CROSSWORD
A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 18 April, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1203, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued I ghts (six of two or more words) are to be resolved into three timely phrases, all in Brewer. Ignore an apostrophe. Six other timely thematic lights (four plural) are clued without overall definition. Chambers 1988 confirms 39.
Name Address ACROSS 4 He has capricious thoughts about saint in firm (9) 11 Capital book on NZ tree (6) 12 Dissolve union with strange man, in 'aste (7) 14 Garden pest returns around 5th of April (5) 15 Spurs' footwear projections (5) 16 Depressing open country by cave (6) 22 Interval representing light and shade (8, hyphened) 23 Mount for brother and children in number (7) 24 One of the best artistes (4) 25 It yields up juice that's the end of you (4) 27 Citadel wrecked according to order (7) 29 Lecturer hosts Rector in courses (8) 32 Girl embracing single boy (6) 35 Queen leaves champagne (5) 36 Caribbean plants round island among mountains (7) 37 Bury Abbey is roofless (6) 39 Like a discourse about Rhine moss (9) 40 'Dior latest' — odd items (5) DOWN 3 Stores of coarse flax with nothing in (6) 4 Flare following take off (7) ,5 Hall rebuilt in a French city, any time (10, three words) 6 Makes gaudy metal less twisted
(7)
7 Ray Keats ordered ... (5) 8 ... fish cut by Scot and islander
(9)
9 Final parts of clarinet concerto by Strauss (4) 15 Furniture without a restraint (6) 17 Kean's 31 new works as an architect (10, two words) 20 Consume game-bird around river (9, two words) 21 Disperses in Scotland and navigates round tip of Colonsay (6) 26 Sounds around square upset court meeting (7) 28 Rather sad Shakespearean constable changed his ... (7) 30 ...exquisite skirt, it's reported (6, hyphened) 31 See 17 (5) 33 Detergent holding up flier (5) 34 Foundations are gutted (4)
Solution to 1200: 1200
The title indicated MCC (17), MARYLEBONE CRIC hi r CLUB (15 22 23), with which the remaining unclued lights were connected.
First prize: D.J. Adler, Ongar, Essex.
Runners-up: Mrs G.P. Binder, Speldhurst, Kent; C.F. Peers, Pinner, Middlesex.
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