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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