The Times - UK (2022-02-21)

21.02.22

Word watch Sudoku Easy No 13,017 Difficult No 13,018 Fiendish No 13,019
David Parfitt

Buckle-beggar
a A shellfish-eating gull
b A salesman hawking
wares from a satchel
c A person performing
marriages without a
licence

Uranology
a Astronomy
b The study of bears
c A book recounting the
deeds of the Titans

Mesial
a Relating to plateau
environments
b Meagre, scanty
c Situated down the
middle of the body

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 2075 by Tracy

Across

7 Get to a church, after religious

education (5)

8 Still time for meditation (7)

10 Wild horse has to, followed by

trained nag (7)

11 Fish, ray, rounding rear of

schooner (5)

12 History surrounding male

sanctuary (9)

14 Pig therefore knew, at the end

(3)

15 In truth, a yellowish type of

fodder (3)

16 Reportedly selected Oxford

college illustrated (9)

18 Raffle a revolutionary prize (5)

20 Finding of court going against

Italian composer (7)

22 Coach’s sports shoe (7)

23 Follow, hugging right path (5)

Down

1 Truly mixed-up, mother and

father (4,3,5)

2 Observer and Times

supporting old-fashioned

Republican (6-2)

3 Flightless bird trapped by

Ledger (Heath) (4)

4 Mark of disgrace that’s initially

concealed by Greek character

(6)

5 Dark dresser, ultimately old

hat (8)

6 Monster therefore keeled over

(4)

9 The enemy bound to take its

toll? You’ll have to wait and see

(4,4,4)

13 Unwise dropping Roma’s top

forward (8)

14 Curved sword — I’m carried

by stupid racist (8)

17 Concealed hide close to sett (6)

19 A young woman has had

bottom pinched, sadly (4)

21 Ceremony proper, on the radio

(4)

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10 11

12 13 14

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18 19 20 21

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Friday’s solution on page 15

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Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

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

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Answers on page 15

15

1 Before the introduction
of the euro, the punt was
the standard currency of
which country?

2 Which chapel in the
Vatican Palace is named
after Pope Sixtus IV?

3 Peter Cushing played
Winston Smith in the
1954 BBC adaptation of
which novel?

4 The phrase “the
dreaded lurgy”
originated on which
1950s radio comedy?

5 Which title character
in a Booker prizewinning
novel is named after
the Piscine Molitor
swimming pool in Paris?

6 The film Yuli is
about which Cuban
dancer, who was the

Royal Ballet’s first

black Romeo?

7 In 1969, which luxury

British sports carmaker

introduced the DBS V8?

8 Eaten as Australian

bush tucker, the white

larva of the cossid

moth Endoxyla

leucomochla has what

common name?

9 Which Sufjan Stevens

song is named after a

US serial killer who

dressed up as “Pogo

the Clown”?

10 Which Spaniard’s

break came in 1971

when Ossie Clark asked

him to design shoes for

a catwalk show?

11 Which artist painted

Omi Obini and La

Réunion after his return

to Cuba in 1941?

12 In 2002, which

French singer had a Top

10 hit with her debut

single Moi ... Lolita?

13 Black Angels (1971)

is a work for “electric

string quartet” by

which American

avant-garde composer?

14 Phil Taylor won his

16th and final world

championship darts title

in which year?

15 What primate-related

name is given to the

pictured style of beard?

Suko No 3418

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