The Times - UK (2022-04-05)

05 .04.22

Word watch Sudoku Mild No 13,116 Difficult No 13,117 Super fiendish No 13,118
David Parfitt

Yellowback
a A cheap sensational
novel
b A finch of northern
Australia
c A US $10 banknote

Spagyric
a Using water as a
massage therapy
b Pertaining to alchemy
c A poem of praise

Grig
a A lively person
b An open carriage for
one passenger
c The horsefly

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 2106 by Joker

Across

1 Second-hand American

edition (4)

4 Spot old feline is trapped by a

big one (8)

8 Year’s plan is clear and

organised (8)

9 Cab’s losing time as something

running through wheel (4)

10 Half the alphabet? This was

split some time ago (4)

11 Smashing beginning to

Cheltenham racing (8)

12 A short distance from

Winchester (6)

14 Dog we left to run back for

bird (6)

16 Show mercy to viper coiled in

tree, heading off (8)

18 Don’t hit silly young girl (4)

19 Swelling troubling your eyelid,

primarily (4)

20 Bidding not working with

European cartel (8)

22 God being shown around the

temple (8)

23 Row when stopwatch loses

minutes? (4)

Down

2 Small component and mostly

simple (7)

3 Trance from taking ecstasy in

a shot of whisky? (5)

4 Swimming pool disposing of

old cover (3)

5 Relative supporting

estate, say, with billions for

architectural eyesore (9)

6 Could this one have every

individual in term losing

marks? (7)

7 Constellation — or moon of

Jupiter given name? (5)

11 So cereals must be mixed in

dish (9)

13 Gathering of crops is most

tough with little volume

brought in for days (7)

15 Intrinsic quality of German

city church (7)

17 Added text rarely shows (5)

18 Warrant queen held in hand

— not the last (5)

21 Football Association gets new

supporter (3)

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10 11

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Yesterday’s solution on page 15

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HAIZHAN ZHENG/GETTY IMAGES

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 reference work
describes itself as “the
definitive record of the
English language”?

2 Photosynthesis in
green plants generates
which gaseous element
as a byproduct?

3 Screaming Lord Sutch
and Howling Laud
Hope formed which
political party in 1982?

4 The core of a globe
artichoke shares its name
with which human organ?

5 A heroic figure in 1
Samuel, Jonathan was
the eldest son of which
king of Israel?

6 John Graham Mellor
was the real name of
which frontman and
lyricist of the Clash?

7 The opening line of

Rudyard Kipling’s poem

If mentions which part

of the body?

8 What did Samuel

Johnson describe as

“The triumph of hope

over experience”?

9 Formally dissolved in

2010, what was the QCA?

10 Secret Friends

(1991) was the only

feature film to be

written and directed

by which British

television dramatist?

11 What is the common

name of Stenella

longirostris, the

“skilled acrobats of the

dolphin-world”?

12 Which Jamaican-

American artist

re-enacted a Leonardo da

Vinci mural in Yo Mama’s

Last Supper (1996)?

13 Iris Murdoch said: “A

bad review is even less

important than whether

it is raining in ...” where?

14 In 2020, the Stadio

San Paolo in Naples was

renamed after which

Argentine footballer?

15 The pictured Saints

Peter and Paul Church is

in which US city’s North

Beach neighbourhood?

Suko No 3455

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