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Across

1 Fix outside of broken boat: get

fuel here (4,3)

5 Depraved Republican’s off to

arouse a Liberal (7)

9 Unresponsive pet given a pick-me-

up (9)

10 Compare plant on rocks to some

ears? (5)

11 Journalist runs into alleged

adulterer (13)

13 Wind around island makes for

poor hearing (8)

15 Capital transfixed by leaders of

general workers in industrial

action (2-4)

17 Native American western at

famous corral on location in

California (6)

19 Drug dealer using speed sustains

damage (8)

22 Crossing one game with another

(7,6)

25 Making call, I land (5)

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output? (9)

27 Art working for a while perhaps to

create a storm? (7)

28 Follower found back in society

locale (7)

Down

1 Expressed full agreement (4)

2 Criticises a revenue-raising

measure on radio (7)

3 One gripping beer half-heartedly

(5)

4 Grey not satisfied with girl’s

embrace (8)

5 Muscle oil giant’s keeping in

reserve (6)

6 Brilliance of older puns lost (9)

7 Knew reworked Breaking Bad as

resource for writer to draw on (7)

8 Why tangles developed between

ends? (10)

12 Legal details of right in case of

short measure... (5,5)

14 ...reason being to restrict supply of

beer (9)

16 Fetching gift from cleaner’s

mother (8)

18 Dog and mink scrapping for

territory (7)

20 I agree, shame when leader’s

lacking pleasant disposition (7)

21 Popular Muslim ruler seeing off

an attack (6)

23 Repeat song endlessly: nothing

can end it (5)

24 It’s no go for tech firm to survey

inappropriately (4)

Times Crossword No 28,314

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Times Crossword No 28,314

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.

Solution MindGames in Saturday Review

Suko No 3513

Quiz answers 1 Victoria Cross

2 Judaism 3 Ford 4 Grace Kelly or

Princess Grace of Monaco 5 Carbon

dioxide 6 Exile on Main St 7 Tel Aviv

8 Charles Darwin 9 Oscar Wilde

10 Noël Coward 11 Gilbert & George

12 British Council 13 Lock & Co — the

world’s oldest surviving hat shop

14 Multiverse 15 Kerch Strait 16 Waris

Dirie 17 Miriam Toews 18 Catford Hill

Climb 19 Ice hockey 20 Deborah

Meaden.

Concise Quintagram answers 1 Focus

2 Sierra 3 Escort 4 Prefect 5 Hereford.

Which cross is Britain’s highest

military gallantry award?

Rabbinic is the mainstream form

of which religion?

The “Centennial Blue Oval” is the
logo of which American car
company?

The Oscar-winning costume
designer Helen Rose created
which princess’s wedding dress
in 1956?

The bubbles in champagne are

filled with which gas?

Exile in Guyville (1993) was
Liz Phair’s song-by-song reply to
which Rolling Stones’ double album?

Which Israeli city is named after

the Hebrew for “Spring Hill”?

Which English naturalist wrote
The Expression of the Emotions in
Man and Animals (1872)?

Moises Kaufman’s 1997 play Gross
Indecency is about the three trials
of which Irish playwright?

Which English playwright’s
1932 revue Words and Music
introduced the song Mad About
the Boy?

Which British artist duo
posed nude for the frieze-like
photographic composition Naked Eye
(1994)?

What is “the UK’s international
organisation for cultural
relations and educational
opportunities”?

Founded in 1676, which London

hat shop introduced the bowler

Canada’s Hayley Wickenheiser

is widely considered the greatest

female player in which sport?

Which Dragons’ Den investor

is pictured?

hat and sells the [Anthony] Eden

homburg?

Which apprenticeship training

business was founded in 2016 by

Euan Blair and Sophie Adelman?

Tuzla Island is in the middle of

which strait, connecting the

Black Sea and the Sea of Azov?

Which Somali model launched

her eponymous foundation, now

called the Desert Flower Foundation,

in 2002?

Which Canadian novelist wrote

A Complicated Kindness, All My

Puny Sorrows and Women Talking?

First raced on Westerham Hill

in 1887, what is the oldest

continuously run bike race in the

world?

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The Times Saturday Quiz Olav Bjortomt

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mildly cryptic,

always lead to

answers in Latin

Across

1 Matrimonium; eg tonsoris

cuiusdam Hispani (9)

6 17, say, with a capital letter (3)

8 Ligant; they bind or join together

(7)

9 Deae novem quae artibus praesunt

(5)

10 He has permission to leave (pres

subj) (5)

12 Enarro an erro? Bis aliter conor

decorare (6)

14 Cosi fan tutte (vel Latine, tutti)

(3,5,5)

16 ____ terra: the earth that nourishes

us (fem adj, cf nutrix) (6)

17 Passion, obsession (abl): magno

Aeneae ... ____ (Aen 1.675)

Dido’s love (5)

19 Illa quae oculis privata est

(5)

20 She has risen, e fluminis aqua,

fortasse (7)

22 (ex urbe) ____ ibo: I’m off to the

country seat (3)

23 Rex Creticus qui Graecis Troiam

oppugnantibus subvenit (9)

Down

1 I have given up; me dedidi (8)

2 Either neither or nor (3)

3 Incendunt, igne affligunt (5)

4 Am I coming in or going out?

(5,2,6)

5 Remember this! Noli oblivisci!

(irreg imperative) (7)

6 By abandoning, deserting (gerund)

(9)

7 The olive tree (4)

11 Outstanding: “Brutus ... noster ____

omni genere laudis” Cicero

Academica 1.3 (9)

13 Forma, sensus quem amisit 19 (8)

15 Brotherly people; qui prope

Rhenum flumen habitabant (7)

17 Maxime cupere; etiam

nonnumquam valere (5)

18 Wholly sharp, or initially bitter (4)

21 Losing all hope: de omni ____

depulsus (3)

Correction to last Saturday’s quiz:

Concorde’s first scheduled flight, with

a menu by Paul Bocuse, was in 1976.