The Sunday Times November 14, 2021 31
NEWS REVIEW
CODEWORD
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SUDOKU WARM-UP
KILLER SUDOKU
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS
numbers 1 to 4 on the faces.
Nia and Rhys play a game in
which each of them takes
turns throwing the two dice,
scoring the sum of the two
hidden numbers. After each
has thrown both dice three
times, if only one of them
scores an agreed total or over,
then he or she is the winner.Otherwise the game is drawn.
After Nia has thrown once,
and Rhys twice, they both
have a chance of winning. If
Rhys had scored less on his
first throws and Nia had
scored double her first throw
total, then Nia would have
had a 35 times greater chance
of winning.Howard WilliamsFour-Sided Dice GameI have two identical four-
sided dice (regular
tetrahedra). Each die has theTEASER 3086
Sally Brockwith a plum in their mouth and a silver
spoon up their nose.
Friends? Well, sure, after you’ve lived
in London for 30 years, you might just
be able to recognise your next-door
neighbour, whereas up north the whole
street will have you round for a mug of
tea and some biscuits before the removal
men have dropped off the first box. By
teatime you’ll be downing pints with the
whole town in the pub, and by nightfall
you’ll be mayor.
Other things? Well, there are
mercifully few places where you are
expected, or even allowed, to eat vegan
polenta, and the markets and shops have
very few pronoun landmines to tread
on. So it’s probably best if Boris drops
his plans to socially engineer a recovery
up north and simply allows people to
come to their own conclusions.
It’s happening in Detroit, after all. The
first time I was on Michigan Avenue,
someone put a gun to my head. But I
went a couple of years ago to the same
spot and had some free-range chicken in
a nice goose broth. Then I found a
tremendous doctor who was able to
lance my boil.I love the north, but this plan to make doctors
move there is making me feel very ill indeed
Jeremy Clarkson
worry because it’s not a government’s
job to tell people where they should live
or how they should get to work. It’s not a
government’s job to interfere at all. And
that brings us back to the north-south
divide and what might be done.
In the south we have seen the
Yorkshire Shepherdess stomping around
Keld, so we already know the north is
beautiful. Much of it knocks even
Devon’s coast into a cocked hat. So it’s
not the countryside that’s stopping
people moving there.
Nor is it a lack of bright lights. I stay
often in Manchester, where there are
many fine restaurants and you can have
dirty weekends at the Dakota hotel. I
also have a soft spot for Leeds, and
Newcastle is always a laugh. So that’s not
it either.
Property prices are low too. You can
buy a six-bedroom Georgian house with
far-reaching views for a pound, and
you’ll have no problem finding a job
either. And don’t say the problem is the
accent, because every single piece of
research finds that when someone has a
Yorkshire accent, they sound more
trustworthy than someone who speaksThey don’t want to do all that studying
and then end up in a grotty surgery up
north, facing a relentless queue every
morning of fat, thick people who want
either an excuse to sue the doctor for
negligence or a prescription for
tranquillisers that they can part-
exchange for a whippet.
We need more family doctors in the
country. At least 6,000 more, in fact. But
I’m not sure we’re going to hit that target
if the Boris police start to frogmarch all
the newly qualified practitioners out of
the hospital common room and onto a
train to Pontefract.
We’re told that under the proposals
this wouldn’t happen. New boys and
girls would simply be told that they
could not practise in places like
Oxfordshire, where there’s one GP for
every 1,688 residents, but that they
could in places like Hull, where the
locals think a “doctor” is some sort of
fish.
But I dunno. It still smacks of social
engineering, and that makes me
nervous. Because the next thing you
know, we’ll all be at holiday camps on
the North Sea coast, doing star jumpsand singing rousing campfire songs
about how strength can be achieved
through joy.
We read recently that Nottingham
council is making people pay £400 a
year to park at work and that civic chiefs
in Bristol are thinking of doing the same
thing. The idea is that people are forced
to use the bus or to move to a house
nearer their place of employment.
That also makes my teeth itch withW
hen Boris Johnson
realised that Britain
was home to one of the
worst economic
divides of any
developed country, he
announced that he
wished to do some
levelling-up, and many
people, me included,
nodded enthusiastically. Because when
one half of the country is gorging itself
on peach and peacock and the other is
nibbling hopelessly on the carcass of a
dead dog, there will, one day, be trouble.
