CROSSWORD 1224: Sixes and sevens by Doc
A First prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1988 Port for the first correct solution opened on 11 September, 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 1224, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued ['gilts comprise two groups, with a common feature. Ignore an accent.
Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS carriages (11, two words) leaflet? (5) boil (6) (12, two words) 15 An ounce — one amid the inopportune (10, hyphened) 18 Strong cooking smell turned delta (8) 21 Return of rough-edged tailless Eastern anaesthetist (8) 29 Desert allowance lacks hint of (6) 30 Onerous mugging (6) authors (5) 36 Including everything in final list employment (5) (5, two words) 35 Talk of Henri's puss (4) 37 Warm-up races? (5) 38 Stahl's theory of refitting minis during the morning (7)
of' the service, nevertheless
39 75% h 40 See 7 across (3) 41 The guilds left out Duke, having a poor view (11, hyphened) DOWN 1 Fairly confident artist embraced by new purser (10, two words) 2 Affectionate, relatively speaking (8) 3 Record includes a clean break of the heel-bone (9) 4 Dramatist's wife uprooted a shrub. Awful, what? Indeed! (12, two words) 6 Milton beats leading side: W.
Indies almost (8) 7 Military cap has affected winning blow (5) 8 For example, beginnings of geese and swans (4) 9 Land with gold instead of unknown lizards (6) heather (5) 21 Chap dining out, proceeding (9) sculptor (5) 24 Loveless speculator follows moth (5) 28 Charge of corruption is entered iron (5, two words) 31 The King and I with two male The the First Sleaford, Conway, Burgh unclued lights were editions of BMI.E.
prize: Mrs L. Cave, Newton, nr.
Lincs. Runners-up: M.D.
Sailsbury; T.R. Burch, Heath, Surrey.
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