CROSSWORD 1231: Lens by Mass
A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 30 October, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1231, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Radial lights read from rim to centre, or vice versa, twenty in each case. A definition (seven words) in the circuit next to the outer one, and another (hyphen disregarded) in the innermost circuit, both read clockwise. Ignore an accent.
Address Name RADIALS (6) 1 Spider from East, one in blighted pear 2 Seed covers I found at edge of a runnel 3 Arrived, painter, for vaulted room 4 Register active canals 5 Difficulties grasping Old Norse compositions 6 Minority, say, soon returned
7 Seasoning in ginger cake given to girl
8 Head worker's nodding 9 Bushy domes cultivated around University 10 Gradually absorb old society prophet, mostly 11 One to beguile, we hear, for some time 12 Evoke English right in law 13 Banded for jaunt in Seychelles 14 Gyp hit badly, laid out as before 15 Sea's engulfed old plant 16 Sausage from Jersey and NY? 17 Dye: measure mixture, we're told 18 NB: make changes, enclose with dike 19 Cash from sweep in old game 20 Legal deed's more serious, hold- ing club back 21 Arab in clean set of ornaments 22 Backward regions invaded by a tyrant 23 Catch parent out 24 Gunners in buttons, showing high rank 25 Decrees from emir, a despot 26 African cop's to inquire with suspicious air
27 Plant, see (lis, maybe)
28 Holm-oaks, English, unknown in French islands 29 A male gripped by dreadful wonder 30 Aim high for a steeple 31 Isolate damaged SE line 32 Note timber fret 33 Mushroom jelly with lots of ice?
34 Queen in fine built-up amphitheatre 35 Inferior college game 36 Jock's lamp, one in bottle 37 Purifying liquid the Spanish aunt spilt 38 Complication in game back in North East 39 Mouse-like home in wall 40 Radiant tree in East
Last week's crossword grid appeared sideways due to a printers' error. Our apologies to solvers.
Solution to 1228: Soft cover
Each of the other unclued lights, which included the pairs at 1A118 and 7A133, was a PINTER PLAY (17 35). Both key-words were suggested by the title (r INTER; P LAY).
First prize: Mrs K. Orr, Dollar, Clackmannanshire. Runners-up: Mrs S.C. Wolfe, Faversham, Kent; Lady Hollings, London SW6.
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