The Times - UK (2022-04-08)

08.04.22

Word watch SudokuMild No 13,125 Difficult No 13,126 Fiendish No 13,127
David Parfitt

Talion
a A claw-shaped tool
b A heraldic beast
c The principle of
punishment fitting crime

Whid
a To rotate anticlockwise
b A slender wood
shaving
c A rapid noiseless
movement

Déménagement
a Horse training outside
the paddock
b Moving house
c Removal of a tree’s
upper branches

Answers on page 19

The Times Quick Cryptic No 2109 by Alfie

Across

1 Agree expert is concealing

three consecutive letters (6)

4 At this point and earlier

commercial’s getting stick (6)

8 Depositing anti-monarchist

slogan? (7)

10 Hut not exactly the place for

junk (5)

11 Leave around eleven, Eastern

Time (4)

12 Pineapples: sad, green,

withered (8)

14 Quiet around gold, solitary

tomb (9)

18 Quirky duo I left in part of

sports arena? (8)

20 Quit after making the last

quiet, cutting remark (4)

22 Rare, bishop going to a dance

(5)

23 Small coin journalist sniffed

out (7)

24 Swarm that’s somewhat

reduced in heat (6)

25 That Rodney, fooling about! (6)

Down

1 Better to go topless for one on

casual walk (6)

2 Declare, formally, there’s cheat

with company (7)

3 Dublin parliament featuring in

newspaper mostly (4)

5 Glass container in crate Ned

shifted (8)

6 Implant taken from stem? Be

delicate! (5)

7 Man’s cosy home descended

on by queen (6)

9 Real soggy after replacing

waterspouts! (9)

13 Rejoicing until jab is thrown

(8)

15 Second one to leave United got

on his horse? (7)

16 Short bitter argument brings

sadness (6)

17 Spinner initially playing in

team meeting resistance (6)

19 Watch for one’s authority to be

overturned (5)

21 Zulu idol losing his first love

(4)

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Yesterday’s solution on page 19

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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

The Times Daily Quiz Olav Bjortomt

Answers on page 19

1 The name of which
Blackpool Pleasure
Beach “dark ride” is
inspired by an 1865
children’s novel by
Lewis Carroll?

2 “Bennifer” is the
collective name for
which American
celebrity “supercouple”?

3 Which singer is the
highest-selling female
Australian artist in
history?

4 The term “altcoins”
is used to describe digital
coins and tokens created
after the founding of
which cryptocurrency?

5 Which author of
the Fifty Shades novel
series was born Erika
Mitchell in London
in 1963?

6 In a WH Auden poem,

which “Iron-hearted

man-slaying” mythical

Greek warrior “would

not live long”?

7 Which US actress,

Ronald Reagan’s first

wife, played Angela

Channing in the

1980s TV show Falcon

Crest?

8 What was both Britain’s

first public museum

and the world’s first

university museum?

9 Richard Ayoade

adapted which 2008

coming-of-age novel

into a 2010 film?

10 Which English

ballerina titled her 1960

autobiography Giselle

and I?

11 The US photographer

Robert Opel famously

streaked naked during

which event in 1974?

12 Founder of the Saxon

dynasty (918-1024), who

was elected king of

Germany in May 919?

13 The “Four Great

Ancient Capitals of

China” are Nanjing,

Beijing, Xi’an and which

city in Henan province?

14 Which sport is the

subject of Al Marquette’s

book Two Falls, Two

Submissions or a

Knockout (2004)?

15 Which French fashion

designer is pictured?

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