Across
1. World War I order is really excessive. (4-3-3)
6, 31ac. Modern university and school group become romantically involved.
(2-2-4)
10. Holding position with
no real authority, and you French trail around outside. (7)
11. Repeated musical
phrase follows her law enforcement official. (7)
12. One may go to this, but it’s illegal in many places. (3)
13. Large mushroom can put
one in the shade! (7)
14. Formed from inner
cells outwards, and ranched in a new way. (7)
15. Dance with castanets?
That’s a foolish act! (8)
17. Aggressively challenge
to produce air conditioning price. (6)
19. Husky sounds rather
like a quadruped. (6)
21. Military storage
facility, briefly, and one may be Googled in Farmington, NH! (4,4)
25. Type of honeysuckle
that’s agile. We get shaken up. (7)
27. Big place in
California is returned to hospital? Incorrect, so depart in a hurry! (4,3)
28. Choose a form of 12
ac. (3)
29. Concern for fact, sir
– ale is frothy with malt to start off. (7)
30. Tuscan is in a
tailspin. (7)
31. See 6ac.
32. Talented trimmers
decapitate the likes of Pepys and Frank, but they’re not dead to start with.
(10)
Down
1. Feeling great at the North Pole, perhaps. (2,3,2,3,5)
2. Go in (with no return) the alimentary canal. (7)
3. I’m last in a way – the short answer is lucky charms. (9)
4. Organ is given promotional mention, but this makes it harder to hear.
(3,4)
5. Bivalve employs terrible contents. (6)
7. In favor of tumultuous riot inside, beforehand. (5,2)
8, 9. From where a wig may slip without careful thought. (3,3,3,2,4,4)
16. Ottoman weight unit,
initially, or kilo, approximately. (3)
18. Gun-sight line gets
angry at speedy mammal, it’s said. (9)
20. Exotic talc in a
Spanish wine. (7)
22. Cocktail is right, in
the main, I conclude. (7)
23. Turn to “Play it
again Sam,” in the beginning for Eden and Shangri-la. (7)
24. Chinese leader cloned
to supply New Zealand fish. (6)
26. Tie up -- embracing
kiss for departure. (4)
Notes
E-mail
your solutions of The Very Logical Prize Puzzle No. 322 by the closing date of 4
p.m. (EST) on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018 to johnnolan755@gmail.com
and include your name, postal address and your choice of a Strip T’s shirt***,
should you be the drawn winner. Please include a second choice (design number
and size) just in case we are out of stock of your favorite T-shirt. The items
on Café Press are not in our stock and thus are not available as prizes.
Solutions
can also be mailed to John Nolan, 27 River Road, Farmington, NH, 03835.
Most
answers, except proper names, appear in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate
Dictionary tenth edition and/or The Chamber’s Dictionary. A couple of answers
may need to be confirmed via Google. In this "British-style"
crossword, punctuation marks in clues are best ignored, as a rule.
The
solution to The Very Logical Prize Puzzle No. 322, along with the name of the
winner, and everyone else submitting correct solutions, will be published on
this site towards the end of November.
***P.S.
The cost of mailing one T-shirt overseas has quadrupled in recent years and is
now almost $23 a pop, effectively killing the trade of small businesses like
Strip T’s. Thus, the prize now offered to winning puzzlers from outside the
U.S. will be a signed Stephanie cartoon rather than a T-shirt.
The
drawn winner, this month, is ... (with deep apologies to all U.S. and Bali
solvers, who are experiencing a very dry run) ... yet another solver from the
U.K. -- Gron Roberts of Neath, Wales, who, due to scanner problems, sent in his
solution at the very last minute.
P.S.
I did shake the Hat thoroughly before dipping in the paw.
We'll
get a cartoon in the mail to you this week, Gron.
Very
welcome solutions for a tougher puzzle were received this month from Chris
Rogers of Farmington, NH; Senator Jim and Joanne Gray, Randy Taylor, Julie
Lindsay of Rochester NH; Anne & Bruce Smith of Strafford, NH; Nancy Hebert
of Alton Bay, NH (heading south about now); Laura Bradford, Gertrude Metzger
& Caroline Williams of Maine, and all about to head for cosier climes; J.F.
Gecik of Sheffield Lake, Ohio, about to embark on his travels; Rich Pardoe of
Houston and Pat Miga of Colleyville, Texas and friends of the late Jim Sempsrott,
a classical music broadcaster from Raleigh, NC, who solved many a VLPP; David
Nash of Coleford, Mark Nichols of Rugby, Keith Williams of Kings Worthy, and
Eddy Looby of Longbridge, all in England; and Calfan Dary of Bali and
occasionally Singapore.
