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6 Jungle queen depleted around electrically charged particle (7)
1 Ivor Charles King fits so well into moving along jolly good time! (10)
7 Deceived St. George girds large cask (5)
2 Enemy I would respect lives on the Arabian coast (6)
9 Undecorated ear lobe ranking between Marquis and Viscount (4)
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4 Hitman is starter in Games held biannually in Ancient Corinth (8)
11 Cave it in, perhaps? - becomes sedentary (8)
5 Without spin pursuing spiritual teacher (4)
13 Confused rent in local lock-up with medical man of the future ? (6)
6 Get to know capable Arnold (5)
15 Happy in the snow!! It’s Yuletide and sword fighting is out! (4) 17 Mr. Hood is brooding, having discarded belief in the Almighty (5)
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18 Sounds to me like she’s very knowledgeable as is Jimmy Durante (4)
Name:_______________________________________________ 19 Rascally criminal follows British leader in having lilting accent (6) Address: _____________________________________________ Tel:______________ Email_______________________________ 20 Ceded jest without one direction made passengers unhappy (8)
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3 Rats to the old King of Bulgaria (4)
10 Aureate and Hong Kong Queen get together to observe convulsion (10)
23 Tiny aortas can leave one’s body in a static state (10)
8 Go stark naked - these are indeed fast (2-5) 12 Edward has his British honour fixed securely (5) 14 Folios can’t match this method of teaching vocal music (5,5) 16 Inconsistent composer Coates shelters strike breaker (7) 17 Orchestrating (no little insects here today)high sounding oratory (8) 21 Her Majesty is not in jeopardy over computer game device (6)
26 Enthusiasts find oaky wine flavours just acceptable (4)
22 Destroy an age in the south east (5)
27 Apparently CIA to supervise protection of American mammal (5)
25 Anthropoid primates now in recess (4)
24 Small greeny ducks et al. (4)
28 Fans elf while putting a bit on a horse (7)
MUSICAL TRIVIA with Michael Morton-Evans How well do you know the world of classical music? Test your knowledge with these musical brain teasers from Fine Music 102.5 presenter, Michael Morton-Evans. 1. Which well-known British opera was commissioned by the Venice Biennale in 1954? 2. Who was the second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach? 3. What did British composer Lord Berners do with pigeons? 4. Who is generally accepted as being the “Father” of operetta? 5. Vltava is the second of the six numbers that go to make up Smetana’s symphonic poem Ma Vlast. Is Vltava a mountain, a river or a castle? 6. In which country is Delibes’ opera Lakmé set? 7. Which composer famously wrote: “I dreamt that I had made a bargain with the devil for my soul.”
Crossword Solution -August 2014
Across: 8 Gneiss, 9 Unworthy, 10 Hoof, 11 Interstice, 12 Burr, 13 Assumption, 17 Chou, 18 Ideal, 19 Race, 21 Cover notes, 23 Lone, 24 Stepmother, 28 Duty, 29 Aggrieve, 30 Advert. Down: : 1 Insomuch, 2 Misfortune, 3 Estimation, 4 Bust, 5 Ewer, 6 Drat, 7 Whacko, 14 Sheet, 15 Millstream, 16 Turtledove, 20 Cincture, 22 Outage, 25 Pert, 26 Obey, 27 Heel.
8. Is a zarzuela a Spanish musical instrument, a Spanish musical drama or a Spanish choral group? TRIVIA ANSWERS 1. The Turn for the Screw by Benjamin Britten. 2. Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach. 3. Dye them different colours. 4. Jacques Offenbach. 5. A river - The Moldau. 6. India. 7. Giuseppe Tartini. 8. A Spanish musical drama with spoken dialogue. 56
fineMusic 102.5
September 2014