Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Send your solution to: Significance Crossword Competition, Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX (photocopies are acceptable), or scan it and email to [email protected]. The competition is sponsored by Oxford University Press (academic.oup.com), who will give the winner £100 or $150 to spend on Oxford University Press books. Closing date: 11 September 2024. The winner will be chosen randomly from the correct entries, and the solution published in a future issue. Nine answers need to have one letter changed, all in the same way, before being entered into the grid. In each case the original and replacement entries are ordinary, uncapitalised words. The unclued entry at 29A helps to describe the change. 1 Liars appear unbelievable: take another look (11) 7 Wail from ends of Athens to Zagreb (3) 9 Part masala, spicy gelatin (5) 10 Hesitant speaker from novel backs into eerily reset reality, at first (9) 11 Honored dinner she cooked (9) 12 Present last of oration one time (5) 13 Devilish criminals at an Icelandic subdivision (7) 15 Saucy Mexican entry has Mayan beginnings, Iberian cheer (4) 17 Housing fifty in struggle (4) 19 Prepared deletes, poorly (7) 23 Toss that man onto short street (5) 24 Royals are destroyed: time for a revolution (5,4) 26 Author in confusing rave with portal to change color (9) 27 Petroleum in central Nevada? Check it out (5) 28 Put on dramatic works, afterthought dismissed (3) 29 (see directions; 3 words) 1 Hesitations by heavy metal frontmen (7) 2 Appropriate to suggest in mime (8) 3 Leader run down from behind (5) 4 As cinemas evolve, real replaces “masculine” (7) 5 New singers from the south bring heat (7) 6 Sourness from this fermented melon on plane, perhaps (5,4) 7 Screenplay’s prologue starts, then fluff: that’s a wrap (6) 8 Darker-type bachelor is not so young (6) 14 Something in the brain of odd, clever Len (5,4) 16 Take small sandwich without hesitation, after cheese filling in (8) 18 Female workers follow backward psychology (7) 19 Notable promontory (7) 20 Like Mount Fuji, where god or man takes part (7) 21 Dig a small cabin (6) 22 Virtually aviate, capturing atmosphere (6) 25 Crumble hail between hands (5) The nine deleted letters can be rearranged to spell TRUNCATED. Across: 1 SEE + MS; 4 AsSiSt; 6 ALP + HA; 9 M(ART)INI; 10 anag. ALIEN in RT; 11 anag. REGAL (lose E in CASTE); 12 IN TEST + IN + E; 13 rev. PURe + TURING; 15 C + AGES; 16 double def.; 18 anag. IDSEEMENU; 24 homonym I SING; 25 anag. ARTICLES – R; 26 I(MAGI)N + E (lose T in COVERT); 27 hidden (lose T in PEAT); 28 double def.; 29 EVEN + T Down: 1 SIR with anag. MAIL; 2 EAR + DROP; 3 anag. IDLELURES; 4A + LIB + I; 5 anag. TGAMESTAR (lose A in AT); 6 rev. SALT + A (lose C in ANTIC); 7 double def. (lose D in WIND); 8 anag. REACTS + S; 14 anag. DIALECTIN; 15 C + AND + I + DATE; 16 anag. SETTLER; 17 DUCAT in EE; 19 anag. DECIDE + I (lose R in DECIDER); 20 anag. MEN GETS (lose U in MENU); 22 anag. CRATE (lose N in SEAN); 23 thIRty in DAY Winner: Madhav Sankaranarayanan
Source: Significance
Author: Sam Buttrey
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4401449598