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You are West and have to lead against South’s
3NT, which partner has doubled. Which card do
you choose after each of the above auctions?
Like yesterday, partner’s double is certainly made
for penalties — not take out. But it is also conven-
tionally lead directing. Partner is effectively saying
that he’ll defeat the contract if you lead a specific
suit. in the first auction, he wants you to lead the
suit bid by dummy; he may have been going to bid
hearts himself before North did it (remember that
1 ♥ may be made on only a moderate 4-card suit).
So you lead ♥7.
With auction (b), you have to use a bit of imagina-
tion. Partner is showing a long solid suit with an
outside entry — you have to guess which suit, which
is normally not too difficult. it is probably a major,
because the opponents have not used Stayman.
And your own spade holding makes that suit look
unlikely — so, again you lead ♥7, and find partner
with: ♠xxx ♥kQ J10x ♦Ax, ♣xxx. Without partner’s
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to departing
troops? (8,6)
9 Board recruits
college physicist (6)
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lives in English
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including British
bundle of energy (8)
13 Payment to release
romans out of
order (6)
15 Tiny orderly
brings in 500
litres (6)
17 SW resort tries to
dispense with
rubbish initially (2,4)
19 Ejects two
Americans
tackling standard
English (6)
20 Sort of tirade
involving one
bishop? Could be (8)
22 Lofty’s form of
address? (8)
24 Hard to see
American quitting
post in
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26 Put down story
that should
generate some
interest (7,7)1 Long tract? Illness
meant it had to be
amended (5,9)
2 Architect’s flyer (4)
3 Caught one
throwing part
of ballgame (6)
4 Stays attached
to this Cockney
character one
abandoned (8)
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back to front (4)
7 Sewer that
transmits sounds (6)
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nervous about
books (14)
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group of retired
lecturers (5)
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rescue first Lady?
No way (5)
16 record European
tune from the south
that’s infectious (8)
18 Postcodes, say,
covering Black
Sea port (6)
21 Kidnap sailor on the
tube (6)
23 Jump over ring such
as this? (4)
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victim in loose
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