26 DECEMBER 1970, Page 36

Prize Crossword

No. 1461 DAEDALUS

A prize of three guineas will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 4 January. Address solutions: Crossword 1461, The spec' tator, 99 Cower Street, London WC1 Across

1 Aquiline fly-by-night (5. 3) 5 Venetian Ruskiniana (6)

9 Music, country-style (8) 10 Copper and herb expose flighty little fellow (6) 12 Generous with a bob makes one servile (7) 13 I part with gold at place of take-off (7) 14 Listen, becoming modish is just too tragic! (12) 17 Take a break for it in the p.m. (9, 3) 22 Some chaps from East Anglia? (7) 23 An inn en route (7) 24 Bit of a beard goes against the grain (6) 25 Informative footwear (8) 26 'The — were a paradise, If thou wert there' (Burns) (6) 27 'Whence to his Son, The — of his throne' (Milton) (8) Down

1 Asp and emu confused by Hecate's minion (6)

2 Airy chatterbox (6)

3 I've got back a great book with feeling (7) -4 4 High-ups that turn with every wind that blows (12)

6 Near the Persian city (7) 7 An aid to Morpheus, perhaps (8)

– 8 Rough footage of an undermining sort (8) :`.11 Heavenly providers? (6. 6)

15 He has something to lend on the land! (4. 4) 36 Listen to us, and so find handy vessels (8)

18 'Hongry — don't cackle' (Joel Chandler Harris) (7)

19 To take to arms with love! (7) 20 Veg on the go (6) 21 It's a woolly problem (6) Solution and winner on 9 January Solution to Crossword No. 1459. Across: 1 Im- precations 9 Preformed 10 Grass 11 Send-up 12 Old-timer 13 Onegin 15 Snowball 18 Arden- nes 19 Etudes 21 Bird-seed 23 Grotto 26 Tidal 27 Bandoleer 28 Sharpshooter. Down: 1 Im- pasto 2 Paean 3 Elocution 4 Arms 5 Indolent 6 Night 7 Kestrel 8 Farmland 14 Eldorado 16 Water polo 17 December 18 Arbiter 20 Scourer 22 Sylph 24 Treat 25 Onus.

Winner: G. K. H. Jones, The Rectory, Shaftes- bury, Dorset.