Crossword

Unclued lights are anagrams of eight words which are of a kind.   Across 1    Result of hooker’s foul work?

One unclued light is the title (two words) of a work by a person whose name is formed by two unclued lights. The work in question features a 17 27 which is 11. This item can be found in the appropriate area of the grid in 25 form and should be highlighted. Elsewhere ignore an accent.

The unclued lights (two of two words) can be all be preceded by the same word which solvers have to highlight appropriately in the completed grid. All are confirmed in Brewer apart from one, which is not listed in Chambers either (surprisingly).

Unclued lights are words from a poem, its author and a relevant location. Elsewhere, ignore two accents.   Across 7    Music like reggae from Saskatchewan (3) 11    Carriage policeman pulled over beside hedge (6) 13    Judge meets drug addict who’s declining (7) 15    Ionian cardinal crossing Iowa (5) 16    Strong pickle’s sound (5) 17    Seminary keeps beer for Arab?

Unclued lights make five pairs with something in common.   Across 1    Fragrant nuts announced (5) 4    Neat workers secure line for pole holding basket (9, hyphened) 9    Unsuitable papal rooms exchanged (10) 11    Incitement to hold round dance (5) 15    Proud to pull tons (5) 21    I waited outside as daughter went for some clothes (8) 22    Secret group, leaderless, keeps a team away from main branch (7) 24    Buffalo product, hot, full of goodness?

The unclued lights (one individually and five pairs) are of a kind.   Across 1    German leader put stuff back into soup (8) 5    More lascivious-sounding marketeer (6) 9    Powerless to operate, having drunk UK brown ale (10) 14    Ceilidh lacks odd members of antiquity (3) 16    Tries half the fish at 42 with starchy pudding (6, three words) 18    Brief period of enchantment (5) 20    Select group at lake bed, first (7) 22    Regular terminus — no less — for Badminton Horse Trials participant (7) 24    Because Santa left, station wagon crashed (7, two words) 25    Girl cried ‘It hurt a bit!

13 1A 23 22 is an eight-word quotation by 34 in ODQ. Other unclued lights, including one of three words, are unrelated, but each has 13 1A 23. The two lights which make up the title each have 13 1A 23 which needs highlighting (9 cells in total). Elsewhere, ignore two accents.   Across 10    Ascetic existence by Tyneside (6) 11    Like a prison that’s more guarded?

Two unclued lights form a three-word phrase. Clues in italics are cryptic indications of partial answers; in each case, the indicated part must do as instructed by the thematic phrase to create the full answer to be entered in the grid. Resulting entries (two of which consist of two words each) are defined by unclued lights.

The unclued lights, three of two words and four pairs are of a kind. Elsewhere, ignore two accents.   Across 11    Arable plant making money, including capital – a grand (10, hyphened) 14    The occasion, we’re told, for tears (5) 15    Express excitement about the sun at start of evening (7) 17    Sound producer’s good fortune is keeping time (7) 19    Top performer and soothsayer, regularly (4) 22    Manageable while oddly dismissing odds all day!

Of the unclued entries, three combine to form a phrase (five words) describing three more (four foreign-language words). The remaining three combine to form a sentence (seven words) given by Brewer as an example of one of them.   Across 1    It’s brimming, almost like an optimist’s view? Not half! (8) 8    Song or dance following song and dance (4) 13    Something woven when you choose (6, two words) 14    Slight fracture of leg caught in net (7) 15    Played loud or very loud in quarters (8) 18    I’m ‘snailed’, struggling with these? (9) 20    Measure of drink needed for bender (4) 21    Upset copy-taker includes this?

Unclued lights form three sets of three, each set related in a different way to a theme-word which is hidden in the grid and should be highlighted.

The unclued lights, (two of two words), individually or as a pair, are of a kind and can be resolved into three separate trios. Ignore all accents and apostrophes throughout the puzzle. The highlighted squares, read in order row by row, reveal the sources of the trios.

Clockwise round the grid from 3 run the names (7,4,5,6,8,8,5,6) of four characters in a novel followed by the initials of its author. Two pairs of unclued lights (20/39 and 11/26) each combine to form an anagram of the novel’s title.

Clues are given according to alphabetical order of their answers. Each of thirty-two clues comprises a definition part and a hidden consecutive jumble of the answer including one extra letter. When arranged in conventional clue order, the extras spell a character’s name and seven-word quotation (in ODQ). In the remaining seven clues, cryptic indications omit reference to parts of answers; these parts must be highlighted, to reveal an item situated as the quotation suggests in relation to the unclued 8, 21, 28 (two words), 30 and 37. Ignore an accent in the highlighted item.

Each of the eight unclued lights is a series of letters in alphabetical order which can be formed into eight theme words. Elsewhere, ignore two accents.

The unclued entries (two hyphened) are all synonyms. Each of five clues contains a word that must be removed to enable the clue to be solved. These words can all be augmented by a letter (the five letters appear in sequence in the completed grid, and must be highlighted) to form five more words, which, treated singly or combined in pairs, form nine items. One is a synonym of one of the unclued entries.

The first line of a 4 (two words) consists of 7A and the puzzle’s 3 41; the second line is 7D 12 33 37 (six words in total). Cryptic indications in seven clues are incomplete; in each case, the answer is formed when the indicated part has 12 33.   Across 1    Fret about fixing toy (11, two words) 11    Rook in spot with energy in attacking position (6) 13    Change in Romeo – product of bonding action? (7) 15    Rodents, when after cover, retreating (5) 16    Wise to follow uniform practice (5) 17    Improvement in part for all to see in vessel (6) 18    Leader of England in cricket?

A word suggested by the title can either precede or follow each of the unclued lights to form phrases listed in Brewer.   Across 10    5’s musical art on car plate (12) 11    Chosen the front bits of 40 (5) 13    Artwork showing most of red face cover turned over (7) 14    Crushes forms and PO items (6) 17    Spenser’s questioning adding a seal (8) 21    Might they roughly bisect Arctic Ocean for starters?

Round the perimeter clockwise is a 14-word quotation in ODQ, with its first word represented by a number in the grid. Other unclued lights are words of a kind (including four proper nouns and one of two words) which need treating before entry, as suggested by the final three words of the quotation. One of the treated entries is a proper noun. Elsewhere, ignore one accent.

A beastly business The quote is 1A/92/18D from the poem ‘A Visit from St Nicholas’. The theme was the names of the eight reindeer in the poem. Three were highlighted whilst the others each suggested three unclued lights: Dasher (26, 63 and 83 — sprinters); Comet (12, 48 and 64 — astronomers’ names given to comets); Dancer (7, 49 and 74); Vixen (64A, 85 and 89 — female animals); Cupid (4, 25 and 46 — love deities).   The winners The first prize of £100, three prizes of £25 and six further prizes of Bletchley Park Brain Teasers by Sinclair McKay (Headline) go to the following. In addition, the first four winners each win a bottle of champagne.   First prize Peter Turner, Bearsden, Glasgow Runners-up F.