1104: Druid

A first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 26 April, with two runners-up prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries (no photocopies) to: Crossword 1104, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

Radial lights (20 from rim to centre, and 20 from centre to rim) Include a septet and a quintet clued in italics without definitions. Eight more theme-words run clockwise in the circuit next to the outer one; and the jumbled letters of STONEHENGE occupy the innermost circuit.

Name Address RADIALS (6)

1 Special Constable hits out

2 Elegant dresser's hint of decay in damp 3 Excessive musical work, bagpipe tune, is over 4 Metaphor about Uruguay's team of players 5 Pest in Kent to avoid after dance (hyphened)

6 Hot getting through work inside

7 Whip cream for prune? 8 Cover roof and t' half-door 9 Church address from Rome, maybe, imbued Poles

10 1000 in reception room —. • • 11 . . . number at ceremony

12 Radioactive gas, sharp irritant none inhaled

13 Edge of Epping Forest?

14 Small horse newspaper backed came undone 15 Labour's cranks!

16 Power drill in which temperature rises?

17 Local chap has metal piece be- tween door panels 18 Vomiting agent making old uncle bnng egg back

19 Tough one gets long stretch

20 He, Nero, fiddled upon this

21 Card game's over, I note. .

22 Limited brandy full of indefin- able quality 23 Enclose in ancient ring, we're told 24 English foreman brings in male to provide relief

25 Horse consuming small bale

26 Authorise English to arrest the Parisian 27 Old gambling game's absorbed sweep money 28 Armed guard in troubled sector 29 Use measure, tactic in game 30 Made me up as a goblin

31 Lake in Greek vale

32 Fastener's worn-out, without power 33 Gold fragments in rings

34 Audible chatter, endless non- sense

35 Punch-bowl is heady: contents make one stupid 36 Love bumpy crawl in old US tram (hyphened)

37 Schilling or pound

38 Footwear, reportedly, and two poles for ski-run 39 Concerned with girl, wanting in vigour

40 Agreeable to the ear Solution to 1101: Doc

The unclued lights comprise 7/8A (Hippocratic oath) and various medical practitioners (5, 11, 13, 15, 20, 31, 37).

First prize: M. Galloway, Marlow, Bucks; Runners-up: Fiona J. Man- son, Croy, Inverness; Gareth Row- lands, Ashford, Kent.

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