Fourteen unclued lights can be divided into seven pairs. 5d (1,6,8) is the culprit that was identified by a person whose name should be highlighted in the completed grid.
| Across 1 Unclued light (7) 6 Unclued light (7) 10 Junior official in Crown Court (3) 13 A hero is ill natured (4) 15 Twelve inches towards the tail (3) 17 Acknowledgement of superiority of man (not me!) that comes with age (6) 18 Drink made from orange, (chopping out the middle) plus a hint of tamarind (6) 19 Concealed in a foolish idea (3) 22 In a frenzy before noon - all right? (4) 24 Progress in Versailles (4) 25 Unclued light (6) 26 Enough said in Shakespeare's day in case about the closure of Globe (5) 28 Old tree serpent (3) 30 A puss encircling plunder is a performer of feats of agility (7) 31 Fellow will take the cat away from the cheese (6) 34 Steep and difficult to climb as shown by two persons in Argentina and the States (7) 37 Little thing retrieved from a dustbin (3) 39 Outworn, soiled even (3) 40 Unclued light (3) 41 Musician has to be silent when last parts of sharp are held (7) 42 To fish for molluscs is a source of advantage (6) 46 Of ancient colonists getting a different type of direction and becoming everlasting (7) 48 An important date half rubbed out (3) 50 Skeletal parts of sultanates with shattered state having left (5) 52 Galah I found frolicking in desert shrubs (6) 54 Fickle naiad; not a goddess (4) 56 Burden is at our expense (4) 57 Religious order - very large one! (3) 58 Goddess is endlessly that person providing entertainment (6) 60 Unclued light (6) 63 Native language back in Palo Alto (3) 64 Chatter vapidly about a series of novels (4) 65 Spasm or odd twitch (3) 66 Unclued light (7) 67 Unclued light (7) |
Down 1 Boundless tenth hour oddly able to hold spellbound (7) 2 Sentimentality and some decency able to be counted on ... (4) 3 ... Escape from its opposite back in France (3) 4 A peg of Norwich strong ale (3) 5 Unclued light (1,6,8) 6 Distinctive quality of tête (not the head!) (3) 7 Three letters for a cleansing fluid ... (5) 8 ... and four (one at first) for an international company (4) 9 Perplexed and unsound as altos (2,1,4) 11 Unclued light (5) 12 Injury and harassment without assent! (4) 14 Airlike, empty talk with English and South African men (7) 16 Unclued light (5) 20 Putting some liquidity into the total non-lubricating part of crude oil (4) 21 Half recall letters in secluded spots (8) 23 Little sibling is round - a sphere! (3) 26 Unclued light (8) 27 Make a mess of goo! See - you have soap solution! (6) 29 Unclued light (6) 31 Instead of a bit of game cat gets a bird (3) 32 Magistrate half completed engineering degree (3) 33 A cow? Not her! Nonsense! (3) 34 Trouble and difficulty in the early parts of the period between childhood and maturity (3) 35 System of turning up turf (3) 36 Endless guard of onetime republic (3) 38 Unclued light (7) 41 Unclued light (7) 43 Hateful person is given the boot (so we are told) (4) 44 Unclued light (7) 45 Board has agreement of French and German (5) 47 Concede in unworkable uprising (3) 49 Mercurial Irish poet (5) 51 Eaglewood or cadagi half lopped by the French (5) 53 Admitting direction, he'd pay attention (4) 55 In excited eagerness produced by a mythical giant (4) 57 'Zero!' - Air traffic control returned measure of cloud cover (4) 59 Henry accepted initially; we finally have (3) 61 Drowned valley in Asturias (3) 62 Hassle a horse (3) |
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To enter this competition, send your entry as an image or in list format,with the highlighted name, to derekharrison@yahoo.com before the 8th September 2010. The first correct entry drawn from the hat will receive a copy of Chambers Cryptic Crosswords and How to Solve Them' by Michael Kindred, Derrick Knight which has been donated by the publishers. |