38 The Sunday Times November 28, 2021
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SUDOKU
Each row, column and 3x3 box
must contain the digits 1 to 9.
Winners will receive a Collins
English Dictionary & Thesaurus.1 Green light and how it was
transmitted (6)
2 Chemical processing
hides missing gallons (6)
3 Host introducing a type of
seed to coffee (9)
4 De-tailed fish dish
shows manifold
improvement? (12)
6 Training not needed in
outside broadcasting (2-3)
7 Fly low with nobody on
board (8)
8 Picked up capital from
Spain’s generosity (8)
11 More than one bird box
line sells door to door (12)
15 I can’t fit in a clue for
“amount” (3,3,3)
16 Oratory of MAs leaving
choirmaster confused (8)
17 Play safe and sleep
over (5,3)
19 Plate of lamb for one that’s
upset (6)
20 Beastly male excesses,
hollow legs! (6)
22 Writer’s epigram, not
entirely to the point (5)Down
MEPHISTO (^3196) Across
1 Husks had energy, raw or
cooked (9)
11 Old money in Brussels by
road, look — that’s nice! (7)
12 A part of the body that
could be chilled or
trembling once (6)
13 Bolivians flying, but not
through foreign capital (6)
14 To become more efficient
in general (4)
15 Dancer in topical
magazine (4)
16 Bird-house firm possessed
by the same animal
specialist (7)
17 Scottish pet eating river
fish (5)
18 Nurse rushed, full of
kindness? (8)
23 Pour out the acrid plant
juice (8)
25 Cheats and criminals not
caught (5)
27 When church needs
little girl to show
self-discipline (7)
29 Whales and fish endlessly
trailing round (4)
30 Alluring woman offers the
tiniest little kiss (4)
32 Butterfly I had spotted by
promenade maybe (6)
33 Hail Mary regularly
rendered in holy
journey (6)
34 Dicky had no gee-gee —
losing leader of England
totally downcast (7)
35 Cowslip the female scout
leader initially found by
rotten tree (9, two words)
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Across
1 Meet (6)
4 Mountain group (6)
9 Capricious (13)
10 Exonerate (7)
12 Bottle (5)
13 Felony (11)
17 Reception room (5)
18 All together (2,5)
20 Rube Goldberg
equivalent (5,8)
22 Substance with high pH (6)
23 Motionless (6)
Down
123 45 6 7
8
9
10 11 12
13 14
15 16
17 18 19
20 21
22 23
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.
12345 67 8 9 10
11
12 13
14 15
16 17
18 19 20
21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28
29 30 31
32 33
34
35
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ADDRESS...................................................................................
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1 Parsimonious (6)
2 Cut away (3)
3 Perfect (5)
5 Aerial (7)
6 Takes away (9)
7 Insect’s 5D (6)
8 Anglo-Saxon council (11)
11 Chit-chat (5,4)
14 Madeira’s capital (7)
15 Respiratory disorder (6)
16 Small fox with big ears (6)
19 Humectant (5)
21 Drunkard (3)
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; 43, 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.
224 39 300 36
29 270 37 336
450 30 180 40
33 380 43 200
TETONOR EASY
Don Manley
1 Salieri-trained originator of the romantic lied (8)
6 Comic who wrote Ripping Yarns with Terry Jones (7,5)
12 A short-sighted person suffers from this condition (6)
13 Yachtswoman (pictured) made a Dame at the age of 28 (5,9)
14 Central feature of Vietnam’s flag (4)
15 Informally, Crambe maritima, a coastal plant sometimes
used as a vegetable (3,4)
16 Term for Edward VIII following December 10, 1936 (8)
17 An irrational or extreme fear of confined spaces (14)
20 “Mamma mia, here I go again. / My my, how can I you?”
