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06.08.

Word watch Sudoku Mild No 11,730 Fiendish No 11,731 Super fiendish No 11,

Josephine Balmer

Crios

a A religious service
b A belt
c A wheat snack

Cria
a A baby animal
b A geological layer

c A misery memoir

Crinose

a Dark red
b A type of fabric
c Exciting

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1673 by Teazel

Across

1 British tucking into quality

steak (1-4)

7 Wildly enthusiastic, sure to get

fancy personal grooming (9)

9 Secret store of money

announced (5)

10 Hiker takes stroll between two

rivers (7)

11 Judged, even if finally innocent

(7)

12 Criminal cases he finally came

to drop? (7)

15 Sack in here for vegetation (7)

18 Statesman is part of cabal; ask

anyone (7)

20 Voice of gangster? (7)

22 What to do with broken down

car, namely? (2,3)

23 Note colleague as little as

possible (9)

24 Place to pull over was

positioned close (3-2)

Down

1 Implied one is entering

diplomacy (5)

2 At a former time, completed

cursory examination (4-4)

3 Come out east to join up (6)

4 Sharpness of people

supporting a copper (6)

5 Examination of gold and

aluminium (4)

6 Empress gives new order to

artisan (7)

8 Their saloon replaced fuel

(5,3,3)

13 Stars make much use of

unknown route (5,3)

14 That very person hates me to

bits (3,4)

16 Almost all weapons creating

panics (6)

17 Foot caught as lady moves

round (6)

19 Like Brazil? Unhinged! (5)

21 Cask is on time to provide a

beer (4)

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Yesterday’s solution on page 15

© PUZZLER MEDIA

15

ALAMY

Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

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

The Times Daily Quiz Olav Bjortomt

Answers on page 15

1 The title of the 1996
Michael Bay action film
The Rock refers to

which US prison island?

2 “The fault, dear
Brutus, is not in our

stars, but in ourselves”
is a quote from which
Shakespeare play?

3 The sole opera by the
film score composer
Bernard Herrmann was

an adaptation of which
Brontë novel?

4 Winsor McCay
animated the 1915
torpedoing of which
ocean liner in a 1918

propaganda film?

5 Who served as

George Washington’s
vice-president?

6 William Shatner played

a cop with the forenames

Thomas Jefferson in

which 1980s TV show?

7 Cameron Frye (Alan

Ruck) is the best friend

and Sloane Peterson

(Mia Sara) the girlfriend

of which movie truant?

8 Which fruit

brandy is a traditional

ingredient in a Singapore

sling cocktail?

9 Which Toyota

car model is named

from the Latin for

“small crown”?

10 The Red Turbans

peasant rebel

movement flourished

in northern China

at the end of which

dynasty?

11 Based on a Fritz

Pfleumer invention,

AEG’s Magnetophon

K1 was the world’s first

practical what?

12 Don’t Shed No Tears,

The Wall and Walkin’ NY

are hyperreal painting

series by which

American artist?

13 What did Mike

Marshall and John

Stalberger invent

when kicking around a

homemade beanbag?

14 Retiring in 2019,

which Slovak tennis

player won the 2016

WTA Finals on her

tournament debut?

15 Which fruit/vegetable

slicer is pictured?

Suko No 2935

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