The Sunday Times April 10, 2022 29NEWS REVIEW
CODEWORDKENKENTETONOR25 x 12 25 + 12 2 x 55 1 + 517 + 43 21 x 12 21 + 12 2 + 78
2 x 78 7 + 7 11 x 21 7 x 7
1 x 51 55 + 2 21 + 11 43 x 7110 52
50 252 33 80300 37231 4951 57 32 301156 14SUDOKU 1477SUDOKU WARM-UPKILLER SUDOKULAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS
squares, none sharing a
prime factor with 1984. “And
Winston, no two of them may
differ by a multiple of 101 or
you know what will happen.
Now find as many as you
can.” When Winston said he
had found more than fifty,
O’Brien replied, “Well done,
Winston. Although therewere a quadrillion solutions, I
know some of your squares.”
“Does the party control my
mind?” “We do Winston. Did
you choose 10201, for
example?” “Of course not! It’s
the worst square in the
world!” “How many fingers
am I holding up Winston?”
“Three? Four? I don’t know!”Nick MacKinnon
Room 101
In the Ministry of Love,
O’Brien told Winston Smith to
calculate five-digit perfectTEASER 3107
Sally Brock8/15The final of the US open teams
trials for the number one US
spot in the 2019 Bermuda
Bowl was one of the most
exciting matches in most
people’s memories.
Each team, at some stage,
had been 50 or more IMPs up,
but as the last board settled on
the table, it was all square
(though the players did not
know that).
Neither vulnerable, Dealer WestNorth-South for the Nickell
team reached four spades, and
after West started with the ace
and king of hearts, East’s
queen ruffed out and declarer
made twelve tricks without
needing the club guess.
It was in the other room
where the action was, when
Zia and Pszczola (usually
known as Pepsi) reached six
spades.
West led a top heart and
switched to a diamond. Pepsi
drew trumps, East discarding
a diamond on the third, and
continued with two more
rounds of spades, West
throwing two hearts, and East
a diamond and a heart.
Declarer formed the (correct)
impression that hearts were
5-3, and diamonds 3-5, orCHESS
Germany’s Matthias Blübaum
has won the 2022 European
Championship.
The UK only had two
representatives in the 317-player
field. England international Zoe
Varney performed admirably,
scoring a career-best draw
against a grandmaster. Shreyas
Royal also made the journey to
Slovenia. The 13-year-old
Londoner proved once more
why he is tipped for the top by
finishing on 50 per cent against
opposition that included four
GMs.
The following victory against
an IM from Austria showcases
Royal’s mature playing style.
White: Shreyas Royal
Black: Georg Kilgus
European Championship,
Terme Catez 2022
Catalan Opening
1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nf3 d5 4 g3
A sign of Royal’s classical
training. The youngster is
unafraid of choosing topical
main line openings. 4...Bb4+ 5
Bd2 Be7 6 Bg2 0-0 7 0-0
Nbd7 8 Qc2 c6 9 Bf4 a5 10
Rd1 h6 11 b3 b6 12 Nc3 Ba6 13
Ne5 Nxe5 14 Bxe5 Rc8 15 e4
Nd7 16 Bf4 dxc4 In typical
“Queen’s Gambit” spirit, White
invests a pawn for total central
control. 17 Qe2 Bb4 18 Rac1 b5
18...Ba3 would be a worthy
inclusion: 19 Rb1 (19 Rc2? cxb3)
19...Bb4. Objectively White
should accept a repetition: 20
Rbc1 Ba3. 19 bxc4 bxc4 20 e5
f5 21 exf6 Qxf6 22 Ne4 Qe7 23
Qg4 Kh8White’s compensation for the
pawn is ample: the safer king
and superior structure. 24 Nc5
Royal offers a second pawn to
open lines for his bishops. 24...
Nxc5 25 dxc5 Bxc5 26 Be4 Rf6
Right square, wrong piece. 26...
Qf6 is strong, eyeing the f2-pawn.
27 Kh1 Qf7 28 f3 Rf8 29 Be5
Rf5? 29...Be3 was best: 30 Rc3
(30 Bxf6 gxf6 followed by 30...
f5) 30...h5 31 Qh3 Rxf3 with
chaos on the board. 30 Bxf5
exf5 31 Qf4 Qe6 32 Re1 Qg6 33
Rcd1 Re8 34 Bc3 Royal exploits
his opponent’s weaknesses.
