Times 2 - UK (2020-09-15)

the times | Tuesday September 15 2020 1GT 15

MindGames

© PUZZLER MEDIA

Divide the grid

into square or

rectangular

blocks, each

containing one

digit only. Every

block must

contain the

number of cells

indicated by the

digit inside it.

Enter each of

the numbers

from 1 to 9 in

the grid, so that

the six sums

work. We’ve

placed two

numbers to get

you started.

Each sum

should be

calculated left

to right or top

to bottom.

From these letters, make words of

three or more letters, always including

the central letter. Answers must be in

the Concise Oxford Dictionary, excluding

capitalised words, plurals, conjugated

verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending

in LY, comparatives and superlatives.

How you rate 12 words, average;

17, good; 23, very good; 29, excellent

  

 
 


   

  

 

 

 

   

 


   

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UIP

ENIGMA

AN

GRANGE

L

DEVOUR

BI

JOB S

NWK

CYNIC

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1 Coronation Street 2 Abdication of Edward VIII

3 Field marshal 4 Maxim gun — invented by Hiram

Stevens Maxim 5 It takes care of its eggs or offspring by

holding them in its mouth for extended periods of time

6 Pakistan 7 Britt Ekland 8 Mark Twain 9 Cor-ten or

Corten steel 10 Harlan Coben 11 Central African

Republic — on March 29, 1959 12 A third-gender or

non-binary status 13 Ibeyi 14 Ernst Happel — in the

years 1970 and 1983 respectively 15 Estée Lauder

Squint (b) To move across

obliquely, as in cross-crossing

a hill

Squirage (c) A book containing

the list of county squires

Squalus (a) A shark

Kakuro 2740

Futoshiki 3781 Lexica 5482

Cell Blocks 3950 Set Square 2743 Lexica 5481

Suko 2969

Train Tracks 1121

Word watch

1 ... Qh4+! leads to a decisive

infiltration as 2 Nxh4 leads to

2 ... Bxh4+ 3 Rf2 (3 Kd1 Rxf1+)