However, while it is easy to accept
there’s a problem, it’s actually quite
hard to think what might be done,
practically, to balance things out.
Because it’s not as easy as putting a fat
sack of cash on one end of the seesaw.
And neither are you going to solve
anything by building a railway line that
gets Manchester United’s fans from their
homes in London to an away game in
Anfield three minutes more quickly.
Many years ago we saw the BBC
making a risible effort to bridge the
north-south divide by setting up shopnext to a ship canal in Salford. Lovely,
except the man charged with getting
staff to relocate wouldn’t actually leave
the leafy suburbs of London himself.
We see this quite often in industry as
well. Bosses are happy to take whatever
grants may be on offer to set up a factory
in Mansfield but are unwilling to take
their own kids out of school in Henley.
Last week, though, the government
finally announced it had come up with a
plan. It had noticed that, on average,
people from poorer areas in the north of
England can expect to die a decade
earlier than affluent people in the south
and it’s decided that, to address this,
doctors should no longer be able to set
up shop in areas where there’s already
good medical cover.
Hmm. I see. So a young chap or
chapess spends five years at university
learning how to say all the body parts in
Latin and then another five years as a
junior doctor, learning how to sew up
an aorta, and all the time they’re
dreaming of having a nice little practice
in Dorset, dealing with mild phlebitis in
the church organist’s thigh and a bit of
gout in the chief constable’s right foot.You can buy a
six-bedroom
Georgian house
with far-reaching
views for a pound
Defence is surely the hardest
part of the game. Today’s
hand, from the First Division
of the Premier League, saw
declarer capitalise on a small
defensive error:Both vulnerable, Dealer SouthIn both rooms the bidding was:What would you lead from
that West hand?
Our team-mate decided to
get active and started with the
ace of spades, expecting the
king to be in dummy. When
he saw the dummy he
continued with ace and
another club, and in the
fullness of time came to two
diamond tricks.
Against us West started with
a more passive trump. I won
in hand and tried the nine of
spades which held. The
contract was now cold
because I could generate a
third spade trick and discard
two diamonds. In fact, I
played a club now. West
ducked and I came back to aCHESS
Since the return of over-the-
board events, juniors have
soared through the rankings.
This trend was noticeable
during the Grand Swiss at
which I faced six of the top
fifteen Under-20 players in the
world. It is clear we will be
hearing about names such as
Firouzja, Keymer and
Praggnanandhaa for years to
come.
While it was the youngsters
who shone in Riga, one of the
most exciting games was
produced by an elder
statesman of chess. Boris
Gelfand won a thrilling battle
which featured the appearance
of five queens.White: Boris Gelfand
Black: Sergei Movsesian
FIDE chess.com Grand
Swiss, Riga 2021
Slav Defenc
1 d4 d5 2 c4 c6 3 Nf3 Nf6 4
Nc3 dxc4 5 e4 b5 6 Be2 This
developing move has been
championed by Gelfand’s
protégé, Daniil Dubov. 6 e5 Nd5
7 a4 is the more traditional
approach. 6...e6 7 a4 b4 8 e5
Gelfand initiates a forcing
variation. 8...bxc3 9 exf6 cxb2
10 fxg7 bxa1Q Taking up the
challenge! 10...Bxg7 avoids the
coming chaos. 11 gxh8Q Qa5+An incredible position. After
only 11 moves, four queens
stand on the board. Black is the
first to attack, so Gelfand offers
a sacrifice to quell his
opponent’s initiative. 12 Nd2 c3
13 0-0 cxd2 14 Bxd2 Qxd1 15
Rxd1 Qxa4 Black has won a
piece, though his king remains
unsafe. 16 Qxh7 a5 Computers
point out the counter-intuitive
16...e5 as Black’s best defence.
17 h4! This innocent-looking
pawn will later decide the game.
17...Ra7 18 h5 Ba6 19 Bf3 Rd7
20 h6 Rxd4 21 Bh5 Rd7 22 Qg8
Bd3 23 Bg5 Bg6 24 Re1 Bxh5
25 h7 Qb4 26 Rxe6+ The killer
move. Black’s king is fatally
weakened. 26...fxe6 27 Qxe6+
Re7 28 Qc8+ Kf7 29 Qf5+ Ke8
30 Qc8+ Kf7 31 Qf5+ Ke8 32
h8Q A fifth queen is crowned!
