28 The Sunday Times April 24, 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 (^3217) Across
1 Old Violet, one easily
manipulated by church (6)
5 Greek mathematician
producing some fine
stuff (6)
10 Learner in Lincoln with
radiance effusing (11)
12 Manfully opposing wild
bear with sort of trap (9)
14 Young player, one that’s
solid and dull (6)
16 Noises from angry
drivers? I’m annoyed! (5)
17 Element of most
entertaining show rarely
encountered (6)
18 Grass area by which sits
an ignorant fellow (4)
19 Relaxed party by an
Italian lake (6)
22 Expression of regret from
one in indulgent mode
losing daughter (6, two
words)
25 You must be occupying
doctor as one changing
colour (4)
26 Source of beef joint when
there’s nothing to be
eaten (6)
29 Tree in US city idiot
knocked over (5)
31 Journalist cooks bits of
certain plants (6)
32 Vagrant by old pool to
jump up and down (9)
33 I am called to change,
becoming member of
religious order (11)
34 A request to keep
alcohol-free bringing
dubious rebuke (6)
35 What could get molars
finally clear possibly? (6)
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Across
1 Cabbage genus (8)
7 Lock of hair (5)
8 Prevailing (7)
10 Astonish (8)
11 Affect personally (5,2)
12 Limestone terrain (5)
14 Bragging (5)
17 Foul (7)
19 Collectively (8)
21 Funeral mass (7)
22 Gambling card game (5)
23 Old mining light (4,4)
Down
123 4 5 6
7
89
10
11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18
19 20
21
22
23
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.
1 2 345678 9
10
11 12 13
14 15
16 17
18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29
30 31
32
33
34 35
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NAME ...................................................................................
ADDRESS...................................................................................
21 Enlarged photo print (4-2)Plentiful (8) ...................................................................................
3 Nautical mop (4)
4 Offensive (6)
5 Bloke (6)
6 Bone inflammation (8)
9 Witty answer (9)
11 Erstwhile (8)
13 Birds of a region (8)
15 Pressing (6)
16 Centre of activity (6)
18 Maintenance (6)
20 Bank (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
21 words, average; 29, good;
35, very good; 42, 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.
30 162 32 87
255 63 225 33
56 78 27 252
64 18 182 11
TETONOR EASY
Don Manley
1 Frenchman who wrote “Je pense, donc je suis” (9)
6 Lady Gaga starred in a 2018 remake of this 1937 film (1,4,2,4)
12 Term that can describe gymnast Yang Hak-seon (7)
13 Mexico City’s Templo Mayor was built by the s (5)
14 Ernie Wise once called the LSO’s conductor “Andrew ” (7)
15 1991 Tina Turner greatest hits album (6,3,4)
16 1992 Madonna album featuring her Mistress Dita persona (7)
17 “When scientific power outruns moral power, we with
guided missiles and misguided men” (Martin Luther
King) (3,2)
18 According to Karl Marx, “'the most splendid fellow in the
whole of ancient history” (9)
20 Hunting for plumes once endangered some types of this
heron (example pictured) (5)
21 Entrepreneur whose catchphrase is “You’re fired” (4,5)
23 Novelist who created the kingdom of Ruritania (7,4)
25 Historical event caused in part by the 1765 Stamp Act (3,8,10)
29 Alpine event added to the Winter Olympics in 1952 (5,6)
30 “I love . I love the whooshing noise they make as they go
by.” (Douglas Adams) (9)
32 Mountain feature like Helvellyn’s Striding Edge (5)
34 Mother Teresa was born in what is now North (9)
35 Robert Watson-Watt led the practical development of this
location system (5)
37 Fashion house whose logo features Medusa’s head (7)
39 Informally, to under go divine judgement (4,4,5)
41 Profession of frontiersman John Henry Holliday (7)
42 2014 film based on a Hasbro game, in which the board is
burnt (5)
43 Wolf-like animals of North
America (7)
44 Kent tourist attraction that
hosted Northern Ireland
peace talks in 2004 (5,6)
45 Ceremonially installs a new
bishop (9)
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.
