28 The Sunday Times April 10, 2022PUZZLES
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Each row, column and 3x3 box
must contain the digits 1 to 9.
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English Dictionary & Thesaurus.MEPHISTO (^3215) Across
1 Place to park behind
station (4)
4 One inclined to go wrong
could be a faceless jihadi (8)
9 Staff managed to trim a
Brazilian tree (11)
11 Veteran Italian is old judge
no longer employed (5)
12 City sort of home for the
rabble (6)
14 Soldier’s half-hearted
action displayed (7)
15 Cat runs away from
goat’s-hair fabric (5)
16 Former probes are
confidential (7, two
words)
17 Taking day off, two places
of seclusion being
discussed (6, two words)
22 Amateur covering of trial
repeatedly gets stick in
US (6)
23 House report is behind
small reorganisation of
Health and Safety
Executive (7)
24 Salmon farm in Provence
near me (5)
26 Environment Agency calls
for small ropes (7)
28 Bad error to ride a sick
horse (6)
29 Nothing stops nurse
returning for a drink (5)
30 Erratic Conservative PM
said nothing’s wrong? A
lie that’s put out (11)
31 Marmoset indeed in
France seen alongside
second small tree (8)
32 Fan yakked about
uncovered one-horse
carriage (4)
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Across
1 Trouble, sometimes (3,3,5)
8 Equip (3)
9 Obsession (9)
10 Exhorted (5)
12 Happen again (7)
13 Need to drink (6)
15 Sweet child (6)
17 Hapless (7)
18 Hindu rank (5)
19 Chauffeured car (9)
20 Tease (3)
21 Firstly (2,5,4)
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
19 words, average; 26, good;
35, very good; 44, 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.
36 162 37 360
182 33
132
43
57 260 46 385
270 38
450
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TETONOR MODERATE
Tim Moorey
1 Australian leg-spinner (pictured) who dismissed Mike
Gatting with the “ball of the century” in the 1993 Old
Trafford Test (5,5)
7 Under Milk Wood’s dreams about drowned sea-mates (7,3)
12 March or yomp (8)
13 One of two very successful sitcoms written by Roy Clarke
and set in his native Yorkshire (4,3,5)
14 Radio play by Terence Rattigan about the trial of Alma
Rattenbury and her teenage lover for the murder of her
third husband (5,7)
15 Theological college founded in 1253, later a name for the
University of Paris (8)
16 A term invented by Lewis Carroll for words such as brunch,
chortle or smog (11)
18 Belonging to dreams (7)
21 In Greek myth, the father of 50 sea nymphs (6)
23 Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren recorded this song as a
follow-up to Goodness Gracious Me (7,3,4)
25 A skilled musician or instrumentalist (8)
26 Squares cut into seven pieces, used to form figures (8)
30 Designated part of a depressed urban area, with tax and
other concessions to attract businesses (10,4)
32 An individual track in a marshalling yard (6)
33 Boeing’s CH-47, a double rotor helicopter (7)
35 “The Manassa Mauler”, world heavyweight champion,
1919-26 (4,7)
39 Location of the cochlea and vestibule (5,3)
40 1960s and 1970s ITV show in which Jonathan Routh played
practical jokes on the
unsuspecting public (6,6)
42 An irrational number has an
infinite number of s (7,5)
43 Tool used to alter photographs
in the pre-digital era (8)
44 One who sponges off others’
charity (10)
45 Martine played Tiffany
Mitchell in Eastenders (10)
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.
2 The device used by Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland caterpillar (6)
(pictured)
3 Informal name for the football team which plays its home
matches in West Bridgford (5,6)
4 A term for industrial action not approved by the relevant
union (7)
5 A portable organ used mainly in renaissance times (5)
6 Unreasonably expensive (10)
7 Sheets used for decorative purposes rather than writing (5,5)
8 “Every other author may aspire to ; the lexicographer
can only hope to escape reproach” (Samuel Johnson) (6)
9 Aeroplane component, also called a flap (7)
10 Term like “take the knee” in 2017 or “perestroika” in 1986 (9)
11 Paris’s 5th ____ includes the Latin Quarter and the 15A (14)
17 Food which made the gods of ancient Greece immortal (8)
19 France’s highest order of merit, instituted by Napoleon in
1802 (6,8)
20 So to say (2,2,4)
22 Small basin for holy water, especially near a church door (5)
24 Service in traditional divine office, held around 3pm (5)
27 Australian wicketkeeper who died on the same day as 1A
and who claimed 355 Test dismissals in his career (6,5)
28 Portable seat introduced into England from Italy in 1634 by
Sanders Duncombe (5,5)
29 F1 racing circuit in the Rhine valley which last hosted the
German Grand Prix in 2019 (10)
31 Member of the comedy duo whose first TV show was
Running Wild in 1954 (5,4)
34 Mediterranean herb, sometimes
called wild marjoram (7)
36 Long-tailed rodent native to
western North America (4,3)
37 Stand used by surveyors and
photographers (6)
38 The second-largest of the Isles
of Scilly (6)
41 One of the three patriarchs of
the biblical Israelites (5)
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.
