30 The Sunday Times November 14, 2021
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Each row, column and 3x3 box
must contain the digits 1 to 9.
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English Dictionary & Thesaurus.MEPHISTO (^3194) Across
1 Fine clothes not
manufactured in the
Bahamas (5)
5 These creatures are
deadly so look to guard
dog (7)
11 Party line given on cutting
good wholesome fare (10,
two words)
13 Most of top football team
right to show muscle (7)
14 Rattle up north to secure
new run backing for US
lyricist (6)
15 Spell centimetre: this is in
middle — twice! (4)
16 Gut reduced with PE
equipment (5)
17 Cycles holding back in
queue ultimately saves
lives? (7)
18 Illicit drug in part changed
for another drug (7)
24 A scarf in France is
ill-favoured somehow, full
veil banned (7)
25 Aged daughter hugging
judge gets excited (7)
27 Without some equity
income, see about taking
Times (5, two words)
28 Hint: do put this first for
indoor game (4)
29 Like place to relax (6)
31 As is one first principle (7)
32 One into cannabis with
oral decay to obtain old
medics (10)
33 Actor, British associated
with a horse and Henry (7)
34 A little banking marks the
river (5)
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Across
4 Hand (3)
7 Unique (8)
8 Time (4)
9 Asseverate (6)
10 Fade away (3,3)
11 Act of God, for
example (5,7)
13 Amoral (12)
16 Bait fish (6)
18 Corpulent (6)
20 Playing card dispenser (4)
21 Peckish (8)
22 Shaft (3)
Down
1 2 3 456
7 8
9 10
11 12
13 14 15
16 17 18 19
20 21
22
Each number in the main grid can be formed by adding or
multiplying a pair of numbers in the strip below the grid. Each
pair of numbers should be used twice: once as part of an
addition and once as part of a multiplication. For example, a 10
and 24 in the main grid may be solved by the sums, 4 + 6 and 4
x 6, respectively. Enter each sum in the boxes below its answer.
Any blanks in the strip must be deduced, bearing in mind the
numbers are listed in ascending order.
1 2345678 910
11
12 13
14 15
16 17
18 19 20 21 22
23 24
25 26 27
28 29 30
31
32
33 34
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NAME ...................................................................................
ADDRESS...................................................................................
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1 Quarrel (4)
2 Harder to look at (6)
3 Burning torch (8)
4 Urge (4)
5 Cunning plan (6)
6 Murmuring (8)
11 Window over window or
door (8)
12 Marine menagerie (8)
14 Horse chestnut (6)
15 Get the better of (6)
17 Milk serum (4)
19 Number of Worthies (4)
POLYGON
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
21 words, average; 28, good;
35, very good; 42, excellent.
Each row, column
and 3x3 box must
contain the digits
1 to 9. The digits
within each group
of cells joined by
dotted lines must
add up to the
figure in the top-
left-hand corner
of each group.
Within each
dotted-line group,
a digit cannot be
repeated.
53 234 35 114
70
50
196 17
31 264
52
78
150 29 276 41
TETONOR MODERATE
Tim Moorey
1 Ancient city near Tunis, destroyed by Romans in 146BC (8)
6 Actor who has starred in The Jewel in the Crown, Game of
Thrones (pictured) and Gosford Park (7,5)
12 British singles winner at the US Open in September (4,8)
13 Bring goods back into the country (8)
14 In Malta, this songbird is thought of as prestigious, and
domesticated (10)
15 “They are ill s that think there is no land, when they can
see nothing but sea” (Francis Bacon) (10)
16 Country where leks can be spent in Durres and Vlore (7)
17 Language error such as Mike Tyson’s “I might just fade into
Bolivian” comment after a 2002 defeat (11)
20 Chief port of the 12th-century Kingdom of Jerusalem (4)
21 A person to whom cold callers would like to speak (9)
23 The capital of New York state (6)
24 Patou is a French informal name for this livestock
guardian (8,8,3)
28 Light tanker used to supply water or fuel an aircraft (6)
30 The Twelve Bens mountains dominate County Galway’s
National Park (9)
32 Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe is subtitled The and the
Peri (4)
33 In British forces, the naval equivalent of a major-general (4,7)
35 Loch in the Trossachs is featured in Walter Scott’s poem
The Lady of the Lake (7)
37 Foodstuff often accompanying meat (especially sausages)
and potatoes or dumplings (10)
39 French novelist and dramatist who wrote Les Misérables (6,4)
40 Northern upland temporary
accommodation for
herdsmen (8)
41 Fruit used in the early 20th
century to prevent scurvy in
the Royal Navy (12)
42 Grandmother of Mia, Lena
and Lucas Tindall (8,4)
43 A New York taxi rank (8)
Across
SUKO
CELL BLOCKS
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.
