The Sunday Times May 29, 2022 27
NEWS REVIEW
CODEWORD
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TETONOR
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SUDOKU WARM-UP
KILLER SUDOKU
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS
youngsters like to traipse
around over a pen with a
large number of brightly
coloured plastic balls.
Actually there were 200 in
total, some of red, yellow,
blue and green. There were at
least 30 but fewer than 70 of
each colour, with the
following properties:Red perfect square
Yellow prime number
Blue palindromic number
Green divisible by three
single-digit prime
numbersGeorge told Martha the above
information and the number
of red balls. Martha was thenDanny Roth
Colourful Characters
George and Martha have
recently taken a great-
grandchild to a toddler’s
birthday party. The
TEASER 3114
Sally BrockFirst in hand, vulnerable
against not, you hold:Assuming you have a weak
two diamonds in your
armoury, would you open
one? Many didn’t (or couldn’t)
on this deal. If you pass you
are likely to end up in four
hearts as this is the full deal:NS vulnerable, Dealer NorthSouth will open one club,
West will make a one spade or
two spade overcall, North will
double to show hearts, after
which North-South are likely
to bid the heart game.
Although there are four top
losers it may not be so easy
for East-West to take them,
and the magic diamond
position meant that many
East-Wests managed to make
their heart game.
My partner opened two
diamonds and I thought that
maybe three no-trumps was
as likely to make as two
diamonds, and so took a shot
at that game:CHESS
May 2022 has been a golden
month for Mark Hebden. The
grandmaster from Leicester
became English Champion last
week. This success followed on
from previously winning the
English Senior (50+)
Championship.
Despite the absence of
England’s top ten players,
Hebden’s title wins in
Kenilworth stand out as career-
best achievements. At 64 years
old, Hebden was able to use all
his experience to outplay his
younger rivals.
White: Mark Hebden
Black: Borna Derakhshani
Chessable English
Championship, Kenilworth
- Slav Defence
1 d4 d5 2 c4 c6 3 Nf3 Nf6 4 e3
Bf5 5 cxd5 cxd5 6 Qb3 Qc7 7
Bd2 e6 8 Bb5+ Nc6 9 0-0 Bd6
10 Bb4 An instructive
manoeuvre, trading off White’s
poorest piece for its superior
counterpart. 10...0-0 11 Bxc6
Bxb4 12 Qxb4 Qxc6 13 Ne5
Qa6 14 Nc3 Rac8 15 Rfc1 Rc7?
Helping to accelerate White’s
intentions. 15...Ng4 was
obligatory, attempting to
eliminate the strong e5-knight.
16 Nb5! This pawn sacrifice
allows the white knights the
take control of the board. 16...
Rxc1+ 17 Rxc1 Qxa2 18 Nd6 b6
As compensation for the pawn
deficit, White holds the open c-
file. Hebden now eschews the
opportunity to regain material,
instead embarking on a
sophisticated idea. 19 Nc8 A
path is cleared for the white
queen. 19 Ndxf7 is also tempting,
since 19...Rxf7? 20 Rc8+ wins.
19...g6 20 h3! Hebden has
always been a masterful
practical player. A safe haven is
created for the white king. 20...
Kg7 21 Kh2 Qa6 22 Qe7 Qe2
The black queen finally finds an
active square, but it is too late.
23 Nd6 Bxh3 24 Rc8! This
deflection tactic ensures a
kingside breakthrough. 24...
Rxc8 25 Qxf7+ Kh8 26 Qxf6+
Kg8 27 Nef7 Black resigns
Black is powerless against the
dual threats of 28 Qh8 mate and
28 Nh6 mate.
Spot the Move 1325:
White to play.Trent-Carlstedt, Hamburg- How can White prove
that the enemy king is weaker
than his own?
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residents only.David Howell BRIDGE
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able to work out the numbers
of each of the others.
How many of each colour
were there?
Send your solution to: The Sunday
Times Teaser 3114, PO Box 29,
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West led a spade which I
won and played a club to
dummy’s eight. East won
and returned a spade which I
won. Anxious that the
defenders did not think of
switching to diamonds as I
could only afford my four top
losers, I discarded a heart
from the dummy. Now
another club which East won
and exited with a club. I ran
my clubs discarding
diamonds and played a
heart. East won and played
another heart, but West won
and played a fourth round
of spades. I could cash my
hearts but had a spade loser at
the end. If I had kept that
heart in the dummy I would
have been able to cross to
dummy and score the ace of
diamonds. Down in another
cold game (for a 3 IMP gain as
in the other room North
opened three diamonds and
went two down!).