1 Hot paste used to be a bit
lacking in temperature (6)
2 Monkey god’s shortened
title (6)
3 Expressed alarm saying
this beast could fly (9)
4 A bishop in rapture
tended to become
forgetful (6-6)
6 Passing trade at hardware
stores (5)
7 Vapers are healthier, pubs
half-heartedly admit (8)
8 Chancellor’s latest cuts to
consumers’ pockets (8)
11 Travellers gripping
newcomers outside a
pub (12)
15 Without fail, greaser
will provide crude
transport (3,6)
16 Cheat to write about
pinching millions (3-5)
17 Tart fixed with better
filling (8)
19 Sustained by limitless
good tea (6)
20 Women’s support for
someone crafty (6)
22 Inoffensive European’s
boring family (5)
Down
CROSSWORD 5002 Robert Price
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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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Sackbut: Music blasted out from this wine bar
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1 Promise to give meat and
drink to a setter (8)
5 Did criminal court go after
a fiend? (6)
9 Tension in South America
hems in Ecuador’s
capital (8)
10 Language of love pursuing
hearts in days gone by (6)
12 Do vote, but not “Yes” (5)
13 Cases one’s crackers to
tackle (9)
14 Working for rum, a baler
or thresher? (4,8)
18 Bar missing the starter,
serving meals in full (8,4)
21 Club course in Techno
dancing (9)
23 Love notes, three of
them (5)
24 Trees men planted around
ponds originally (6)
25 Computers using
Windows finally after DOS
kept crashing (8)
26 Bar getting hold of cask
stout (6)
27 Like stars round a grand
semicircular moulding (8)
Across
Down
1 Couple given months for
putting up a small child (5)
2 Beaten in Toulouse?
That’s satisfactory but
record time taken (7)
3 Southerner disheartened
old Greek (4)
4 Young partner in finance
managed rents (5)
5 Batter’s role in defence (7)
6 Party absorbed by Bojo’s
latest bombast that’s
created a stink (7)
7 Persian verse brings in
tense distorted rhythms (6)
8 Cooking ingredient
Indonesian chief gets in
markets (9)
10 University official in bubble
tackling education (6)
13 Question about Saigon
hospital being organised
for malaria treatment (9)
17 Heat extremes stop
Middle East project (6)
18 Where you may find a
cuckoo being most silly (7)
19 Cords perhaps getting
fashionable in Surrey
town (7)
20 Jam rolls are small and
special for a little girl (7)
21 Head of Music Society
welcomes a Scottish bar
that’s taken up thumb
pianos (6)
24 What’s dividing leaders in
Mali, Djibouti and Iraq? Not
me, I’m a great leader (5)
25 Alternatively part of spiral
canal (obscure noun) (5)
27 Jackdaw flying around one
in disused wharf (4)
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Down
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19 20
21
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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11 12
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Post your solution to The Sunday Times Mephisto 3215,
PO Box 29, Colchester, Essex CO2 8GZ, or email
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Saturday wins Collins World Atlas: Complete Edition,
worth £30.The next four will receive £20 Waterstones
gift vouchers. Open to 18+ UK & ROI residents only.
The Chambers Dictionary 13th edition is the primary
reference. Readers are invited to visit Tim Moorey’s
website at timmoorey.com
NAME ...................................................................................
ADDRESS...................................................................................
21 By chance (12)Scold (3) ...................................................................................
3 Itinerant (5)
4 Privileged classes (6)
5 Huge (7)
6 Cushy jobs (9)
7 Whisker (5-7)
11 Auk family member (9)
14 Give in (7)
16 Keyboard activity (6)
18 Washed (5)
20 Japanese carp (3)
Apologies for the misspelt version of “copper” in last week’s
5A clue