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ACROSS
3 Spenser’s striking folios on a cover women cleared away (10)
10 Forsake merit and a quiet place (6)
11 Husband stuffing hocks, say, bellyaches (6)
12 Spill the beans on planter about to excel (6)
13 US mate is swinging a racket (4)
15 In Perth attentive partner picked up broken rake (8)
16 Dresses spread out for drying sun around noon (5)
17 Confused about fink getting knocked off (7)
19 Push one’s luck stuffing Yankee into ship? (7, three words)
24 African doctors machine gun, an impressive thing (7)
26 Nut trees I shall raise before those in list (7)
28 Doctor of law’s books hidden by mostly unused cloak (5)
29 Glibly cutting in famous dramatist’s cut short (8)
31 Start to move on kiwi’s food bank (4)
32 Spanish gypsy got in a tangle (6)
33 Beds could be so disturbed in French one (6)
34 Personal icon’s back and accepted in augmented reality (6)
35 Amphitrite, eg, dodges about in season — not on (10, two words)
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1 ____ parce que je suis étourdi? Yeah yeah, perhaps (10, three words)
2 Doctor’s terrible tenure (6)
3 Sparkler excited to a great extent (4)
4 Fair university collecting cash in Corpus Christi (8)
5 Cool about wife being stuffy (7)
6 A laugh about relationship coming round (7)
7 Old-fashioned mate’s alarm sounded out (5)
8 Start being a member of state (6)
9 Dukes in The Globe in elegant gathering removing tails (6)
14 Cream for Dummies — maybe, blubber looks like this (10)
18 One picking up weighed bronze dyes (8)
20 Hand in huge reference book which is left out (7)
21 Jack joint not getting going early (7)
22 Mortgage stretching south-east Londoner (6)
23 By default I’m accenting the last syllable (6)
25 Ethiopian leaders one locally dressed in Arab clothes (6)
27 Shipping line famously face finish (5, three words)
30 Food channel for some starts to trigger snacking (4)
Post your solution to Mephisto 2870, The Sunday Times, 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF, or email puzzle.entries@sunday-times.co.uk. The first correct solution picked at random after next Saturday wins a Whitaker’s Almanack worth £50. Four runners-up will each receive £20. The Chambers Dictionary 13th edition is the primary reference. Readers may email comments or queries to Paul McKenna at paul.auctor@gmail.com
SOLUTION TO MEPHISTO 2869
Across: 1 Megilp, 5 Wasabi, 9 Caparisoned, 10 Meropidan, 12 Burkas, 13 Odsos, 17 Theow, 19 Attorned, 20 Seasides, 21 Ehing, 23 Sinew, 25 Fiacre, 26 Yaroslavl, 27 Sweater girl, 28 Tenson, 29 Toupet
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Down: 1 Membrane, 2 Garrotting, 3 La Paz, 4 Prisoner, 5 Wide, 6 Sondheim, 7 Behooved, 8 Ides, 11 Pseudocarp, 14 Otchipwe, 15 Romneyas, 16 Beaufort, 18 Wastelot, 22 Misgo, 23 Sist, 24 Bren
Please note: Starting with Mephisto 2868, the solution will be printed one week after the puzzle.
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Winners
Mephisto 2867
James Breen, Ascot, Berkshire,
Barry Dell, Richmond, Greater London,
S Jordan, Didcot, Oxfordshire,
J Phillips, Wingerworth, Derbyshire,
R Robinson, Sheffield