CAM 66 Prize Crossword
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Capital Letters by Schadenfreude 1
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3 10
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11
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14 15
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16 18
19 20
22 25
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31 32
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34 36
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35 37
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All entries to be received by 7 September, 2012 Send completed crosswords: • by post to CAM 66 Prize Crossword, CARO, 1 Quayside, Bridge Street, Cambridge CB5 8AB • by email to cameditor@alumni.cam.ac.uk • or enter online at www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/news/cam
The first correct entrant will receive a copy of The Official History of the Olympic Games and the IOC: Athens to London 1984 to 2012 (Mainstream, £40), the only parallel, chronological history of both the IOC and the Games, by David Miller (Peterhouse 1953). Two runners-up will also receive £35 to spend on CUP publications. Solution and winners will be printed in CAM 67 and posted online on 14 September at www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/news/cam One word must be removed from the last few clues before solving. The first and last letters of these words spell out two thematic locations. The wordplay in each of the remaining clues generates the answer to be entered in the grid plus an additional letter. These letters spell out the names of some Cambridge alumni who share a common thematic achievement. Solvers are required to highlight all the cells suggested by the title in conjunction with one of the above
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locations. Before doing this they will need to change three unchecked cells, providing new words, one of which is a variant spelling of the original. The three replaced letters and the new letters form the title of a relevant magazine and a university fellow, respectively. Chambers 2011 is recommended, but does not give 1 across which is in the OED and SOED, nor a referenced forename—in earlier editions.
ACROSS 1 These gypsy caravans provide Viagra and pass on a regular basis (6) 5 Embarrassed sailor left old tavern (6) 10 Lecturer on good terms with nobleman of legitimate descent (6) 12 Look in rock base for membranous growths (4) 13 “Very ordinary” covers Woman’s society page (5) 14 Force head to conceal gold (6) 15 Intimate minutes get progressively shorter (7, 2 words) 17 Display Welsh girl topless, like April? (7) 19 Profligate unionist in a dressing gown (4) 20 Harry Llewellyn for example finally chose to venture out (7) 22 Autocrat is anxious about Rex (6) 24 Six pursuing gas trial at Inverness (6) 25 Troy managed this crippling reverse (7) 30 Withhold assent to alien entering two wings (4) 31 Nasal passages reflect an anonymous echo (7) 33 This may be raised in surprise with eye turning on you twice (7) 34 Outside pen pig demolished one of Szewinska’s dishes (6) 35 Turned component definitely not always readily available (5, 2 words) 36 Consequently leave following important date (4) 37 First class school’s opening with fewer corridors (6) 38 These’ll help teacher improve in religious instruction and acting (6) 39 Poet’s to sanction being without females (6)
DOWN 1 In detail mercilessly criticize five veristic works (8) 2 Soul to long for Don, the US movie star (6) 3 Repudiate god with vulgar name (6) 4 Second prize given by the Queen is comparatively simple in appearance (7) 6 Tightrope walker not at home: she’s changing the spotlights (7) 7 Hawaiian party following a run at Calgary? (4) 8 A gown son Jack removed from Hattie perhaps (6) 9 Jock’s to lift explosive close to fuse over Texan’s metal bar (5) 11 Number seven to finish with a hooter (5) 16 Timothy goes inside to show posterior piece of mechanism (6) 18 A salt mostly irritated by expression of triumph (6) 21 Rising star carrying firearm warrants (8) 23 Idiot on throne holding electronic weapon (7) 24 An article I understand, to speak as a non-believer (7) 26 Weary soldiers at the front all retreat (6) 27 Book written in restrained, economical and too relaxed language (5) 28 Dutch composer died very heartbroken (6) 29 Medicine men indecently handle women stopping when excited (6) 30 Ovid’s no heart meeting a treacherous person (5) 32 Nothing in pass is free from sudden excitement (4)
Solution to CAM 65 Crossword Mind your Ps & Qs by Ifor Winner: David Agg (King’s 1981) Runners-up: Ted Defley (Pembroke 1968) and joint entrants Dr Martin Bright (Selwyn 1995) and Nicola Bright (Clare 2001). Of the many entries we received, only 25 were entirely correct.
Highlighted yellow cells left vacant in the initial grid permit the movement of P, P, P, Q as shown by the final poition of white pieces in red and black in black, in one version of the so-called fool's mate in chess (1. f4 e6. 2.g4 3.Qh4 mate). The six replacement answers shaded red are the mates/partners of the clued fools/comedians. GENAE is in OED.
FOOL’S MATE