Really Quite Crossword
August 2002 | Edinburgh Festival preview edition

CLUES ACROSS:

1. The Status Quo of acid jazz (10) JAMIROQUAI
6. Spoilt brat coke-hoofing pop singer (1,1) J.K.
8. Large boat puller or to masturbate (3) TUG
10. Fat cunt DJ (6) MOYLES
13. Last name of atrocious author of books about dead dads and wives (7) PARSONS
15. Forbidden fruit (5) APPLE
18. Richard ------. Writer. Successful but bland. (6) CURTIS
21. Thin (4) LEAN
23 Atop of (2) ON
24. A rip-off (3) CON
25. Vessel (3) CAN
27. First name of foppish git actor (4) HUGH
29. Us (2) WE
30. London tower (3) OXO
31. Either (2) OR
32. Murray, Gore or Jolson (2) AL
33. Ban (3) BAR
34. Multinational security body (1,1) U.N.
35. Pervert’s cover (3) MAC
36. First name of grumpy old piano player (5) ELTON
38. Hebrew warmonger (6) SHARON
41. Star sign of permed singer (3) LEO
42. Make ugly people prettier (5) BEERS
43. Terrible ex-comedian now plying his painful trade in drama (5,5) LENNY HENRY
44. --- top (1,1) ZZ

CLUES DOWN:

1. First name of Brummie comedian (6) JASPER
2. What we’ve gone in vegetables and fruits (6) METRIC
3. Extreme strictness (6) RIGOUR
4. The highest scoring two-letter word permitted in scrabble (2) QI
5. Celebrity restaurant (3) IVY
7. American war criminal (9) KISSENGER
9. Burger chomping ex-colony (1,1) US
11. Egg (3) OVA
12. Fascist frog (2,3) LE PEN
14. A bumblebee’s punishment (5) STING
16. What pornographic films lack (4) PLOT
17. City of plastic surgery and fake people (1,1) LA
19. The only way Yazz reckoned (2) UP
20. What Bob Dylan’s on (4) TOUR
22. Form of communication (3) FAX
25. Surname of cool, witty, handsome stud who wears his trousers up to his bulbous pectorals (6) COWELL
26. Last name of chat show host who was born too late for the Carry On films (6) NORTON
27. Surname of another horrifically bad lad’s author who churns out the same old shit every time (5) HORNBY
28. Football pundit who looks like a funeral director (6) HANSEN
29. Location of Branch Davidian massacre (4) WACO
33. Where you get drinks & drunks (4) BARS
35. Hinge, Whitehouse or Quant (4) MARY
37. Evans, Hooker or Peters & (3) LEE
39. The hit man and --- (3) HER
40. Small boxer with bad taste in shorts (3) NAZ
42. Exist (2) BE