Daily Express - 30.07.2019

32 Daily Express Tuesday, July 30, 2019

DX1ST

Puzzles

SUMMIT UP

Across:

1 Champions,

7 Actors,

9 Riot,

10 Outer,

12 Bode,

13 Increases,

14 Asks,

16 Guest,

18 Lava,

19 Learns,

20 Straddles.

Down:

1 Carriage,

2 Atom,

3 Motors,

4 Protested,

5 Opt,

6 Needed,

8 Trespass,

11 Insult,

12 Ballad,

15 Earl,

17 Err.

SMALL

CROSSWORD

WORD BUILDER

QUIZWORD

SAMURAI SUDOKU

If the number in

each triangle is

the sum of the

two below, what

is the top

number?

Solution

tomorrow







 

   



   

 



7 3 2

9 6 1

4 2 9 5

7 6 2

4 3 6

6 4 7 5

6 1 2

7 6 3

7 9 5

5

2

4 7

8

5

4

6

5

5

6

4

9

9

4

1

6

3

8

8

7

1

3

3

1

2

9

6

1

1 9

3 6

3 5

9 6 1

1 8 2

7 5 9

9 6

4 2

1 2

7 6 9

9 6

2 7 5

9 3 6

4 1 2 7

4 1 8

2 8 5 7 6

6 4 2

6 8 9

2 6 3

2 7 4

1 7 4

7 3 9 4

2 1 5

5 4 7

6 3 8 1

1 4 2

1 5 9

In Samurai Sudoku, normal sudoku rules apply, but the 9x9 sudoku at

the centre shares four of its 3x3 boxes with those of the outer sudokus.

Solution tomorrow

Answer each clue

so that every word

contains the same

letters as the

previous word, plus

or minus one.

Solution tomorrow

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

1 Consumed

2 Eleven

3 Mother

4 Meddle

5 Plod

6 Baby carriage

7 Average

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ACROSS

1. Character in Charles Dickens’s
   novel Our Mutual Friend who
   marries John Rokesmith (5,6)


2. Variety of French bean with light-
   coloured edible seeds (7)


3. Eurasian plant having daisy-like
   flower heads (5)


4. The vertical part of a stair or
   step (5)


5. Canadian river in S.W. Alberta
   which flows southeast into the
   South Saskatchewan River (3,4)


6. King of England 946-955 (6)


7. Long handled implement having a
   curved blade for cutting grass (6)


8. Plant of the East Indies,
   Operculina turpethum, that has a
   medicinal root (7)


9. Walled city in Apulia, Italy which
   houses Greek and Roman
   remains (5)


10. Paul, 1988 Olympic men’s 800m
    champion (5)


11. 1983 novel by Elmore Leonard (7)


12. Plant such as Centaurea
    calcitrapa having spiny purplish
    flower heads (4,7)
    DOWN


13. Nick, author of the novels
    Bachelor Kisses and Perfect
    Skin (5)


14. Another name for alfalfa (7)


15. John, director of the 1994 film
    Serial Mom (6)
    5. C.H., West Indies Test cricketer
    who scored 242 n.o. against India
    at Bombay in 1975 (5)
    6. Rupert, writer, director and star of
    the 2018 film The Happy Prince (7)
    7. Gustave, French composer of the
    1900 opera Louise (11)
    8. 1967 Best Supporting Actor
    Oscar nominee for Who’s Afraid
    of Virginia Woolf? (6,5)
    14. River in the Midlands region of
    England upon which Derby
    stands (7)
    16. Leaf-eating Old World monkey
    having reduced or absent
    thumbs (7)
    17. Town in ancient Palestine which
    was a keeping place of the
    tabernacle and the ark (6)
    19. David, playwright whose works
    include Maydays and Pentecost (5)
    21. Swimming stroke in which the
    feet are kicked like paddles while
    the arms reach forward and pull
    back through the water (5)
    Solution tomorrow

6

17

5

12

1 486

1411

25 26

42 51

93

9

22

6

13

3 497

1613

29 29

51 58

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