CROSSWORD

One Dubreq Stylophone and a copy of David Bowie’s Conversation Piece boxset

HOW TO ENTER

The letters in the shaded squares form an anagram of a song by David Bowie. When you’ve worked out what it is, send your answer to: Uncut January 2020 Xword Comp, Basement 2, Blue Fin Building, 110 Southwark Steet, London SE1 0SU. The first correct entry picked at random will win a prize. Closing date: Wednesday, December 11, 2019.

This competition is only open to European residents. CLUES ACROSS

1+1D Dylan album with tracks half electric and half acoustic. You can take it on tour Bob, but don’t leave any of it out there (8-2-3-4-4)

8 “Don’t want to end up a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ graveyard,” from Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al” (7) 9 Out-of-date methods employed by Neil Young on album (3-4) 11+16D It’s The Hives! Well, we were warned (4-2-3-1-4-3-2) 13 (See 6 down) 15+21D “Hey Mr Dreamseller, where have you been? Tell me have you dreams I can see?” opening line to 1972 hit (4-2-2-3-6) 17+31A Paul Weller doing a song in a Leytonstone tearoom (3-4) 18 Smashing Pumpkins’ album included by The Korgis, hopefully (4) 19 Uncharted album for The Velvet Underground, but it made them wealthy (6) 24 Electronic duo performing in “The Middle Of Nowhere” (7) 26 “I never ever said it was clever, I just like getting leathrered,” Babyshambles (3-4) 29 “Please could you stop the _ _ _ _ _, I’m trying to get some rest,” opening line to Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” (5) 30 (See 32 down) 31 (See 17 across) 33 Prog-rockers with album defined as “2oz’s Of Plastic With A Hole In The Middle” (3) 34 Alt.rockers who were “Nowhere” to begin with on album, Going Blank Again afterwards (4) 35 Peter Gabriel album with a bit of falsetto vocals (3) 36 Radiohead made a quiet move with their debut piece of work (5)

CLUES DOWN

1 (See 1 across) 2 Personally preferred not to see Etta James (2-6-2-5) 3 I’d got some remixes of a Chic number (4-5) 4+12D Without pause, Alex Chilton’s band The Box Tops released their 3rd album (3-4) 5 “Let’s dance to Joy Division, and celebrate the_____,” The Wombats (5) 6+13A Ex-member of Oasis that the band yell about (4-4) 7 Get out of the house, there’s a Ramones album on the way (5-4) 10 Echo And The Bunnymen single awarded second place (6) 12 (See 4 down) 14 Gave wrong name in respect of Suicide (4) 16 (See 11 across) 20 The Foundations include a hit by Pluto Shervington (3) 21 (See 15 across) 22 “A mulatto, an _ _ _ _ _ _, a mosquito, my libido,” from Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (6) 23 Talvin Singh album that not only got approval, but won the 1999 Mercury Prize (2) 25 Van Morrison’s band mates, other than himself (4) 27 REM album kept in the cupboard (2) 28 Her full name is _ _ _ _ _ Laurie Blue Adkins (5) 32+30A Connection between Razorlight, Orange Juice and Little Richard (3-2-2)