The Times - UK (2022-01-26)

26.01.22

Word watch Sudoku Difficult No 12,959 Fiendish No 12,960 Super fiendish No 12,961

David Parfitt

Assuefaction
a Breaking down into
fatty solids
b The process of
becoming accustomed
c The presumption of a
proposition’s truth

Culet
a A flared pair of
trousers
b The face at the
bottom of a gem
c A covered drain
beneath a road

Paroemia
a A proverb
b An aquatic
microorganism
c The process of
thinning blood

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 2057 by Orpheus

Across

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European capital (9)

6 Expert identifying species of

flatfish (3)

8 Flexible individual initially

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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 Which Scottish queen
was beheaded in
Fotheringhay Castle
in 1587?

2 The UPC or universal
product code is a
ubiquitous type of what
method of encoding data?

3 Which type of aircraft
derives its name from
the Greek words for
“spiral” and “wing”?

4 Which woodwind
instrument without
keys shares its name
with a type of part-time
circuit judge?

5 Which Dutchman
painted Belshazzar’s
Feast (c 1635-38) and
The Mill (1645-48)?

6 The Canadian comedy
duo Terrance and

Phillip feature in which

US animated sitcom?

7 Pure Shores was a 2000

No 1 single for which

female vocal group?

8 Valongo Wharf is an

old dock located in the

port area of which

Brazilian city?

9 Which Edinburgh-

based newspaper was

set up in 1817 by

William Ritchie and

Charles Maclaren?

10 Who directed the

films A Zed & Two

Noughts (1985) and The

Belly of an Architect

(1987)?

11 The stewardess and

nurse Violet Jessop

survived the sinkings of

RMS Titanic and, in

1916, which sister ship?

12 The Great Salt Lake

in Utah is a remnant of

which much larger

prehistoric lake?

13 Which Chilean-born

Canadian composer

scored the Channel 4

show Utopia (2013-14)?

14 Which London

football club won the

European Cup Winners’

Cup in 1965?

15 Which 19th-century

king is pictured?

Suko No 3396

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