mouths of the rivers
Test and Itchen?

5 Which founder of
Singapore wrote the 1817
book The History of Java?

6 Named after a prison
in Kent, which type of
corrective institution
for young people was
introduced in 1902?

7 Medial tibial stress

syndrome is better

known by what

two-word name?

8 Which 1902 Georges

Méliès silent film

was designated the

first Unesco World

Heritage film?

9 Shark Tank star

Daymond John

co-founded which

hip-hop apparel

company in 1992?

10 Canadian author

Michael Ignatieff led

which political party

from 2008 to 2011?

11 Which British

feminist film theorist

wrote about the

“male gaze” in Visual

Pleasure and Narrative

Cinema (1975)?

12 The tone poem Blue

Cathedral (2000) was

written by which

American composer?

13 Which Polish-born

US social psychologist

(1923-2008) is best

known for developing

the mere-exposure

effect?

14 Pep Lijnders is the

assistant manager of

which Premier League

football club?

15 Which American

author is pictured?

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