Columba

2080: Players

issue 15 September 2012

Each of twenty-one definitions contains one misprinted letter. Corrections of misprints spell two items of the same kind as the unclued lights. Two unclued lights consist of two words each.

Across

1      Visits made by guys (5)
9      Bearers of nominal offices in knots about strange ritual (10)
11     Scrape preceded by college rags (5)
12     Marks by English tutor mostly giving reminder (7)
15     Stains around suits (5)
16     Slanting section, see, in copy (6)
22     Constant line endlessly producing sausage (7)
24     Son variable with attention (4)
25     Lost gold returned with thanks (4)
27     Move from last king for example on ship (7)
33     One knowing nothing worked on a rig (6)
34     Rapid river carrying stone (5)
37     Time in city, odd base (7)
39     Source inclined to be rich (10, hyphened)
40     Quick fish?  Note colour (9)
41     Divers in the morning exercise (5)














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