Note that the a6-bishop is a
mere spectator. 34...Rxe1+ 35
Rxe1 Bd6 36 Qd4 Bb7 37 Re6!
Black resigns. A final flourish.
37...Qxe6 38 Qxg7 is mate.
Spot the Move 1318:
Black to Play.Sukandar-Niemann, Reykjavik- Can you find Black’s most
efficient path to victory in this
wild position?
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SPOT THE MOVE 1317
1 Rc8! wins: 1...Qxc8 (1...Rxc8 2 Nf7+ is
similar) 2 Nf7+ Kg8 (2...Rxf7 3 Qxc8+ also
leads to mate) 3 Nh6+ Kh8 4 Qg8+ Rxg8
5 Nf7 with a smothered mate
“That’s how many of your
squares we know.”
What four squares did
O’Brien know?
Send your solution to: The Sunday
Times Teaser 3107, PO Box 29,
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possibly 4-4. If that was the
case, East had more clubs
than West and so was more
likely to hold the club queen.
Accordingly, declarer played a
club to dummy’s king and
then a club back to his jack.
One down. Unlucky. The
Nickell team won the trials.
Remember this was the
final board of a very long
weekend and everyone was
tired, but look at what
everyone held at the point
Pepsi played on clubs (assume
he has a count on the hand
and if anyone discards a club
declarer will get it right):
Suppose he plays another
spade. West can discard a
heart, dummy pitches a club
but East must either throw a
club, or unguard a red suit.
Say he pitches a heart;
declarer plays the last spade
and West must throw a
diamond, dummy throws a
heart but now East is
squeezed in the minors.
Alternatively East discards a
diamond on the penultimate
spade; now on the last trump
West must discard the heart
ace but now declarer plays a
club to dummy and the king
of diamonds, squeezing East
in hearts and clubs.
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aisle, alexia, alias, asexuality, axial, axil,
axis, etui, exist, exit, ileus, ilex, isle,
islet, ital, laity, laxity, lexis, lias, lieu,
list, litas, lite, sail, sati, sexuality, silex,
silt, silty, site, sixte, sixty, slit, sluit,
stile, suit, suite, tail, taxi, taxis, tile, tulsi,
utile, yeti
MEPHISTO 3214
Across: 1 Cossie, 5 Acumen, 9 Landing stage, 11 Abies, 13 Nurrs, 14 Meridian, 15 Gens, 16 Kendo,
17 Evangely, 22 Drapiers, 24 Proke, 26 Pion, 28 Hiragana, 29 Oasts, 30 Bawds, 31 Stahlhelmist,
32 Eatery, 33 Reseda
Down: 1 Clambe, 2 Snirt, 3 Sdeigne, 4 Enginer, 5 Aghas, 6 U-tube, 7 Marine, 8 Nesiot, 10 Gradgrind,
12 Beaver rat, 18 Lairier, 19 Lingams, 20 Oppose, 21 Comsat, 23 Shasta, 25 Kithe, 26 Pithy, 27 Tawie
WEATHER
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE JUMBO CROSSWORD 312
Across: 1 Strength, 5 Aesop’s Fables, 13 Nigel Benn, 14 Matthew, 15 Tao, 16 Dario Fo, 17 Lance,
18 Aye-aye, 20 Swede, 21 The Low Countries, 22 She Stoops to Conquer, 26 Emendation,
28 Anne Geddes, 30 Jean-Claude Van Damme, 34 Sir John Betjeman, 36 Thebe, 37 Arrows, 38 Babel,
39 Riot gun, 42 DDT, 43 Rum baba, 44 Dovetails, 45 Modus vivendi, 46 Transkei Down: 1 Synod,
2 Roger Federer, 3 Nilpotent, 4 The Lost Continent, 6 Edmundo Ros, 7 On the scrounge, 8 Soho,
9 Always There, 10 Lothario, 11 Smolensk, 12 Ang Lee, 19 Susquehanna River, 20 Sisley,
23 Shoulder blade, 24 Adam Sedgwick, 25 Essene, 27 Diet of Worms, 29 Ouija board, 31 Dot Cotton,
32 Aswan Dam, 33 Prorated, 35 Melody, 40 Nashi, 41 Impi
POLYGON
Winners Crossword 4999 F Walton, London W6, J Anderson, Pembury, Kent, H Henton, London SW13, A Lake, Amesbury, Wiltshire Mephisto 3212 P Hayes, Birmingham,
D Bexson, Bridford, Devon, D Preston, Fremington, Devon, I Richardson, Epping, Essex, AJ Shipsides, Marple, Greater Manchester Teaser 3104 N Campbell, South Croydon,
