Please send answers to the Bulletin Editor (Tony Cook, a.c...@ulster.ac.uk). A book token for the first correct answer drawn on 1st October. Other malacological puzzles are welcomed.

The solution will be posted here after October 1st...... If we can work out what the answers are!

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ACROSS

1. Reformed hearth goddess builds a barrel and wards off hunger.(5)

5. Mollusc gives algal home a sheen like antique bronze. (6)

9. Heavenly body, seen morning and evening. (5)

12. Unfinished public house is at home. (2)

13. Musical note in California. (2)

14. Polluted Manchester river seems to be under control. (4)

15. Makes a living just playing a round. (3)

16. Headwear with no top? (2)

17. Top person suffers reversal to become just another man about the Houses. (2)

19. "It's Hell. Take it away. What's left is on the mantle."(5)

23. Firm's ad men add to barley bristle and end up with a squid's breakfast. (5)

25. This should balance, or it falls off horseriding. (8)

27. Goat-like ape that helps collect gold is everywhere. (3)

28. Predator on the rocks leads a dog's life. (7)

30. Recognised artist with mixed up double is tongue in cheek. (6)

32. Respectful students address master. (3)

33. Sepia tint (3)

34. Primitive bivalve in a shell. (3)

35. Planktonic animals found in the Swiss Alps (5)

36. Place steamship fore and aft of striken lugger to create problem for farmers.(5)

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DOWN

1. Wander around Norwegian city, ending up on your own. (4)

2. E.g. T.V. (2)

3. Animal doctor with Swiss i/d clambers through vegetation. (5)

4. Obscure pulmonate gives confused Scottish denial. (3)

6. Gastropod suffers definitive wrong without legal contract. Sounds like he's learnt his lesson. (4)

7. Postal abbreviation for Ulster. (2)

8. Small insect without tail? Not sure about this article. (2)

10. Co-organisers in Washington in '98. (2)

11. King of the kelp jungle? (7)

15. European nomad, deranged, makes eating utensil for bivalve. (4)

18. Ear of a seahorse? (5)

19. Seawater mollusc sounds like a dud firework. (5)

20. Twisted entrails without royal cipher becomes long in the tooth. (7)

21. Add plant juice to a cod fish to start a woodland. (7)

22. Fruit sliced lengthways produces drops of watery wisdom. (6)

24. Carpenter's companion with a taste for Northern bivalves. (6)

26. A good woman? There aren't any! (3)

29. Chemists' symbolic tribute to Einstein. (2)

31. Another? But there is no other. (2)