Material from superfluous words in clues gives ‘fingers on buzzers’ (describing 2/20 and 8/33), ‘your starter for ten’ (indicating 31, which is defined by 24) and ‘have to hurry you’ — all PHRASES (4D) used by BAMBER GASCOIGNE when he presented University Challenge. 24 January 2015 was his 80th birthday.
First prize Hilda Ball, Belfast
Runners-up Jacqui Sohn, Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk;
Wilf Lewsey, East Leake, Loughborough
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