3 ... Rxf2 4 Qxe5+ Kg8 and

mate will follow on f1. After

2 Ke2 Qg3, White’s cause is

hopeless, eg 3 Rdd2 Rxg2+

4 Bxg2 Qxg2+ 5 Kd3 Qxf3+

winning

Chess — Winning Move

1 Salt

2 Hard

3 Spring

4 Electoral

5 Rock’n’roll

Quintagram

Quiz

Easy 85; Medium 78; Harder 1,

Brain Trainer

Yesterday’s answers

ash, ashet, eth, hale, halt, haslet, hassle,

haste, hat, hate, hatless, heal, heat, hest,

lah, lash, lath, lathe, leash, sash, selah, sesh,

shale, she, shea, slash, stash, tash, the

times2 CrosswordNo 8384 Brain Trainer

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  Across
  1 Greekmathematician( 10 )
  9 Purifffied;cultured( 7 )
  10 AAAustraliandog( 5 )
  11 Cleaningagent( 4 )
  12 Domesticassistant( 4 , 4 )
  14 Subatomicparticle( 6 )
  15 Subatomicparticle( 6 )
  18 Settlledd,ddeciddedd(( 8 ))
  20 Spoken;ofthemouth( 4 )
  22 Stupidperson( 5 )
  23 Frameffforclimbers( 7 )
  24 Generalvote( 10 )
  Down
  2 Tugsharply( 4 )
  3 Subatomicparticle( 6 )
  4 Smallingeniousdevices( 8 )
  5 Lineofmountains( 5 )
  6 Noteofgoodstobuy( 8 , 4 )
  7 Roadsidesafffetyfffence( 5 , 7 )
  8 Romanticintrigue( 6 )
  1113 Opinionresearcher( 8 )
  16 Excitement;stimulate( 6 )
  17 Subatomicparticle( 6 )
  19 AAAudibleairintake( 5 )
  21 Listofdishes( 4 )
  SolutiontoCrossword 8383
  1 2 3 4 5 6
  7 8
  9 10
  11 12
  13
  14 15 16
  17
  18 19 20
  21
  22 23
  24
  EUROPE GASES
  S E L C R I C
  COYPU LEARNER
  A N MOO S A A
  PLAZA SOPHISM
  O R G E A B
  LEDGER ABSEIL
  O O F E L E
  GRIDDLE DRUID
  I N I LIE D E
  SOPRANO VYING
  T U R N I N G
  SATAY ALIGNS
  Cell Blocks No 3951
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  Polygon Set Square No 2744
  Please note, BODMAS does not apply
  Killer Moderate No 7348 Solutions
  Killer Tough No 7349
  As with standard Sudoku, fill the grid so that every column,
  every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Each set
  of cells joined by dotted lines must add up to the target number
  in its top-left corner. Within each set of cells joined by dotted
  lines, a digit cannot be repeated.
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  Italy enjoyed huge success in the
  Blue Team era of the 1970s. Then
  there was a lull until Italy reigned
  supreme again in the 1990s and
  2000s. Only one player spanned
  those two eras — Lorenzo Lauria.
  Lauria is a streetfighter. A slight
  man, now in his seventies, he’ll
  fight for every trick. Show him a
  chink in your armour and he’ll
  pounce. I have always enjoyed
  playing against him.
  On today’s deal from the Italian
  premier league, Lauria was playing
  against his legendary Blue Team
  partner and mentor Benito
  Garozzo, now in his nineties. The
  pupil was to give the master a
  great display, both in the erudite
  auction then in the play.
  How should Lauria declare 6♦
  on♠K lead?
  Declarer will have wondered
  why neither opponent bid spades,
  missing nine cards as he was. East
  would surely have ventured a
  spade bid with six cards, so West
  rated to have four spades in addi-
  tion to (probably) six clubs for his
  2 ♣bid (missing
  y
  ♣AJ10). West
  rated to have only three red cards,
  most likely two hearts and one
  diamond (which would be the
  yy
  queen only one time in four).
  After winning the ace of spades,
  at trick two declarer found the key
  play of leading a diamond to the
  jack, the apparently risky first-round
  finesse necessary to preserve
  dummy’s king of diamonds entry.
  He then cashed the ace of diamonds
  (West discarding) and crossed to the
  ace-king-queen of hearts.
  We st discarded on the third
  heart but declarer could ruff a
  fourth heart, cross to the king of
  diamonds (drawing East’s queen)
  and enjoy the fifth heart. Slam
  made. [email protected]
  Contract: 6 ♦, Opening Lead: ♠K
  Dealer: North, Vulnerability: Neither
  N
  W E
  S
  1 ♥ Pass
  1NT( 1 ) 2 ♣ Dbl( 2 ) Pass
  3 ♣( 3 ) Pass 3NT( 4 ) Pass
  4 ♦( 5 ) Pass 4♥( 6 ) Pass
  5 ♣( 6 ) Pass 6 ♦( 7 ) End
  (1) Playing Two-over-One (a Two-level
  response is forcing to game), the 1NT
  response shows up to 12 points.
  (2) Card-showing ie more take-out than
  penalties. Typically, North would have a
  club fewer.
  ( 3 ) Judges he is too good merely to invite
  game via a jump to 3♦.
  (4) Apparently, the 3 ♣bid showed half a
  club stopper (eg ♣Qxx), so North knows
  ♣J10x will provide a full stopper.
  (5) By going via 3 ♣ to bid diamonds, South
  is looking for a diamond slam. Typical opti-
  mism from Lauria but North, Alfredo
  Versace, has shown a good hand with some
  diamond support, and that ♣A is massive.
  (6) Ace-showing cue bids.
  (7) Takes the plunge given the presence of the
  ace of spades and the three decent diamonds
  — not to mention the fine hearts. North will
  have pictured South with something like
  ♠xxx, ♥x, ♦AQxxxx,♣Axx.
  S(Lauria) W N(Versace) E
  ♠J 10862
  ♥J 1053
  ♦Q6 2
  ♣ 2
  Teams ♠A 3
  ♥AKQ
  ♦K8 5
  ♣J 108
  ♠ 97
  ♥ 76
  ♦AJ
  ♣A 63
  ♠KQ 54
  ♥ 42
  ♦ 10
  ♣KQ 9754
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