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Word watch Sudoku Mild No 11,890 Fiendish No 11,891 Super fiendish No 11,

David Parfitt

Forensis strepitus

a Hubbub
b A criminal investigation
c An intestinal bacterium

Poujadist
a A boules player
b A person who

collects thimbles
c A supporter of
small business

Ailes de pigeon
a A hairstyle
b Wide shoulder pads

c A foot condition

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 1723 by Corelli

Across

1 Shrewd copper taking tips

from trainee (4)

3 Discordant noises after start of

Society meeting (7)

8 Back in Dolgellau, Susannah’s

no different from normal (2,5)

9 Manuscript found on lectern

in Oxford, originally (5)

10 Conclusion to clash, indeed,

that’s cut and dried! (3)

11 Tiny child with a large sum (5)

13 Not entirely honest, eg

grabbing savings (4-3)

15 They favour youth, eg, as it’s

fantastic! (7)

17 No turning back: determined

to make start (5)

18 Teams up every so often to

produce large flyer? No! (3)

21 Ghostly European appearing

by lake (5)

22 Tenant going round back of

house to get in again (2-5)

23 Unemployed CID officers

meeting American press chief

(7)

24 Polish end of button in blue (4)

Down

1 American spies graduate

teetotaller with a long Italian

loaf (8)

2 EU right to upset firm (4)

3 Man from south, newly

relocated (6)

4 Peter on tree overlooking

river’s very secure (4,2,6)

5 Sloth scattered linseeds (8)

6 Twelve numbers, back to back

(4)

7 Lack of sympathy for defective

state of Old Testament? (12)

12 Hitchcock film in three equal

parts about English bishop

(3,5)

14 Did mass, that’s also

understood (8)

16 Large amount of water studied,

we hear, hit the roof? (3,3)

19 Directed to consume whiskey?

That’s obscene! (4)

20 Tailless furry creature seen in

colonnade (4)

12 3456

7

8 9

10

11 12 13 14

15 16 17

18

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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 Which American
coffeehouse chain began
developing its pumpkin

spice latte in 2003?

2 Who was elected pope
by the second papal

conclave of 1978?

3 Who is the only

British prime minister
to have been of
Jewish parentage?

4 Which tea clipper,
built in 1869, shares its
name with the witch in

the Robert Burns poem
Tam o’ Shanter?

5 EuroMillions lottery

draws are held on which
two weekdays?

6 Which international
broadcaster began
in 1932 as the BBC
Empire Service?

7 In Harry Potter,

Ukrainian ironbelly,

common Welsh green

and Chinese fireball are

types of what creature?

8 Bruce Alexander

played Superintendent

Stanley Mullett in

which ITV series

(1992-2010)?

9 In the poem Still I

Rise, which US writer

asked: “Does my

sexiness upset you?”?

10 A 2008 album by

French progressive

death metal band

Gojira shares its title

with which Samuel

Butler novel?

11 The Romanian

Revolution began

in which city, the

country’s third-largest?

12 Which 1863 opera

by Michael William

Balfe is based on

Victor Hugo’s play

Marie Tudor?

13 Fear and Desire

(1953) was a war

movie directed early

in the career of which

film-maker?

14 Which 2010 Winter

Olympic champion

called her skeleton

sled “Arthur”?

15 Which English

children’s writer

(1897-1968) is pictured?

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