Greater London, P Rawcliffe, Harrogate, North Yorkshire Chess 1315 R Lowen, Grimsby, Lincolnshire Sudoku 1475 J Gillar, Upper Basildon, Berkshire
Amsterdam 11C f
Athens 21 f
Auckland 21 f
Bangkok 36 s
Barcelona 16 sh
Beijing 28 f
Belgrade 11 sh
Berlin 7 sh
Bogota 16 th
Boston 11 sh
Brussels 12 f
Budapest 12 f
Buenos Aires 28 s
Cairo 32 f
Calgary 2 f
Cape Town 27 s
Caracas 29 th
Casablanca 30 s
Chicago 16 f
Dubai 29 f
Dublin 10 f
Geneva 13 s
Gibraltar 18 f
Guatemala 28 sh
Helsinki 4 sn
Hong Kong 23 s
Istanbul 19 f
Jersey 12 s
Johannesburg 12 r
La Paz 13 th
Lagos 29 th
Lima 23 f
Lisbon 20 s
London 14C f
Los Angeles 24 s
Madrid 19 f
Mexico City 25 sh
Miami 24 s
Moscow 8 sh
Nairobi 27 f
New Delhi 44 s
New Orleans 25 s
New York 10 f
Oslo 12 f
Panama 30 th
Paris 14 s
Prague 8 f
Rio de Janeiro 25 th
Rome 17 s
San Francisco 14 f
Santiago 23 sh
Seoul 23 s
Seychelles 29 s
Singapore 29 th
Stockholm 8 f
Sydney 23 sh
Tel Aviv 22 f
Tenerife 20 s
Tokyo 25 s
Toronto 7 f
Trinidad 31 th
Tunis 23 s
Venice 14 s
Vienna 11 sh
Warsaw 9 sh
Washington DC 11 f
AROUND THE WORLD
Key c=cloud, dr=drizzle, ds=dust storm, f=fair, fg=fog, g=gales, h=hail,
m=mist, r=rain, sh=showers, sl=sleet, sn=snow, s=sun, th=thunder, w=windy
¬ Staying largely dry and
warm across Spain, Portugal,
Italy and the western
Mediterranean
¬ Scattered heavy showers
across the Balkans with snow
falling over higher ground.
Staying drier across southern
Greece and western Turkey
¬ Largely dry across France
and the Low Countries with
long spells of sunshine
¬ Scattered wintry showers
across Germany, Poland and
central Europe
¬Snow showers in Austria,
but drier across Switzerland
¬ A windy day with blustery,
wintry showers across the
Baltic states
¬ Snow showers in Norway
and Finland but drier across
eastern Norway and southern
Sweden
EUROPE
THE WEEK AHEAD
Monday
Rain spreading
from the west,
drier in the east.
Max 15C
Tuesday
Scattered showers,
but drier in the
southeast.
Max 20C
Wednesday
Sunny spells and
scattered showers,
drier in the south.
Max 18C
Thursday
Scattered showers,
mainly during the
afternoon.
Max 18C
Friday
A few showers
but many places
staying dry.
Max 17C
Saturday
Largely dry with
sunny spells and
patchy cloud.
Max 16C
SUN, STREET LIGHTS & MOON
NIGHT SKY
Aberdeen 06:12 20:06 06:10 11:26 05:30(Mon)
Belfast 06:33 20:16 06:30 12:02 05:29(Mon)
Birmingham 06:20 19:56 06:18 12:00 05:01(Mon)
Bristol 06:25 19:57 06:23 12:09 04:59(Mon)
Cardiff 06:27 20:00 06:25 12:11 05:01(Mon)
Cork 06:48 20:22 06:45 12:31 05:25(Mon)
Dublin 06:36 20:15 06:34 12:13 05:23(Mon)
Glasgow 06:24 20:12 06:21 11:46 05:30(Mon)
London 06:15 19:48 06:13 11:58 04:49(Mon)
Manchester 06:20 19:59 06:18 11:55 05:08(Mon)
Newcastle 06:15 20:00 06:12 11:41 05:14(Mon)
Norwich 06:07 19:44 06:05 11:45 04:49(Mon)
Plymouth 06:33 20:02 06:31 12:21 05:00(Mon)
Sun
rises
Sun sets/
lights on
Lights
off
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rises
Moon
sets
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TODAY’S WEATHER
UK and Ireland forecast
High pressure will bring a largely dry, settled day across much
of Britain after a frosty start in places. Long sunny spells are
expected in eastern areas with more cloud in the west. A few
showers will spread across northern Scotland, perhaps wintry
over higher ground. Cloud will thicken over Ireland from the
west bringing showery outbreaks of rain. Winds will generally
be light, but blustery southeasterly winds across Ireland
REGIONAL FORECASTS
London, SE England
A chilly start, but a dry day with long spells of sunshine. Light
southerly winds. Max 14C. Tonight, staying dry. Min 1C
Midlands, E England
A frosty start with long sunny spells. Dry, but cloudier later.
