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Alexander Larman

What happened to the Rishi Sunak I knew at school?

 
1 Detached from musical backed by censor (8)
6 Thoroughfares more important than Norfolk waterways, apparently (6, hyphened)
11 Copy of period furniture with small repeat and gold backing (5)
14 Overtake again taking time out from meals (6)
16 Public showing Eastern cross by river (4)
17 Cake with bit of icing authorised at first for Athenian assembly (8)
21 They give out decorations without bits of ice (8)
25 Male or female dress. Not half! (3)
26 Efflorescence seen during Mysore hurricane (3)
28 Franchisees at liberty? (7)
29 Before tide’s out, female bird sounds most piping (8)
34 Greeks the chap will have seen rioting (8)
35 Pancake with tabasco on the outside (4)
36 US film star with odd bits of cigar in stomach (6)
39 Caesar’s man with game-bird (5)
41 Capers around steep hillside (6)
42 Font giving date until 1752 (8, two words)
 

Down

 
1 US vehicle damaged terraces round edge of town (9)
4 A top Rugby prop in check (6)
5 Dry pilot moved in a sluggish manner (8)
6 Swearing at bugs Ian let loose (7)
7 Fraternity supplied goods (5)
8 White good for a long cold winter? (10, hyphened)
9 Place of depravity and dissolute moods (5)
12 Midge’s following ancient Briton to cinema (8)
18 Narrow escapes from ‘Time! Gentlemen, please’ on Sunday (10, two words)
22 Joiner on board with high quality rock (9)
24 In spite of everything, real trouble with flat
(8, two words)
27 Run from awful phone company (7, hyphened)
30 Calm, having cape in tartan (6)
31 Widow’s antique model car (6)
32 Tablet of some just elector (5)
33 Clown accepted drink (5)
37 Fierce lambs born together (4)
 
A first prize of £30 for the first correct solution opened on 3 March. There are two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word ‘Dictionary’). Entries to: Crossword 2149, The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP. Please allow six weeks for prize delivery.

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