The Times - UK (2022-05-23)

23.05.22

Word watch SudokuEasy No 13,225 Difficult No 13,226 Fiendish No 13,227
David Parfitt

Proem
a A temporary measure
b A prelude
c A mixed-ability
tournament

Fundi
a A stockbroker
b Lichen-like organisms
c A master of a craft

Cusec
a A peppery spice
b A pruning tool
c A unit of flow in rivers

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 2140 by Izetti

Across

1 Range for cooking crumpets

(8)

6 Fastener for hair (4)

8 Parrot given material to

consume (6)

9 Comment concerning

Matthew’s successor (6)

10 Ruler protected by assistants

arriving (4)

11 Evil can upset a city (8)

12 Shock a quiet chum (5)

13 Fibre shown by little girl

confronting gangster? (5)

15 Request made by intimate

learner (8)

17 A record with minimum of

snow in the mountains (4)

19 Thus African country must be

African! (6)

20 Civilised European drinking

Vermouth (6)

21 Order editor around, making

protest (4)

22 Providing funds for the last bit

unpaid (8)

Down

2 Tries to see noble fellows (5)

3 Explain trophy inscribed with

name of tragic king (5,2)

4 Sailor turning up is unpleasant

person (3)

5 Sort of preacher to want more

liars converted (9)

6 Melon’s different fruit (5)

7 My face is diffusing warmth (7)

11 Saint opposing a time of

fasting in East (9)

12 Very impressive ace, first

person to get total read out (7)

14 Bird to get down (7)

16 I had a small house

somewhere in America (5)

18 Don’s stage (3,2)

20 Provincial party set up — food

provided (3)

12 3 4 5 67

8 9

10 11

12 13 14

15 16 17 18

19 20

21 22

Friday’s solution on page 15

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ROB STOTHARD FOR THE TIMES

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 Dent in Cumbria is
England’s highest
mainline what?

2 Which city was the
federal capital of
Nigeria until 1991 when
Abuja replaced it?

3 On the first day
of which battle, on
July 1, 1916, were 19,240
British troops killed in
action?

4 Which cover of a
song by the Troggs
was a 1994 No 1 for
Wet Wet Wet?

5 Which 200-tonne
sculpture by Antony
Gormley has been
nicknamed the
“Gateshead Flasher”?

6 From 1936 until 1945,
what was the sole official

boys’ youth organisation

in Germany?

7 Which Brontë sister’s

first novel, The Professor

(1857), centres on

William Crimsworth?

8 Nightingale Hart is a

London talent agency in

which new Amazon

Prime series?

9 Which BBC podcaster

known online as

“Bowelbabe” was

recently made a dame?

10 Which Italian

director fictionalised the

1987 death of his parents

in the 2021 film The

Hand of God?

11 Religion and the Rise

of Capitalism (1926) is a

classic of political

economy by which

English economist?

12 Which four-term

governor of New York

was first elected in 1918?

13 Which fluid in the

circulatory system of

arthropods is analogous

to blood in vertebrates?

14 Erling Haaland made

his senior debut, aged 15,

for which football club

in Norway’s second tier?

15 Which Conservative

MP for Wokingham in

Berkshire is pictured?

Suko No 3496

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