Light southerly winds. Max 13C. Tonight, dry. Min 1C
Channel Is, SW and Cent S England, S Wales
Dry with patchy cloud and sunny spells. Moderate to fresh
southeasterly winds. Max 12C. Tonight, staying dry. Min 3C
N Wales, NW England, Isle of Man
A dry, rather cloudy day with some bright spells. Light
southeasterly winds. Max 10C. Tonight, staying dry. Min 0C
Cent N and NE England
A frosty start and staying dry with sunny spells. Light
southerly winds. Max 11C. Tonight, dry with a frost. Min 0C
Scotland
Mainly dry with showers in the north. Light and variable
winds. Max 10C. Tonight, rather cloudy, fog patches. Min -2C
N Ireland, Republic of Ireland
Showery rain in the west, drier in the east. Fresh southeasterly
winds. Max 12C. Tonight, rain in the west. Min 4C
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TODAY’S SOLUTIONS
CONCISE CROSSWORD 1776
Across: 6 Windsor chair, 8 Yeti, 9 Blissful, 10 Col,
11 Swat, 13 Effusive, 14 Bless you, 16 Term, 18 Sly,
19 Acre-foot, 20 Rump, 22 Black economy
Down: 1 Size, 2 Addict, 3 Gobbledygook, 4 Tarsus,
5 Triumvir, 7 Chief justice, 8 Yes, 12 Wolf cubs,
TEASER 3106^15 Seesaw,^16 Tyrant,^17 Map,^21 Memo
CROSSWORD 5001
Across: 1 Show up, 5 Rosewood, 9 Brigandage, 10 Left, 11 Unrecognisable, 12 Wedgie, 14 Assemble,
16 One-armed, 18 And how, 19 Blood-sacrifice, 22 Snug, 23 Iridescent, 24 Chin-chin, 25 Danish
Down: 2 Herculean, 3 Wager, 4 Panache, 5 Rearguard action, 6 Species, 7 Well-aimed, 8 Offal,
13 Glamorgan, 15 Loose ends, 17 Messiah, 18 Aniseed, 20 Lunch, 21 Incan
SUKO CELL BLOCKS
The Moon is high in the S in the dim constellation
of Cancer as darkness falls tonight and moves to
lie to the right of the Sickle of Leo tomorrow. It is
near Regulus on Tuesday and to the left of Spica
in Virgo when full next Saturday. Venus is
brilliant above the ESE horizon before dawn.
Mars is much fainter 9° to the right of Venus,
with Saturn a further 4° away. Alan Pickup
Martin
Hemming
No rapping,
no American
Pie: my 11
karaoke rules
Also, Helen MacNamara, take note:
nobody should be practising at home on
their own karaoke machine. It. Is.
Cheating.
- Don’t be too bad On the flipside,
nobody likes a time-waster. It stops
being funny after bar two. Pass the mike! - No rapping Avoid at all costs,
unless you are a member of your own
south London drill collective, and
including if you are Ed Sheeran. Yes, I
am vetoing Wham Rap!. - Fly solo Duets are just about fine,
but that basically leaves you with
Summer Nights from Grease, Sonny
and Cher, Elton and Kiki and Islands in
the Stream. Unless you’re going to be
pulling off some electrifying close
harmony work, a whole gang of you
going up to belt out Don’t Look Back in
Anger is unseemly and not in the spirit
of the knife-edge talent-under-the-
spotlight thrill of karaoke. It. Is. Also.