This week’s problem
After the following bidding:
What should West lead
holding:
Solution next week.
West North East South
1 ♣ 1 ♥ 2NT
Pass 3NT All Pass
allow, alow, callow, claw, clew,
coleslaw, cowl, cowpea, cowslip, lewis,
lwei, pawl, pillow, pillowcase, plew,
plow, sallow, scow, scowl, slaw, slew,
slow, spew, swale, swap, swell, swill,
swipe, swop, wail, wale, wall, wallop,
wasp, waspie, weal, well, wels, wilco,
wile, will, wipe, wise, wisp
MEPHISTO 3221
Across: 1 Sysops, 6 Comma, 10 Astragals, 11 Knesset, 12 Annat, 14 Arryish, 15 Sayid, 17 Coal tit,
18 Mhorr, 19 Rifle, 21 Niterie, 23 Idant, 26 Session, 28 Satin, 29 Uneaten, 30 Germanist, 31 Threw,
32 Andrei
Down: 1 Sakes, 2 Stewy, 3 Orseille, 4 Pash, 5 Latration, 6 Clare, 7 Manito, 8 Measuring, 9 Asthore,
13 Taoiseach, 14 Agincourt, 16 Shedhand, 17 Cresset, 20 Foster, 22 Sinew, 24 Astir, 25 Tanti, 27 Jean
WEATHER
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE JUMBO CROSSWORD 319
Across: 1 Scurvy, 4 Lewisham, 9 Sewer, 13 Brian Aldiss, 14 Dismissed, 15 Unpaved,
16 Arc de Triomphe, 17 Andy Dufresne, 19 Ada Clare, 22 Endives, 23 Hush Hush, 24 Fiat,
26 Marcello Mastroianni, 30 Lynx, 31 Kate Adie, 32 Orvieto, 35 Iceboxes, 36 Angharad Rees,
38 Pierre Trudeau, 40 Perugia, 41 Oenophile, 42 Letitia Dean, 43 Texas, 44 Epiphany, 45 Limner
Down: 1 Subjugated, 2 Unimpeded, 3 Veni vidi vici, 5 Elizabeth Tower, 6 In Sickness and in Health,
7 Hadley, 8 Maser, 9 Scirocco, 10 Westphalian, 11 Ridge tents, 12 Plod, 18 Fusillade, 20 Dishonour,
21 Whitney Houston, 25 Salvador Dali, 27 Annie Lennox, 28 Alain Prost, 29 Box spanner,
33 Evergreen, 34 Corrupts, 37 Humeri, 39 Tripe, 40 Pith
POLYGON
Winners Crossword 5006 R Price, Plymouth, Devon, C Bristow, London E11, J Davis, London SW15, J Woolfrey, Worthing, West Sussex Mephisto 3219 A Smith, Cambridge,
A Amos, Broadoak, Gloucestershire, J McCabe, Skelton-in-Cleveland, North Yorkshire, J McKay, Wishaw, Lanarkshire, R Squires, South Queensferry, Edinburgh Teaser 3111
A Smith, Catsfield, East Sussex, K Walne, Heighington, Lincolnshire Chess 1322 B Bennion, Derby Sudoku 1482 C Hawkins, Headcorn, Kent
Amsterdam 14C sh
Athens 29 f
Auckland 17 sh
Bangkok 34 sh
Barcelona 25 s
Beijing 31 f
Belgrade 18 sh
Berlin 14 sh
Bogota 13 sh
Boston 22 f
Brussels 16 sh
Budapest 12 r
Buenos Aires 13 f
Cairo 39 s
Calgary 10 r
Cape Town 17 th
Caracas 27 th
Casablanca 26 f
Chicago 29 th
Dubai 33 s
Dublin 14 sh
Geneva 21 s
Gibraltar 29 f
Guatemala 23 th
Helsinki 14 sh
Hong Kong 28 th
Istanbul 30 th
Jersey 16 f
Johannesburg 20 s
La Paz 13 s
Lagos 28 th
Lima 20 s
Lisbon 22 f
London 17C f
Los Angeles 24 f
Madrid 31 f
