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Crossword

2228: Unfair

12 September 2015

9:00 AM

12 September 2015

9:00 AM

One unclued light (ignore its umlaut) is the home of a team known by a name which is another unclued light. This name is also given to a group of 13 28; four related members (one hyphened) are the other unclued lights. Each of ten clues contains a misprinted letter in the definition part; corrections of misprints spell a two-word description of the team’s game, accounting for the absence of one of the best-known 13 28 from the grid.
 

Across

 
1    Country badly mistaken in revolution (12)
10    Protuberances from island skirted by cuckoo going west (4)
12    Answer back about series missing one segment (10)
14    Part of settlement, home of indefinite number (3)
15    Bold fool and I fly (8)
17    Tyres arranged in sets of three (5)
18    Tons in fruit for instance in boxes (7)
22    Independence in dispute without depth more doubtful (6)
24    Rough river in mess (5)
26    Lever moving a main root (9)
27    Indifference in vessel about number caught at one time (9)
29    Hired man in oblivion (5)
31    See, in mound, soft cheese (6)
34    Spirit low, lacking energy for dances (6)
36    Fern covering jade figurine (7)
38    Slink, following alien round, then run (5)
39    Weapon from border brought into Welsh town (8)
40    Cheers about receiving college degree (3)
41    Resolve to stop crazy birds (10)
42    Returning pay, pout (4)
43    Forceful wild pigs rush here (12, hyphened)
 

Down

 
2    Padre, no fun, terribly pure (10)
4    Muse until after important date (5)
5    Parts of spacecraft in scene soon damaged (9, two words)
6    Southern ground is the most inhabited (6)
7    Reword anecdotes, keeping note on length (5)
11    Appeal about silly offence, wanting nothing really (8, two words)
16    Some sugar to spill (3)
19    Thinner student losing heart (6)
20    Round building like this accommodating over fifty (6)
21    Morose rant unsettled scientist (10)
25    Stock including Latvian cheese (8)
32    Wright? Wrong man (3)
33    Sense organs fold up before confusion (5)
35    Conscious conflict between Austria and Spain (5)
37    Couch potato’s fourth objection (4)
 
A first prize of £30 for the first correct solution opened on 28 September. There are two runners-up prizes of £20. (UK solvers can choose to receive the latest edition of the Chambers Dictionary instead of cash— ring the word ‘Dictionary’.) Entries to: Crossword 2228, The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP. Please allow six weeks for prize delivery.

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