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Each row, column and 3x3 box
must contain the digits 1 to 9.
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1 One gets credit in car club
for decorative braid (6)
5 Opening with code right
away, absorb stuff
gradually (6)
10 I reckon hospitals hit
badly — ignoring variant
risk is not for me (10)
13 They succeed in shooting
pigeons (7)
14 With little space in suite,
work in front of curtain (6)
15 International bank
backing India’s spring
crop (4)
16 Source of fruit coming
with it locally (5)
17 Keen blogger, say
uncertain regularly?
Meditation needed
ultimately (7)
18 Mentally prepares dodgy
Dickens character on the
radio (7)
24 Jewish leader sat out with
clergyman? That’s one
side of Qatar (7)
25 US bass singer dressed for
ceremony? (7)
27 Settle in Italy, say (5)
29 Front removed from car
in struggle (4)
30 Clumsy idiot fathoms out
puzzle (6)
32 Piscina utilised only partly
for swimmers (7)
34 Inmate’s record shows
person enjoying rights
forever (4-6)
35 Stokes gossips as before
with exceptional people in
Perth? (6)
36 Most timid getting jab
indeed for nothing (6)
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Across
4 Swivels (6)
7 Printed supplement (8)
8 Long journey (4)
9 Peter Pan’s ship (5,5)
10 Press (4)
11 Impermeable (10)
14 Bird of the crow family (10)
16 Italian greeting (4)
17 Ephemeral (10)
20 Desire (4)
21 Bodily (8)
22 Extent (6)
Down
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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.
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35 36
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The Chambers Dictionary 13th edition is the primary
reference. Readers are invited to visit Tim Moorey’s
website at timmoorey.com
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21 Nullify (4)I don’t believe you (4,2,7) ...................................................................................
3 Rough edge (4)
4 Dressing gown (8)
5 Conversion into glass (13)
6 A sponge may be on
(3,5)
9 Mandible (3)
12 Like a raptor’s beak (8)
13 Tiny amount (8)
15 Shaft (3)
18 Certain (4)
19 Wander (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;
37, very good; 46, 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.
25 128 46 70
150 19 88 52
47 66 37 132
90 17 172 28
TETONOR MODERATE
Tim Moorey
1 Narrator of The Arabian Nights (12)
7 Perforated plate used in replicating designs (7)
12 Ancient Sanskrit treatise on love as well as eroticism (4,5)
13 Israeli prime minister who succeeded Ehud Barak in
2001 (5,6)
14 An obsessive thought or desire (4,4)
16 Mother of the first Queen Elizabeth (4,6)
18 In Steptoe and Son, Harold and Albert are (3-3-4,3)
20 Brand of mints named after the distinctive sound made by
opening and closing its container (3,3)
22 The father of Romulus and Remus (4)
23 That which a diabetic must frequently monitor (5,5)
24 First name of the character played by Jennifer Saunders in
Absolutely Fabulous (5)
26 Advertising slogan used since the early 1980s, originally
followed by “as they say in Germany” (9,5,7)
29 Only major character in MASH portrayed by the same actor
in the film and TV versions (5)
30 Principal components of most alloys (4,6)
32 Significant feature (pictured) of the UK’s only entire city
named as a Unesco World Heritage Site (4)
35 The most populous city of New Jersey (6)
36 Singer who recorded two Trio albums with Dolly Parton
and Emmylou Harris (5,8)
38 A final effort or performance (4,6)
39 Former name of John F Kennedy International Airport (8)
42 Equal in duration (11)
43 An essential accompaniment (9)
45 Small Jewish settlements in
eastern Europe (7)
46 Castle is a former home of
the Royal Greenwich
Observatory (12)
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.
