Radio Times Christmas Prize Crossword 2013

[chokkie]

stuck on a few, hope you can help, please ....
34a President Lincoln built no university badly (4,7) ?i?l ?l???o?
16a place umpires in car (9) s?p?r???i
28d keep teasing West Country town (7) ?a???o?
17a crammed film in without bones (8) ?i?l?t?s
12a Loudly converge on flower (5) ???o?
59a familiar chancellor without a 51d topper (5) (51d is "tree)

Many thanks, Chox.

[LilaBel]

thanks . I dont think 'lunge' is the same as 'dive'...at best very tenuous.But then that's often the case with crosswords.

[elliemay1]

One meaning of lunge is 'to dive'. It's not at all tenuous.

[elliemay1]

dive 1 (dv)
v. dived or dove (dv), dived, div·ing, dives

v.intr.
1.
a. To plunge, especially headfirst, into water.

b. To execute a dive in athletic competition.

c. To participate in the sport of competitive diving.

2.
a. To go toward the bottom of a body of water; submerge.

b. To engage in the activity of scuba diving.

c. To submerge under power. Used of a submarine.

3.
a. To fall head down through the air.

b. To descend nose down at an acceleration usually exceeding that of free fall. Used of an airplane.

c. To engage in the sport of skydiving.

4. To drop sharply and rapidly; plummet: Stock prices dove 100 points in a single day of trading.

5.
a. To rush headlong and vanish into: dive into a crowd.

b. To plunge one's hand into.

6. To lunge: dove for the loose ball.

[elliemay1]

^see no. 6