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The generalist by Didymus
Barry R Clarke
Down at Whimsy Woo
alerted that a wicked e
biggest sack of gold. T
four tree trunks A–D,
of gold coins. The sack
2kg, C contains 3kg an
elf, they have decided
Three sacks are sele
used in three consecut
moved more than once
a single sack of coins i
in a different order, wh
following facts (all am
(1) The first amount
second.
(2) A"er the second
was greater than the s
(3) A"er the third m
increased.
What is the amount o
ACROSS
1 Relating to the probability
that in a system, any state will
re-occur (7)
5 15th century Grand Prince of
Moscow and Grand Prince of
all Russia (4,3,5)
12 Hot-water bottles in Bordeaux
(11)
13 Korean martial art, similar to
karate (3,4,2)
14 Traveller’s joy (3,4,5)
36 Relating to hares (8)
38 Having molars with V-shaped
ridges (12)
40 Ageing prostitute and
companion of Mistress Quickly
in Henry IV Part 2 (9)
41 Holiday resort on the Wirral
developed by James Atherton
during the 1830s (3,8)
42 “Organist” in a bell tower (12)
43 … Reid, presenter of ITV’s
Good Morning Britain (7)
15 Wandered through Ireland! (8)
17 Chilean President overthrown
by General Augusto Pinochet
in September 1973 (7)
18 Département in Brittany,
capital Rennes (4-2-7)
20 The Body (4,10)
22 Fi"h largest city in the state of
São Paulo in Brazil (6)
25 Down by the riverside (6-4)
26 One extremely fond of luxury,
a sensualist (10)
28 Be no longer of concern (2,4)
29 German expansion into Slavic
states during the nineteenth
century (5,4,5)
32 Studies relating to the nervous
system (13)
34 Registered a vessel leaving port
(7)
DOWN
1 Moisten and rub with a lotion
(9)
2 Young Brobdingnagian girl
who cares for Gulliver (13)
3 … Bridge, the terminus of the
Strathspey Railway (7)
4 Independent or neutral MP
(5-7)
5 CBeebies programme where
Iggle Piggle, the Pontipines
and the Tombliboos live
(2,3,5,6)
6 Breed of black hen from Down
Under (10)
7 Sugar magnate, art patron and
philanthropist (4)
8 Of medical procedures,
undertaken at the patient’s
decision (8)
9 Cornish-born historian famed
for his works on Elizabethan
England (5)
10 Founder of Fiat (7)
11 Pedicularis canadensis (4,6)
16 Hostilities between Athens
and Sparta for the supremacy
of Greece from 431 to 404 BC
(13,3)
19 Country that is the focus
of Prince Harry’s charity,
Sentebale (7)
21 Decisive 1800 French victory in
Napoleon’s campaign in Italy
(7)
23 Your beginning, according to
Bamber or Jeremy (7,3,3)
24 Shrikes (12)
25 Sleeping-cars in France (6-4)
27 A large knife for fighting
(5-1-4)
30 Genus of fungus moth family,
Tineidae (9)
31 Irish political leader who
fought for the repeal of the
1801 Union with Great Britain
(8)
33 Swedish city, the location of the
oldest university in northern
Europe (7)
35 Long, narrow depressions (7)
37 Sanskrit term for a poet or sage
(5)
39 An archaic giant (4)
Last month’s generalist solutions
Across: 11 Guillotine 12 Ffestiniog 13 Et in Arcadia ego 14 Ratite 15 Nutated 16 Snap 17 Guanidin 19 Ettlingen 21 Angels’
share 24 Rory 26 Prosaic 27 Loch Mhor 29 Abactors 31 Chennai 32 Praa 33 Love is blind 35 Sinistral 38 Intimate 40
Moot 41 Fagotti 44 Street 45 Ross-shire Buffs 46 T. E. Lawrence 47 Chain-react
Down: 1 Guitguit 2 Elan Valley 3 Norrie 4 Eilat 5 Reliant 6 Affenpinscher 7 Le Rouge et Le Noir 8 Itar-Tass 9 Snettisham
10 Toitoi 18 Demoiselle crane 20 Napoo 22 Roosa 23 Dancing Master 25 Ombro- 28 Chili 30 Chelicerae 32 Petiolules 34
Star turn 36 Artefact 37 Corsica 39 Nutmeg 42 Averni 43 Pipal
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Last month’s solution
Harriet (111kg) was in the mi
Dividing each weight by 37 re
ratio 1:2:3:4:5. Considering th
end, there are only three pos
of weights with all five seats o
seated centrally and the tota
(2×5)+(1×1)=(1×3)+(2×4)=11;
1 (total 7). The only possible
(5 climbs off), 1 3 2 5 _ (4 clim
(b) we can have 5 _ 3 2 4 (1 cl
1 2 3 4 _ (5 climbs off); and fo
_ (2 climbs off). Only with th
total distance times weight (2
side (from 9 to 10) to result in
(3×37kg) is central througho
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