Larry
Reynolds of East Rochester, NH, he of the magnificently themed envelopes, came
very close, but inexplicably had "rae" instead of "rye" at
17 dn.
A
small tribute to the late Jim Sempsrott
Any puzzler's
death is immense, and half-hidden mysteriously, paraphrased Donne! (10,2)
J.N.
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www.crossword.org.uk/
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Look
out for Eclogue's puzzle coming up shortly on Derek's site ... an annual cunning
creation from Eddie and Keith.
The
last 16+ years of winners
No.
115 - Andy Knap of London, SW20, England
No.
116 - Randy Taylor of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No.
117 - Chris Rogers of Farmington, New Hampshire, USA
No.
118 - Don Parent of Hanover, Maine, USA
No.
119 - Karen Muller of Kohimarama, Auckland, New Zealand
No.
120 - Nancy Mooney Hebert of Palm Bay, Florida, USA
No.
121 - Carl E. Damuth of Wells, Maine, USA
No.
122 - Don Parent of Hanover, Maine, USA
No. 123 - Randy
Taylor of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No.
124 - Karen Muller of Kohimarama, Auckland, New Zealand
No. 125 - Carl E.
Damuth of Wells, Maine, USA
No. 126 - Joan
Bittrolff, Somersworth, New Hampshire, USA
No. 127 - Not posted
due to the stress and pressure of vacation
No. 128 - Chris
Rogers of Farmington, New Hampshire, USA
No. 129 - Nancy
Mooney Hebert of Palm Bay, Florida, USA
No. 130 - Carl E. Damuth of Wells, Maine, USA
No. 131 - Joan
Bittrolff, Alford, Florida, USA
No. 132 - Slipped
through cracks due to computer crisis
No. 133 - Karen
Muller of Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand
No. 134 - Randy
Taylor of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 135 - Don Parent
of Hanover, Maine, USA
No. 136 - Paul Noack
of West Broomfield, Michigan, USA
No. 137 - Carl E. Damuth of Wells, Maine, USA
No. 138 - Don Parent of Hanover, Maine, USA
No. 139 - Barbara Trow of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 140 - Bonnie & Kevin Bergeron, Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 141 - Nancy Mooney Hebert of Palm Bay, Florida, USA
No. 142 - Karen
Cleary of St. Johns Park, Auckland, New Zealand
No. 143 - Chris Rogers of Farmington, New Hampshire, USA
No. 144 - Veronique Bonnet, Rodez, France
No. 145 - Carl E. Damuth of Wells, Maine, USA
No. 146 - Huguette R.-M. Simmonds of Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago
No. 147 - Randy
Taylor of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 148 - Pierre Gaillard, Olemps, France
No. 149 - Reynir Axelsson, Mosfellsbaer, Iceland
No. 150 - Paul Noack
of West Broomfield, Michigan, USA
No. 151 - Régine Privat, Naucelle, France
No. 152 - Don Parent
of Hanover, Maine, USA
No. 153 - Barbara Winter, Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 154 - Joan
Bittrolff, Alford, Florida, USA
No. 155 - Condell Lovell Simmons of Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago
No. 156 - Nancy Mooney Hebert of Palm Bay, Florida, USA
No. 157 - Karen
Cleary of St. Johns Park, Auckland, New Zealand
No. 158 - Barbara Trow of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 159 - Paul Noack
of West Broomfield, Michigan, USA
No. 160 - Sylvie Chauchard of Belmont Sur Rance, Belmont, France
No. 161 - Carl E. Damuth of Wells, Maine, USA
No. 162 - Yvette Gaillard of Olemps, Rodez, France
No. 163 - Randy Taylor of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 164 - Calfan Dary of Anggabaya, Bali, Indonesia
No. 165 - Keith Simmonds of Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago
No. 166 - Chris Rogers of Farmington, New Hampshire, USA
No. 167 - Joan Bittrolff of Alford, Florida, USA
No. 168 - Betty Bardy of
Albi, France
No. 169 -
Randy Taylor of
Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 170 - Bonnie & Kevin Bergeron, Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 171 - Paul Noack of West Broomfield, Michigan, USA
No. 172 - Barbara Trow of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 173 - Barbara Winter of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 174 - Nancy Moony Hebert of Alton, New Hampshire, USA (in summer)
No. 175 - Jim Gaudet of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 176 - Keith Williams of Kings Worthy, Winchester, Hampshire, England
No, 177 - Karen Cleary of St. Johns Park, Auckland, New Zealand
No. 178 - Calfan Dary of Anggabaya, Bali, Indonesia
No. 179 - James O. Horrigan, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
No. 180 - David Simmonds of Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago
No. 181 - Chris Rogers of Farmington, New Hampshire, USA
No. 182 - Madeleine Dupierre of Rodez, France.
