CAMNon-conformist by Nimrod
A redundant letter is given by the wordplay in each clue: in clue order, these letters spell hints to the identities of four similarly fashionable individuals who are concealed in the final grid and who must be highlighted in a colour of the solver’s choice, together with an appropriate adjective. A fifth individual, who does not conform, must be highlighted in a different colour, together with a different adjective. Where individuals overlap, the nonconformist’s colour takes precedence. In total, 65 cells are to be highlighted.
Two answers are abbreviations. The Chambers Dictionary (2016) and The Oxford Dictionary of English (2015) are recommended.
Prize competition
All entries to be received by 7 February 2025.
The first correct entry drawn will receive a £75 CUP book token and a signed copy of Neil Lawrence’s The Atomic Human, a visionary analysis of what AI means for our identity as humans. Two runners-up will receive a £50 CUP book token.
Solutions, winners and runners up will be published in CAM 104 and online on 26 February 2025 on this page.
Using our online crossword grid:
- You can submit your answers when the grid is complete.
- If you need to leave a box blank, type a hyphen or full-stop instead.
- Use the colour pickers to change the text and background colour combination. It will be applied to the next box you click on.
- Double-click on a box to clear all its formatting.
- Only two characters are allowed per box.
Across
- 2 Victim pursuing monstrous bird circling round shipping area (8)
- 7 Growler I see moving out composer (4)
- 10 Dealt with strangely posh outlet for old hands (9, 2 words)
- 12 Producer of stock first wife loves bedding (3)
- 13 Destroy hospital order (5)
- 14 Scots Parish community relations bolstered by right to spread milling work (8, 2 words)
- 15 Is penetrating innermost parts of Colorado? (6)
- 18 Sport encroaching on the right (4)
- 19 Was greeting issued in confusion? (8)
- 20 Take off receptacle, quaint in style (4)
- 23 Grass representing rugs (4)
- 25 Ordeal that might be gone through by a playwright (6)
- 26 The language of Annie Oakley (3)
- 27 Bishop back from Tomar has tan (5)
- 28 Beancurd repulsed alien life here? (3)
- 30 Spoon without which friend would be fried? (6)
- 31 On return can sanction contract (4)
- 33 Donkey pancreas (4)
- 34 Type to impress women after something to stop animal destroying grain (8)
- 36 Period before end of blizzard disorientated climbers (4)
- 37 Portray as saintly space smuggler? Not so (6)
- 39 Holding festivity, many varied South Asian people (8)
- 40 In part, owed fixture for bathroom (5)
- 42 Mixed up type’s new desire (3)
- 43 Argumentative national increases relief to West Thailand (9)
- 44 At the crease, dispatching ball with short cut (4)
- 45 Angry at sitters being extremely pretentious (8)
Down
- 1 Male article not difficult for poet (4)
- 2 No little while to shoulder my weightlifting fee! (7)
- 3 Innovative play done in Basic Education? (3)
- 4 Part of plant concerned with probing origin of rock (5)
- 5 Requests king to dress in funny sash (4)
- 6 Long Island’s turbulent storm closes on New Haven (8)
- 7 Lose nerve and appeal, bandit having dropped them off stiletto (8, 2 words)
- 8 Introduction poorly remixed; out shortly (8)
- 9 Units passing down the line feel wrong, somehow (8, 2 words)
- 11 More than one cold season for the French colonies (5)
- 16 Gunners agreed line (3)
- 17 Take notice close to N German city (4)
- 21 Stomach clamour about cycling style (8, 2 words)
- 22 Duck joke applied to climbing group (8)
- 23 Turncoat blown clear through opening (8)
- 24 Restful seat – springtime retreat in which master gets depressed (8)
- 27 Copy a national poet (4)
- 29 Antique, previously granted university chap, turning up on time in church (7)
- 31 Oscar’s in a state – almost completely unanswerable questions (5)
- 32 At work near hotel (3)
- 35 Butterfly arrived suddenly in the rain (5)
- 37 Dust removing devices initially placed in loch (4)
- 38 More than enough Anglo-Saxon oil (4)
- 41 They will cut gemstone up (3)
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