Times 2 - UK (2020-10-15)

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MindGames

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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

four 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 9 words, average;

13, good; 16, very good; 19, excellent

  



 

 
 


  


  

 

  

 
 


 


  

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1 Starbucks 2 John Paul II or Karol Jozef Wojtyla

3 Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield 4 Cutty

Sark 5 Tuesday and Friday 6 BBC World Service

7 Dragon 8 A Touch of Frost 9 Maya Angelou

10 The Way of All Flesh 11 Timisoara 12 The Armourer

of Nantes 13 Stanley Kubrick 14 Amy Williams

15 Enid Blyton

1 Rxf5! gxf5 2 Rg3+ wins as 2 ...

Kh8 and 2 ... Kf8 allow 3 Rg

mate while 2 ... Kh6 3 Ng8+

Kh5 4 Nxe7 leaves White a

piece up

Forensis strepitus (a) The noisy

hubbub of the Roman forum

Poujadist (c) An adherent of

Pierre Poujade, who campaigned

for small business interests

Ailes de pigeon (a) Powdered

curls of hair at the side of

the head

Kakuro 2762

Futoshiki 3803 Lexica 5526

Cell Blocks 3976 Set Square 2765 Lexica 5525

Suko 2995

Train Tracks 1147

Chess — Winning Move Word watch

1 Casual

2 Dynamo

3 Bogota

4 Regina

5 Jalapeño

Quintagram

Quiz

Easy 189; Medium 134; Harder 420

Brain Trainer

Yesterday’s answers

airer, airy, alley, ally, aril, aryl, earl, early,

eyra, ileal, lair, lairy, lari, layer, leal, liar, lira,

rail, railer, raillery, rale, rallier, rally, rare,

real, really, rear, relay, rial, riyal, yare, year

times2 CrosswordNo 8410 Brain Trainer

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HARDER 33333 –^589 x^2 ÷^4 x^3 x^4 HALF –^300

OF IT

x 3 – 85

Across

2 Sleeplikestate( 8 )

6 Medicalassessment( 6 )

8 Onfffire( 6 )

9 Nervous( 7 )

10 Partofajacket( 5 )

12 Changedtroops'

position( 10 )

16 Sociable( 10 )

18 Typeofcoffffffee( 5 )

20 Nuclleartriallprohhibbition

( 4 , 3 )

21 Heraldicdevice( 6 )

22 Beamusingto( 6 )

23 Detailedexamination( 8 )

Down

1 Towingattachment( 7 )

2 Accommodationffforfffowls

( 3 , 5 )

3 Tamperwith

(aracehorse)( 6 )

4 Abovenormalpitch( 5 )

5 Reeking( 6 )

7 Asif( 2 , 6 )

11 SeabetweentheBalkans

andItaly( 8 )

1113 Substancesusedin

chemicalanalysis( 8 )

14 (Heard)byear( 7 )

15 Single-celledanimal( 6 )

17 Infffrequently( 6 )

19 Highlyvenomoussnake( 5 )

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6 7

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9

10 11

12 13

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15 16 17

18 19

20

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B R SEABREAM

VACANT A U A

L T A TROPIC

LEGION C H K

E O D JOCOSE

ANON I D R R

L U ANGLE I E

B T V O CALL

AFLOAT T H O

C Y R TRIBAL

ORIGIN E L D

R N C RELIEF

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Cell Blocks No 3977

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Polygon Set Square No 2766

Please note, BODMAS does not apply

Killer Gentle No 7396 Solutions

Killer Tough No 7397

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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Boye Brogeland of Norway will go

down in history as the whistleblower

who, in 2015, called upon the expert

bridge community to rally together

and ostracise three or four pairs

who were (allegedly) collusively

cheating. Unfortunately the temp-

tation to cheat is apparently great

and the advent of all top-level

bridge being played online is result-

ing in fresh scandals. Shame.

Watch Brogeland play this 6♣

brilliantly from last month’s Minor

Alt Invitational I. Winning West’s

heart lead, at trick two he crossed

to the (jack and) ace of diamonds.

If clubs were 2-2, he would be able

to draw trumps, eliminate the

majors and throw in an opponent

with the second diamond — that

opponent would have needed to

unblock the king from king-low,

hence the early diamond play. He

ruffed a heart carefully with the

eight (to avoid blockage) then

yy

cashed the queen, his care rewarded

when West discarded.

Declarer led the nine (note) of

clubs to the ten and king, crossed

to the ace of spades (East playing

the ten) and led dummy’s carefully

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retained four of clubs to his seven.

He cashed the ace of clubs (felling

East’s jack) and exited with a sec-

ond diamond.

East won the queen of dia-

monds and exited with a heart to

declarer’s ace. Declarer now led his

last club. West had to keep the

king of diamonds, so was squeezed

down to a singleton spade.

At trick 12, declarer led his sec-

ond spade to dummy’s ♠KJ.

Declarer knew West’s last card was

the king of diamonds (if East held

♦KQJ, he would have cashed the

king after winning the queen).

Finessing in spades was therefore

pointless. Declarer rose with the

king and was rewarded when

East’s queen appeared. He won the

last trick with dummy’s jack of

spades and that was slam made via

a lovely show-up squeeze.

The event was won (narrowly)

y

by team Gupta, including the leg-

endary Zia Mahmood.

[email protected]

Contract: 6 ♣, Opening Lead: ♥ 6

Dealer: North, Vulnerability: Both

N

W E

S

1 ♦ 1 ♥

2 ♣ 3 ♥( 1 ) 4 ♣ Pass

4NT( 2 ) Pass 5♦( 3 ) Pass

5 ♥( 4 ) Pass 5 ♠( 5 ) Pass

6 ♣ End

(1) Pre-emptive.

(2) Loving his hand facing partner’s marked

heart shortage, South asks for aces (via

Roman Key Card Blackwood), “aces” meaning

the four regular aces and the king of clubs.

( 3 ) One “ace”.

( 4 ) Confirming all the aces and asking for

the queen of clubs. Given the partnership

are forced to 6♣, South wants North to go

7 ♣ as he has a trick source in diamonds eg

♠Axx, ♥x, ♦KQJxx, ♣Qxxx.

(5) Showing ♣Q (or he’d bid 6♣) and♠K.

S(Brogeland) W N(Lindqvist) E

♠Q 10

♥QJ

♦QJ

♣J 1032

Teams ♠AKJ

♥K

♦ 106543

♣Q

♠ 92

♥A8 2

♦A8 2

♣AK7 65

♠ 876543

♥ 6543

♦K 97

♣-

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Killer 7394

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Quick Cryptic 1722

KenKen 5085

Codeword 4093