Prize Crossword
No. 1481 DAEDALUS
A prize of £3 will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 24 May. Address solutions: Crossword 1481, The Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London WCIE 621E.
Across 1 Classical frog-man, very dramatic! (12) 8 Annuals of the turf? (9) 9 That boy Cephalos is under one's roof (5) 11 Angelica's parent reveals the white king (6) 12 Lost nail in muddle, sire (8) 14 Sirens go about to get backing (10) 16 Esau's oriental counterparts? (4) 18 The fiery fiddler (4) 19 One of 8 with western five behaving irresoi lutely (10)
21 Glasswort, which might account for that wine-dark quality? (3-5)
22 Go at a player's pace? (6) 25 An artful move (5) 26 Getting greater out of the goat-man's particle (9)
27 Men score not a hundred, Astarte (8, 4)
Down 1 'Shall fold their tents like the —' (Long- fellow) (5) 2 Having the Parcae under the weather, per- haps? (3-5) 3 Shady founder-member of United Irishmen (4) 4 So I pointed: put properly in place (10) 5 'Ah, what — the sceptre(' race!' (Landor) (6)
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6 Ten mixed up with oenophils in action, all weaving together (9) 7 Got together with Old Father Time (12) 10 An annual? A hundred times yes! (7, 5) 13 Pays case that is a portion of proverbial pudding, perhaps? (5, 5)
15 Teutonic left-back getting speedwell (9) 17 Mine in place of coloured water (3, 5)
20 'And he, who servilely — after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.' (Dryden) (6) 23 Star hunter (5) • 24 `Above the smoke and stir of this dim Which men call Earth' (Milton) (4)
Solution and winner on 29 May.
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