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2223: Clerihew
29 6 (4 words) is 1 24 (3 words). 24 11 10 (4 words), but 6 11 36 (4 words).…
To 2220: Poem II
The Poem was ‘Kubla Khan’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 3A, 23, 42, 43, 3D, 4, 10 and 16 are words…
2222: Exquisite
One unclued light (hyphened) is a 38 of a word hidden in the grid. Two unclued lights are definitions of…
To 2219: Keep going
Unclued lights complete the titles of Carry On films. First prize Tony Hankey, London W4 Runners-up Mark Roberts, Hostert, Luxembourg;…
2221: Shielded
The unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Elsewhere, ignore two accents. Across 1 Transfers…
To 2218: Fab!
The unclued lights are all preceded by GREAT to form the phrases that can be confirmed in Brewer. (The clue…
2220: Poem II
Unclued lights (two hyphened) are words (all but one of which are in ODQ) from a poem whose title appears…
To 2217: Poem
The poem was Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats. 1A, 16, 21A, 30, 38, 8, 13, 27, 29…
The chemically castrated are useless at crosswords: true or false?
After hitting me with the cancer diagnosis, the urologist offered me the choice of a longer life in exchange for…
2219: Keep going
Unclued lights (one of three words) are of a kind, as suggested by the title. Across 7 Mostly…
To 2216: Riddle
Films starring AUDREY HEPBURN (4 29) include MY FAIR LADY, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, SABRINA FAIR and ROMAN HOLIDAY in the perimeter, and…
2218: Fab!
The unclued lights (two of three words and two of two words) can be preceded by the same word and…
To 2215: IVOs
The unclued lights include at least four Os (IV Os), and other clued solutions contain two or three. OROONOKO at…
2217: Poem
Unclued lights (one hyphened) are words from a poem whose subject appears in the completed grid. A clued light is…
To 2214: What’s Up?
The theme word is CLIMBER. All unclued lights are therefore entered going upwards. There are three different types of climbers:…
2216: Riddle
Two clues are without definitions; their answers form the name of a person with a leading part in four works…
To 2213: Surprising
The unclued Down lights are books, entered in reverse as indicated by the phrase TURN-UP FOR THE BOOKS (1A 27…
2215: IVOs
The unclued lights (one hyphened and another a novel which is listed in Chambers Crossword Dictionary) display a similar feature…
To 2212: : Plus Ça Change
The unclued Across lights (15, 23/21, 38 and 39) are LITERAL anagrams of the unclued Down lights (3, 19, 32/37,…
2214: What’s up?
The theme word is 29 down, which defines each of the other unclued lights (including one of two words) in…
To 2211: Toddler hero
‘THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH YIELDING PLACE TO NEW’, from Tennyson’s IDYLLS OF THE KING, suggests the outcome of ANAGRAMMATISM (2).…
2213: Surprising
A phrase, formed by four unclued lights, incorporates a definition of the other unclued lights and an indication of the…
To 2210: Game Theory
The future is not for parties ‘playing politics’ (16 29 1A 15) is a quotation by Woodrow Wilson. 1A provides…
Plus ça change
The unclued Across lights (Individually or as a pair) are defined by the unclued Down lights (individually or as a…
To 2209: Safe-blowers
The unclued lights were preceded by PETER (translation of 32A) to form phrases listed in Chambers or Brewer. First prize…
