KAKURO

FILL in the blank squares of the grid using only the numbers 1 to 9, without repeating any number in any line of blank squares. The lines must be filled in with numbers which add up to the total in the shaded box at the top or beginning of each line. A number in the bottom half of a shaded box gives a downwards total: in the top half, it’s a horizontal total. Solution tomorrow.

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 9 Ended in poverty (4) 10 Bridge win as alms given out (4) 11 Omits difficulty of the wet (5) 12 Some numbers have a list (4) 13 Always a high achiever in the end (4) 14 Picture Clue 16 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Phoebe’s got something for weeds (3) 3 It’s only partially classified — fool! (3) 4 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 7 Rude imp could have sportingly arbitrated (7) 8 Picture Clue 14 Smooth out comment at the dairy (3) 15 Spotted the cutter (3)

Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Apple juice. 5 Notebook. 9 Mute. 10 Here. 11 Umbra. 12 Leap. 14 Icon. 15 Decadent. 18 Annexation. DOWN: 1 Airmailed. 2 Lined up. 3 Use. 4 Ego. 6 Tribune. 7 One. 8 Keeping on. 10 Habitat. 13 Arc. 16 Era. 17 Due.