Mexico City 25 f
Miami 30 th
Moscow 15 th
Nairobi 23 sh
New Delhi 45 f
New Orleans 32 f
New York 27 s
Oslo 14 sh
Panama 29 th
Paris 18 sh
Prague 17 sh
Rio de Janeiro 29 s
Rome 28 f
San Francisco 15 f
Santiago 16 f
Seoul 27 f
Seychelles 28 f
Singapore 30 f
Stockholm 15 f
Sydney 18 sh
Tel Aviv 28 s
Tenerife 21 s
Tokyo 31 s
Toronto 25 f
Trinidad 31 th
Tunis 36 f
Venice 19 f
Vienna 19 sh
Warsaw 17 sh
Washington DC 29 s
AROUND THE WORLD
Key c=cloud, dr=drizzle, ds=dust storm, f=fair, fg=fog, g=gales, h=hail,
m=mist, r=rain, sh=showers, sl=sleet, sn=snow, s=sun, th=thunder, w=windy
¬ Very warm or hot across
much of Spain, Portugal,
Sardinia, Corsica and the
Balearics with sunny spells,
but a few showers in northern
areas
¬ Sunny spells and scattered
showers or thunderstorms in
Italy, Sicily, the Alps, Greece,
the Balkans and Hungary,
perhaps merging to give
longer spells of rain in places
¬ Rain in southern Ukraine
and Moldova initially, more
arriving from the west later
¬ Southern France will
be dry, warm and sunny,
but cooler across northern
France into Germany, the
Low Countries, Poland,
Austria, Czech Republic,
Slovakia, the Baltic states and
Scandinavia with a mixture of
sunny spells and showers
EUROPE
THE WEEK AHEAD
Monday
A mixture of
sunny spells and
scattered showers.
Max 17C
Tuesday
Sunny spells and
showers, drier in
the south.
Max 19C
Wednesday
Warm in the
south, showers in
the north.
Max 23C
Thursday
Showers,
especially in the
south and west.
Max 23C
Friday
Chance of showers
in the south, drier
in the north.
Max 22C
Saturday
Probably drier in
many areas with
sunny spells.
Max 22C
SUN, STREET LIGHTS & MOON
NIGHT SKY
Aberdeen 04:25 21:46 04:24 04:00 21:02
Belfast 04:57 21:44 04:56 04:28 21:02
Birmingham 04:53 21:16 04:52 04:21 20:34
Bristol 05:01 21:14 05:00 04:28 20:31
Cardiff 05:03 21:16 05:02 04:30 20:34
Cork 05:22 21:39 05:21 04:50 20:58
Dublin 05:06 21:38 05:05 04:35 20:56
Glasgow 04:43 21:45 04:41 04:15 21:02
London 04:51 21:04 04:50 04:17 20:21
Manchester 04:49 21:23 04:48 04:18 20:40
Newcastle 04:38 21:29 04:37 04:09 20:46
Norwich 04:39 21:04 04:38 04:07 20:21
Plymouth 05:12 21:15 05:12 04:38 20:33
Sun
rises
Sun sets/
lights on
Lights
off
Moon
rises
Moon
sets
33
29 25
19
16
23
18
30
26
33
18
18
2
25
33
16
20
17
13
13
13
6
5
19
15
13
14
2
10
22
16
13
15
5
15
22
15
14
16
10
9
20
18
17
16
14
15
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16
17
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TODAY’S WEATHER
UK and Ireland forecast
High pressure near Iceland and low pressure over Scandinavia
will drive a cool northerly flow across the UK and Ireland.
