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Yesterday’s call 0907 181 2585 Sudoku Answer for today’s target solution *Calls cost 80p per minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge.
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Yesterday’s Easy Solution
Down 1 Draperies not approved by Across: 1 Topic, 4 Bombast, 8 Ask, 9 Coup d’etat, 10 Garment, most modern societies (8) 11 Abbey, 13 Static, 15 Reject, 2 Note when the army order 18 Cheat, 19 Check-up, 21 Ill humour, 23 Via, 24 Pigment, is given (4,4) 25 Handy. 3 Were reformed in jug (4) Down: 1 Tear gas, 2 Poker face, 3 Cycle, 4 Bounty, 5 Mediate, 5 A challenging demand (12) 6 Act, 7 Tatty, 12 Break even, 6 A span of roguishness (4) 14 Intrude, 16 Topiary, 17 Accost, 18 Crisp, 20 Earth, 22 Lag. 7 I spoil the games figuratively speaking (6) 8 Hemp is used in making this jacket (6) 11 As set by one out to break Yesterday’s Cryptic Solution a record? (8,4) Across: 1 Extra, 4 Sampler, 8 See, 15 The bosun is out to make 9 Break down, 10 Yashmak, extra money (5) 11 Weeds, 13 Duress, 15 Bypass, 18 Model, 19 Put down, 16 Sort of book a fight (5) 21 Ferryboat, 23 Alb, 24 Impedes, 18 Strung up (8) 25 Enemy. 19 I leave the law to the big Down: 1 Essayed, 2 Treasured, 3 Album, 4 Sneaks, 5 Make way, guns (8) 6 Loo, 7 Rands, 12 Elaborate, 21 Empty one container into 14 Splayed, 16 Sandboy, 17 Spools, 18 Mufti, 20 Title, another (6) 22 Rep. 22 It’s a strange leader who won’t lead (6) 26 Albert shortly gets to be a singer (4) 27 A drop in rent (4) Across Down 1 Great flood (6) 1 Forlorn (8) 4 Impediment (8) 2 Remaining 6 7 8 9 Without risk (6) uneaten (8) 10 Not constructive 3 To dupe (4) (8) 5 Make it known 12 South Asian (5,3,4) country (4) 6 A hard durable 13 Suspiciously wood (4) obscure (5) 14 14 Sudden sharp 7 Point of greatest 16 pain (4) intensity (6) 17 Upholders of 8 Vigour (6) traditional ways 11 Associate closely (3,3,6) 18 19 (3,9) 20 Risking everything 15 In a furtive way (5) (3-2-7) 16 Person’s strong 23 A musical work (4) point (5) 24 Comic entertainer (5) 18 Extinct large 25 25 Fuss (2-2) reptile (8) 28 Find out (8) 19 Uninformed (8) 27 29 Capital of Turkey 21 Jinx (6) (6) 22 Beginning (6) 30 Inclination to 26 Grim fate (4) hopefulness (8) 27 Prefix meaning 31 Feel sorrow over (6) before (4)
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FIND where the fleet of ships shown is hidden in the grid. The numbers to the right of and below the grid indicate how many of the squares in that row are filled in with ships or parts of ships. The ships do not touch each other, even diagonally. Some squares have been filled in to start you off. Solution tomorrow 1
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Across 1 Shakespeare’s little place in the country (6) 4 It makes pears lie against the wall (8) 9 Treated with care (6) 10 Stakes raised for the defence (8) 12 There’s very little in this letter (4) 13 Dozens may become grossly overweight (5) 14 Only a thousand before (4) 17 You’ll be lucky to win one (4,2,6) 20 His pupils are encouraged to make notes (5,7) 23 It’s impossible to connect with these services (4) 24 Silver down at melting point? (5) 25 Chapter head (4) 28 It’s heard after a raid that nobody’s found guilty (3,5) 29 It introduces a wrong denial (4-2) 30 Amount of business produced by a cook (8) 31 The game’s over (6)
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