YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1. Cook 4. Kook 8. Lock ( Cuckoo clock) 9. Reprobate 11. Urchin 13. Verbose

15. Whales 16. Eclair 18. Brewer 20. Serene 22. Receded 23. Cutlet 25. Eavesdrop

26. Pant 27. Gnat 28. Rank.

2. Oxen 3. Kernel 4. Kebabs 5. Obtuse 6. Hotheaded 7. Skin 10. Erected

12. Swab 13. Valentine 14. Referee 17. Reef 19. Retain 20. Select 21. Render 23. Cape

24. Join.

KILLER SUDOKU

Love Sudoku, but feel you’ve mastered the game? We’ve gotanew challenge for you: Killer Sudoku. Your clues are the caged numbers that represent the sum of the numbers in that cage. The convention followed is that duplicate numbers cannot exist within a cage even if the cage crosses.