YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1. Bass 3. Mettle (Base metal) 9. Abolish 10. Treat 11. Dip 12. Coriander

13. Thorny 14. School 16. Ayatollah 19. Tip 21. Samba 22. Release 23. Titfer 24. Mead.

1. Bland 2. Scorpio 4. Entrance hall 5. Trend 6. Enthral 7. Disconsolate 8. Char

13. Transit 15. Outrage 17. Admit 18. Lark 20. Plead.

KILLER SUDOKU

Love Sudoku, but feel you’ve mastered the game? We’ve got a new 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.