26 The Sunday Times May 22, 2022
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Each row, column and 3x3 box
must contain the digits 1 to 9.
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MEPHISTO (^3221) Across
1 Special bunch of flowers is
sent over for techies (6)
6 Phrase coming from
communication area (5)
10 Fulham and the like once
almost lost against girls (9)
11 King’s Head starters for
ending the diet! (7)
12 Term for pension once
received by accepted
nationalist? (5)
14 Like vulgar fellow from
rocky Ayrshire? Not first in
English! (7)
15 Muslim title mentioned
around capital of
Yemen? (5)
17 Tail wagging in shelter
for songbird? Could be
mine (7, two words)
18 Ruminant from horror
shows? (5)
19 Winchester high flier (5)
21 Club with tiddly peer in it
quietly dropping off? (7)
23 One in infectious diseases
department finally
provides genetic data
carrier (5)
26 Hearing sounds around
square reverberating (7)
28 Silk protested about
sharing small money (5)
29 Not put away, still in spot of
bother getting nicked (7)
30 Spymaster in Tangiers
disguised as European
expert? (9)
31 What’s said by cast (5)
32 Guy from Austria, number
3 for Bayern Munich (6)
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Across
1 Wooden spoon (5,5)
6 Breaker (4)
7 Speechless (6-4)
9 Detox clinic (5)
11 Abhorrence (5)
13 Plan (9)
14 Keeping (9)
16 Beg (5)
17 Nature deity (5)
19 Italian ham (10)
20 Determination (4)
21 Hotchpotch (10)
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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21 Software test stage (4)Important person (6) ...................................................................................
3 Chief (11)
4 Abbreviation or
acronym (10)
5 Conclude (3)
6 Craft room (8)
8 Incidental remarks (6,5)
10 Co Durham town (10)
12 Rocket launch (8)
15 Dravidian language (6)
18 Hindu ascetic (4)
19 Product of infected
tissue (3)
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
21 words, average; 28, good;
34, very good; 41, 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.
63 34 240 15
36 68 32 243
264 19 60 50
31 256 16 84
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Tim Moorey
1 Ascorbic acid is the main cure for this disease (6)
4 London district reached by a southern extension of the
Docklands Light Railway in 1999 (8)
9 “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall
into an open and die.” (Mel Brooks) (5)
13 Sci-fi author who created the minisaga, a story of just 50
words (5,6)
14 Of a court case, rejected (9)
15 Iceland’s “ring road”, Route 1, was partly until 2019 (7)
16 Monument at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle (3,2,8)
17 The imprisoned banker in The Shawshank Redemption (4,8)
19 In Bleak House, secretly marries Richard Carstone (3,5)
22 Salad greens related to chicory (7)
23 , Sweet Charlotte (1964) featured Mary Astor in her final
film role (4,4)
24 A decree, from Latin for “let it be done” (4)
26 Rome’s Trevi Fountain was turned off and draped in black
after the death of this actor in 1996 (8,11)
30 The bobcat is a type of (4)
31 The BBC’s chief news correspondent, 1989-2003 (4,4)
32 Umbrian city whose cathedral has a west front (pictured)
designed by Lorenzo Maitani (7)
35 Forerunners of electric refrigerators (8)
36 Actress best known for her role as Demelza in the costume
drama Poldark (8,4)
38 Prime minister of Canada, 1968-79 and 1980-84 (6,7)
40 Capital of Italy’s Umbria region (7)
41 A wine connoisseur (9)
42 Actress who first appeared as
Sharon Watts in EastEnders in
1985 (7,4)
43 The USA’s second largest
state (5)
44 Church festival celebrated on
January 6 (8)
45 Old name for a painter of
portraits or miniatures (6)
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 “To live means to finesse the processes to which one is ”
(Bertolt Brecht) (10)
2 Not subjected to hindrance (9)
3 What Caesar reportedly said after his Pontic campaign (4,4,4)
5 The structure which houses Big Ben (9,5)
6 Sitcom which was a sequel to Till Death Us Do Part (2,8,3,2,6)
7 Tony was Spandau Ballet’s lead singer (6)
8 Device which amplifies microwaves (5)
9 VW model named after a wind from North Africa (8)
10 Breed of horse often used in dressage and show jumping (11)
11 In camping, are supported by poles or frames at each
end (5,5)
12 A policeman or police force, from a PC created by Enid
Blyton (4)
18 A continuous discharge of firearms (9)
20 “The wife, where danger or lurks, / Safest and seemliest
by her husband stays” (Paradise Lost) (9)
21 Singer who made her film acting debut in The Bodyguard
(1992) (7,7)
25 Artist who designed the Chupa Chups lollipop logo (8,4)
27 Scottish singer-songwriter (pictured) who fronted new
wave band the Tourists (5,6)
28 Racing driver who took over the French Ligier team in
1997 (5,5)
29 Tool typically used to fix or remove spark plugs (3,7)
33 In binomial nomenclature, “sempervirens” denotes
plants (9)
34 What absolute power does absolutely, according to Lord
Acton (8)
37 Upper arm bones (6)
39 As food, the stomach lining of
a cow or other ruminant (5)
40 The inner peel of a citrus
fruit (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 Opening a country club?
Excellent! (9)
3 Stay as you are after falling
on the pitch? (5)
4 Task under second in
command’s oversight (8)
5 Fail badly like Japanese
poems (6)
6 Song about a university
uprising (9)
7 Arrive close to the top (3,2)
8 Something clearly
colourful an evangelist’s
concocted (8,5)
9 One way to police love
and play (4,9)
15 Rider in search of news (9)
17 Noble story left by a
philosopher (9)
18 Cryptic clues include too
much women’s clothing (8)
21 Spirit tipsy chefs must
have included (6)
23 Edges of mousseline
sleeves regularly fray (5)
24 Fruit dish (5)
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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 Simply help Conservatives
work for children (4,2,7)
10 Trip over visiting former
dogs’ home (9)
11 Too much expected by a
Parisian (5)
12 Opening or almost not
opening (5)
13 Brave comedian, overly
detailed (5,2,2)
14 Rubbish sent back by one
university to a plagiarist (8)
16 Poles ordered to protect a
border city (2,4)
19 Some PCs work these
things out (6)
20 Docklands bank following
auditor’s guide (8)
22 Meat course mostly stewed
in wine (9)
24 Some advice about saving
time making bread (5)
25 Endless preparation by
old group of big shots (5)
26 Emotionally releasing two
animals I caught (9)
27 Opportunities to advance
in stiff footwear? (4,4,5)
Across
Down
1 Drinks from concerns
wanting introduction to
Tokyo? (5)
2 Very hot like some
casseroles (5)
3 Border shops strain to get
lichen (8)
4 Will’s crush, a juvenile
infatuation (4)
5 Barking’s helping to follow
beginners in local authority
team (9)
6 Endless wine for sister (5)
7 Spirit shown by Canadian
province after airline
cancelled (6)
8 Marking out geraniums
for arrangement (9)
9 Darling showing on
land around head of
tributary (7)
13 Love cheat is involved
with a prime minister (9)
14 Rugby action represented
by striking battle (9)
16 Shearer’s side put to
shame upfront? Small
number dropped (8)
17 Torch being used in
castle, right? (7)
20 Nurse and doctor caught
in shower (6)
22 Weak in the end, without
muscle (5)
24 Busy with wine recipe (5)
25 Sea bream outside not of
much value (5)
27 Sibelius perhaps in short
trousers (4)
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