CROSSWORD

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 30 June, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word Tictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1315, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

Key words are the sixteen of a quotation reading clockwise round the perimeter from square 1. They refer to 27 14-35A 40 (alias 18 13), in whose history, as Brewer confirms, 14 June is a key date. The perimeter's barred-off and corner letters could give THEME: A LOT HEED HOO-HA ON MY BEHALF. Ignore an apostrophe.

Name Address ACROSS

10 Passage American has cry over? (5)

11 Return for mate (6) 12 See, near to bats, one after game ... (7) 16 ... following captains into new net enclosure (10)

17 Faith in area round Long Island (8)

20 Rock almost at lowest level (5) 21 Gear in jumble includes quite old waders (7)

22 Censors, pace backing, less right (5)

24 Clergymen's exercises (3) 31 Beings swirling in tea (5) 33 Turtle striking soft ground (7) 34 Something floral, with love and kisses? (5) 36 Airport guards detain vagrant restrainedly (10) 38 Nest behind English garden (4)

39 Hundred centimes aren't roughly franc (7)

41 See certain boats eastbound here? (5, two words) DOWN 2 Head nurse (4) 3 Fighters having emptied gaol with heaters save leader (10) 4 Eternal epic's first lines relating to Muses (7) 5 Dan's desire? Immense pie, parading initially even bits of horn (5)

6 Q. What involves anagrams we do? Ans. A (8)

7 Yolks quickly turned bad (7) 9 Brilliant goal — champion! (6) 15 Tapir runs past cave (5) 19 Prolonged party reform has muffled Left, nearly (10) 23 Gnat's awkward insect still (8) 25 Oppose, and carry day (5) 26 Thought with passion about flags? (7) 28 Endless term of scar (5) 29 Loud work's swell (3) 30 Salt beef and beer mostly consumed (7) 32 Trees and river, in oils, with duck flying (6) 35 Old helm, iron (5) 37 Tennis champ's good service (4)

Solution to 1312: Rock group

The other unc ued lights, *ncluding the pairing 1/11, were the US PRESI- DENTS whose images are carved on Moumr RUSHMORE (10) in the BLACK HILLS (41) of Souru DAKOTA (21 6A).

First prize: Nick Brown, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Runners-up: Mr Dolf Mootham, London W11; David Bowron, Northallerton.