Prize Crossword

No. 1459 DAEDALUS

A prize of three guineas will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 18 December. Address solutions: Crossword 1459, The Spec- tator, 99 Gower Street, London WC1

Across

1 Curses! It's a little devil's creation (12) 9 Made in advince from soft reed (9) 10 'I know the — beyond the door' (Rossetti) (5) 11 Take-off! (44) 12 Grandfather clock perhaps? (3-5) 13 Russian hero,shows singular spirit (6) 15 Christmas party perhaps, one gathers (8) 18 Foreign prototype of that forest of many parts? (8) 19 Musical studies (6)

21 A speciality of the Canaries no doubt! (4-4) 23 Speleologist's..delight, or is it just folly? (6)

26 Moonstruck, in a watery way (5) 27 The musicians love to look askance at port- able magazine (9)

28 His aims must be markedly to the point (12)

Down 1 Artists lay it on thick (7) 2 Song of praise (5) 3 An aid to freedom of speech? (9)

4 Shaw's went with the man (4) .5 Coming from the mother-land fast and lazy

(8)

6 Sena-suited matron all in black (5) .7 Stakes trellis on ornithological outcome (7) 8 Pig country, in the Orwellian sense (8)

14 It's one-up on Argentina! (8) 16 Good sport for the Hippocampus? (5, 4) 17 'In a drear-nighted —' (Keats) (8)

18 Judge of the Satyricon (7)

20 The searcher comes clean (7) 22 Slender woodlander (5)

24 'But who hath seen the Grocer — house- maids to his teas: (Chesterton) (5)

25 It's oily round, what a burden (4) Solution and winner on 26 December

Solution to Crossword 1457. Across: 1 Remote 4 Grimaces 10 Central 11 Sublime 12 Meer,- chailm 13 Spud 15 Easting 17 Deborah 19 Targets 21 Dutiful 23 Love 24 Bathymetry 27 Marconi 28 Proviso 29 Shearing 30 Astrid. Down: 1 Recumbent 2 Monkeys 3 Turnstiles 5 Resounded 6 Moby 7 Clipper 8 Steed 9 Alph 14 Abstemious 16 Gustation 18 Hollywood 20 Reverie 22 Fitlier 23 Lamas 25 Hope 26 Moor.

Winner: Miss E. Leyland, The Rooken, Staverton, Daventry. Northants.