Prize Crossword
A prize of £3 will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 28 May. Address solutions: Crossword 1482, The Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London WCIE 6AE.
Across
1 She's the last of the bunch, operatically (6) 4 Hit and run in a careless manner (8)
9 'Miss Crawley ... loved ever after, French French cooking, and French wines' (Thackeray) (6)
10 Pass and back about for a relation of the Jumblies' vessel (8)
12 Doing what birds in their little nests do (8) 13 Position in which to find a person of some standing? (6) 15 Bluebeard's sister-in-law (4) 16 Gunsmoke is instrumental in cosmetic activity, really (6-4) 19 Shares we'd rather like! (10) 20 Lean on, in a somewhat capricious way, perhaps? (4)
23 English tonic gets shaken up. It's a sign! (6) 25 Mint tea I find rather a personal matter (8)
27 Air-tight philosophy (8) 28 Literary correspondent of the windmill (6) 29 Birdcage? Not at all l (4, 4) 30 Professional colour of the returning native (6) Down
1 Married and takes wing for a work of spiritual geometry (7)
2 'Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of — in us dwell' (Tennyson) (9) 3 The elm becomes top brass (6) S It takes a backward fool to take the palm in Scotland (4)
6 Wireless communication lapses, entangled; makes good the walls (8)
7 Forest of many parts (5) 8 'And round she turned for my noble sake, And gave me — indeed' (Browning) (7) 11 Do we end being gifted so? (7) 14 Half a peal gets cue for drawing out (7) 17 Trimmed in a superior way? Reproached for it (9) 18 'His daily — had been woods and rills' (Wordsworth) (8) 19 Drinks packing horsepower? (7) 21 Three at place of play (7)
22 'The sanctimonious — that went to sea with the Ten Commandments' (Measure for Measure) (6) 24 I in turn in city (5)
26 Get naught back with nothing in it for the king (4) Solution and winner on 5 June.
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