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Word watch Sudoku Easy No 11,913 Difficult No 11,914 Fiendish No 11,
David Parfitt
Mese
a A high plateau
b A lyre string
c Yak milk
Nithing
a Procrastination
b A dog’s whisker
c A dishonourable
coward
Piccadill
a A duelling sword
b A hot chilli pepper
c A high stiff collar
Answers on page 15
The Times Quick Cryptic No 1730 by Teazel
Across
1 Punish, in this case wrongly (8)
5 A service returned from a
distance (4)
8 Bone in heap, not quite dead?
(8)
9 Lock up penguin killer (4)
11 Lower a foot (5)
12 Revolutionary is wrong to back
heaven (7)
13 Small lake in view (6)
15 Almost transfix a native of
Africa (6)
18 Turncoat’s characteristic:
wanting gold (7)
19 Without leader, nearer failure
(5)
21 Not an Irish county crop (4)
22 An east European impressed
by no French emperor (8)
23 After a month, seek disguise
(4)
24 Uncontrolled teen lust is to
cause restlessness (8)
Down
1 On a ship, comprehensive
direction-finder (7)
2 A short test in lobbies (5)
3 Standard menu elated both
going out (5,5)
4 After treatment, stay in
normal frame of mind (6)
6 Delivers one a flower (7)
7 Bank holding a sort of race (5)
10 The first recipe, perhaps, for
track sport (7,3)
14 A script: it’s about girl
underground, mostly (7)
16 Organise a run over some
mountains (7)
17 Other ranks row about a
decree (6)
18 Child with me picked up an
emblem (5)
20 Cleaned out, son displayed
sorrow (5)
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Friday’s solution on page 15
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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 spiritual leader
co-wrote The Book
of Joy (2016) with
Desmond Tutu?
2 Which fish in the
family Clupeidae is
cold-smoked to make
a kipper?
3 Thomas Young
“made a number of
original and insightful
innovations” in the
decipherment of what
writing system?
4 Which Gilbert and
Sullivan operetta has
the alternate title The
Lass that Loved a Sailor?
5 Vientiane is the capital
of which Asian country?
6 Launched in 2010,
EcuRed is which
Caribbean country’s
state-run version of
Wikipedia?
7 Formerly called the
Sac à dépêches, which
Hermès handbag
is named after the
“Hitchcock blonde” star
of Rear Window?
8 The Silence of the Girls
(2018) is Pat Barker’s
retelling from the female
characters’ view of which
epic poem by Homer?
9 Which Burmese
diplomat was the first
UN secretary-general
from Asia?
10 The jukebox musical
On Your Feet! is The Story
of Emilio & ... whom?
11 Founded in 2011,
which Berlin-based
company is the largest
meal-kit provider in
the USA?
12 Featuring a sound
hole, which percussion
instrument from Peru
is a hollow wooden box
designed to be sat on?
13 Which Spanish
sculptor completed the
Cristo del Otero, the
symbol of his birthplace
of Palencia, in 1931?
14 Which fencer, and
2017-18 minister of
sports, has won the
most Olympic medals of
any Frenchwoman?
15 Which constellation
is pictured?
Suko No 3004
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