Ears, Noise & Throat Service
Win! A lush headphones/ pro-microphone bundle.
ARE YOUR earphones leaving you unbesotted? Is your studio microphone making you frustrated? Then you’re in luck. This month our crossword giveaway involves the Plantronics BackBeat Go 810 over-ear wireless headphones (RRP: £139.99). With up to 22 hours of power, they boast a dual-mode active noise cancelling (ANC) feature, advanced acoustic technology with dual EQ modes, comfy memory foam ear pads, and on-ear controls that let you take calls and control your sounds. Get ’em in navy blue, bone white and black. And from Blue microphones, the Blackout Spark SL (RRP £169.99) has been designed for pro recording and streaming, and is perfect for anyone who wants to upgrade from Blue’s Yeti USB microphone, to something more premium.
We have three bundles of both to give away. So get Casino Soul Fred’s crossword completed and send it to Ears, Noise & Throat
Service, MOJO, Academic House, 24-28 Oval Road, London NW1 7DT. Please include your home address, email and phone number, plus your preferred colour of headphone. The closing date for entries is July 2. For the rules of the quiz, see www.mojo4music.com.
ACROSS
1 See photoclue A (7,6) 9 XTC’s fruity double album (7,3,6) 10 Town in which the film Quadrophenia is mainly set (8) 12 Ex-Smash Hits man turned popstar (4,7) 14 It’s a three-piece band (4) 15 They advised Sloopy to hang on (3,6) 16 Tom Misch’s debut album (9) 19 --- Rules (Black Sabbath album) (3) 20 The ----- who introduced you to My Sharona (5) 21 The Screaming Blue Messiahs’ shooting term (3-3) 22 Brothers like Aaron, Charles, Art and Cyril (7) 27 ---- Of Dreams (Suzanne Vega) (4) 29 Canterbury band whose members include Pye Hastings and Geoffrey Richardson (7) 31 I Need You Baby, Bo Diddley pleaded (4) 33 Rapper whose 2018 long-player was titled Ye (5,4) 35 Mitchell or possibly pop star James (4) 36 See photoclue B (1.1.1.) 38 Jazz bassist Steve whose Loneliness Road LP with James Saft features Iggy (7) 40 She began her career with Clannad (4) 41 Eric Clapton’s 2016 release (1,5,2) 45 ---- Huey (The Boo Radleys) (4) 46 Sleaford Mods’ 2019 album (4,5) 47 Sinéad O’Connor’s hit regarding a West African tribe (8) 49 Johnny, Tommy, Rosanne etc. (4) 50 It was a Top 20 hit for Macca in 1989 (4,3) 51 Avant-garde jazz saxman Albert (5) 52 ---- Free Adolescents (X-Ray Spex) (4) 55 Jennifer, once linked with Leonard Cohen (6) 56 Brett Anderson’s Brit-pop pioneers (5) 57 Foo Fighters say, aviate. (5,2,3) 60/23 Elvis Presley’s hit from the film Roustabout (6,5) 61 A card like Kiss’ Frehley (3) 62 Violinist Kennedy or producer Stonier (5) 63 Sometime R.E.M. producer Mitch (6) 64 One of Stevie’s Mac greats (4) 65 Just a half note (5)
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1 Listen Without Prejudice, he advised (6,7) 2 Band once fronted by Justine Frischmann (8) 3 A Hammond B3 maybe? (5) 4 Jerry, once part of Lovin Spoonful (6) 5 Manfred Mann’s song of rejection (2,2,3,2,4) 6 This Stevie Wonder album spawned Superstition (7,4) 7 Judas Priest’s 1988 album (3,2,4) 8 Toto sang her praises in 1982 (7) 11 Her Umbrella lifted her to the top of the charts in 2007 (7) 13 Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And ----(Simon & Garfunkel) (5) 14 A big wave for a Manics song (7) 17 Mercury --- (3) 18 John Lydon’s Metal Box makers (3) 23 See 60 Across 24 Fats Domino fails to catch bus (2,7) 25 Guitarists Paul and Dudek (3) 26 Um Um Um Um Um Um he went (5,5) 28 Her debut album was Call Off The Search (5,5) 29 Your -------- Pet (Bow Wow Wow) (8) 30 --- That’s What I Call Music! (3) 32 See photoclue C (5,7) 34 --- People (Tina Turner) (3) 37 The Style Council’s was coloured Bleu (4) 39 Did this Mogwai OST bomb? (6) 42 Bobby Darin went beyond it (3) 43 (German jazz snapper) Paul Gerhard ----- (5) 44 The Rolling Stones’ first label (5) 48 Rod Stewart featured on their version of Da Ya Think I’m Sexy? (1-6) 51 ------ At The Wheel (6) 53 Film composer Danny, once of Oingo Boingo (6) 54 Did Imelda May LP cause uproar? (6) 55 Junior, blues mouth-harpist from Chicago (5) 56 It’s a Japanese entertainment conglomerate (4) 58 Those Boomtown rodents (4) 59 Long ---- Side-Effect (Vic Godard album) (4)