Welcome to CAM 108's crossword.  

The first correct entry drawn will receive a £75 CUP book token and a copy of The Cambridge Art Book: the city through the eyes of its artists, an anthology of prints edited by Emma Bennett. Two runners-up will receive a £50 CUP book token.

Solutions, winners and runners-up will be published in CAM 109 and online December 2026

Congratulations to our CAM 107 winner: Helena O’Neill (St Catharine’s 2010) Runners-up: Oliver Phillips (Caius 2000) and David Skinner (King’s 1972)

Clues: 

Across
1 Earth Song’s descendant
leaves nanny (4)
4 Lewis initially taking care
of one’s herbs (5)
7 Our publication is absorbing
for one reading stuff (4)
11 Begin lying, like the late monarch? (7)
12 Sherry casks heading west
almost get mislaid (6)
13 The same (but small, not medium)
in a certain capacity (6, 2 words)
14 One cleaning spud with
double the heart (6)
15 Horrible regrets, trading
with financier’s note (8)
18 Heartbreaker repeatedly
catching this bird? (4)
19 No longer unfamiliar working
clothes, incorporating uniform (8)
21 What a surprise it was, every second
counting in Lord’s show (4)
23 It possibly involves minute? (8, 2 words)
27 For the law, concerning restraint
with couples remarrying (4, 2 words)
29 Doing problems primarily
in one’s head (5, 2 words)
31 Tuber appreciated Docklands stops (4)
32 Characteristic of cheapskate
approaching monster territory? (8)
33 Celtic warrior doing away
with an old German citizen (4)
35 Just beginning of simulation
introduced by nasty cage fighter (8)
39 Public area for would-be philosophers,
from Socrates to Aristotle (4)
41 Discussed devotee (I think) of spirits? (8)
42 A header from López finishes off
Magpies at the sharp end (6)
43 Busy at the Fringe Festival with debuts
from Edinburgh’s new talent (6)
45 One is at it in the Arts (6)
46 Agreed to depart together (7, 3 words)
47 So Shrek returns? (4)
48 Trump administration blameless
for this wind? (5)
49 Reason Wednesday is thus
designated ‘noiseless’? (4)

Down
1 Ruin Joe? No way! (3)
2 Put out, has to go to court (6)
3 A little that’s easily lost (5, 2 words)
4 Cries from murder,
so reported motive (5)
5 Old courts badly misbehave,
ignoring bias (5)
6 Off where we live on cycling route? (4)
8 Stay local to Spooner,
as old book had to be? (7)
9 Live races for veteran award (5)
10 Demonstrate what lies between
L Gate and B Street? (5)
12 Naval patron sadly lost
with me (6, 2 words)
16 Gardener’s last, perfect flower (5)
17 Corrupt types before and
after blowing $1,000 (5)
20 Hoy’s personal trainer’s ring? (3)
22 Run short of independent
communities (5)
24 Time diving is linked to the article (3)
25 Periodically wild bit of my dialect (5)
26 Sup ale with this lady
of the night in a motel (3)
28 Call about some current
malpractice on the floor? (7)
30 Community work welcomed
by footballing great (6)
34 High priest, one denigrating cloisters (6)
35 Become a great cricketer (5)
36 Rough old cigarette’s no good (5)
37 Fool about with the cops (5)
38 Computer features sound waves (5)
39 Several received by very good
worker in the Washington Office? (5)
40 Make off with pounds from study? (4)
44 Then contracted to take
on fashionable types (3)