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Collaborative Crossword 2

17/4/2014

54 Comments

 
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Thanks to all who contributed to the first collaborative crossword. I really enjoyed putting it together with a mixture of everyone's suggestions. Here's the next one, the completed version of which will appear on my crossword page.

Same idea as before - suggest clues for any given answers and I will compile a mixture of everyone's contributions.

Clues can be posted as comments on this blog or via Twitter/Facebook/Google+.

54 Comments
Wayne Jones
17/4/2014 10:23:49 am

1A: Big Apple team marches into the dawn - not chicken yet? (5,4,2)

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Ashley
17/4/2014 11:37:54 am

Very nice - I like it!

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Wayne Jones
17/4/2014 10:30:33 am

8D: Trashy newspaper goes in a certain direction to get your goat (6)

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Ashley
20/4/2014 02:33:58 am

Clever!

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David Kilmer
17/4/2014 11:31:35 pm

7D. Even though German work goes from right to left (6)

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David Kilmer
17/4/2014 11:33:55 pm

12A. Topping a hockey penalty (5)

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David Kilmer
17/4/2014 11:38:23 pm

26A. White altar base destroyed (9)

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Ashley Smith
18/4/2014 04:09:28 am

Nice work, Dave. Love the German one.

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Bud Tangerina
22/4/2014 06:02:21 am

20D Pain and strains - it's sickening (7)

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Ashley
22/4/2014 07:56:17 am

Nice one, Brian. (Maybe 'strain' rather than 'strains', though?)

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Bud Tangerina
26/5/2014 02:41:31 pm

Yes, far better, Ashley!

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Ashley
24/5/2014 01:45:59 am

Submissions still welcome for this collaborative crossword. Will aim to post the final version in June.

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Bud Tangerina
26/5/2014 03:02:45 pm

5D Letter for Spain received from Athens has one slip, unfortunately (7)

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Ashley
26/5/2014 11:44:37 pm

Nice work

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Bud Tangerina
27/5/2014 04:31:12 am

3D Long time before noon (5)

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Bud Tangerina
27/5/2014 04:42:36 am

!D So the hospitaller housed the bounder here? (8)

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Bud Tangerina
27/5/2014 06:02:56 am

2D Cutting-edge space travel component? - For almost one second, maybe (8)

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Bud Tangerina
27/5/2014 06:28:45 am

25D No-see-um? - Dig around in the Middle East (5)

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Ashley
27/5/2014 07:09:47 am

Great work, Brian. Nice surfaces to these!

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Bud Tangerina
27/5/2014 11:25:19 pm

18A Long crawl (4)

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Bud Tangerina
28/5/2014 12:26:34 am

15A How the Bard's "Uncle me no uncle!" partly ended?

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Bud Tangerina
28/5/2014 12:30:10 am

15A How the Bard's "Uncle me no uncle!" partly ended? (4)

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Ashley
28/5/2014 12:45:48 am

Very nice indeed!

Bud Tangerina
28/5/2014 09:17:28 am

16D Could this disease of sheep also be rife among setters? (8)

Has everyone else gone AWOL? ...

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Bud Tangerina
30/5/2014 03:22:03 am

13A A Clapham association once open to undesirable elements? (7)

20A Qualified in German shortly after joining (7)

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Ashley
30/5/2014 08:05:29 am

13A clue especially good, Brian!

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Bud Tangerina
31/5/2014 06:52:53 am

7A Wicked master (3)

28A Greet a rather unpleasant character in a short manner (3)

9A A Scot's fractured rib (5)

10A Quarter with criminal connections? (9)

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David Kilmer
1/6/2014 02:19:48 am

17D. I get mail about what keeps kids out (3,5)

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David Kilmer
1/6/2014 02:30:38 am

14D. Tax table E revised for sharp weapon (9)

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David Kilmer
1/6/2014 02:40:56 am

11A. King getting into mashed corn in bun and popular music (4,1,4)

I am not proud of that clue.

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Ashley
1/6/2014 03:27:21 am

Nice surfaces, Dave!

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Vinit Wankhede
1/6/2014 03:19:27 am

Hero's character and form (4, 5)

ROLE MODEL

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Ashley
1/6/2014 03:27:57 am

Simple but effective!

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Vinit Wankhede
1/6/2014 03:29:32 am

A or E, perhaps for maturity criterion (3, 5)

AGE LIMIT

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Ashley
1/6/2014 10:47:20 am

Great wordplay

Darren Redfern
1/6/2014 08:47:08 am

Am I legit cavorting before this time? (3,5)

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Darren Redfern
1/6/2014 08:47:50 am

17D

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Ashley
3/6/2014 10:03:38 am

Lovely surface to that one!

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Darren Redfern
1/6/2014 08:53:09 am

Yes, the police produced this (4,1,4)

ROCK 'N ROLL

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Bud Tangerina
3/6/2014 08:00:20 am

22D BBC air wrong repeat, producer indicated (6)

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Ashley
3/6/2014 10:05:20 am

Lovely cluing, Brian.

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Bud Tangerina
3/6/2014 09:09:00 am

21D Soldiers undercover (6)

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Bud Tangerina
3/6/2014 02:38:06 pm

4D Believers beheaded without resistance at home (7)

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Ashley
4/6/2014 02:15:46 am

Nice. Like the use of the alternative spelling...

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Bud Tangerina
4/6/2014 12:01:35 am

19D Top auto firms face rigid safety rules making it (7)

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Bud Tangerina
4/6/2014 02:59:05 am

Your 19D's pretty awful, Bud! How about ...

19D Set one's cap at a model from Stuttgart, perhaps? (7)

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Ashley
4/6/2014 03:03:53 am

Yes, that's much more satisfying!

Bud Tangerina
4/6/2014 04:11:54 am

27A Belief in a God not crowned with a thorn noted earlier (5)

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Bud Tangerina
4/6/2014 07:53:29 am

29A Mix ample clay and limestone before firing here (11)

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Bud Tangerina
5/6/2014 09:04:41 am

29A Mix ample clay and limestone before making very large pots here (11)

... might be better

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Ashley
5/6/2014 10:45:40 am

Think I prefer the first one, actually. Either is great, though!

Ashley
5/6/2014 11:06:12 am

Looking at my own clues, I'd already come up with "Ample cement used for structure". Clearly on the same wavelength!

Ashley
5/6/2014 11:10:09 am

All clues now in. Thanks all for your brilliant contributions. Will aim to get the completed puzzle out asap.

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Ashley
7/6/2014 01:19:30 am

Here's the completed puzzle http://www.alvsmith.com/crosswords.html

Thanks again, everyone!

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    Ashley Smith is Head of Poetry at St John's College School, Cambridge. He has been teaching English and French since 2000 and was awarded the title of Teacher Trailblazer for 2011 by The Poetry Society. He lives in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, with his two cats, Muppet and Moussa Koussa.

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