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• The Guardian Sat urday 30 Apr il 2022

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Chris Maslanka’s puzzles

Pyrgic puzzles

1 When I saw Pedanticus’s face I thought he

had perhaps heard our Speaker speaking of a

“badger of honour”. But no. Two phrases had

particularly irked him: “the enormity of the

task”; and “a fulsome life”. What was wrong

with them?

2 Andy was wrestling with two questions.

The fi rst was set to give him more facility with

surds:

a) Simplify: 1/(√(3 + √8)).

And

b) Is a3 – 3abc + b3 + c3 divisible without

remainder by a + b + c?

How to begin? Luckily, Candy was there to

give him a push in the right direction. What

did she suggest?

3 Garabaggio’s latest work Zero

Incompletely Grasped, currently on show in

Rogues’ Gallery

on Poppycock

Terrace, consists

of (and I quote

the catalogue)

“A circle; a chord

and a tangent,

both produced, meeting outside the circle.”

Great Art it ain’t. But bad Art oft makes good

Geometry. When do a chord produced and

tangent not meet outside a circle? How are

the lengths AT, BT and CT related? And the

lengths AB, BT and CT?

4 Seymour Stars’ glasses are such that a

book held at 40cm away are perfectly in

focus for him. Roughly how far should his eye

be away from his plane shaving mirror?

5 “The letter e appears — times in this

sentence.” Replace the dash by a word that

renders the sentence true.

email: [email protected]

Killer sudoku

Easy

Codeword

Solution No. 28,744

WLRAPACP

HO I POL LO I SHAKE

OMSANINN

APPLE SUNTANNED

IWKA I

MADEIRA CRUMB LE

RNLPAN

BAKED PIE SPLIT

IIOH I E

GANGWAY SIDEBAR

GSEEA

COLUMNI ST DANES

AE I CTOAE

KRAAL AL LOWANCE

ERKLENAD

Medium

Cryptic crossword

Wordplay

Wordpool

In each case fi nd the correct defi nition:

TEFILLIN

a) leather boxes containing scrolls and fi tted

with straps for binding to one’s body

b) drug derived from yew tree

c) early form of Tefl on

d) wedding fee

OCCAMY

a) theoretical oversimplifi cation failing to

capture the essence of a physical system

b) miserliness

c) broth of leftovers

d) alloy simulating gold or silver

PAYOT

a) French motorway charge

b) sideburns of Orthodox Jews

c) medieval poll tax

d) pay-as-you-throw scheme

E pluribus

Rearrange the letters of AVIATOR PRINCE to

make a single word.

Dropouts

Replace each asterisk with a letter to make

a word:

I*D*L*E

End of the word

Identify the word from its ending:

***IRY

Cryptic

Scooter loses a wheel – duck! (6)

Astronomer’s best student? (4, 5)

Sleepy after crushing the garlic? (9)

Missing Links

Find a word that follows the fi rst word in the

clue and precedes the second, in each case

making a fresh word or phrase. Eg the answer

to fi sh mix could be cake (fi shcake & cake

mix) and to bat man it could be he (bathe &

he-man)...

a) rent rate b) pig list

c) chicken back d) cheap board

e) comic coat f) car west

©CMM 2022. Solutions on Page 66

Guardian cryptic crosswordNo 28,745 set by Paul

Down

1 Remarkable point (10)

2 See 21 across

3 Arctic land tax (6)

4,24 Danger! Initially vicious,

aggressive chihuahua’s turned

up? (4,5)

5 See 25

6 Look to fi le request for painter

and decorator? (5,3)

7 Goddess a lion, did you say? (6)

8 Interminable annoyance for god

(4)

14 Shakespeare fan aswoon, very

dizzy (4,2,4)

15 Writer of short stories loving a

fi lm actor (5,5)

17 Country in India toured by Singh

or Patel, for example? (8)

18 Just charge for that work in

support of development in Africa

(1,4,3)

20,10 Improper garment in which

Carol’s welcomed by father:

that’s painful! (6,5)

21 Comfort priest in embrace of

arbitrator (6)

22 White hair shaved on top (4)

23 PM, hell for the Speaker? (4)

Across

9 A sheep fed cocoa, extremely hot

drink (9)

10 See 20

11,16 At sea, naval disheartenment

OK, I swear (4,3,5,4,2,4)

12 Reversed mystic symbol

inscribed with a second charm (7)

13 Lips on confectionery? That’s it!

(5)

14 Behind vehicle, trailer? (9)

16 See 11

19 Right exalted originally by right-

wing theatre (9)

21,2 Money on counter, type of

table? (5,8)

22 Girl’s well after setback, praise be!

(7)

23 Italian city, intimate and more

exotic (7)

24 See 4

25,5 Book with ripped jacket, quality

fi nally improving (2,3,4,2,8)

12345678

910

11 12

13 14 15

16 17 18

19 20 21

22 23

24 25

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Can You Solve My Problems?

Entries to: The Guardian Crossword No 28,745,

P.O. Box 17566, Birmingham, B33 3EZ, or Fax to 0121-742 1313 by first post

on Friday. Solution and winners in the Guardian on Monday 9 May.

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Killer sudoku

Hard No 811

The normal rules of Sudoku apply: fi ll each row, column and 3x3 box with all

the numbers from 1 to 9. In addition, the digits in each inner shape (marked

by dots) must add up to the number in the top corner of that box. No digit can

be repeated within an inner shape.

Name

Address

Postcode

Telephone number

How many times

a week do you buy

the Guardian?

How many times

a month do you buy

the Observer?

□ Tick here if you do not wish to receive further

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A

C

TB

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