2019-08-10 The Spectator

LIFE

Across

11 Thankless daughter that’s

broken up loves and leaves

for season (7)

12 Biblical character with pain

in both hands (6)

13 Carpet has nap woven

round edge, all in scarlet

(9)

14 Fantasy – in short, ecstasy

(5)

16 Despots – Middle Eastern –

contract lung infection (5)

19 Type of movie with lots

of drawings? (7)

21 Nicosia, possibly – it’s in

Cyprus (4)

24 King, born a woman, may

have been bent (4)

25 ‘Quillwort’ is Old English

• exam unfinished (7)
  31 Alluring woman stripped
  for big show (4)
  32 Lie concerned with
  Conservative policy (7)
  34 Passage travelled by boat
  in sound (4)
  35 Sign of cut in news
  exclusive about inflation
  measure (7)
  37 Study book about
  France’s latest star (5)
  40 I’m out to get a radio part,
  speaking with style (5)
  41 Days somewhat hotter
  soon after Ash Wednesday?
  (9, two words)
  42 Editorial report on
  songs (6)
  43 Cold month outside
  concerns staff (7)
  44 Town cook welcomes
  serenades (11)

Down

5 Put down, with help

from the left (4)

6 Oriental massage given

by some attractive Korean

models (4, two words)

8 Out to lunch with

foreign royalty close to

Battersea college (7)

9 First post arrival (9,

two words)

10 Pick up, pick up and

catch up (7)

15 Senior Army officer nurses

torn ligament – aim is off

(5, two words)

17 A keen taste for the most

part for modern painting

medium (7)

18 Unclued class member to

reprimand mignonette

(11, two words)

20 School dictionary in

near tatters (7)

26 Clear, getting the ball to

the green... (5)

27 ...overtures, perhaps,

with former soldiers

backing help (7)

29 Plans for Smurf to enter

chess knockout (7)

36 Ruth swallows Ecstasy

being devout (5)

38 False concept maintaining

Rioja’s dry (4)

39 Journey starting in

Transvaal, finishing in

Windhoek (4)

A first prize of £30 for the first

correct solution opened on

26 August. There are two

runners-up prizes of £20. (UK

solvers can choose to receive the

latest edition of the Chambers

dictionary instead of cash —

ring the word ‘dictionary’.)

Entries to: Crossword 2420,

The Spectator, 22 Old Queen

Street, London SW1H 9HP.

Please allow six weeks for

prize delivery.

Crossword

2420: Crafty

by Smurf

Shake, shake like mad to put all pain to flight.
Lunge out at life though you are old and grey.
Barge like a bull before you say goodnight.

Just do the hokey-cokey. Show some fight.
That’s what life’s all about the sages say.
Do not go gentle. Drink till you are tight.

To dance a final dance while still upright
The hokey-cokey is the only way.
Do not go gentle. Drink till you are tight.
Barge like a bull before you say goodnight.
Max Ross/Dylan Thomas

I can but pass opinion as observer
Upon my fellow-man’s obsessive fervour.
I see him put his left arm in, then out,
Then shake this lesser member all about
Before indulging in a lewd contortion
Better unspecified, out of proportion
To the one-armed extension, which the wight
Again performs, though this time with his right.
And now his legs, each thrust into the middle
And, in between, that strange and secret twiddle
Until, at last, his whole self he entrusts
To the all-powerful Terpsichorean lusts
And I can scarce contain a joyful shout —
This, I contend, is what it’s all about.
This is no reasoned action but a whim
Born of inebriation. Good for him!
Ann Drysdale/John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

Nothing is so dear and deft as dance —
When, in a ring, folk flock and fleetly fling
First left arms to the fore, then back they bring
These lively limbs, reforming at a glance
A seemly circle ere they all advance
Thrice more to shake and shimmy in the ring,
And chanting, child-like, ‘in-out, in-out’, sing,
While to and fro in wild delight they prance.

What is all this fling and all this flair?
A ritual romp, a friendly frolic, free
From clinging cloud and cloy, concern and care,
Whose crowning ‘ra-ra-ra’ in gladsome glee
And raucous rapture rises like a prayer
To holy Him, the fount of ecstasy.
Alan Millard/Gerard Manley Hopkins

1 The hokey-cokey is all that is the case.
2 The hokey-cokey is the totality of positions, not
of things.
3 What is the case — the hokey-cokey — is the
existence of the position of things.
3.1 It is not right-ness, leg-ness or whole-self-ness,
but in-ness, out-ness and shaken-all-about-ness
that is the hokey-cokey.
4 A thought is a picture of the position of things in
the hokey-cokey.
5 The world and the hokey-cokey are one.
6 To view the hokey-cokey sub specie eternitatis —
to take your whole self out — that is what it means
to be mystical.
6.1 That is what it is all about.
7 Whereof we cannot speak we must pass over in
silence.
Nick MacKinnon/Ludwig Wittgenstein

NO. 3113: INITIAL IMPRESSION

You are invited to submit an acrostic poem
about a politician (alive or dead) in which
the first letter of each line spells the name
of that politician. Email entries of up to 16
lines to [email protected] by midday on
21 August.

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SOLUTION TO 2417: SIX NATIONS

The unclued lights are LAND OF (25A): MILK AND

HONEY (11A), CAKES (12A), HOPE AND GLORY

(39A), ENCHANTMENT (7D), MY FATHERS (9D)

and BEULAH (29D).

First prize Adam Hughes, Liverpool

Runners-up Richard Stone, Barton under Needwood,

Staffordshire; J.P. Green, Uppingham, Rutland

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Address

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Four unclued lights are thematic

and are defined by two others.

They are found in The 21 and

2 (also the singular of a fifth

unclued light). Another unclued

light is partly thematic, yet

another was a high officer, whilst

a final pair show status. One

clued light is an abbreviation.