No. 183 - Paul Noack of West Broomfield, Michigan, USA
No. 184 - Jim Siirola of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
No. 185 - James O. Horrigan, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
No. 186 - Randy Taylor of
Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 187 -
Joan Bittrolff of Alford, Florida, USA
No. 188 - Natalie Ryder, Bremen,
Georgia, USA
No. 189 - Barbara Trow of Dover, New
Hampshire, USA
No. 190 -
Héloïse Bonnet of Rodez, France
No. 191 - Jim Gaudet of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 192 - Calfan Dary of Anggabaya, Bali, Indonesia
No. 193 - Keith Williams of Kings Worthy, Winchester, Hampshire, England
No. 194 - Huguette R.-M. Simmonds, Tunapuna, Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies
No. 195 - Terry Towle, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA
No. 196 - Vidya Singh of Sidcup, Kent, England
No. 197 - Jim Sempsrott, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
No. 198 - Condell Lovell Simmons of Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago
No. 199 - Trudy Metzger, Caroline Williams, Laura Bradford of Westport I.,
Maine, USA
No. 200 - Norbert Bonnet of Rodez, France
No. 201 - Barbara Bierweiler of Ossipee, New Hampshire, USA
No. 202 - Paul Noack of West Broomfield, Michigan, USA
No. 203 - James O. Horrigan, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
No. 204 - Randy Taylor of
Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 205 - Chris Rogers of Farmington, New Hampshire, USA
No. 206 - Nancy Mooney Hebert of Palm Bay, Florida, USA
No. 207 - Wayne Maricheau of Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago
No. 208 - Mark Nichols of Rugby, Warwickshire, England
No. 209 - Keith Williams of Kings Worthy, Winchester, Hampshire, England
No. 210 - Jim Sempsrott, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
No. 211 - Calfan Dary of Anggabaya, Bali, Indonesia
No. 212 - Joan Bittrolff of Alford, Florida, USA
No. 213 - Barbara Trow of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 214 - Keith Simmonds of Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago
No. 215 - Ian Laming, Chippingham, Wiltshire, England
No. 216 - James O. Horrigan, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
No. 217 - Jim Siirola of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (technically a
non-competitor)
No. 218 - Keith Williams of Kings Worthy, Winchester, Hampshire, England
No. 219 - Annie Bonnet of Rodez, France
No. 220 - Veronique Bonnet, Limoges, France
No. 221 - Eddie Looby, Longbridge, Birmingham,
England
No. 222 - Nancy Mooney Hebert of Palm Bay, Florida, USA
No. 223 - Chris Rogers of Farmington, New Hampshire, USA
No. 224 - Mark Nichols of Rugby, Warwickshire, England
No.
225 - Randy Taylor of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 226 - Huguette R.-M. Simmonds, Tunapuna, Trinidad & Tobago
No. 227 - Joan Bittrolff of Alford, Florida, USA
No. 228 - David Nash, Coleford, Gloucestershire, England
No. 229 - Jim Sempsrott, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
No. 230 - Condell Lovell Simmons of Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago
No. 231 - Barbara Bierweiler of Ossipee, New Hampshire, USA
No. 232 - Eddie Looby, Longbridge, Birmingham,
England
No. 233 - Calfan Dary of Anggabaya, Bali, Indonesia
No. 234 - Trudy Metzger and Laura Bradford of Topsham, Maine, USA
No. 235 - Barbara Trow of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 236 - Jim Siirola of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (technically a
non-competitor)
No. 237 - Keith Williams of Kings Worthy,
Winchester, Hampshire, England
No. 238 - Philippe Bonnet of Rodez, France
No. 239 - Nancy Mooney Hebert of Palm Bay, Florida, USA
No. 240 - Mark Nichols of Rugby, Warwickshire,
England
No. 241 - David Simmonds of Crayford, Dartford,
England
No. 242 - Chris Rogers of Farmington, New
Hampshire, USA
No. 243 - Eddie Looby, Longbridge, Birmingham,
England
No. 244 - Jim Sempsrott, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
No. 245 - Joan Bittrolff of Alford, Florida, USA
No. 246 - Pat Mathews of Berwick, Maine, USA
No. 247 - Veronique Bonnet, Rodez, France
No. 248 - Paul Noack, Rochester Hills,
Minnesota, USA
No. 249 - David Nash, Coleford, Gloucestershire, England
No. 250 - Nigel Cowley of Cooksbridge, East Sussex, England
No. 251 - Keith Simmonds of Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago
No. 252 - Calfan Dary of Anggabaya, Bali, Indonesia
No. 253 - Barbara Bierweiler of Ossipee, New Hampshire, USA
No. 254 - Trudy Metzger, Carol Williams and Laura Bradford of Maine
or Florida, USA
No. 255 - Eddie Looby, Longbridge, Birmingham,
England
No. 256 - Barbara Trow of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No.