32...Re1+ 33 Kh2 Bg4 34 Qg6+
Kd7 35 Qf7+ Be7 36 Qhe8+
Kc7 37 Bxe7 Black resigns
Spot the Move 1297:
White to play.Munguntuul-Tregubov, Riga- Can you see how White,
the top woman in the Lindores
Abbey blitz event, broke
through her opponent’s
defences?
Send your solution (first move only), to
Sunday Times Spot the Move 1297, The
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Essex CO2 8GZ, or email puzzle.entries
@sunday-times.co.uk. The first correct
answer drawn after next Saturday wins
a £20 Waterstones voucher. Open to
18+ UK & ROI residents only.David Howell BRIDGE
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What are Nia’s and Rhys’
scores and the agreed
winning total?
Send your solution to: The Sunday
Times Teaser 3086, PO Box 29,
Colchester, Essex CO2 8GZ or email
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The first two correct solutions opened
after next Saturday each win a £20
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ROI residents only.
trump, took a spade finesse,
discarded my king of clubs on
the spade king and simply
conceded two diamonds.
Do you see where West
went wrong? “Cover an
honour with an honour” is an
adage known to us all, and
that is what he needed to do
here: as long as he plays either
the queen or the ace of spades
on the first two rounds of the
suit, declarer can never make
a third spade trick.
Last week’s problem
West leads the queen of clubs,
followed by the jack of clubs
and a third club (covered by
the king and ace).
This is a simple exercise on
suit handling. Ruff with the
spade ten, then play the ace of
trumps and the queen of
trumps to the king. A
diamond to the queen,
followed by the five of spades
to dummy’s six allows you to.
take another diamond finesse.
Now you can cash the ace of
diamonds and ruff your
diamond loser in the dummy.
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♥ 8 4 2
♦ 8 3 2
♣ K 6 3
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♠ 9 4
♥ K J 7 6
♦ 9 7
♣ Q J 10 9 4
♠ 8 7
♥ Q 10 9 5
♦ K 10 6 4
♣ A 8 2
♠ A Q J 10 5
♥ A 3
♦ A Q J 5
♣ 7 5
West North East South
1 ♠
Pass 2 ♠ Pass 4 ♠
All Pass
afrit, aitch, arctic, artic, attic, chai,
chair, chic, chit, circa, craic, fair, faith,
fiat, firth, fitch, frit, hair, iftar, itch, rich,
rift, tachi, tacit, tactic, thrift, tich, titch,
trait, triac, trifa, twit, twitch, waif, wait,
whir, whit, witch, witchcraft, with,
wraith, writ
MEPHISTO 3193
Across: 1 Shaduf, 5 Tootsy, 10 Latirostrate, 11 Atoned, 12 Incan, 14 Amla, 16 Bionic, 17 Set in,
19 Caesura, 20 Arriage, 25 Urman, 26 Pointe, 28 Moot, 30 Aggro, 31 Aboard, 32 Theologaster,
33 Streel, 34 Ideate Down: 1 Slabby, 2 Atoc, 3 Dinantian, 4 Uremia, 5 Tswana, 6 Otiose, 7 Tacitus,
8 Stagirite, 9 Yens, 13 Bier right, 15 Cespitose, 18 Armiger, 21 Ankole, 22 Gambol, 23 Too bad,
24 Tendre, 27 Wats, 29 Ta-ta
WEATHER
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE JUMBO CROSSWORD 291
Across: 1 Sackbut, 5 Cerise, 8 All wet, 12 Harold Lloyd, 13 Ivan Lendl, 15 Gavin Maxwell, 16 Rolando,
18 Clough, 19 Dearly, 20 Cenarth, 23 Doing or suffering, 25 Idol, 27 Lightsabre, 29 Jujube tree,
