Crossword solution
Solution to 2576: After Eleven
The unclued lights are names of the men who followed Armstrong and Aldrin (Apollo 11) in walking on the moon…
Solution to 2575: Problem XIII
5 (the number of GOLD RINGS, from ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’: 34/22A) x 103 (the number of the PSALM…
Solution to 2574: A Chinese
Each unclued Across light (including the pair at 16/7) is a SWEET and the unclued Down lights can be preceded…
Solution to 2573
The preamble referred to ten symmetrically placed unclued entries which spell out CURRENT PUZZLE NUMBER HAS PRIME FACTORS: THIRTY-ONE, EIGHTY-THREE.…
Solution to 2572: Blown up
As suggested by the quotation by John Donne around the perimeter, the other unclued lights were all kinds of trumpets.…
Solution to 2571: 10”
The TEN unclued lights are Scottish islands – or ‘INCHES’. First prize Mrs F.A. Bull, Canterbury Runners-up Susan Hay, Wolverhampton;…
Solution to 2570: Short story
Arthur C. Clarke (31/45) said that Ernest Hemingway (35/12) won a bet from fellow writers for the shortest story: FOR…
Solution to 2569: Anadad
The quotation was ‘I WAS BORN TO SPEAK ALL MIRTH AND NO MATTER’ from Much Ado About Nothing (II.i.321) by…
Solution To 2568: Next Door…
The unclued lights were characters in Neighbours, paired at 12/19, 14/20, 16/19 and 32/20. First prize Peter Taylor-Mansfield, Worcester Runners-up…
Solution to 2567: Stop!
The unclued lights (including the pairs at 2/14 and 12/36) are names of organ stops which Brewer calls ‘music in…
Solution to 2566: Somewhere XII
30 July is Independence Day in Vanuatu in MELANESIA (23D). Its capital city is PORT VILA (39/16), one of its…