Cheating.- Treat away fixtures with caution
If you’re a long way from home, be
respectful of the locals’ pub-karaoke
etiquette. On a stag do in Hereford once
(and why not Hereford?), we bowled into
the middle of a restrained Saturday-
night karaoke session, seemingly the
destination for the region’s tradesmen
and farm workers to come and warble
out versions of Suspicious Minds. It was
tense, to say the least. - Get the crowd involved I like to
think it was my rendition of Sinéad
O’Connor’s Nothing Compares 2 U, with
dabbed-on lager tears, that finally won
Hereford round. A dozen farm labourers
chanting back the “Guess what he told
me!” bit and providing the “ah ah ah
aaaaah ah” backing vocal is the closest
I’ll ever get to having my lyrics sung back
to me by 100,000 people at the Pyramid
stage at Glastonbury. - Do it in Japan The original and
best. It was our last night in Tokyo. Saké
had been drunk. We could be young and
crazy and cool like that bit in Lost in
Translation. My wife was reluctant. She
eventually agreed to half an hour.
We found a multistorey karaoke
monstrosity, one that, weirdly, served
beer by the yard. On the ninth floor the
door shut behind us, leaving just the two
of us in a padded cubicle with a
microphone and a video screen. Several
larynx-chafing hours — and furlongs of
lager — later we’d worked through much
of the canon of Taylor Swift, Blur and the
Smiths. It was brilliant. We have not sung
in front of each other since. - Hands off my song Ignoring at
least two of my own rules, my go-to is
the 1998 indie classic Help the Aged by
Pulp. My pointy-elbowed hip-flicking
tribute to Jarvis Cocker is, frankly, so
good it’s criminal.
Jeremy Clarkson appears in the Magazine
My take on
Nothing
Compares
2 U won
over
HerefordI
t’s one for the end-of-year pub
quiz. Whose singing was so bad in
June 2020 that they were fined £50
by the Metropolitan Police? The
answer — so note the name now —
is Helen MacNamara, a former
senior civil servant, who, it was
revealed last weekend, could be
the first culprit in the ongoing
Partygate investigation to get her
official comeuppance.
Attending a “raucous” party in
Whitehall that ended in a 3am punch-up,
MacNamara allegedly brought with her a
karaoke machine. McNamara, as The
Sunday Telegraph, and then everybody
else, took great glee in reporting, was at
one time responsible for propriety and
ethics in the civil service.
The playlist began to compile itself: I
Fought the Law (and the Law Won), You’ll
Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Illegal
Parties, A Whitehall Shade of Pale and,
for fans of 1990s landfill indie, Fine Time
by Cast. Embarrassment by Madness
would be fitting.
Of course, aside from “Don’t organise
a karaoke party if you’re a government
official in a lockdown, silly”, there are
many unwritten rules that apply to the
ancient Japanese art of making a wally of
yourself while holding a cheap
microphone. I got my karaoke chops as
an underage drinker on the mean streets
of West Croydon: the Fox and Hounds,
and its legendary karaoke night, was the
only place that would consistently admit
spotty sixth-formers of a Friday evening.
I’m pretty sure my first proper girlfriend
fell for me when she saw me doing my
best early-period Coldplay. (And don’t
worry, Fox and Hounds, the Met hardly
ever investigates past crimes!)
So, follow the bouncing ball, all
together now...- Pick a song everybody likes It’s
obvious, but nobody wants to hear your
Paranoid Android or the latest Wet Leg
cut. That said, we could probably do
with a moratorium on Sweet Caroline.- No long songs It’s a groupthink
conspiracy that anyone actively enjoys
Bohemian Rhapsody (5.55) or American
Pie (an obscene 8.42). It’s selfish and it’s
exhausting. - Not all great songs are great
karaoke songs Case in point: Let’s
Dance by David Bowie. Although it is
tremendous fun doing the “tremble like
a flooooooooooweeeeer” bit, it is a
record with a lot of dead space, vocally
speaking, leaving you, the performer, a
lot of time to awkwardly shimmy about
to Nile Rodgers’s guitar twiddles and
realise exactly how drunk you are. - Don’t be too good Nobody likes a
show-off. If you’re sightreading Handel
in your choral society on a Wednesday
night, nobody wants to hear your
Whitney Houston on a Saturday night.
Bill Murray
shows Scarlett
Johansson how
to do it in Lost in
TranslationALAMY