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Win! Final audio ZE8000 wireless earphones.
FINAL IS one of the most respected brands in high-end audio, with an extensive history starting in Japan in 1974. With almost 50 years of experience in hi-fi, they have achieved legendary status at home for their unique approach to design and development. The ZE8000 is packed with features, some of which have never before been available – for the ZE8000, Final has introduced their sound quality-prioritised Active Noise Cancelling (ANC), allowing users to fully enjoy the extraordinary 8K Sound experience without distractions. With the ZE8000, Final has shown that high-end, hi-fi audio quality is possible from a wireless earphone!
They’re worth £299, and we have TWO pairs to give away! Be in it to win it by completing the crossword, then send a scan of it to mojo@bauermedia. co.uk, making sure to type CROSSWORD 355 in the subject line. Entries without that subject line will not be considered. Please include your home address, e-mail and phone number. The closing date is June 2. For the rules of the quiz, see www.mojo4music.com.
ACROSS
1 See photoclue A (4,9) 9 ’90s sort-of-indie label, home of The Auteurs and Verve (3) 10 Giorgio Moroder’s Deutsche disco appliance? (6,7) 12 Kid Creole’s tropical singers (8) 13 A top buzz from Slim Harpo (2,1,4,3) 15 Cate Le Bon’s eight-legged day? (4) 16 Boz Scaggs shuffled there (4) 18 – - --- --- --- Baby (Dr Feelgood) (2,1,3,3,3) 20 LP whereon The Temptations were depicted on Mount Rushmore (7) 23 Noted film music studio, also used by Lou Reed, Deep Purple etc (3) 24 Going up, Hot Hot Heat (8) 25 Nils Frahm finds his thread (6) 28 Grateful Dead’s Biblical brother (4) 31 Rare Earth, for Mother’s Day? (2) 32 I --- Your Pardon, said Lynn Anderson (3) 33 The Housemartins bleat to the beat (5) 35 Sassafras soaring in ’76 (6,4) 39 King Sunny Adé, oracular in ’98 (3) 40 Just-so NWOBHM label (4) 41 Ian North’s band and solo debut (3) 42 Factory’s video arm (4) 45 Jamiroquai and Beverley Knight’s was the main one (4) 47 4AD’s cavorting skeletons? (4,3,5) 51 AKA Mr. Burrell (3) 52 Jam, Leppard or American (3) 53 King Creosote’s floor covering? (4) 56 Rockabilly guys from north London (8) 57 Maker of Serpent Music (4,5) 59 Kevin Coyne and Dagmar Krause talk fast in ’79 (6) 61 R.E.M.’s song for the Man Of Steel (8) 63 Downpatrick’s pop-punkers (3) 64 Discreet early Underworld single (10,3,5) 66 See photoclue B (5,7) 67 Mick and John Head’s band (5)
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1 Carter USM’s singer (3,3) 2 The Imperials’ invitation to conceptualise (3,3,7) 3 ’40s Chicano music/fashion style (7) 4 ---- ---- Different Day Pts. 1 and 2 (Jaguar Wright) (4,4) 5 ---- -- - Lifetime (Talking Heads) (4,2,1) 6 AKA The Hotstepper (3, 6) 7 Suede’s stylish heroine (4,2,7) 8 US folk murder song updated by Nick Cave (7,3) 11 Australian jazz-rockers who featured colourful singer/jailbreaker Ian Saxon (1,1,1,1) 12 These English proggers got the hump (5) 14 ----- Gay (OMD) (5) 16 Taylor Swift’s amatory disc from 2019 (5) 17 Ta --- Lugnt (Dungen) (3) 19 Or, Muscle Shoals Sound (1,1,1) 21 Label born when three big imprints united in 1971 (1,1,1) 22 Shelton, Rochford or Fontaine (3) 23 Pauline Oliveros’ music for the mature wise woman? (5) 26 The place Japan had visions of (5) 27 Heim, terse in 2018 (2) 29 Can’s cutlery-related hit (5) 30 George Harrison was never without one (7) 31 Headache-inducing The The LP (4,4) 34 Where Donald Byrd and Gigi Grice donned white coats (4,3) 36 The ----- ------, George Duke’s essence from within (5, 6) 37 The name Grace Slick nearly called her daughter (3) 38 Compton rapper who said Leave My Curl Alone (2,1) 43 See photoclue C (4,4) 44 Rocket From The Crypt guitarist (1,1) 45 What your records are made out of (5) 46 The Wailers Band, identifiable in ’89 (1,1) 48 The --, venerable Dutch punks (2) 49 Back, Green or Trap (4) 50 First all Jagger-Richards-penned Stones LP (9) 54 Circuit Des Yeux’s late-arriving 2013 LP (7) 55 Post-Talulah Gosh band (7) 56 Andy Capp’s early “talking” reggae hit (3,1,3) 58 Indian music improvisatory form (4) 60 Nina Simone’s were Pastel (5) 61 Erik, composer of the Gymnopédies (5) 62 Japanese singer, ex- of Aunt Sally (4) 65 Label, home to Suzi Quatro, Hot Chocolate, Mud etc (3)