Welcome to CAM 107's crossword, Abstracted by Nimrod. 

All entries to be received by 1 June 2026. Send your entry: . by post to: CAM 107 Prize Crossword, University of Cambridge, 1 Quayside, Bridge Street, Cambridge CB5 8AB . online at: alumni.cam.ac.uk/magazine . by email to: cameditor@alumni.cam.ac.uk

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 108 and online on 9 June 2026

Congratulations to our CAM 106 winner and runner ups: Robert Eastwood (Trinity 1967) Runners-up: James Palmer (St John’s 1983) and Jonathan Agg (Emmanuel 2008)

Clues: 

Unnumbered
Brandy; Close associate; Excavation; Cleansing process; Lake; Bases;
Chap; Tramp; Instigates; Tobacco; Beef cut; Hide; Sports body; Sesame.

Across
1 Displaced Persons, the author’s tale? (10)

7 Book on Fleet Street bosses is produced (6)

8 Men on radio that I find amusing (6)

9 Floor receiving a new part of an element (4)

11 New edition of ribbon (7)

12 DIY features for assembly? (4)

13 Basic information of Latin square appearing in seconds (3)

14 Corresponding element lining empty outhouse (6)

15 Would you call me Napoleon’s friend? (3)

17 Speaker’s in old helmet (6)

20 Like a corner in which to shelter it (5)

23 Different conclusion from the University of London (4)

25 Pick up phosphorus ooze (4)

26 Weapon I dislike taking on cycle (5)

28 1-5lb weight for chocolate cakes (6)

29 Very British cry (3)

30 A good way to mature Europe (6)

32 New lies about Labour members (3)

34 NZ tribe’s certainly ancient (4)

35 Online facility reflected mundane fact encyclopaedia contains (7)

37 European banker turned to God (4)

38 Sign – one on door of hen party? (4) 39 Crams receptacle, and what to do from it? (6, 2 words)

40 Number, not odd, following what’s twelfth in series (6)

41 Ware estate one’s divided about entering (10)

Down

Down 2 From the root, exposed least colourful shrub (5)

3 Massive party in lift that’s a shock for very old people (4)

4 Viz abbreviated Bill the Fish (4) 5 One departing resort, out of bounds, converting seaside town (7)

6 Sailed out of port (4)

7 Perhaps tries bar woman’s keeping in college (8)

10 At the Fringe, see Jacobi’s run axed? (4)

16 Forced tiddly rector out of room – reception’s ruined (8, 2 words)

18 Serpentine creature, Andrew, briefly formerly known ___? (3)

19 Object GP on rounds has left Parky’s assailant (3)

21 Are high fliers short of South Pole? (3)

22 Sent up on and off in comedy, Ilchester’s on it (3)

24 Girl’s heart’s no longer in affair, it no longer bewitches (7)

25 Let sons watch? (7) 27 Should that be the case of items emptying bananas? (4, 2 words)

31 Lineage necessarily incorporates this unit (4)

33 Yours truly possesses an inverted mole and birthmark? (5)

34 Periodically pulled out his army by foot (4) 35 Where monster is in one’s sights? (4)

36 Hats off to industrialist loaning Economics Block (4)