31 Tusk, 32 James Hadley Chase, 35 Sturmer, 36 Bright, 37 Altair, 39 Mazarin, 40 High Holidays,
42 Wheatgerm, 43 Nerve ending, 44 Roslin, 45 Dassie, 46 Swansea
Down: 1 Soho, 2 Carnaroli, 3 Billingsgate, 4 Tell Me, 5 Croix de Guerre, 6 Red Sea Rift, 7 Shirley,
9 La-la land, 10 Winona Ryder, 11 Telco, 14 African Queen, 17 Acidulates, 21 Halle Berry,
22 Ariana Grande, 24 Round the Horne, 26 New Caledonia, 28 Gas guzzlers, 30 Chain gangs,
33 Analytics, 34 Amaretti, 36 Bohemia, 38 Elders, 39 Mower, 41 Agra
POLYGON
Winners Crossword 4978 A Flack, Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, JMU Finney, Northampton, RW Phillips, Teston, Kent, AM Price, Maidenhead, Berkshire Mephisto 3191 G Pollitt,
Glazebrook, Cheshire, T Cook, Forfar, Angus, DJ Emms, Crawley, West Sussex, P Steggle, London NW6, S Whyld, Loth, Sutherland Teaser 3083 P Furner, Purley, Greater
London, C Worthington, Harrow, Greater London Chess 1294 SR Belding, Rugby, Warwickshire Sudoku 1454 A Pyke, Yeovil, Somerset
Amsterdam 11C f
Athens 17 f
Auckland 22 sh
Bangkok 26 sh
Barcelona 15 sh
Beijing 13 s
Belgrade 13 f
Berlin 10 f
Bogota 20 th
Boston 9 f
Brussels 12 f
Budapest 11 f
Buenos Aires 29 f
Cairo 28 s
Calgary 5 sn
Cape Town 23 s
Caracas 26 th
Casablanca 22 s
Chicago 3 sl
Dubai 28 s
Dublin 16 sh
Geneva 10 sh
Gibraltar 21 f
Guatemala 22 sh
Helsinki 2 f
Hong Kong 22 s
Istanbul 16 f
Jersey 13 sh
Johannesburg 32 th
La Paz 16 sh
Lagos 29 th
Lima 21 f
Lisbon 22 s
London 13C sh
Los Angeles 29 s
Madrid 17 f
Mexico City 18 f
Miami 26 f
Moscow 3 sn
Nairobi 25 th
New Delhi 28 s
New Orleans 21 s
New York 9 f
Oslo 3 s
Panama 30 th
Paris 12 r
Prague 9 f
Rio de Janeiro 23 f
Rome 19 sh
San Francisco 19 s
Santiago 25 s
Seoul 15 sh
Seychelles 28 s
Singapore 29 th
Stockholm 6 f
Sydney 23 f
Tel Aviv 28 f
Tenerife 18 sh
Tokyo 18 f
Toronto 4 sl
Trinidad 30 th
Tunis 23 s
Venice 14 r
Vienna 8 f
Warsaw 9 f
Washington DC 11 f
AROUND THE WORLD
Key c=cloud, dr=drizzle, ds=dust storm, f=fair, fg=fog, g=gales, h=hail,
m=mist, r=rain, sh=showers, sl=sleet, sn=snow, s=sun, th=thunder, w=windy
¬ A few showers possible
across northern Spain and
the Balearics, but the rest of
Spain and Portgual will be
largely dry and sunny
¬ Showers or longer spells
of rain across Sardinia, Sicily
and mainland Italy, but some
southern areas staying drier
¬ Showers along the coasts of
Greece and the Balkans
¬ Variable cloud, bright
spells and showers over
France, the Low Countries
and the Alps
¬ The odd shower is possible
across Germany and the rest
of central Europe, but most
places will be dry and bright
¬ Bright periods and variable
cloud across eastern Europe
¬ Mostly dry, bright and cold
over Scandinavia, with the
odd snow shower in the north
EUROPE
THE WEEK AHEAD
Monday
Rain most likely
in Wales and
northern England.
Max 13C
Tuesday
Rain in the
northwest, patchy
drizzle elsewhere.
Max 12C
Wednesday
Showers in the
northwest, bright
spells elsewhere.
Max 11C
Thursday
Spells of rain in
the north, drier in
the south.
Max 14C
Friday
Rain most likely
in the north and
west. Elsewhere,
drier. Max 15C
Saturday
Further rain
possible in the
northwest.
