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Sharing its name with an ocean,
which US time zone comes next:
Eastern, Central, Mountain, ...?

L’Unifolié (“the one-leafed”)
is an unofficial name of which
Commonwealth country’s national flag?

What was the first regnal year of

Queen Elizabeth II?

In the 1970s, the Banda della
Magliana became which capital
city’s most powerful criminal group?

In Shakespeare’s play Othello, which
villainous character plots to destroy
the title character?

Song Machine is an audiovisual
project by which British virtual
band?

The current version of which order
of chivalry was founded in 1687 by
King James VII of Scotland?

Debuting in 2019, which ITV
period drama is based on Jane
Austen’s unfinished final novel?

Home to a large collection of
Romano-British antiquities,
the Corinium Museum is in which
Cotswold town?

Which Florentine painter
created the Madonna of the
Magnificat tondo c 1481?

Which bacon-flavoured sauce was
created in 2008 by Justin Esch
and Dave Lefkow?

What does Turks and Caicos, a
British overseas territory, use as
its official currency?

Which 1911 gunfight in London’s

East End is also known as the

Who beat her fellow East

German athlete Marita Koch to

become the inaugural women’s 100m

world champion?

What is the name of this historic

cottage in Windsor?

Battle of Stepney?

The oldest model of the

Birkenstock sandal family

shares its name with which European

capital city?

Which Italian-French

mathematician introduced his

eponymous formulation of classical

mechanics in Mécanique analytique

(1788)?

Which film, starring “Weird Al”

Yankovic, features Spatula City,

Wheel of Fish and the movie Gandhi II?

The world’s largest carnivorous

plants, endemic to Borneo, come

from what genus?

The British swimmer Tom Dean

won which individual event at

the 2020 Tokyo Olympics?

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4 I’m sorry: me ____ (impersonal verb)

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8 Tardi ____: late arrivals (8)

9 A bit; maxima ____ the majority (4)

10 Garden; in quo 21 flores? (6)

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inner wood (4)

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4 You are able (5)

5 I emerge, stand out, am visible, or

just am (7)

6 In a little town (2,5,6)

7 You drunkard! (vocative) — ie

sober, in another way (7)

10 This man here (3)

13 I’m being ruined, turned out,

overthrown (7)

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18 Brook; fluvius parvus (5)

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1 Announced shopkeeper’s earner,

(also not so nice or little!) (7)

5 Nothing in set of clothes is wasted

(3,2,2)

9 What to do with envelopes, each

carried by different postmen? (5,4)

10 Coin that was rectangular?

Normal shape for coin! (5)

11 Summer featured days on the

turn, shorter (5)

12 A lot of wine with curry — by

chance, neither finished (9)

14 Writers were emotional, upset by

US jails (4-6,4)

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snowboarders (3-2-3-6)

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1 Gossip is good when appropriate

(6)

2 EU minister opening function

turned up late (7)

3 Helping person out of Asian tram

(9)

4 Almost the whole nation cast out

again (11)

5 Private’s pained expression, close

to exhaustion (3)

6 What bit possibly can be over by

Thursday? (5)

7 Exhausted state of female on

drinking spree? (7)

8 Dynamic economy initially is right

to reform (8)

13 Yummy sauce something

recommended less for kids these

days (3-8)

15 Working out what dockers might

have done (9)

16 Yankees involved with sports plot

with agents (3,5)

18 Vivid reaction from drunk after

endless Merlot? (7)

19 Sugar drop about to take effect (7)

20 Flamboyant if unattractive topless

hosts it’s understood (6)

22 Film about day centre (5)

25 Function that could be deadly? (3)

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Times Crossword No 28,260

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.

Solution MindGames in Saturday Review

Suko No 3459

Quiz answers 1 Pacific Time (PT).

2 Canada. 3 1952. 4 Rome. 5 Iago.

6 Gorillaz. 7 Order of the Thistle.

James VII was also James II of England

and Ireland. 8 Sanditon. 9 Cirencester.

10 Sandro Botticelli. 11 Baconnaise.

12 US dollar. 13 Siege of Sidney Street.

14 Madrid. 15 Joseph-Louis Lagrange

— as in Lagrangian mechanics.

16 UHF. 17 Nepenthes. 18 [Men’s] 200m

freestyle. 19 Marlies Göhr

(née Oelsner) — in 1983. 20 Frogmore

Cottage.

Quintagram answers 1 Jowl 2 Fazed

3 Pickaxe 4 Vanquish 5 Geometry.

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