10 APRIL 1971, Page 28

Prize Crossword

No. 1476 DAEDALUS

A prize of £3 will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 19 April. Address solutions: Crossword 1476, 'The Spectator', 99 Gower Street, London WC1 Across 1 Unsuitable domestic chore for an American leader (10)

6 A point to halt at (4) 10 Thrice a painter? (5) II There's nothing free to be had in this tenure (9)

12 Swineherd affirms year's end (8) 13 One Italianate fowl appears to be quite god- like! (6) 15 Tophole in southern latitude (4) 16 That legal stuff (4) 17 A post office surrounded by Mozartian letters. That's the recipe for stuffing (5) 20 Introduce transatlantic female (5) 21 Forget Naples; find another seat of heated activity not far away (4) 22 Seen identifiably as part of the toddlers' writer (4) 24 About total eastern build-up, just begin again (6)

26 Goldsmith deserted the place of one of them (8)

29 Halt fifty behind time to be plated (9) 30 About time to steal the locust (5)

31 'and but for these vile —, He would him- self have been a soldier' (Henry IV, Part 1) (4) 32 The things with pros get a rigorous inter., ruption which narrows things down (10)

Down

1 '"Aroint thee, —1" the rump-fed runyon cries' (Macbeth) (5) 2 A prickly fellow! (5-4)

3 Raid that might be taken for a one-way street (6) 4 Currently covered in metal (10) 5 It's on the Surrey side, and vice versa (4) 7 Fish for the goblin (5)

MEMMINWNWM AMMO M___M II • • • • UMW WINEMEMIN M11•1111•11N MMUNNUM WIIRMEM MENU 111 '111 IMMIN WININ MU=

��'i■�� MUM111 WIMME WERE II UMW WEIMMEN MUNIBINN

•••M WIIMEMMEM WM* MIUMEN••111 MUM MNIUMENREM

8 Well secured, particularly against the high- way robber (9) 9 'Until their Lord himself — and bid them go' (Milton) (7) 14 Vies with drinks, most disorderly, it's the way to come pearlers (4-5) 15 It's certainly not a well-rounded limb, but it would be no impediment in position on live's field (6, 3) 18 Crying ape gets a piece of high praise (9) 19 Radio telephone reports back there's plenty, so go ahead and step on it (7) 23 The master of the Master of Ballantrae re- flected round frozen water; that's for cutting it close (6) 25 A biblical one was a tanner (5) 27 An austere business to reveal a name picto- graphically expressed (5) 28 Love of the male parent for skirting round things (4) Solution and winner on 24 April