257 - Randy Taylor of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 258 - Annie Bonnet of Rodez, France
No. 259 - Keith Williams of Kings Worthy,
Winchester, Hampshire, England
No. 260 - Jim Sempsrott, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
No. 261 - Mark Nichols of Rugby, Warwickshire,
England
No. 262 - Jim Siirola of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (technically a
non-competitor)
No. 263 - Mark Nichols of Rugby, Warwickshire,
England
No. 264 - Jeanine Bonnet of Limoges, France
No. 265 - Chris Rogers of Farmington, New
Hampshire, USA
No. 266 - Calfan Dary of Anggabaya, Bali, Indonesia
No. 267 - Joan Bittrolff of Alford, Florida, USA
No. 268 - David Nash, Coleford, Gloucestershire, England
No. 269 - David Simmonds of Crayford, Dartford,
England
No. 270 - Nancy Mooney Hebert, Alton Bay, New
Hampshire, USA
No. 271 - Trudy Metzger on an island in Maine, USA
No.
272 - Pat Miga of Colleyville, Texas, USA
No. 273 - Eddie Looby, Longbridge, Birmingham,
England
No. 274 - Barbara Bierweiler of Ossipee, New Hampshire, USA
No. 275 - Huguette R.-M. Simmonds, Rodez,
France
No. 276 - Keith Williams, Kings Worthy,
Winchester, England
No. 277 - Veronique Bonnet, Rodez, France
No. 278 - Mark Nichols of Rugby, Warwickshire,
England
No.
279 - Nancy Mooney Hebert, Palm Bay, Florida, USA
No.
280 - Calfan Dary of Anggabaya, Bali, Indonesia
No. 281 - Keith Williams, Kings Worthy,
Winchester, England
No. 282 - Caroline Williams, Topsham, Maine, USA
No. 283 - Jim Sempsrott, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
No.
284 - Jane Carville/Samantha Warren, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, USA
No.
285 - Larry Reynolds, East Rochester, NH, USA
No.
286 - Rich Pardoe, San Francisco Bay, Calif., USA
No.
287 - Randy Taylor, Rochester, NH, USA
No.
288 - Anne & Bruce Smith, Strafford, NH, USA
No. 289 - Pat Miga of Colleyville, Texas, USA
No. 290 - Bonnie & Kevin Bergeron,
Rochester, NH, USA
No.
291 - Annie Bonnet of Rodez, France
No.
292 - Eddie Looby, Longbridge, Birmingham,
England
No.
293 - Julie Lindsay of Rochester NH, USA
No.
294 - Joanne Gray of Rochester, NH, USA
No.
295 - Pat Miga of Colleyville, Texas, USA
No.
296 - David Nash, Coleford, Gloucestershire, England
No.
297 - Barbara Trow, Dover, NH, USA
No.
298 - Chris Rogers of Farmington, New
Hampshire, USA
No.
299 - Rich Pardoe of Houston, Texas, USA
No. 300 - Mark Nichols of Rugby, Warwickshire,
England
No. 301 - Barbara Bierweiler of Ossipee, New Hampshire, USA
No. 302 - Clara Bonnet of Rodez, France
No. 303 - Gron Roberts, Neath, West Glamorgan,
Wales
No. 304 - Calfan Dary of Anggabaya, Bali,
Indonesia
No. 305 - Nancy Mooney Hebert, Palm Bay, Florida, USA
No. 306 - Laura Bradford, Venice, Florida, USA
No.
307 - Keith Williams, Kings Worthy,
Winchester, England
No.
308 - Derek Harrison, Bedlington, Northumberland, England
No.
309 - Larry Reynolds, East Rochester, NH, USA
No.
310 - Jane Carville, Wolfeboro, NH, USA
No.
311 - John F. Gecik, Sheffield Lake, Ohio, USA
No.
312 - Keith Simmonds, Tunapuna, Trinidad & Tobago
No.
313 - Eddie Looby, Longbridge, Birmingham,
England
No.
314 - David Nash, Coleford,
Gloucestershire, England
No.
315 - Randy Taylor, Rochester, NH, USA
No.
316 - Jim/Joanne Gray, Rochester, NH, USA
No.
317 - Patricia Miga of Colleyville, Texas, USA
No.
318 - David Simmonds, Crayford, England
No.
319 - Keith Williams, Kings Worthy,
Winchester, England
No,
320 - Eddie Looby, Longbridge, Birmingham,
England
No. 321 - Gron Roberts, Neath, West Glamorgan,
Wales
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