The Times - UK (2022-05-24)

24.05.22

Word watch SudokuMild No 13,228 Difficult No 13,229 Super fiendish No 13,230
David Parfitt

Cypsela
a The fruit of the daisy
b An ancient wine goblet
c A copper alloy

Talayot
a A prehistoric stone
monument
b A form of abacus
c A small island in a river

Treff
a Fantastic!
b A secret meeting
of spies
c An exhausting task

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 2141 by Pedro

Across

1 Fish pie and odd bits from chef

— something extra for the

man? (8)

5 Observe daughter or other

offspring (4)

8 Where are the billboards? Zero

adverts seen during journey (8)

9 Sensible attitude excluding

America? (4)

11 Welsh party MP daily excited

about start of Cardiff rugby

(5,5)

14 Money we kept back to get nut

(6)

15 Tolerate final treatment after

head’s cut (6)

17 Something that’s served up

route taken at sea? (4,6)

20 Starts to take hold after

winter? This may (4)

21 Nag, distressed, in perturbed

condition, to stop moving (8)

22 Radio’s correct form of liturgy

(4)

23 Try and try to produce

supportive comment (4,4)

Down

1 Concerns excluding first of

electric vehicles (4)

2 Haul part of hospital up (4)

3 In this state one won’t have got

ready (10)

4 Scoundrel to stop supply of tea

(6)

6 Total runs one piled up

including nothing on a big

scale (8)

7 Unease I’d picked up: I should

participate in new quest (8)

10 Source of decoration using

cigar in an unusual way (5,5)

12 Sword? I’m the very thing

involved in evidence of wound

(8)

13 Partisan reviewed prospective

member? (8)

16 Like a nuanced view? It’s not

evident in words on screen (6)

18 Stop offering no initial comfort

(4)

19 Close — initially not even

remote? Not initially (4)

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Yesterday’s solution on page 15

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ALAMY

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 What is Argentina’s
official language?

2 Who is the chairman
and CEO of Meta,
which he founded as
Facebook in 2004?

3 Ramen is a noodle
dish from which
Asian country?

4 The Edwardian
War (1337-1360) was
the first phase of
which intermittent
struggle between
England and France?

5 What is the French-
derived word for a
performance added to
the end of a concert?

6 Which English actress
(1936-90) made 15 films
with her second husband,
Charles Bronson?

7 The larvae of which

insects in the family

Tipulidae are known

commonly as

“leatherjackets”?

8 The Weber test is

a screening test for

hearing performed

with which two-

pronged device?

9 The front cover

of which English

musician’s 1983 single

Without You features

artwork by Keith

Haring?

10 Which Italian

author and painter

wrote the 1945 memoir

Christ Stopped at Eboli?

11 Which type of

19th-century volley

gun derived its name

from the French for

“grapeshot”?

12 Known as “JBS”,

which British scientist’s

1929 article on

abiogenesis introduced

the “primordial soup

theory”?

13 Which founder of

the Nation of Islam

disappeared without a

trace in 1934?

14 At the 2020 Tokyo

Games, which hurdler

became Puerto Rico’s

second-ever Olympic

champion?

15 Which sporting

trophy is pictured?

Suko No 3497

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