1 Forest deer, native to Japan, also naturalised in the UK (4)
2 Colloquial word for an apotheosis (9)
3 “By 2040, France and Germany are going to be ,
historically” (George Friedman) (3-5)
4 To soften flax or hemp using moisture (3)
5 Chinese winner of snooker’s 2021 UK Championship (4,7)
(pictured)
6 Split pulses, especially lentils, used in Indian cookery (4)
7 American actor popularly known as Sly (9,8)
8 Study of the world views of different cultures (12)
9 In statistics, a coefficient is the covariance of the
random variables X and Y, divided by the square root of the
product of their variances (11)
10 “The of his coffers shall make coats / To deck our
soldiers for these Irish wars” (Shakespeare’s Richard II) (6)
11 In Irish mythology, the equivalent of Elysium (3-2-3)
15 In a 1989 film also starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff and Beau
Bridges played the (8,5,4)
17 Botticelli painting featuring Venus, the nymph Chloris and
the Roman goddess Flora who she transforms into (9)
19 Archaic name for a Muslim (9)
21 Lead singer of the band whose 2003 hit Seven Nation Army
became a sports anthem (4,5)
25 In golf, a stroke intended to put the ball onto the green (8,4)
27 Director of films including Alien and Blade Runner (6,5)
28 Animals associated with heavy rain (4,3,4)
31 Brazil’s first capital city, now capital of the state of Bahia (8)
33 In Australia, a minimum pay rate for particular workers (5,4)
34 Another name for a sea-squirt (8)
37 Opponents of the Axis in the
Second World War (6)
40 Latin for “to be” (4)
41 Albert and Michel opened
the Waterside Inn, the first
restaurant in Bray, Berkshire,
to win three Michelin stars (4)
44 The dance music equivalent
of tempo (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.
2 Sure to get quartered out
of university (2,3)
3 Nurse overlooks secretory
organ that’s in a state (7)
4 European embarrassed
about making a bloomer (9)
5 Police operation tailing
short criminal is
persistent (7)
6 One leading royal
appearing in silly sketch (5)
7 Old coin found by North
African (7)
8 American drivers in rigs (9)
13 Foreign articles on sport
seen as pants, perhaps (9)
14 One rowing couple on an
Italian honeymoon? (9)
16 Admission from hack
about their work stress (7)
17 Physically attack oaf who's
a tree-hugger (4,3)
18 You, on drop of plonk,
went out refreshed (7)
20 Some felt tense backing
Sturgeon’s plan (5)
22 Side of fish (5)
Down
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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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1 Part of dinner? Moan
if there’s no second
helping (4)
4 Bird of prey? (4-6)
9 Persons taking up a
pattern-making
pastime (6,7)
10 Mistakes flipping happen,
Judas admitted (6)
11 I needn’t put off acquiring
hotel ultimately (2,3,3)
12 Lab helping to solve
problems of
blindness? (5,3)
14 Red warbler leaving sierra
for good (6)
15 Unopened book about one
more highly-strung (6)
17 Guilt and sin maddened
one speaking in tongues (8)
19 Forecasters announcing
gains for businesses (8)
21 Tired and shivering,
say, heading off to
Balmoral? (3,3)
23 One ringing a felon on an
enforced curfew? (10,3)
24 Cops report reckless
person in a rush,
perhaps (10)
25 Animals which can be
seen in acts (4)
Across
Down
1 West Indian repelled one
old despot (5)
2 Ceremony with tea that’s
served up by university (7)
3 Female traffic warden
turned up in area with
international transport (4)
4 Lord’s school dead
reserved (3)
5 Burden of proof initially
with some of the media (7)
6 This works about right for
“close covering” (5)
7 Yours truly’s sullen with
vertigo (6)
8 Bosnia sent new clothes
with Red Cross (10)
9 More reduced insurance
for tools (6)
11 Maori staff nurse joins
hospital among cheers (6)
12 Dressed-up Romans love
going out, scrambled egg
on toast first of all (10, two
words)
19 French stars going topless
are hot in Riviera summer
sun (7)
20 Unbacked seat catches
erect American soldier (6)
21 A lady going around city
unclothed? (7)
22 Hawks beginning to shoot
inspiring end of western (6)
23 Batted flipping insect not
seen before (6, two words)
26 Fleet Street’s written
about old woman oozing
eccentricity (5)
28 Use crack to relieve
pressure (5)
31 Some supporting
Sondheim’s finale in
vintage Company (4)
33 Indian mister turned up
for tax collectors (3)
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