Daily Mail - 30.07.2019

Page 40 Daily Mail, Tuesday, July 30, 2019

HIDATO

COMPLETE the

grid so that all

the numbers,

1 to 49, connect

consecutively

— horizontally,

vertically or

diagonally.

Hint: you

don’t have to

begin with

1 or 49. Working

on the

mid-numbers

might give you

a better start.

SOLUTION

TOMORROW

12241557

2 5 4 6 5 3 1 1

A

B

LAY tracks to

enable the train

to travel from

village A to

village B.

The numbers

indicate how

many sections of

rail go in each

row and column.

There are only

straight rails and

curved rails. The

track cannot

cross itself.

SOLUTION

TOMORROW

TRAIN TRACKS

PUZZLES PRIZES

FILL in squares in the grid

so each row, column and

each 3x3 square contains

all digits from 1 to 9. Each

set of cells joined by

dotted lines must add up

to the number in the

top-left corner. Numbers

can’t be repeated within

each set of cells.

SOLUTION TOMORROW

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9

1. In which European
   country is the city of
   Strasbourg?


2. Directed by Danny Boyle,
   which film won eight
   Oscars at the 2009
   Academy Awards?


3. Which former
   Blue Peter presenter is
   known for his catchphrase
   ‘Get down, Shep!’?


4. In the UK, in which month
   does the winter solstice fall?


5. In cricket, which country
   did bowler Matthew
   Hoggard play 67 Test
   matches for?

SOLUTION: PULLOUT

BACK PAGE

QUICK QUIZ

MINDBENDER

MASTERQUIZ

KILLER

SUDOKU

Rug

Tortured

Utilise

Desire

Reroute

Prompt

Approached

Share

Observe

Code

Alludes

Reputation

SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

ALL the solutions read

clockwise around their

numbers. The solution

to clue number 1 starts

from the given letter.

HONEYCOMB

12 C

1 2 3 4 5 6

7

8

9

10

11

1. In which sport is the Calcutta

Cup awarded?

2. Which car company bought
   the Rover Group in 1994?


3. Which Swedish author

wrote the Girl With The
Dragon Tattoo trilogy

of thrillers?

4. What is the surname of

Jess, the Labour MP for

Birmingham Yardley?

5. Which fruit is the cordial
   grenadine made from?


6. The ruined Cistercian
   monastery of Fountains
   Abbey lies on the banks
   of which river in
   North Yorkshire?

SOLUTION: PULLOUT

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1. A piece of cloth is cut into
   a number of smaller pieces.
   One of those pieces was cut
   into the same number again,

and another piece cut into
three-sevenths as many as the
original number. If there are
now 134 pieces, into how many

pieces was the cloth first cut?

2. What connects copy, down
   and out?


3. Which London-inspired song
   may VALUE RETICENCE?


4. Which is the odd one out: sol,
   colon, cordoba, quetzal?


5. Using the chemical symbols,
   how may sulphur, uranium,
   boron, thallium and erbium be
   less obvious?

SOLUTION: PULLOUT BACK PAGE

6d. Collected leaves, say?

Maybe on par with duke! (5,2)

4d. Idealist, throwing glue

on bonfire (5,6)

15a. Curtsies, for no reason,

for starters! (5,6)

1a. Canoeing arm, used for

silent film sounds? (6,5)

14a. Patchy fruit hemmed in

by heads of department (7)

1d. ‘Shift over!’ job (8,3)

5a. Diminished when donned

behind the scenes? (4,3)

7d. Porridge, but not

‘stir’! (7)

DOWN

11 13

1 2 3 4

5 6 7

8 9

10 12

14

15

PITCHERWITS

TM

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue

5 Picture Clue

8 Paddle your own,

right and left (5)

9 In that place again for

comfort (5)

10 Spotted like a

score? (5)

12 Frighten nuisance

caller away out of

boredom! (5)

14 Picture Clue

15 Picture Clue

1 Picture Clue

2 Freshly made from

sinew, lying inside (5)

3 Mistake for cockney

pad, reportedly (5)

4 Picture Clue

6 Picture Clue

7 Picture Clue

11 Stud, organising

a bit of the

house (5)

13 Drain works put at

lowest point (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION — ACROSS: 1 Call it a day. 7 Orate. 8 Feign. 9 Sleeps rough. 11 Egotistical. 14 Moggy. 15 Kirov.

16 In hospital. DOWN: 1 Crossbeams. 2 Leave. 3 Ire. 4 At first. 5 Adieu. 6 On the level. 10 Privy to. 12 Organ. 13 Carat. 15 Kip.