2 Former biennial sailing event which included the Fastnet
race (8,3)
3 Brand (5,4)
4 1960s pop idol whose hits included What Do You Want and
Poor Me (4,5)
5 Strangles is also known as distemper (6)
6 Large triangular park in south London where a tree in
memory of the actor Jeremy Brett was planted in 2007 (7,6)
7 The Duke of Norfolk’s castle is in this West Sussex town (7)
8 The 26 bishops representing the Church of England in
parliament (5,9)
9 Forename of Richard Nixon’s vice-president (5)
10 Boarding school dormitory practical joke (5-3,3)
11 Angelo Dundee was Muhammad Ali’s (9)
18 African ruminant whose reddish-brown coat has white
stripes on the upper legs (5)
19 Attempts to damage the reputations of public figures (5,9)
22 Cinematic movement represented by Hiroshima Mon
Amour and Jules et Jim (8,5)
25 Seabird (pictured) which has pinkish underparts in
summer plumage (7,4)
26 Casta diva is the famous soprano solo in this opera by
Bellini (5)
27 Borders location of a famous smithy (6,5)
29 Pater noster (3,6)
31 Lacking vigour or in a decline (2,1,3,3)
32 Former high security prison on the Isle of Wight (9)
34 On Island, off the Antrim coast, Irish was spoken by
some residents until the
1960s (7)
36 Widely recognised and
well-respected (6)
38 pleats are ones all folded
in the same direction (5)
Down
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.
2 Job interview? (11)
3 Listeners supporting new
approaches (5)
4 Fawning follower of a
trapeze artist? (6-2)
5 Kid American singer with
wig on head (3,3)
6 A building housing many
wards? (9)
7 I like you essentially (3)
8 Town house and stone
mills (8-2-3)
13 Dodgy men hate vice act
that’s successful (11)
15 Recent political event
from the right? (9)
17 Instrument I have in a
case (8)
20 Bunk on rubbish relief
vessel? (6)
23 Stick with fish after
chowder starter (5)
25 I’m a revolutionary pal of
Napoleon (3)
Down
CROSSWORD 4981 David McLean
12 3 4 567
8
9 10
11 12 13
14 15 16
17
18 19
20
21 22 23
24 25 26
27 28
KENKEN
All the digits 1 to 6 must appear in every
row and column. In each thick-line
“block”, the target number in the top
left-hand corner is calculated from the
digits in all the cells in the block, using
the operation indicated by the symbol.
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Ferment: Men fret about how to get beer
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NAME ...................................................................................
ADDRESS...................................................................................
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1 Strike overwhelming a
corporation (6)
5 One often seen out on the
tiles? (6)
9 Mix gin and slap on some
Monk tunes (9)
10 Quiet chap with salty wife
in story (4)
11 Problem getting on,
primarily, the web (6)
12 Rowdy type seen in Split
on holiday (8)
14 Actor finally plays Robert
Wadlow? (8)
16 Long fish delivered in
Billingsgate (4)
18 Attend bash (4)
19 Older egg tossed in trash (8)
21 Fish tar initially caught in
cutter? (8)
22 Might one steal a pound
sterling (6)
24 Track missing its opening
bar (4)
26 Amazingly epic price
drop (9)
27 African seen in Mali by a
Nigerian (6)
28 Important to avoid
whiskey in old age? (6)
Across
Down
1 Old transport company
starts to organise lifting
gear, for instance cranes (7)
2 Turn aside one number
and get a different
number (7)
3 As before, fancy a few in
Glasgow? Hard going (4)
4 Express tears over one
movie not initially
popular (7)
6 Wine before 6 at school?
Name withheld (7)
7 Nerve that’s shown up in
courts (5)
8 Talk up yours truly? Not
entirely (6)
9 What mathematicians
could do right is Greek to
me, one thousand out! (10)
10 English poet’s children
heard (5)
12 Publican’s role spoken of in
low dive (10, two words)
19 Swine grabs a lot of Indian
booze giving money no
longer valid (7)
20 Canadian province in
short has almost the
smallest birds (7)
21 Religious schools
possessed an edge (7)
22 Commercial line is
hurtful (7)
23 Spirit shown up in Greek
province on active duty (6)
25 Bitter about grim and
dangerous guardian? Not
half (5)
26 Two articles about Troy in
letter — from there? (5)
30 River in Spain first to brim
over? (4)
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