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Prize-winning crossword

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Use the following answers to complete a quotation from American business magnate and philanthro­pist Warren Buffe : ‘Someone is 22 across 7 down 26 down today because someone 15 down a 2 down a 33 down 32 down 36 down.’

ACROSS

3 Isolated – up a 2 down? (3,2,1,4) 9 River rising at Malham Tarn, Yorkshire (4)

10 Gourd (5)

12 Popular beverage (3) 13 Don't enter! (4,3) 16 Tasting like a lemon? (4) 18 Northern word for a stream (4) 20 German submarine (1-4) 22 Parliament in session (7) 23 Benjamin ___, late British composer (7)

25 The present time (5) 26 In exchange for money (4) 28 Male deer (4)

31 Cut glass (7)

34 Painting, for example (3) 35 Angry (5)

37 Word concluding a prayer (4) 38 Location of the Derby and Oaks racecourse (5,5)

DOWN

1 Grounds around a country house (4)

2 Large woody plant… (4) 4 …like the elm, of this genus (5) 5 Nocturnal bird of prey (3) 6 Girl’s name (4)

7 and 8 Not owing money (2,3,5) 11 and 21 down Dessert of strawberri­es, broken meringue and cream (4,4)

14 Official ban on trade (7) 15 Placed in the ground to grow (7)

17 Wet weather (4) 18 ‘Bachelor’s ___’, common name of the wild flower Chrysanthe­mum parthenium (7)

19 Choral piece with vocal solos (7)

21 See 11 down 24 Sensitivit­y (4)

26 Area out of the sun (5) 27 Sacred lily of ancient Egypt (5) 29 Colour associated with environmen­tal acceptabil­ity (5) 30 Movie (4)

32 Prison sentence, perhaps? (4) 33 Measuring a great distance from end to end (4)

36 Before the present, earlier (3)

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