What's the Title? by Urchin
Title: _______________________________
Four answers must be altered (in the same way) before entry. The name of an author (initial and surname) must be highlighted and a suitable title must be written in the space below the grid.
Across
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Fruit grasps frisky colt in Alabama town (10)
9
God is generosity at heart (4)
11
Energy, following love, is worn away (5)
12
Stiff after acting aloft (4)
13
Where crafty women coloured in wrecked ship (7)
15
Beginning to embrace in tender occupation (6)
16
Confined to camp with murmur over tuber (5)
19
Guy leaves dim-wit for a council (4)
20
Britain takes back most of oil slick (4)
23
Most imbecile in least crazy (7)
25
Precious things take wing in old Judea (7)
27
Book one from Baltic (4)
29
American filter, almost, produces expression of incredulity
(2,2)
33
Head to tail, stupefy a fish (5)
34
City - not Rio, oddly (6)
36
Soften sausage in bits (7)
38
Reveal in showing off (4)
39
Ed's cut king for name in courage (5)
40
Doctor in French or tree (4) 41 Defaming squeal skirting German states (10) |
1
Stride over drug for serenity (5)
2
Shelf to pay down again? (7)
3
Up station for drunk (5)
4
Man, for example, taking cotton top off (4)
5
Fungicide with top brown (6)
6
Vulgar flame in Perth (3)
7
Butcher's bit of rump. Behold! (5)
8
Wield the rod to dissuade (6)
10
Fix tree with mallet's head (4)
14
In France here is extremely cold (6)
16
Donald's ankle's cooked in Caen (4)
17
Change of role for border (4)
18
Princess goes pale in Muslim council (6)
21
Raise end of horizontal bar for tribune (4)
22
Red discarding good trees (4)
24
This wounded one (4,3)
25
Nativity all Scots seize in Jamaica (6)
26
Phoned editor after classified (6)
28
A contemptible person - look, take drugs (5)
30
Dish for old tart (4)
31
Composer from Mauritania entering floor (5)
32
Aborigine has nothing in crack-pipe (5)
35
Fame in the States - nothing to mock once (4) 37 Berry that's evenly Suevian (3) |
To enter this competition send your solution
in list format plus the author's name and the suitable title to
derekharrison@yahoo.com before the 8th November. The first correct solution
picked will receive a copy of Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters
which has been donated by the publishers.