CROSSWORD
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 3 April, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1455, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Radial lights read from edge to centre or vice versa, twenty of each. 26, and seven items reading clockwise (five in the circuit next to the outer one, and two in the fourth circuit), are members of a set. Each clue contains a surplus word; initial letters of these words spell out four further members, plus another name for one of the circuit lights. Ignore, in all, six accents.
Name Address RADIALS (6) 1 Shivery, suffering without new blanket 2 Smack lies off reef in Haiti 3 Hard up, advanced sparse capital 4 Amateurs keeping mum about sacred places 5 Film river animal's confusion 6 One idyll ended sadly, really 7 Royal duke after blunder gambled 8 Pass corrupt exam 9 Alpine plant half fills thin fissure 10 Slave loveless thunderer completely rattled 11 Rude nonsense about inept car 12 Prince may expel novelist 13 Hypocrite attacked mate 14 Aluminium in tons combined improperly with silicate 15 Courage marks Jock's rash aim 16 Face east — note dome?
17 Commotion loud pets stir up 18 Piece of luggage one left, entering dance 19 Polish university accepts divine violin-player 20 Bridge not in use? Curb vexation 21 Measure change in insect 22 Person to pen opera or hymn tune 23 Gold coins held back by sailor, so acquisitive 24 Lent base money in endless anxiety 25 Physicist, 56, voluble in house 27 Essex for instance three behind 28 Monster almost nastily jolly in victory 29 Face language tutor's sauce 30 Long ode about Scottish slipper 31 Springtails spoilt our smart pad 32 Silly dope full of drink eyes leg 33 Personal transport with fault tilts 34 Tipsy, we entertain in drag 35 Riot fills main square 36 Verse looked unfinished with- out masculine unit of meaning 37 I'm wearing variety of tidy cotton items 38 Hoax about reputed dragon unknown, strange thing 39 Club member's opening final seal 40 Gloomy prohibitionist rarely holds attention
Solution to 1452: Ashen
In YGGDRASIL (11) sit an eagle (25), a squirrel (7) and four stags (9, 18, 13, 15). The NORMS (38) live below the tree; and HONEY (37) drops from it.
First prize: Alastair Bruce, London. Runners-up: Clair Nicholls, Western Australia; Margaret Lusk, Lancashire.
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