26 The Sunday Times April 3, 2022PUZZLES
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Each row, column and 3x3 box
must contain the digits 1 to 9.
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1 Swimming attire is so out
of place in church (6)
5 A cooper dealt with
fellows, showing skill (6)
9 Sound by deer in road —
people here may be put
off (12, two words)
11 Lincoln? More than one
tree is seen across the far
side of it (5)
13 Students getting bishop in
knots (5)
14 Big circle in which soldier
entertains Queen and one
princess (8)
15 People in toilet wasting
time (4)
16 Disreputable house
needing to arrange
fencing (5)
17 Good part of church to the
west — see old Gospel (8)
22 Old traders providing
duke with swords (8)
24 Dig quietly before rain (5)
26 Tack to secure something
round, a tiny thing (4)
28 Hello! — publication with
anecdotes in a style of
writing (8)
29 They get hot cooked
courses maybe, but no
starter (5)
30 Wife in evil society — they
house prostitutes (5)
31 German veteran — this
hamlet’s organised to
accommodate fifty (12)
32 Reverse of thanks evident
in weird restaurant (6)
33 Flowering plants making
dearest endlessly
excited (6)
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Across
6 Seat with “stick-back”
design (7,5)
8 Legendary primate (4)
9 Ecstatic (8)
10 Defile (3)
11 Thwack (4)
13 Gushing (8)
14 Sneeze response (5,3)
16 Condition (4)
18 Clandestine (3)
19 About 1,200 cubic
metres (4-4)
20 Hind part (4)
22 Tax-free zone (5,7)
Down
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Each number in the main grid can be formed by adding or
multiplying a pair of numbers in the strip below the grid. Each
pair of numbers should be used twice: once as part of an
addition and once as part of a multiplication. For example, a 10
and 24 in the main grid may be solved by the sums, 4 + 6 and 4
x 6, respectively. Enter each sum in the boxes below its answer.
Any blanks in the strip must be deduced, bearing in mind the
numbers are listed in ascending order.
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NAME ...................................................................................
ADDRESS...................................................................................
21 Magnitude (4)Fanatical devotee (6) ...................................................................................
3 Unintelligible jargon (12)
4 Ankle and heel bones (6)
5 Ancient Roman official (8)
7 Supreme court judge (5,7)
8 Certainly (3)
12 Former junior Scouts (4,4)
15 Fluctuate (6)
16 Despot (6)
17 Plan (3)
21 Staff note (4)
POLYGON
From these letters, make
words of four or more letters,
always including the central
letter. Answers must be in the
Concise Oxford Dictionary,
excluding capitalised words,
plurals, conjugated verbs
(past tense etc), adverbs
ending in LY, comparatives
and superlatives.
How you rate
19 words, average; 26, good;
37, very good; 49, excellent.
Each row, column
and 3x3 box must
contain the digits
1 to 9. The digits
within each group
of cells joined by
dotted lines must
add up to the
figure in the top-
left-hand corner
of each group.
Within each
dotted-line group,
a digit cannot be
repeated.
50 252 33 80
300 37 110 52
51 57 32 301
156 14 231 49
TETONOR EASY
Don Manley
1 “ and wisdom are not opposing values” (Bill Clinton) (8)
5 Collection of stories with morals, including The Goose That
Laid the Golden Eggs (6,6)
13 Former boxer nicknamed The Dark Destroyer (5,4)
14 Apostle to whom a Gospel was traditionally attributed (7)
15 Proper conduct in Confucianism (3)
16 Italian recipient of the 1997 Nobel literature prize (5,2)
17 “Bores have succeeded to dragons, and I have shivered too
many s in vain ever to hope for their extirpation”
(Disraeli) (5)
18 Madagascan lemur; a nautical term showing compliance (3-3)
20 Vegetable called rutabaga in the US (5)
21 Holland and Belgium (3,3,9)
22 Goldsmith play first called The Mistakes of a Night (3,6,2,7)
26 The single-word anagram of DENOMINATE (10)
28 Australian-born photographer famed for her baby portraits
and calendars (4,6)
30 Belgian actor noted for his roles in martial arts and action
films (4-6,3,5)
34 Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death in 1984 (3,4,8)
36 Moon of Jupiter discovered from photographs taken by
Voyager 1 in 1979 (5)
37 “Taunts are not so sharp as ” (The Song of Hiawatha) (6)
38 Site of the tower mentioned in Genesis 11 (5)
39 Firearm intended to disperse crowds rather than cause
serious injury (4,3)
42 Pesticide banned in some countries since 1972 (3)
43 Cake soaked in alcoholic syrup, often served with cream (3,4)
44 Joints with flaring tenons
fitting into matching
mortises (9) (pictured)
45 Arrangement allowing
conflicting parties to coexist
peacefully (5,7)
46 Former state given nominal
independence by South Africa
in 1976, part of the Eastern
Cape province since 1994 (8)
Across SUKO
CELL BLOCKS
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.