Many areas will have a mixture of sunny spells and scattered
showers, most widespread in northern and eastern areas with
the best of the sunshine in western Ireland and northwest
England. Light to fresh northerly winds
REGIONAL FORECASTS
London, SE England
Sunny spells and scattered showers. Light to moderate
northerly winds. Max 17C. Tonight, showers easing. Min 3C
Midlands, E England
Cool with sunny spells and scattered showers. Winds light to
moderate northerly. Max 15C. Tonight, rural frost. Min 1C
Channel Is, SW and Cent S England, S Wales
Bright spells and scattered showers. Light to moderate north
or northeasterly winds. Max 18C. Tonight, fog patches. Min 2C
N Wales, NW England, Isle of Man
Sunny spells and isolated showers. Mainly light and variable
winds. Max 15C. Tonight, isolated showers. Min 3C
Cent N and NE England
Cool with bright spells and showers. Light to fresh northerly
winds easing. Max 13C. Tonight, patchy rain. Min 2C
Scotland
Bright spells and scattered showers. Winds light to fresh north
or northwesterly. Max 15C. Tonight, showery rain. Min -1C
N Ireland, Republic of Ireland
Sunny spells and isolated showers. Winds light to fresh north
or northeasterly. Max 19C. Tonight, isolated showers. Min 2C
14
17
14
13
9
14
17
19
22
6
17
moderate
slight
rough
moderate
TODAY’S SOLUTIONS
CONCISE CROSSWORD 1783
Across: 1 Booby prize, 6 Wave, 7 Tongue-tied, 9 Rehab,
11 Odium, 13 Stratagem, 14 Retention, 16 Plead,
17 Nymph, 19 Prosciutto, 20 Grit, 21 Salmagundi
Down: 1 Beta, 2 Bigwig, 3 Predominant, 4 Initialism,
5 End, 6 Workshop, 8 Obiter dicta, 10 Hartlepool,
12 Moonshot, 15 Telugu, 18 Yogi, 19 Pus
SPOT THE MOVE 1324
1 Bf4! wins. 1...Qxf4 (1...gxf4 2 Rg8+) 2 Rxf4
gxf4 3 Rxd5. White has an extra bishop
TEASER 3113
CROSSWORD 5008
Across: 1 Just so stories, 10 Excursion, 11 Undue, 12 Early, 13 Stand up to, 14 Imitator, 16 El Paso,
19 Nights, 20 Quayside, 22 Lambrusco, 24 Pitta, 25 Salvo, 26 Cathartic, 27 Dead men’s shoes
Down: 2 Uncorking, 3 Tarry, 4 Omission, 5 Tankas, 6 Roundelay, 7 End up, 8 Venetian glass,
9 Zero tolerance, 15 Afterword, 17 Aristotle, 18 Culottes, 21 Psyche, 23 Melee, 24 Peach
SUKO CELL BLOCKS
West North East South
2 ♦ Pass 3NT
All Pass
♠ Q 10 7 5
♥ 9 2
♦ A K 10 6 4
♣ J 9
13, 17 and 19 litres
Look for the star Regulus in Leo about 20° high
in the W twilight at 11.30 tonight, with Pollux in
Gemini slightly lower towards the NW. The
young earthlit crescent Moon is 5° below-right
of Pollux on Thursday and between Regulus and
Pollux on Saturday. At 2.30am tomorrow Jupiter
is conspicuous but only 6° high in the E; Mars is
fainter and below-left of Jupiter. Alan Pickup
Rewilding’s
great — if you
like mud and
rotting deer
carcasses
Jeremy
Clarkson
forests of Tierra del Fuego will tell you,
beavers are almost incomprehensibly
destructive. They’re just big, furry
chainsaws.
The Chileans saw how much damage
was being caused by beavers in
Argentina’s part of this landscape and
built a huge fence to stop them crossing
the border. And the beavers ate the
fence.
So I’m with Monty Don on this. It’s not
rewilding that we want. Rewilding is, as
he says, just for toffs and people with
huge private incomes. But I don’t mind a
bit of wilding.
There’s a subtle difference. Rewilding
suggests that you are turning your back
garden back into what it was in the olden
days — a swamp, probably. Whereas
“wilding” means you are using your
clever thumbs and your understanding
of science to put in the plants that you
know, because you have a head full of
facts, are good for insects and birds and
hedgehogs.
Also, wilding is good news for
gardeners because it means they can
keep on gardening. That’s something I
suspect the judges at Chelsea didn’t
realise. Because by awarding first prize
to a “rewilded” garden, what they’re
actually saying to all the John Lewis
ladies who like to spend their weekends
on their hands and knees with a trug and
a pair of secateurs is: “Stop it. Use your
beaver instead.”
