Radials
(6) 1 Compelling protest with energy involving high explosive and sharp blow 2 Better placed to have a row, produces unorthodox rare IOU 3 Colourless individual's voice surrounding gaol 4 Insomiac's limits after subject to atmosphere of dreams 5 Lost dog wandering in poet's marigolds 6 Carping women who get round but lose a bit of dignity in places of education 7 Hapless strayers are lost in areas of quicksand in works of poetry 8 Erinys riled without Pan-pipes 9 Governing body looked worried 10 Talks monotonously on in garbled Old Norse, with no introduction 11 Stable plant of the sea lavender genus 12 Liquid myrrh sent back around the start of Lent, producing striking effects 13 Glasgow's ragged useless person on provincial council 14 Cameron's diligent sound sequence in early English 15 Boundless dodgy firetraps operating in defiance of the official system 16 What've I regularly swallowed? Fly? 17 Adorns US chap with English jewels 18 Sticky tangled rosemary with nothing lost 19 Poet's surging, perhaps soused with a hint of reason 20 Scottish workman is surprising suitor with energy |
21 Godsend in veggie-burgers - concealed crispy salad plant 22 Mould I've discovered in mosaic 23 One who has been granted the right to stay in America in a secluded meadow 24 Errors excepted, hesitation after a false statement is even more devious 25 Palest and most bashful 26 Bear witness to examination following mild stroke 27 Sword, lacquered tinware and copper cup 28 Method of decoying ducks in the US, fishing with moving bait, without line 29 Prevailing tendency of French folk holding promissory note 30 Type of exotic bird, no-go pet running amok 31 Viscous and shining harshly when iridium is absorbed 32 Transparent venomous lizards on the Seychelles 33 Knight intervening between goddess and goblin in sport 34 Peculiar-looking dints on a shroud 35 Cast skin of fruit with a sound of disgust 36 Messily watery puddle to shun 37 Thread-like lines contrived in saltire 38 Sisters of the Gorgons oddly appearing in Germanic adage 39 Care going into British Government direction for dress fabric 40 Refuse Frenchman with a Scots fit of perversity |
To enter this competition send your entry, as an image or in list format, indicating the entries in the 2nd and 5th circles, as well as the final touch, to me at derekharrison@yahoo.com before the 8th December 2011. The first correct entry picked from the hat will receive a copy of the Chambers Dictionary, which has been donated by Chambers. |