The Times - UK (2022-05-26)

26.05.22

Word watch SudokuMild No 13,234 Fiendish No 13,235 Super fiendish No 13,236
David Parfitt

Kula
a A coffee-flavoured
liqueur
b A small arboreal
marsupial
c A ceremonial
exchange of gifts

Nithsdale
a A woman’s riding hood
b An upland sheep breed
c A covered four-seat
carriage

Verfremdung
a A natural fertiliser
b An inconvenient truth
c Alienation of a theatre
audience

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 2143 by Orpheus

Across

1 Game bird that makes us

shrink back with fear (5)

4 Choose a deep sound? Not

from this instrument! (7)

8 Best gem worn by a man (7)

9 Snatch whiskey and relax (5)

10 Warning given by plump

woman’s ancestor (10)

14 A Pole carrying a Parisian

about? (6)

15 This writer’s friend, a jumpy

African native (6)

17 Register award announced for

business concern (10)

20 Fertile spot in Samoa’s islands

(5)

22 Dispute profit, for example (7)

23 Comfortless role in school

sickbay (7)

24 Gullible individual’s initiation

in church body (5)

Down

1 Jail one of several siblings

talked of (4)

2 Culturally pretentious leader

dismissed from political group

(4)

3 Satirist from US city poor men

abandoned (9)

4 Capsule the Spanish left,

swallowed by family dog,

perhaps (6)

5 Browbeat confused old women

principally (3)

6 Learn by chance about this

place on radio (8)

7 Eruption? Not in holiday

period (8)

11 Acknowledgement of daughter

employed in a legation (9)

12 Starving corvids circling old

university (8)

13 Italian noblewoman’s short

stories having a certain appeal

(8)

16 Academic digesting newspaper,

an intimidating woman (6)

18 Drink served in Victoria’s time

(4)

19 Reportedly one who purchases

accommodation for 5 (4)

21 Determined group (3)

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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 In a Brancacci Chapel
fresco, Masaccio
depicted which couple’s
expulsion from the
Garden of Eden?

2 Under EU protected
designation of origin
guidelines, only wines
from which country can
be labelled “port”?

3 Which duo had their
first UK and US No 1 hit
with Wake Me Up Before
You Go-Go (1984)?

4 Northern rockhopper,
erect-crested, royal
and king are species of
which flightless seabird?

5 The musical term “col
pugno” means “with ...”
which part of the body?

6 “Bürgerkrieg” is German
for which type of conflict?

7 Sundbyvester,

Vesterbro, Vanløse and

Valby are districts of

which capital city?

8 Which dish did

Escoffier call “cuisses

de nymphe à l’aurore”

(thighs of the dawn

nymphs)?

9 Also the UAE’s

president, which new

ruler of Abu Dhabi is

known by the initials

“MBZ”?

10 Which emperor

launched the Roman

invasion of Caledonia in

AD208?

11 Stanley Tucci played

the philandering

philanthropist Richard

Cross in which 1995 US

TV drama’s first season?

12 The Leeds-born

painter Jessie Boswell

(1881-1956) was a

member of which

Italian city’s Gruppo

dei Sei?

13 Founded in 2000,

which not-for-profit

company is the UK’s

biggest farm and food

assurance scheme?

14 In modern

pentathlon, the

fencing discipline uses

which weapon?

15 Which monkey

species is pictured?

Suko No 3499

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