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 6 December, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest ediron of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word 'Diet onary'). Entries to: Crossword 1440, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WON 2LL The unclued lights all but two of two or more words) when correctly arranged, yield a quotation, verifiable in he ODQ, which the title completes.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Programme reformed by second actors (8) 12 Self-satisfied heartless remark about unfinished room (10) 13 Nymph doesn't start to study (5)
14 Steed or Hunt (no small capitals) (7)
16 Economic improvement and output split (7) 20 River in Kiel became... (4) 23 ... lake outside part of the tavern (4)
26 Old carer organised no. 1 cure (7)
30 It lists some nutrients, to a certain extent (4) 31 Run out in course of circuit (7) 34 Heavy wagon without a horse (4) 38 Dickensian character, left with new title, was not left pounds (10, two words) 39 Popular dance's hellish state (7, two words) 40 Jutish leader is outside, acting (5) 42 Agree to two years in ebbing waters (6, two words) 43 Let us stay out, no sun. How shrewd! (8) DOWN 2 see 8 (8) 3 Scots frighten tailless young gull
(5)
4 A male doctor at pulpits (7)
5 Spindle turning a dried haddock (7)
6 North American Indian reversed a vehicle by house (6) 7 Old prayer with quiet dancing movements noted (6) 8 In short, 2 lOs for giants (5) 9 C'est Mardi Gras, Hardy. Etes- vous fou? (13, two words) 11 He's starting as a spy in the field (9, hyphened) 17 Car from Fiat organisation (3) 18 Show in you and me with the girl (5) 19 Poisonous fruit and pottage after death (9) 25 Mezzanine with rambling Lent rose (8) 27 Pack of hounds bawling (3) 28 Produces goods (7) 29 Fibre surrounds the whole gravel bed (7) 32 Declare new books dubious not fine (6) 33 Dumpynose's last word puzzle was Hell (6) 35 Orator or offender is heard (5) 37 The old penned half of golden- seal (5)
Solution to 1437: 2z/3 yards
The unclued ights are motrr metrical
First prize: Graham Pole, Surrey. Runners-up: Prof. Colin Ratledge, East Yorkshire; W.B. Henderson, Surrey.
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