Spectator

[endanger]

32d Sportsman doing a turn (5)

34a Composer returns right away for girl (5) 2nd L

38a Back for a spell in new Zealand (5) Last O

Many thanks
E

[hobbitess]

34a Elgar?

[Quizmonkey]

Explain ?

[kayakamina]

38 Could be Otago. I can see ' a spell' - a go and possibly ot < is back for!

[endanger]

I thought Otago too
Elgar? not sure.
Any ideas on the others?
Thanks
E

[Muffet]

32d pivot

[johnalex]

34a Elham . . . . Mahle(r) << . . . . Girl's name

[sarumite]

32d if it was sportswoman doing a turn ... answer would be Evert .. to turn a bodily part + Chris (tennis player).

[endanger]

thabnk you - but why pivot?

[Muffet]

the pivot is the football centre half

[endanger]

where does that come from? I've never heard of that footballing term

[Muffet]

Pleased to find that the Chambers Dictionary gives 'a centre-half in football' as one of the meanings of pivot.

[Quizmonkey]

Well one of those (pivot or elham) is wrong!

[Quizmonkey]

Try Elsie for the girl (rev of Eisler without the R)

[kettledrum]

Does anyone else think that this puzzle must have been held up somewhere in the production process, and that Doc intended it to be published last week - Good Friday?