28 The Sunday Times February 13, 2022
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1 Nearly a couple of litres in
a cask (6, two words)
7 Mug up on grammar —
potty, potty (5)
12 Score for Scots strangely
sealed it, huh? League
admitted (12, three words)
13 Sheep close to croft —
close to hand for
Highlanders? (5)
14 One from the right thus
entering border gets
Milesian’s characteristic
expression (7)
15 The enrichment of Tokay,
say, is more fine over
time (8, two words)
17 I’m with this love of fine
arts freshly found in
trivium (5)
18 Twisting jest refined chap
ripped off good lecturer at
Yale, eg (6)
19 As for Hebrews feast starts
from Pesah and having
Seder (6)
21 With credit blown,
biscuits and gravy (6)
23 Relieved because Roman
gods returned (6)
24 Rab C’s aim is courage
without any hint of
manliness (5)
28 Asia’s evergreen press
chap left article (8)
29 Absent mentor back to
whack the gimmes (7)
30 What’s intrinsic to
dramatic fiddle? (5)
31 Grant returning floors
housing crib for home
office alternatives (12)
32 County’s essence given the
mark of choice? (5)
33 Stern part that winds up
audience (6)
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Across
3 Type of shower (6)
6 Downright (8)
8 Preposterous (12)
9 Blood carrier (4)
10 Bullets (4)
12 Go-getting (7)
14 Conduct (4)
16 Empty (4)
19 Highly elated (7,2,3)
20 Up-to-dateness (8)
21 Move very fast (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.
123 456 7 8 9 10 11
12
13 14
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16 17
18 19 20
21 22 23
24 25 26 27
28
29 30
31
32 33
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1 Blunt (6)
2 Filch (7)
3 Cause (5)
4 Disable (12)
5 Sanctuary (6)
7 Proposing, perhaps (2,6,4)
9 Promise (3)
11 A person (3)
13 Stonework (7)
15 Begone! (6)
17 Words in numbers (6)
18 Flair (5)
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; 29, good;
37, very good; 45, 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.
TETONOR HARD
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1 On January 20, 2022, became the youngest female pilot
to fly solo around the world (4,10)
8 Location of the festival which awards the Palme d’Or (6)
13 Cold or chilly as a medical term (5)
14 Character whose clumsiness with guns is a running joke in
The Pickwick Papers (9,6)
15 Ndabaningi was a founder member of the militant Zanu
organisation in Rhodesia (7)
16 , near the northern border, is Iran’s second largest city (7)
17 International Airport is named after the US navy’s first
Medal of Honor recipient in the Second World War (5)
18 Largest of the Solomon Islands (11)
20 The act of preventing something (9)
22 The main tent of a circus (3,3)
24 Poet and critic who resigned as Encounter’s literary editor
when its covert CIA funding was confirmed in 1967 (7,7)
27 The execution period of a computer program (7)
28 Game of dexterity, also called knucklebones (5)
29 U2’s second studio album, released in 1981 (7)
31 The circumcentre of a triangle is where drawn from the
midpoints of its sides meet (14)
33 Normally decennial event, expected in 2022 in Scotland (6)
35 Post of an officer ranking between major and brigadier (9)
37 Children’s author who co-founded the Fabian Society (5,6)
39 PC peripheral used in the days of dialup connections (5)
41 The acorns of the oak grow directly from its twigs,
rather than hanging on stalks (7) (pictured)
43 1978 single by the Police, named after a character in Cyrano
de Bergerac (7)
44 “Stop messing about!” was this
comedy actor’s catchphrase (7,8)
45 Official order or
proclamation (5)
46 This sugar is an RNA
component (6)
47 Leontes, King of Sicily, is a
principal character in this
Shakespeare play (3,7,4)
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 Hungarian-born actress (pictured) who wrote “’s
