Twenty radial lights run from rim to centre, 20 from centre to rim. The circuit next to the outer one contains, clockwise from radial 1, a translated quotation (differing slightly from that in ODQ) attributed to the name appearing in the inner ring.

1 Make a dame of girl fellow has song written about

2 Oliver perhaps was first for spooned out gruel?

3 Pierced sand-eel dead

4 A fashion one left like the works of Schoenberg?

5 Capital is a unit of power opposition initially backed

6 Reach hospital inside poor quarter

7 Conclusions found in some gasoline

8 Abdomen taxidermy innards?

9 Hopper that is in festival

10   This muscle is in favour of maintaining law

11   Old animal disease of batrachians seen regularly

12   About to leave African ground starch

13   One who showers using Shield it’s said

14   More silly American is replaced by European that’s handier

15   Erased rambling plants

16   Sets forth again note lost by disorganised emissary

17   Abandoned outlier lacking European sockets

18   Clouds with nothing odd in nuclei

19   Old Macdonald’s invested with property from informal electronic funds transfer

20   One flourished amidst the present immigration?

21   Awkward dancer stretched out neck

22   Holy man replete with ‘the blood of Christ’ languished

23   Before medical life-force was sound as a bell

24   Writing papers son delayed in lease transfer

25   One after internal intramuscular membrane

26   Note American values that are the lowest possible

27   Un-English Arians embrace foreign law?

28   Lacking name, repellent wine punch is something chemically produced (3-3)

29   Lukashenko so vowed to protect country

30   Genuine roman numerals leave Sherlock perplexed

31   In the past, ruinously advanced work about reversing vehicle

32   Pirate greeting sailor

33   Capone leaves frightening supply of ordnance

34   Graham moving here?

35   Black singer on the wireless is a sucker?

36   Abridge excellent Gibbons?

37   More retro looker is absurdly fashionable

38   Aloof, like the upper classes without a leader

39   Distraught one amid collapsed shelf

40   Troy, with wife leaving, drunk whisky like a dog

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