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down: Defiance (clue), Wore, Folio, Impinge, Jargon, Resin, WeekendAgency, Claret, Event, Within, Aliquot, Ivory, Kite, Shutters.
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Absolute Power, High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider.
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TODAY’S TARGET Good 20; very good 30; excellent 40 (or more). Solution tomorrow
Yesterday’s call 0907 181 2585 Sudoku forAnswer today’s target solution *Calls cost 80p per minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge.
BATTLESHIPS Across 1 Exciting experiences coming - sure to make trouble (10) 6 The picture palace features it (4) 10 Yet it provides academic standing (5) 11 Loving incitement to crime is wrong (9) 12 Without vigour of late? (8) 13 Father has to avail himself of a temporary rest (5) 15 Persist in the conversion of clergymen (7) 17 Birds I hide in a ship (7) 19 The personification of cunning (7) 21 Brave suitor (7) 22 Courses for non-drivers? (5) 24 A downhill slide (8) 27 Anger is no use for clear mental activity (9) 28 Ancient city prohibition applies to all cities (5) 29 It’s Ena’s turn to be reasonable (4) 30 Eternal state of one having only high notes? (10)
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Yesterday’s Easy Solution Across: 1 Reproof, 5 Fling, 8 On the ball, 9 Sin, 10 Yoga, 12 Unstable, 14 Cobweb, 15 Flatly, 17 Ungainly, 18 Lyre, 21 Ski, 22 At an angle, 24 Light, 25 Extinct. Down: 1 Roomy, 2 Pit, 3 Obey, 4 Flaunt, 5 Full tilt, 6 Itsy-bitsy, 7 Gunnery, 11 Go begging, 13 Hesitant, 14 Counsel, 16 Cleave, 19 Erect, 20 Want, 23 Gin.
Yesterday’s Cryptic Solution Across: 1 Titanic, 5 Hooks, 8 Simulator, 9 Hal, 10 Soon, 12 Choleric, 14 Ageing, 15 Egoist, 17 Hedgerow, 18 Peru, 21 Ida, 22 Orderlies, 24 Tenet, 25 Droplet. Down: 1 Tasks, 2 Tim, 3 Nile, 4 Catchy, 5 Horology, 6 Otherwise, 7 Solicit, 11 Overdrawn, 13 In revolt, 14 Atheist, 16 Loaded, 19 Upset, 20 Argo, 23 Ill.
EASY PUZZLE
Across 1 Antipathy (10) 6 Gaming counter (4) 10 Knock to the ground (5) 11 Strengthen (9) 12 Rejoinder (8) 13 Fashion (5) 15 Elope (3,4) 17 Drivel (7) 19 A kind (7) 21 Found on the high seas (7) 22 Fix immovably (5) 24 Lineage (8) 27 Making progress (2,3,4) 28 To express (5) 29 Be moodily silent (4) 30 Fatal epidemic disease (10)
Down 1 Widespread (4) 2 Utter formally (9) 3 Eat greedily (5) 4 Previously (7) 5 Open-air team game (7) 7 Robust (5) 8 Priority (10) 9 Behind the scenes (8) 14 Rank-and-file members (5,5) 16 American painter and etcher (8) 18 Yellow-flowered weed (9) 20 Be inclined to thin (7) 21 Something left over (7) 23 Full of life (5) 25 Auctioneer’s hammer (5) 26 To honour lavishly (4)
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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