That’s like awarding a “best in show”
prize at a motor show to a bus company.
I think it’s kinder to the Sophie
Raworths, and the environment, to say:
“Stay on your hands and knees. Enjoy
your garden. Work hard at it. But think
about creating a bit of wildness. Try to
blend aesthetics with a higher purpose.”
And, on your way out, would you be
so good as to drop your ballot paper in
one of the boxes marked “Anything but
Keir”?
A
nd so to the Chelsea Flower
Show. Normally, I go on the
glittering preview evening
because there’s almost always
something to keep me
amused. Once I saw Cherie
Blair running at full speed,
which was hilarious. This year
Ainsley Harriott’s sister fell in an
ornamental pond, and I bet that was
even funnier.
The main reason I go on preview
night, though, is that once I’ve air-kissed
half a dozen people I don’t really
recognise, I am usually confronted by a
forest of champagne-toting bankers
inviting their first-percentile clients for a
day’s shooting in November.
Ha. That, sure as hell, wasn’t going to
happen this year. Thanks to the deadly
combination of Brexit and avian flu,
gamekeepers have struggled to buy any
baby pheasant poults from France, so
there won’t be much shooting at all this
autumn, and what there is will cost
eleventy million pounds. The bankers
will therefore have to think of something
else to do with their time. Like maybe
doing some work.
I didn’t go to the preview event this
year partly because I knew there’d be no
shooting invitations but mainly because I
wasn’t invited. I therefore went on
Wednesday, when the entire 23-acre site
was populated by Sophie Raworth-type
women in John Lewis frocks and spangly
training shoes. My scrotum felt very
lonely.
However, because there were no
bankers inviting me to smoke some low
hens in the run-up to Christmas, I
actually had time to look at the flowers,
and they were all very pretty. I’m not
going to buy any of them, of course,
because there’s a hard and fast rule
when it comes to the flowers I buy: they
die.
I then looked at some of the fountains,
but I’m not going to buy any of those
either because, thanks to the deadly
combination of the war in Ukraine and
Covid, everything now has a lead time of
42 years.
So, after a short pootle I repaired to
the hospitality tent, where I was served
an English rosé wine and an extremely
pleasant piece of trout. And after
deciding that from now on the general
election should be held at the Chelsea
Flower Show — it’d be cheaper and
easier to organise, no schools would
have to be closed and we’d get the right
result every time — I found myself in
conversation with a woman I thought
actually was Sophie Raworth. And she
said I should take a look at the winner of
the show’s top prize.
As I could see it out of the window, I
did, and I was very surprised because it
was a complete mess. Billed as an
example of how your garden might look
if you rewilded it, it consisted of a brick
shed with a corrugated iron roof, several
plants that looked to me like weeds and a
small stream with some twigs in it.
Now, I realise that the idea of
rewilding has a great deal of appeal
among non-gardeners like me because it
means you put nature back in the driving
seat and, having done absolutely no
work at all, tell your friends that you’re
basically a cross between Greta
Thunberg, Sir Attenborough and Brian
May.
This, however, is delusional twaddle.
If I rewilded my garden, I’d have to
uproot the yew bushes I’ve just planted,
so the dunnocks would have to find
somewhere else to nest. And then I’d
have to remove the manmade dam, so
the pond would go, the bullrushes would
die, the otters would bugger off and
pretty soon the entire area would
become an impenetrable mass of
nothing but brambles.
And rotting deer carcasses. Yup, I’m
afraid that’s part of this rewilding
movement. They want us to reverse the
Victorian trend of tidying up and
mowing in straight lines and live a new,
better life surrounded by mud and
thorns, in a putrefying fog of decaying
flesh.
You, with your clever thumbs and
your access to science, must give way to
nature with its diseases and its flies that
burrow into children’s eyes.
You only have to look at the rewilding
garden at Chelsea this year to see the
problems. Its creators say the twigs in
the stream are actually a dam that was
built by beavers, but it wasn’t. It was
built by men, who almost certainly
arrived in a Ford Transit van. Thank
God. Because, as anyone who’s seen the
incredible devastation caused to the
A fence
was built
to stop
beavers.
They ate
the fence
Lulu Urquhart
and Adam Hunt’s
garden won top
prize at Chelsea
LUKE MACGREGOR/PA