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Surely not another cryptic crossword

by Rob Cuthbert

The SRHE cryptic crossword returns despite lack of popular demand. This is No 2. As usual, familiarity with SRHE staff, members, journals, SRHE News and Blog will be a big advantage, perhaps even essential. There are some proper names; other words are in any good dictionary (Chambers, of course, is recommended).

Professor Rob Cuthbert is editor of SRHE News and Blog and chairs the SRHE Publications Committee.

Email your solution to Rob.Cuthbert@uwe.ac.uk. There were no correct solutions for Crossword No 1, so the meagre prize rolls over and becomes almost respectable for the first correct solution submitted by an SRHE member and drawn after 1 August 2020. The solution will appear in the next issue of SRHE News, October 2020. If you can’t wait that long, email Rob.Cuthbert@uwe.ac.uk after 1 August for solution and explanations.

To download this crossword as a word document, click here.

Across

1. Kind of VLE where learning at first is missing, leaving something behind (9)

6.    Finance officer is back in the rat race (5)

9.    A traveller, one detected in the air, always 3 (5)

10.  One on both sides takes in former wife, a princess (9)

11.  Heir to the throne making a fist of university (4,2,9)

13.  Go back in – die – not entirely nice, to be cynical (8)

14.  One academic, first class, was called God (6)

16.  Fabricate inferior hide (3,3)

18.  Make out with good girl, that’s one thing that’s looking up (8)

21.  Regular feature of SRHE Conference – Perkins gives it a shaking (8,7)

23.  Learner with Cert Ed (FE) lost in thought (9)

25.  Members of SRHE lend their authority on everything that goes on in society (5)

26.  Did well to live after 11’s mother left (5)

27.  At the end of the year I’m to be in Paris. It’s not far (9)

Down

1. Perhaps be a way to get an academic on TV (5)

2. High time to be seen here, in universities like Birmingham and Queen Mary (5,6)

3. Possibility of Bayes on win margin requiring expert judgment (2,1,4)

4. An American cop here in ancient Rome? That means no law at all (8)

5. Manuscript read back to front at first, with hopes rather than expectations (6)

6. Professor and editor took charge of Publications Committee, for example (7)

7. Seeing this, anything could happen – it’s partly unpredictable (3)

8. People not lacking discipline but with freedom to disagree (9)

12.  Demand a little academic work – there’s plenty to follow (4,3,1,3)

13.  Removed organ? Room was needed for 21 to have done this (9)

15.  Initially every programme in soap operas demands interesting characters, appearing at intervals (8)

17.  Nothing for dinner? Just gruel (7)

19.  Our Rob’s a law unto himself (7)

20.  Brought together teams in Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle (6)

22.  Anger management in the kitchen (5)

24.  You can get a loan for this, or run away with no start in life (3)

Solutions to Cryptic Crossword No 1:

Across

1 Campfire 5 Profit 10 Tonal 11 Sandstorm 12 Boy wonder 13 Annul 14 Rumpole 16 Escape 18 Instil 20 Dominie 22 Rifle 23 Not on show 25 Abstracts 26 Goner 27 Slowey 28 Starlets

Down

1 Cuthbert 2 McNay 3 Fellow of the SRHE 4 Residue 6 Research manager 7 Frown upon 8 Temple 9 Untrue 15 Manifesto 17 Networks 19 Lunacy 20 Data set 21 Greats 24 Hinge

For an explanation of the solutions email rob.cuthbert@uwe.ac.uk.

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And now for something completely different

by Rob Cuthbert

This cryptic crossword is offered as a diversion for the longueurs of lockdown – familiarity with SRHE and its journals, SRHE News and Blog will be a big advantage, perhaps even essential. There are some proper names; other words are in any good dictionary (Chambers, of course, is recommended). Cryptic clues follow Ximenean principles, except for some liberties taken with capital letters.

Celtic Manor is the venue of the Society’s annual Research Conference and its Newer Researchers Conference.

Email your solution to Rob.Cuthbert@uwe.ac.uk. The Society will offer a meagre prize (to SRHE members) for the first correct solution drawn after 1 May 2020. The solution will appear in the next issue of SRHE News, July 2020. If you can’t wait that long, email Rob.Cuthbert@uwe.ac.uk after 1 May for solution and explanations.

To download an editable version of this crossword click here.

Across

1. Good place for informal conference? Perhaps this conflates prior muddled papers, if for Celtic Manor. (8)

5.  Earning gain? Most universities are not for this. (6)

10. Beginning translation of new academic literature – some languages are like this. (5)

11. Problem with just deserts? Can’t see anything in this. (9)

12. Middlehurst, for one, could not be this talented sidekick. (3,6)

13. Yearly publication loses one article – strike it from the record. (5)

14. With drink at stake he might take the case. (7)

16. The velocity you need to get away from appearing before committee, perhaps. (6)

18. Put in, continuing to bat endlessly. (6)

20. Scottish tutor takes notes, German one withdraws. (7)

22. Could be hurried literature search in Winchester, for example. (5)

23. Number, many in this way behind the scenes. (3,2,4)

25. Takes out one of the Society’s publications. (9)

26. How bald man thinks about barnet, eg Ron, perhaps. (5)

27. Editor works in Dublin and studies in higher education. (6)

28. The Sun, for example, allows newer researchers to shine. (8)

Down

1. Shirker responsible for all of this. (8)

2. Starting Magdalen College’s new academic year, in Greenwich meantime? (5)

3. Researching FHE? Hotel, flowers – for celebration at Celtic Manor. (6,2,3,4)

4. Live outside university – that makes a difference. (7)

6. What could this person possibly arrange? Search me! (8,7)

7. Disapprove of grown-up on losing head after fight starts. (5,4)

8. US university always in the news. (6)

9. European at trans-national university comes up with something like fake news. (6)

15. Politicians’ policies prove nothing. (9)

17. Old boys getting together to promote special interests, that’s how society is organised. (8)

19. New York and California university merger restructuring, that’s madness. (6)

20. What might be held by 6dn, from which others make deductions. (4,3)

21. Society’s view of a number of 3dns could be a matter of course. (6)

24. Helping to go round without disc. (5)

Rob Cuthbert is editor of SRHE News and Blog.