Max 13C
SUN, STREET LIGHTS & MOON
NIGHT SKY
Aberdeen 07:49 15:56 07:51 15:07 02:47(Mon)
Belfast 07:52 16:23 07:54 15:20 03:04(Mon)
Birmingham 07:28 16:15 07:29 15:02 02:48(Mon)
Bristol 07:27 16:22 07:28 15:04 02:51(Mon)
Cardiff 07:29 16:24 07:31 15:06 02:54(Mon)
Cork 07:52 16:44 07:53 15:28 03:16(Mon)
Dublin 07:48 16:30 07:50 15:21 03:06(Mon)
Glasgow 07:51 16:11 07:53 15:15 02:56(Mon)
London 07:17 16:12 07:19 14:54 02:41(Mon)
Manchester 07:33 16:13 07:35 15:04 02:49(Mon)
Newcastle 07:36 16:04 07:38 15:03 02:46(Mon)
Norwich 07:15 16:02 07:17 14:49 02:34(Mon)
Plymouth 07:29 16:32 07:31 15:09 02:58(Mon)
Sun
rises
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lights on
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off
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rises
Moon
sets
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TODAY’S WEATHER
UK and Ireland forecast
Some mist and fog patches at first, perhaps slow to clear
across parts of England and Wales. The rest of the day will be
fairly cloudy with occasional bright or sunny spells as well as
the odd light shower or spot of rain, most likely in the east and
near western coasts, while more persistent rain spreads into
northwestern areas. Winds will be light and variable, stronger
at times in the far north of Scotland.
REGIONAL FORECASTS
London, SE England
Light showers and bright intervals. Mainly light north to
northeasterly winds. Max 13C. Tonight, drizzle. Min 5C
Midlands, E England
Variable cloud, bright spells and the odd shower. Light north
to northeasterly winds. Max 13C. Tonight, mist or fog. Min 5C
Channel Is, SW and Cent S England, S Wales
Cloud and drizzle in the west, brighter in the east. Light and
variable winds. Max 13C. Tonight, rain or drizzle. Min 4C
N Wales, NW England, Isle of Man
Cloud and spots of rain, as well as some brightness. Light and
variable winds. Max 12C. Tonight, rain or drizzle. Min 5C
Cent N and NE England
A few bright spells and the odd light shower. Light south to
southeasterly winds. Max 12C. Tonight, spots of rain. Min 4C
Scotland
Cloudy with bright intervals and spells of rain. Light to fresh
southerly winds. Max 13C. Tonight, further rain. Min 4C
N Ireland, Republic of Ireland
Spells of rain, most likely in the west. Mainly light south to
southwesterly winds. Max 15C. Tonight, further rain. Min 7C
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TODAY’S SOLUTIONS
CONCISE CROSSWORD 1755
Across: 1 Cadet, 4 Upright, 8 Paraphernalia, 9 Enclosure,
10 Dim, 11 Oblivious, 15 Dry, 16 Raconteur,
17 Ophthalmology, 19 Notably, 20 Lithe
Down: 1 Copper, 2 Directory, 3 Topsoil, 4 Unequivocally,
5 Range, 6 Gel, 7 Trauma, 10 Dished out, 12 Own goal,
13 Adjoin, 14 Argyle, 16 Rehab, 18 Hit
SPOT THE MOVE 1296
1 Be5! wins material: 1...dxe5 2 Rxb2
TEASER 3085
306, 918 and 2754
CROSSWORD 4980
Across: 1 Shoestring, 6 Scan, 9 Red mullets, 10 Jeep, 12 Lieder, 13 Bigamist, 15 Enchantress,
18 Aphrodisiac, 21 Saucepan, 22 Popeye, 24 Code, 25 Disapprove, 26 Spry, 27 Unscripted
Down: 1 Stroll, 2 Oodles, 3 Squeeze-boxes, 4 Role, 5 Nitric acid, 7 Clerihew, 8 Nepotism,
11 Fait accompli, 14 Activation, 16 Hassocks, 17 Shoulder, 19 Retort, 20 Legend, 23 Marc
SUKO CELL BLOCKS
Venus is low but brilliant in the SSW to SW for
two hours after sunset. The Moon stands below
the Pleiades in Taurus and low in the WNW
when it is partially eclipsed before dawn on
Friday. Most of the Moon’s disc passes through
the S part of the central dark umbral shadow of
the Earth between 7.19am and 10.47am, but it
sets early in this window in the UK. Alan Pickup