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Word watch Sudoku Difficult No 12,943 Fiendish No 12,944 Super fiendish No 12,945
David Parfitt

Locutory
a Related to one’s sense
of place
b Kitsch or twee items
c A room for conversation
in a monastery

Bethel
a A nut chewed for its
stimulant properties
b A surface that meets
another at an angle
c A seaman’s chapel

Clavis
a The song thrush
b A clue or aid for
solving problems
c An early harpsichord

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 2052 by Joker

Across

1 Note current clergyman is a

member of the board (8)

5 One bird inhabiting swamps,

primarily (4)

8 Foreigner wanting more rum?

(8)

9 A thousand fish in bottom of

boat (4)

11 Ointment line displayed in

store (5)

12 Where bishop is to supervise

(7)

13 Unimportant point in dock,

perhaps (6)

15 Girl Ed’s flying around in plane

(6)

18 Plane, perhaps is outstanding

waverider? (7)

19 Coach twenty regularly, or a

somewhat smaller group (5)

21 Support freshwater fish out of

river (4)

22 Be dreamily infatuated about a

vehicle in light biscuit (8)

23 What follows ninth cut in

canvas cover (4)

24 Move to live elsewhere — it’s

concerning Yorkshire town (8)

Down

1 Unemployed stopped living

around southern United States

(7)

2 In the country, right on river in

Russia (5)

3 Unfortunately not angelic,

that’s been the case since birth

(10)

4 Old fool shutting in European

wild cat (6)

6 Highly favoured? Not so much

when retired, possibly (7)

7 Unravel clue — only when

verb’s included (5)

10 Reissue shares in existing

station (10)

14 Queen travelling by rail in

country (7)

16 Reunite scattered staff (7)

17 The French entrance Papal

ambassador (6)

18 Boast about French footwear

(5)

20 Resistance interrupting

attempt to sell fish (5)

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Yesterday’s solution on page 15

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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 A doubloon was a
Spanish coin made of
what metal?

2 Which toilet-cleaner
brand is named after
the sanitary engineer
Harry Pickup?

3 Which US writer’s
1982 collection
Different Seasons
includes the novella Rita
Hayworth and Shawshank
Redemption?

4 The Spanish musician
Andrés Segovia was a
virtuoso on which
instrument?

5 “Edchup” is a Heinz
Tomato Ketchup
named after which
English musician?

6 In 1940, RV Shepherd
and HJ Turpin designed

which light sub-machine

gun?

7 Founded in 2015, B

Capital Group is the

venture capital firm of

which Brazilian-born

Facebook co-founder?

8 Which eccentric cat

artist is played by

Benedict Cumberbatch

in a 2021 film?

9 Which Canadian

author wrote about

“disaster capitalism” in

her 2007 book The

Shock Doctrine?

10 Which Welsh rock

band’s 1983 single Sixty

Eight Guns appears on

their album Declaration?

11 In Seinfeld, which

fiancée of George

Costanza died from

licking toxic wedding-

invitation envelopes?

12 “We buried him

darkly at dead of

night” is a line from

which 1817 poem by

Charles Wolfe?

13 The robotic mad

scientist Dr Nefarious

is the primary

antagonist of which

video game series?

14 Which US

heavyweight boxer

died in 1970, only five

years after his last

world title fight?

15 Which novelist,

born in Canada in 1967,

is pictured?

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