Complete Guide to Men” (3,3,5)
2 Unusually, Egham includes rowing, skiffing and punting
races (7)
3 “Pirate” broadcaster founded by Ronan O’Rahilly in 1964 (5,8)
4 In geometry, the state of being in contact at a single point (8)
5 A small cafe, originally one which allowed smoking (9)
6 “Present / Are less than horrible imaginings” (Hamlet) (5)
7 Football club based at Stark’s Park, Kirkcaldy (5,6)
9 The Grand Canyon State (7)
10 Finnish electronics company founded as a pulp mill in 1865 (5)
11 The keeper of an illicit liquor shop (9)
12 The chief port of Russia’s Pacific coast (11)
19 (the virgin) was a nickname given to Joan of Arc (2,7)
21 Conferences or discussions, originally between African
tribespeople (7)
23 Sister of Regan and Cordelia in King Lear (7)
25 Wine-growing region, perhaps surprisingly located
between the Garonne and Dordogne rivers (5-4-4)
26 Composer of Fingal’s Cave (11)
28 Actress who played Kelly Garrett in Charlie’s Angels (6,5)
30 Edinburgh arts venue, formerly the Charlotte Baptist
Church (4,7)
31 Device which may be programmed by a cardiac
electrophysiologist (9)
32 Colloquially, to create a commotion (5,4)
34 Member of a sect portrayed as opposing Christ in the New
Testament (8)
36 Old Testament book whose name
comes from a 33A of Israel (7)
38 SL ____, Sporting CP and FC Porto
have never been relegated from
Portugal’s Primeira Liga (7)
40 Yellow supergiant which is the
brightest star of Cygnus (5)
42 Informally, a relative by
marriage (2-3)
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 Warm place in hard
ground (6)
3 Heyday of veteran in
biology classes (6,3)
4 Volunteer assassin? (5)
5 Natural pockets of drink in
distant seas? (8)
6 Best mate knocked out by
playwright (2,5,7)
7 Stars identify as you and
I (7)
8 Something to play with
that’s amazing dog (3-3)
9 Who could start this? (8,6)
15 Give nothing in push for
glory (9)
16 That which a shopper
shouldn’t? (8)
17 The effects of rogue
deeds (7)
19 Judge enters for a favour (6)
20 Choke is left out (6)
22 Criminal leaving certain
Greek island (5)
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CROSSWORD 4994 Dean Mayer
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25 26
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 As married man, go off
with mother (3,5)
6 It may kill when provoked,
initially (3)
10 Blanket as protective
attire (7)
11 A field among fields? (7)
12 We are old and confused,
other employers
dominate (4,3,8)
13 Shoot somebody clever (4)
14 French towns seizing
queen while backing
palace (10)
17 Certain musical parts in
ballet, oddly (10)
18 Crack supply (not
ecstasy) (4)
21 Copper cable clips onto
plastic point (6,9)
23 In high fashion, make
better clothes available (7)
24 Wrong start, thus not
starting (7)
25 Be able to read a letter (3)
26 Conservatives with no
time for principles (8)
Across
Down
1 Geordie’s behind a
historical kidnap (5)
2 For Macron the surges will
stop during short month
for basic rule (12, three
words)
3 Rest that is initially bred in
need (7, two words)
4 Territory south of Utah is
sound (5)
5 Craving? Take in what’s
nearby, what’s most often
in bottles (6)
6 Turn over a hard bit of
safety film (6)
8 As icky suet could be! (8)
9 Who’d bend press release
involving press? (5)
10 Probe trustee about rank
concealing moral quality
(12, three words)
11 Exceptionally large lead
weight mostly comprising
certain metal (6)
16 Go on lacking knack? (8,
two words)
20 Sack servant laid up
inside (7)
21 Put the wind up aged
scold (6)
22 Strange case of British
bird (6, two words)
23 Company check up for
space travellers? (6)
25 Those dabbling in
wetlands could be
troubled least (5)
26 Blunt American to flap
impatiently (5)
27 Plant one in Scotland
around isle (5)
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