17 APRIL 1971, Page 22

Prize Crossword

A prize of £3 will be awarded for the first cor.. red t solution opened on 26 April. Address solu- tions: Crossword 1477, The Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London WCIE 6AE

Across

1. 'Prize for Harmony'—revised version of film now in another language (6, 6)

9 Some, we hear, wildly impugn the judge's duty (7, 2) 10 'And make a — of the devil himself (King Henry V) (5)

11 Make precious object to be placed in front of organ (6)

12 Coal broken down into proper state (8) 13 Discourses to leaders of party in cautious stages (6) 15 Counter with three articles—all fine stun (8) 18 Armed body of men in remote d— country enclosure (8) 19 After the manner of a spirit warning (6) 21 in the mystery of words' (Words. worth) (8)

23 Shaw's God-searching girl has lost her head and is way out (6)

26 Sly fellow has included fifty two points (5)

27 Insist upon it coming back to me in a matter of seconds (5, 4) 28 Taking very little from ruined crypt at Ely, about half an em (5, 7)

Down 1 Two certain keys lock up the fruit (7) 2 Christened little Edward in the morning? Just the reverse! (5) 3 The rule of a few holy characters given out about crag climbing after one (9)

4 They are smoked and bullied (4)

5 I am a fairy boy and completely magni- ficent! (8) 6 'His — wit degenerating into clenches' (Dryden on Shakespeare) (5)

7 What an awkward position ! Cover up the girl! (7)

8 He gives a pi-jaw before the account is delivered to the girl (8) 14 Curves of a circle in a fable (8) 16 It's all one—revolver or reptile (9) 17 It costs you nothing and could give you free eats too (4, 4) 18 As sheep and sky and sucker may be (7) 20 'You would pluck out the heart of my —I (Hamlet) (7) 22 Recipient of a bit of beef, underdone (5) 24 Banished person captured by Felix (Eliot's Radical) in the rising (5) 25 Secure liberation of the Italian undergradu- ate (4) Solution and winner on 1 May.