CROSSWORD

HOW TO ENTER

The letters in the shaded squares form an anagram of a song by Jack White. When you’ve worked out what it is, send your answer to: Uncut January 2019 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 19, 2018. This competition is only open to European residents.

CLUES ACROSS

1+5A Richard Ashcroft on the sofa, relaxed, just waiting for the call to rise up (7-5) 8+29D The route he changed to obtain album by Love (3-4) 10 “I gave you all a boy could give you,” 1981 (7-4) 11 (See 31 across) 12+9D Wrong clue Noel put in for Jeff Tweedy’s band pre-Wilco (5-6) 13 “Is this the blues I’m singing?” Echo And The Bunnymen (6) 15+24D Timer dial adjusted for group in the Waking Hours (3-6) 17 Personally able to perform this number by The Rubettes. (1-3-2-2) 18 Peter Gabriel has the answer to start of next clue (2) 20 A strange opus from Blind Melon (4) 22 This takes me back to when Joe Satriani and Rick Wakeman made albums by this name (4-7) 23 Blink 182 album _ _ _ _ _ Of The State (5) 25 “I tried so hard and got so far,” 2001 (2-3-3) 30 So make a comeback before the bloke joins Suede (5) 31+11A EMF album put classical music into decline (8-3) 33 “Bob _ _ _ _ (The Only Way Is Down)”, US folk singer honoured in title by Pulp on album track (4) 34 Their last single to chart was “Chestnut Mare” (5) 35 How the Sex Pistols were labelled early on (3)

CLUES DOWN

1 Annie Lennox’s first group are barred from listening to new album by The Prodigy (2-8) 2 “A jumped-up pantry boy,” 1983 (4-8-3) 3 “This could be _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ or anywhere, Liverpool or Rome,” 1996 (9) 4+28D As loudly, perhaps, as an Aretha Franklin album (4-4) 5 Member of Duran Duran with his very own Greek island (6) 6 Nirvana music to lighten up with (6) 7 Everything’s on board, including a Velvet Underground album and Primal Scream single (6) 9 (See 12 across) 14 “Each way I turn I know I’ll always try to break this _ _ _ _ _ _,” from New Order’s “Temptation” (6) 16 Yes please. That includes a Bee Gees album (3) 19 “You’ve touched her perfect body with your _ _ _ _,” from Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” (4) 20 “I won’t even touch you, all I want to do is ______,” Depeche Mode (3-3) 21 A bit of Ultravox from most of The Cure (3) 24 (See 15 across) 26 Stiff Little Fingers album used in High Anxiety (4) 27 Unpleasant part of Beastie Boys album Hello _ _ _ _ _ , (5) 28 (See 4 down) 29 (See 8 across) 32 Donovan’s debut album What’s Bin Did And What’s Bin _ _ _, (3)