Prize Crossword
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I Settle down now. It's Christmas Day: you opened your presents ages ago and have given up wondering what excuse you can make for not wearing that dreadful woolly with the holly pattern down the pub on Boxing Day. Lunch was a blow-out; the dishes have been cleared and you're enjoying a glass or two of your favourite tipple to ease your way through another afternoon of Disney re-runs while vaguely wondering if the Queen's speech really included a promise that HM will not only pay taxes, but has taken a checkout job in Tesco's to pay for the Windsor fire damage. All the signs of becoming another Christmas couch-potato casualty are in evidence. Then, with a sudden burst of clarity, you recall the Commercial Motor bumper Xmas crossword the perfect antidote to you and the family turning into brain-dead marshmallows watching Steve McQueen failing to make his Great Escape for the umpteenth time. So, get cracking: the clues may not be easy, but the mental exercise will do you good. The first six winners will receive a splendid, full-colour Scania calendar showing trucks in action all over the world. Entries by 15 January, please. CLUES ACROSS 8. Christmas dinner in north for old gaoler (7) 9. Chronology of truck manufacturer intended we hear to run things (10) 12. Sounds like bit of foot blocking way for trailers! (3-4) 13. Weird mod surrounded by vital change essential to run commercial vehicle ageing a bit (5,1,1,1) 14. Essential to know for air freight schedules, escape on watch? (6,4) 16. Started with pub accommodation then consumed food, being natural to a person (6) 18. Astronomer sharing interest with the Christmas shepherds and wise men? (9) 19. Smallest bit of change in France can be American money with dime (7) 22. See 36 Across 23. Go in for Foden terms' middle ground! (5) 24. Leyland recovery truck revered by Red Indians? (5) 27. Pullover as present just right, like cosy sleeping arrangements in cab? (4,3) 28. Leaves M18 at Junction 5 for Grimsby, performances with fresh teas! (5,4) 32. I am found in Swiss city, being chap who used to assist on The Golden Shot! (6) 33. I leave football team after pop nightclub and got parts cheaper (10) 34. Eye-catching industrial action? (8) 36 & 22 Across. Commercial vehicle for Del-Boy, like dependable garden bird in winter? (7,5)
38. Needs to be good for comfortable ride on bad roads missing games following sending-off? (10) 39. See 11 Down
CLUES DOWN 1. Got to go, but not by road or rail! (4,3)
2. Christmas card weather no fun to drive in (4)
3 & 20 Down. First-class wait for the coach journey? Pale roue grunted about! (9,6)
4. Norwegian ferry terminus from Newcastle when Scouse male rubbed on chest! (7) 5. Got expenses back, perhaps, when car led me astray round first person (9) 6. 211, 301, 401 for example from reconstructed desk donations round north (6,8) 7. German chap in depot toilet! (4)
10. Model perhaps that is good runner and powerful! (7) 11, 17 Down & 39 Across. E.T.A. with bad weather could be well out (9,6,2,7) 15. Making point before the others operating gears to start off? (7,2,5) 17. See 11 Down 20. See 3 Down 21. Ride gran's construction being forefather (9) 25. Alternative and wheel-less means of distributing oil to tankers (9) 26. New lorries going round E.C., they move back from something in horror! (9) 29. Submit to operation, say, with regard to Mersey taking tunnel? (7) 30. Maximum-size load requiring police escort perhaps strangely revealing star leg (7) 31. Rental arrangement following a hundred in the middle of the city (7) 35. The work to be done, interrogate after junction (4) 37. In middle of traffic jam is author Kingsley (4)