(Abba) (6)
22 Often over two floors, self-contained accommodation with
its own entrance situated in a larger house (10)
23 1980s fashion items originally worn by cheerleaders (2-2,6)
26 New Zealander Richard was the first bowler to take 400
Test wickets (6)
28 Physicist Arpad devised the rating system used in chess (3)
29 Word that can come before break, party and garden (3)
30 Victorian art critic John wrote Modern Painters (6)
31 Scientific field in which the Richter scale is used (10)
32 Standard-issue rifle of the British army, 1895-1957 (3,7)
34 Mythically unsuccessful flyer (6)
37 Jazz trumpeter whose nicknames included “Pops” (5,9)
38 “Surprisingly quick at throwing stones, turf and other ”
(Walter Scott) (8)
40 Musical category into which Blur, Oasis and Pulp fit (7)
43 The largest and heaviest of the three fencing swords (4)
44 They are used to flex, abduct and rotate the arms (7,7)
46 London Zoo’s Snowdon is
being repurposed to house
colobus monkeys (6)
47 Actress who played Princess
Leia in Star Wars (6,6)
48 Milton poem whose title is
“the happy man” in Italian (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 English football team whose ground is Selhurst Park (7,6)
3 Punches thrown to strike the underneath of the chin (9)
4 The real surname of the author of Middlemarch (5)
5 Science fiction work linked with Wells and Welles (3,3,2,3,6)
6 Soprano Nellie appears on Australia’s 100 dollar note (5)
7 The (1972) is Pier Paolo Pasolini’s version of some
Middle English literature (10,5)
8 How Nicolas Sarkozy might write “in the style of ” (1,2)
9 British rowing club which won the Olympic men’s eight in
1908 and 1912 (7)
10 The _ Empire was ended by the expedition led by Cortés (5)
11 Marine __ are only found on the Galapagos islands (7)
16 Lomov seeks the hand of Natalia in this Chekhov farce (1,8,8)
18 Fruit (pictured) produced by hybridisation of mandarin
orange and grapefruit trees (7)
19 Artist in the Early Netherlandish school, best known for
triptychs (10,5)
21 Nationality of Red Cross co-founder Henri Dunant (5)
24 Word that can come after Alice, Colorado and Palm (7)
25 Use of different methods until success is achieved (5,3,5)
27 “Soy un perdedor, / I’m a baby, so why don’t you kill
me?” (Beck) (5)
33 Biblically, a descendant of Jacob (9)
35 In Greek myth, a fire-breathing monster made of three
beasts (7)
36 Heraldic symbol on the St Andrew’s flag, the ensign of the
Russian navy (7)
39 Ravi Shankar is the best-known player of this instrument (5)
41 Dr Johnson’s essay series
The included Sleep and
Robbery of Time (5)
42 Hong Kong and Macau are on
opposite sides of the River
estuary (5)
45 “Pretentious? ?”
(Fawlty Towers) (3)
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.
CROSSWORD 4983 Robert Price
1234 56 7 8
9 10
11
12 13
14 15
16 17
18
19 20
21 22 23
24 25
26 27
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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Galley Slave: He and his co-workers had to pull together
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ADDRESS...................................................................................
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1 Remove the manual from
co-driver? (8)
5 Opera beginning to look
average (6)
9 Job easily done at home,
firm admits (8)
10 Ruler of China erodes
another’s borders (6)
12 Sounded or rather sound
like an animal (5)
13 Timely work left by a
Parisian (9)
14 Small caterers working
with hot cakes (12)
18 More nuts in his hoard,
arranged as piles (12)
21 Final contribution to a
score draw by the short
outside left (9)
23 Something one could play
by oneself (5)
24 Free case dropped off by
wine shop (6)
25 Absorbed by dance music,
zip about feeling giddy (8)
26 Hard nut picked for games
master we hear (6)
27 Where things put out
for disposal might be
tipped? (8)
Across
Down
1 Slam old leader of Empire
— deceitful, considered
historically (6)
2 Parson’s role, I fancy, could
be to give description of
psalm in church? (12)
3 Stinging insects, not
primarily poisonous
creatures? (4)
4 Place making metal
objects — in reality,
possibly, it has
disappeared (7)
5 Head in ice — that in part
could be remedy for
dizziness? (5)
6 Bishop, rarely exalted
within, is someone with a
story (7)
7 Poet and priest introducing
holy scriptures (5)
8 Material with wonderful
look given name (6)
9 Nasty computer said to be
in one respect
“elephantine”? (12)
10 What’s new in a fruit with
biological attachment? (6)
19 Veil had to be put on
daughter — expression of
surprise about that (7)
20 I need an odd biochemical
substance (7)
21 A new young wife here
may be wasting away (6)
22 Teacher to finish with
little money (6)
24 Slough is “foreign” and
delightful, not half! (6)
26 Runs off spinner being
observed, as of old (5)
28 Bit of film about one
group of professional
experts in information (5)
31 Walk in sexy style (4)
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