The Times - UK (2022-03-15)

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Word watch Sudoku Mild No 13,068 Difficult No 13,069 Super fiendish No 13,070
David Parfitt

Protospatharius
a An official in the
Byzantine imperial
guard
b A primitive
reproductive organ in
plants
c A small birdlike
dinosaur

Sooterkin
a A small barrel of ale
b A spurious kind of
birth
c A black cat

Autoclave
a A self-playing piano
b A vessel for chemical
reactions at high
pressures
c A hermit’s cell

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 2091 by Pedro

Across

1 Pub’s first of eight in

immediate area (6)

4 Bakery centrally getting

behind beginning to create a

bakery product (4)

9 Anger after second month

with a fever (7)

10 Reputation overwhelming

Liberal lover (5)

11 Royal honour is article given

to church in reverence (9)

12 Dismissed in contest, but not

bowled (3)

13 Wall decoration to stop

moving, we hear (6)

15 Elm, say, planted in stone in

part of city (6)

17 Cunning insect (3)

18 An irksome job importing

silver in Alaskan city (9)

21 Damage seen around most of

ancient tooth (5)

22 What should monarch have?

Excellent beer, on reflection (7)

23 Popular music sees female

abandoning dress (4)

24 Farm building, not fresh, with

black interior (6)

Down

1 Launch unfinished biography

with support of aristocrat (4-3)

2 Telegram: TAXI LEFT

HALFWAY THROUGH (5)

3 Not intervening — a variety

of sizes satisfactory in Dior

article (7-5)

5 Sailor, solitary, will find

shellfish (7)

6 Employ skilled person to

remove phosphorus (5)

7 Embargo involving English

vegetable (4)

8 Later addition making

contribution to rafter, though

temporary (12)

14 I’d year the reverse of cold and

ill — delightful (7)

16 Juvenile horse last in race after

support on course (7)

17 Father carrying flightless bird’s

bone (5)

19 What cow chews is about right

for dairy product (4)

20 Notice Liberal making off-the-

cuff remark (2-3)

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Yesterday’s solution on page 15

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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 15

1 The shores of Botany
Bay are ringed by the
suburbs of which city in
New South Wales?

2 According to the title
of a 1963 hit, Gene
Pitney was how many
hours from Tulsa?

3 After water, what is the
most widely consumed
drink in the world?

4 Variola is the
technical name for
which eradicated
disease?

5 William Arms Fisher
adapted the 1922 song
Goin’ Home from
which symphony by
Antonin Dvorak?

6 Which corps of
the British Army is
commonly known as

the “Sappers”?

7 Which 2000 play by

David Edgar is about the

life of a Nazi architect?

8 Which yellow flower

is the symbol of the

end-of-life care charity

Marie Curie?

9 Which two Labour

politicians became

prime minister without

having any ministerial

experience?

10 Which German

novelist wrote Cat and

Mouse, Dog Years and

The Rat?

11 Which 2004 film is

the highest-grossing

independent movie in

history?

12 Disproved by Louis

Pasteur, which theory

proposed that complex

organisms can be born

from nonliving matter,

such as water?

13 In March 1891, which

passenger steamship

collided with the

moored battleship

HMS Anson in the Bay

of Gibraltar?

14 The 2005 film The

Greatest Game Ever

Played is about which

golfer winning the 1913

US Open?

15 Which museum ship

is pictured?

Suko No 3437

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