CROSSWORD 1252: Rolling-stock 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 1 April, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary – ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1252, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Twenty radial lights read from rim to centre, 20 vice versa. The word in the innermost circuit, and the phrase in the circuit next to the outer one (nine words, one abbreviation, beginning and ending in the same space), both read clockwise.
Name Address RADIALS (6) 1 Tenor, following old baroque lute's opening 2 Protest in public auction 3 Bantu demigod receiving Queen 4 Old Spenserian names for nymphs 5 I'm having drink tendency 6 The Northern pirate's finding and keeping 7 Girl with snare, attractive type 8 Sustained note (ut, maybe) 9 Knight in sullen lament ...
10 ... sullen, reserved, inwardly cross 11 Buy man's poached kind of partridge?
12 Lad's packing brown woolly 13 Feature of shoes, trendy favourites on reflection 14 Bird? Turkey? Eaten by a PM?
15 Study country's energy 16 Fellow salesman returned drink 17 Scoundrel worried cleric 18 Dull work, knotting a tie 19 A quantity of wine in SE, vintage Italian 20 Row into a Gallic water-spirit 21 Fixed function? Variable 22 Without right, claims property 23 Stalk pests I sprayed 24 Man's time to escape stingray 25 Dislodged from seat, we hear 26 Scots insist on adding piano to trio 27 Centre, a type for holding 28 29 30 31 32 33 negotiation Cut fish recipe included Industrial organisation's supreme control Lampoon, second, a broadside European captures antelopes Treat organ key Sanction causing a rift, first in Yalta 34 They assess artist, almost brusque 35 Heroin smuggler once a monkey 36 Light again returning, English cross river 37 Firstborn from Leeds mistakenly given time 38 Belt from former times on garb, pulled round 39 Emperor has to follow ancient spectre 40 Ducks heard to pass through hedge gap
Solution to 1249: Springtime Seven unclued lights were move- ments in BALLET (13) appropriate to the occasion of a LEAP DAY (14).
First prize: Mrs M. Gow, Elgin,
Morayshire. Runners-up: J.F. Grim- shaw, London SW18; Paul Banks, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
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