The Guardian - 31.08.2019

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• The Guardian Sat urday 31 Aug ust 2019

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solutions

Chris Maslanka’s puzzles

Pyrgic puzzles

1 I found that irascible old boy Pedanticus

hopping from one leg to the other in a fi t of

rage crying “ alternate ” in rhythm with his

energetic hops. What might have triggered

this?

2 Sheriff Einstein bought each of the posse of

11 raised in Covfefe County the same number

of candies (the sort you can suck on for hours

when you are trailing a fl eeing desperado day

after day over tough but tedious terrain) as

there were members of the posse. As they

were about to set off , a number fewer than

there had been joined them. On sharing the

sweets fairly among the posse he found he

had 2 left over, which he pocketed. How

many in the posse? How many sweets did

they each receive? Some posse members only

ride for the sweets.

3 Andy was alarmed to be asked to sum this

series to infi nity:

1 − 3x + 5x 2 − 7x 3 + 9x 4...

But it didn’t phase Candy. What did she do?

4 Ben Netlark’s

robotic fl ea (Miriam)

starts at the top

vertex O of a

tetrahedron. With

each move Miriam

jumps to another

vertex. What are the

chances she is back at the same vertex from

which she started after 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 ... moves?

If you know the chances after n moves, how

can you work out the chances for n + 1 moves?

Can you spot any patterns?

email: [email protected]

Twitter: @ChrisMaslanka

Killer sudoku

Easy

Codeword

Solution No. 27,913

BIGBANGCLASSIC

UIDAOCNH

D I NAH MANT I CORE

GGEMFD WS

INEBRIATED BAH

EREST AI

INTERSTELLAR

GECUOLLE

ANC I ENTGREEK

RSS HSVO

FIT HEATHC L I F F

IAH NOOE F

EXTRUS I ON PENCE

LIGCIENN

DUCHESSCUSTARD

Medium

Cryptic crossword

Wordplay

Wordpool

In each case fi nd the correct defi nition:

ANGARY

a) dropsy

b) emergency right to use another’s property

c) right in wartime to invade neutral

territory

d) ecclesiastical right over common land

CHOGA

a) morbiferous East African tick

b) round stone hutment

c) sleeping sickness

d) loose Afghan garment

ELUTRIATE

a) turn yellow

b) purify by straining

c) cause to become granular

d) render visible by bombardment with

gamma rays

E Pluribus Unum

Rearrange the letters of LIVE GIANT to make

a single word.

Tom Swifty

“I’m making a solenoid” said Tom —. (5)

Cryptic

Dull— rather like a lake? (7)

Go up and down on board? (4)

Shake container once? (3)

Missing Links

Find a word which follows the fi rst word in

the clue and precedes the second in each

case making a fresh word or phrase. E.g. the

answer to fi sh mix could be cake (fi sh cake &

cake mix) and to bat man it could be he (bat he

& he -man)...

a) men mentors b) sun run

c) four meals d) a bean

e) panning tower f) alter state

©CMM 2019. Solutions on Page 62

Guardian cryptic crossword No 27,914 set by Paul

Down

1 Zulu had this soft touch, as

travelling around desert (4,2,9)

2 See 10

3 Trap fl y in the ointment (5)

4 Exclusive, published extract (5,3)

5 Female bird impressed by male’s

train, I see? (6)

6 Present fi nally wrapped up, also

peel off sticker (9)

7 Scratching bottom, a disease is in

large rodent (6)

8 Hands just level with heads in

every sense (8,7)

15 See 22

17 Old socialist, Spooner’s Napoleon

X? (4,4)

18 Two beats for number one,

perhaps? (5,3)

20,14 Unpaid Hollywood actor? I

don’t care much for that! (6,3,7)

21 Loose robe, child’s short one? (6)

23,13 Media channel right for audio

broadcasting (5,4)

Across

9 Big comedown to dine with a

faux French speaker? (9)

10,2 Standard of jazz worried Spike,

ladies and gentlemen, by the

sound of it? (5-3,5)

11 Quid, perhaps, charged originally

to cut meat sandwiches (7)

12 Light in Greece, not entirely great

(7)

13 See 23

14 See 20

16 Questionable faith, a priestess

ultimately loses it (3,1,3)

17 50-peseta piece ready for the

press? (7)

19 Fat man, tactless (10)

22,15 What’s up with newspaper

in fi ctitious case, its views

distorted? (4,2,7)

24 What cinema promotes is of some

importance (7)

25 So-called trees, those found on

the coastline (7)

26 Last of all on card, Uganda: pick

Kampala for African capital (5)

27 Something written about in

poem, new spins on certain

verb forms (3-6)

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Killer sudoku

Hard No 673

The normal rules of Sudoku apply: fi ll each row, column and 3x3 box with all

the numbers from 1 to 9. In addition, the digits in each inner shape (marked by

dots) must add up to the number in the top corner of that box. No digit can be

repeated within an inner shape.

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