1 Annie Lennox’s musical partner in Eurythmics (4,7)
2 Toured poverty-stricken urban areas (7)
3 Animals such as the dik-dik, addax and springbok (9)
4 Justice, strength or temperance (5)
5 1945 musical that won Rogers and Hammerstein an Oscar
for It Might as Well Be Spring (5,4)
6 Marlon Brando’s appearance in this 1951 film (poster pictured)
helped to popularise the T-shirt as outerwear (1,9,5,6)
7 Another name for the game noughts and crosses (4-4-3)
8 Currency unit once used in Oman and Afghanistan (5)
9 “, yeah, yeah, yeah” (The Beatles) (3,5,3)
10 The theatre is the National Theatre’s main auditorium (7)
11 A historic keep is the oldest structure in this city (9)
18 Historically, a small round flavoured boiled sweet (9)
19 In medicine, a formal term for blind spots (9)
22 Arts TV show with Brian Eno theme music (5)
24 New Nasa crew vehicle, currently expected to land on the
moon in the 2025 Artemis III mission (5)
26 Field in which theorem-solver Andrew Wiles works (11)
27 Farm is a 1932 novel featuring Flora Poste (4,7)
28 “A heart that’s full up like a landfill / A job that slowly kills
you / Bruises that won’t heal” (, Radiohead) (2,9)
29 Author of the controversial 1968 satirical novel Myra
Breckinridge (4,5)
30 Comic actor who delivered the line “The pellet with the
poison’s in the vessel with the pestle” (5,4)
31 Title currently held by Vincent Keaveny in London (4,5)
33 American comic Jimmy was known as The Schnoz (7)
36 Relating to a former US
territory including modern
Montana (7)
38 In cricket, a run scored
without using the bat (5)
40 “Guard well your spare
moments. They are like ____
diamonds” (Emerson) (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 Collision from behind
upon parking (4)
2 Gain in material for
building over river (9)
3 Keep talking about
Nintendo console for a
child (6)
5 Author wants this chair
carved in stone (6,8)
6 Seaweed turned into moss
— a grass (8)
7 Nothing taken, head off (5)
8 Clement holds girl in
converted van (6,4)
9 Quotes from
“Macbeth” (8,6)
13 Victor, in grief, buys new
game (5,5)
16 Decoration made of
smooth foil (4,5)
17 Orchestra member wants
wine to drink at home (8)
20 Not so much work, for
example (6)
22 Info on two bottled
spirits (5)
23 Wife slices chicken to be
carved (4)
Down
CROSSWORD 5004 Dean Mayer
123 45678
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10 11
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14 15 16
17
18 19
20
21 22
23
24 25
26 27
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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ADDRESS...................................................................................
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1 Union member carrying
good spanner (6)
4 Hassle about last poor
opera (8)
10 Country club refusal to
open rally round back (9)
11 Got it right about work
returning (5)
12 Really want those nearest
to move ahead (3,4,5,2)
14 Old American journalist (4)
15 Carries plough like a
statue? (5-5)
18 Struggled with foreign
currency racket (10)
19 Blue feathers (4)
21 Tropical butterflies, for
example (6,2,6)
24 In blood vessel, new
poison (5)
25 Prison misses spirit (9)
26 Poorest procedure to
determine allergy (4,4)
27 Cancun is only holding
this concert (6)
Across
Down
1 Fables bringing god-talk to
Roman caves (12)
2 Supply of minimal old
money? Much more
needed to make you
this! (7)
3 Compound of arsenic is
something insoluble (7)
4 Garden’s retreat I found in
London city area (6)
6 Classical art is in a strong
position, according to
some (5)
7 Prime minister in hole
with time running short (4)
8 Power given to senior
French revolutionary (5)
9 Bird that could be
concealed in grass and
heather (12)
11 Collecting what dogs
unfortunately leave on
heather? (7)
13 Potato to be withdrawn,
root for extraction (4)
15 Unexplained sensations a
number got with repeated
viewings of French art (7)
20 Fellow needs medical
professional after
swallowing one plant (7)
21 Mineral is oddly crushed (7)
23 Material for old music-hall
performer (4)
24 Thus gives way and errs,
resulting in deadly sin? (6)
27 Tree providing wooden
tub for storing rock (5)
28 A slip — wrong units of
money (5)
30 Muslims needing
something to put off
extremists (4)
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