The Times - UK (2022-04-28)

28.04.22

Word watch Sudoku Mild No 13,170 Fiendish No 13,171 Super fiendish No 13,172
David Parfitt

Cyathus
a A cup used to scoop
wine from a bowl
b A plant with blue
stamens
c A quill made from a
swan feather

Isagogic
a Introductory
b Having the same
number of interior angles
c Pertaining to one-to-
one tutoring

Sprechgesang
a A vocalisation
between speech and song
b A stream-of-
consciousness novel
c Embarrassment at
another’s error

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 2123 by Mara

Across

1 Repair plot of land (5)

4 Something often repeated

quietly — a hidden danger? (7)

8 Particular art nice, surprisingly

(7)

9 Fight in civil war brutal,

looking back (5)

10 Fly down, daring (10)

14 Colour spectrum beyond

ordinary, originally (6)

15 In a book, end of paragraph

penned (2,4)

17 A little secret initially

significant (10)

20 Heroes one defrauds (5)

22 Ideal pan out for cooking, one

covered (7)

23 Warm colour with similar

qualities (7)

24 Giant bronze encapsulating

sex appeal (5)

Down

1 Choose possession of miner,

say (4)

2 Pie begins with edges trimmed

(4)

3 Hit, glad he receives treatment

for shiner (9)

4 Finally problem gone, fixed (6)

5 Nick has restriction lifted (3)

6 Response to Racine mixed (8)

7 Nicked, sweep finally going

over discombobulated fielder

(8)

11 Total doubly inaccurate? (3-3-

3)

12 Girl getting criticism,

controller of game (8)

13 Biscuit: a cookie originally in

dark colour (8)

16 Earth pulverised (6)

18 Pristine sweet (4)

19 Article working soon (4)

21 Teacher heads off spluttering,

in rage (3)

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Yesterday’s solution on page 15

© PUZZLER MEDIA

15

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 15

1 Which small,
blue-green world is
described as “Mostly
harmless” in The
Hitchhiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy?

2 Introduced in 1956,
the Lovet side table
was which company’s
first item of flat-pack
furniture?

3 York is home to
the national museum
for which mode of
transport?

4 The Travel Book
Company is a London
bookshop in which
Richard Curtis-scripted
1999 film?

5 Which East Sussex
seaside resort’s Marine
Palace and Pier opened
in May 1899?

6 Mandy Patinkin

played the CIA veteran

Saul Berenson in

which US TV drama

(2011-2020)?

7 Jeremy Northam plays

which real-life Welsh

composer in the 2001

film Gosford Park?

8 Which US singer had

her second UK No 1

single with Devil Gate

Drive (1974)?

9 Marbella is in a

province that shares its

name with which coastal

city in Andalusia, Spain?

10 Captain (Acting

Major) William Martin

was the identity chosen

for the corpse used in

which 1943 operation?

11 The name of the

constellation Caelum

is Latin for which

cutting tool?

12 Which French

playwright’s 1938 book

The Theatre and Its

Double includes his

manifestos for the

Theatre of Cruelty?

13 Which Israeli army

officer designed the first

Uzi submachine gun in

the late 1940s?

14 Which England and

Surrey bowler held

the Test cricket wicket

record from July 1953 to

January 1963?

15 Which herb, aka

Laurus nobilis, is

pictured?

Suko No 3475

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