Pabulum

2578: Torture

issue 22 October 2022

The same word appears as eight headwords in Chambers. Unclued lights indicate what they mean. The word will appear in the completed grid and must be shaded.

 

Across

10 German town invited Newton twice (5-5)

11 Smart monarch nailing the ceremony (6)

12 Granny’s wonderful honey (3,4)

14 Yes, grandparent’s about to be of use (5)

15 Small valleys breaking up Andes (5)

16 Anchorite tumbling out of cot gets rupture (6)

22 Medicine giving tiny tot fresh start (8)

23 Scotsman and German build platforms (7)

26 Some tanker offloads oil in Perth (4)

28 Having fixed appointment, two cardinals keep united (7)

30 Feminine fiend cast off sin (3-5)

34 Crew member in anchorage in Spain (6)

36 Woman with liberal air (5)

37 Frothy half of beer May brewed (5)

38 Godless type is in crime (7)

39 Are people nearly lost in Levantine city? (6)

40 Vain hero wrestling with an anti-Jacobite (10)

 

Down

1 Doctrine determined by 200 working imams (10)

2 Woman, old, charged with energy (5)

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