CROSSWORD 1253: Puff-ball by Ascot
A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 9 April, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1253, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The 1 I I
The other unclued lights (one hyphened) form three triads sug- gested respectively by the components of IA (two words, one hyphened).
Name Address ACROSS 9 Keen to help round college (4) 11 Ones sent down, former PE pupils, look, returning (9) 14 Platform attendant drinking tea (6) 16 Birthmarks? I have one on back
(5)
17 Eddy with worthless stuff, gold!
(5)
20 More than one may flutter in spring sweep (7) 21 Deliberately avoided one, note, in part (7) 24 This branch of medicine is too blinking dull (7) 28 Repeat it — ear's infected, note
(7)
31 Old US singer in dress is acceptable (7) 34 Sark dweller, one's darling? (7) 37 A Greek in very good scarf (5) 38 Screen ghost (5) 39 Reveal would-be peacekeepers live dangerously (6) 41 Let me pour out oil (9) 43 What unwelcome visitors may do, or house-painter, possibly (14, three words) DOWN 1 Frightens daughter and her mother's sisters (6) 3 Hurt Labour's leader with mounting gossip (6) 5 Group to encourage savings (7, two words) 6 Fellow (belted earl) at varsity in angry outburst (7, hyphened) 7 Top principal supporting Board of Education (6) 8 Jays spreading anthrax round Uruguay (8) 13 Palm tree oil, processed(7) 15 Compared both ends of lintel covered in paint outside(8) 18 Star-shaped Michaelmas daisy, old one lad uprooted (10) .
19 Go before a terribly decent judge ultimately (8) 22 Romantic by river on island with first of Casanovas (7) 23 Died solvent? Spenser's misleading (8) 27 Plant's maize, I note (7) 29 Messenger in telegraph office, cross (7) 32 Brooms for sluttish women (6) 33 One who requires masseur, we hear (6) 35 New snooker ball (5) 36 Quotient in operation (5)
Solution to 1250: High school Theme: HAUTE ECOLE (12/17), Wth 1A, 15, 21 and 35 performed on a 5D LIPPIZANER in a 10D MANEGE.
First prize: Valerie Cattell, Sutton Coldfield. Runners-up: P. Jewell, Harrogate; Meera Karunakaran, Eastwood, NSW, Australia.
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