1 Ecclesiastical council; astrological conjunction of planets (5)
2 Tennis player ranked world No 1 in singles for a record 237
consecutive weeks (5,7)
3 In maths, a equals zero when multiplied by itself (9)
4 1951 black and white sci-fi film starring Cesar Romero (3,4,9)
6 Bandleader (pictured, right) who popularised Latin
American music in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s (7,3)
7 Sponging off others (2,3,8)
8 Manhattan area between Houston Street and Canal Street (4)
9 Theme song for the former soap opera Howards’ Way (6,5)
10 A seducer of women in some 17th and 18th century plays (8)
11 Russian city on the Dnieper River, near the Belarus border (8)
12 The director of Brokeback Mountain (3,3)
19 The flows through New York (state), Pennsylvania and
Maryland (11,5)
20 Impressionist Alfred painted rural scenes around Paris (6)
23 The scapula (8,5)
24 19th-century professor of geology at Cambridge, who
established the Cambrian period from research in Wales (4,8)
25 Member of the sect associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls (6)
27 The 1521 declared Martin Luther to be an outlaw (4,2,5)
29 “Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a ”
(Ray Bradbury) (5,5)
31 EastEnders character played by June Brown, 1985-93 and
1987-2020 (3,6)
32 Egyptian construction project of the 1960s, completed with
assistance from Soviet Russia (5,3)
33 US English term meaning “allocated proportionately” (8)
35 “You shall not bob us out of
our : if you do, our
melancholy upon your head!”
(Troilus and Cressida) (6)
40 pear is an apple-shaped
variety native to eastern
Asia (5)
41 Historically, a band of Zulu
warriors (4)
Down
Divide the grid into square or
rectangular blocks, each
containing one digit only.
Every block must contain the
number of cells indicated by
the digit inside it.
2 Formidable female has
uniform in wash (9)
3 Return from work on river
punt (5)
4 Sweep with long flourish (7)
5 Stand to ease back
pressure (9,6)
6 3 that is second class (7)
7 I’m all about cutting grass,
being expertly trained (4-5)
8 Refuse to eat from a
plate? (5)
13 Cricket club’s glitzy
publication (9)
15 Outstanding details can
catch new detective (5,4)
17 Footballer, a hard man
whose passing saved us? (7)
18 Flavouring with
sandwiches makes
sense (7)
20 Start without a meal (5)
21 From an ancient area, as
oil may be (5)
Down
CROSSWORD 5001 Dean Mayer
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22 23
24 25
KENKEN
All the digits 1 to 6 must appear in every
row and column. In each thick-line
“block”, the target number in the top
left-hand corner is calculated from the
digits in all the cells in the block, using
the operation indicated by the symbol.
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1 Breaking down, how
come? (4,2)
5 Cabinet material got
promoted before court
date (8)
9 Robbery also tackled by
prison time (10)
10 Allowed to drink fine
port (4)
11 Being so unclear after
change? (14)
12 Pull on underwear or
footwear (6)
14 Rally behind figure left by
spymaster (8)
16 Love to approach sea like
Nelson? (3-5)
18 I’ll say that’s an Arabian
vessel (3,3)
19 One offering bids for coal
after breaking rocks (5.9)
22 Compact weapons sent
from the east (4)
23 Shot using one cycle
trail (10)
24 Most of porcelain pots
including hot toast (4-4)
25 European returning home
in hurry (6)
Across
Down
1 Informal party — a king’s
gone (got up, being very
old) (6)
2 “Lousy trains!” — let out a
snicker (5)
3 Nasty dig seen as
old-fashioned scorn (7)
4 Old artificer dressed in
green (7)
5 Rulers making one
horrified, no end (5)
6 Bent piece of equipment
turning up in base but
useless (5)
7 State penetrated by river
and sea (6)
8 Indonesian working on
site (6)
10 Over-regulator
disregarding fools is one
ultimately dismissed (9)
12 Being braver, eat nasty
rodent (9, two words)
18 Learner less considerate
and more aggressive? (7)
19 Sex symbols giving wrong
signal, taking maiden in (7)
20 Resist work and
attitudinise (6)
21 A comet’s somehow losing
energy as an orbiter (6)
23 Daisy’s place? Has sat on
the move (6)
25 Jock’s to appear in outfit
when meeting
ambassador (5)
26 Strong feeling of regret
around hospital (5)
27 Marble that is easy to deal
with (5)
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