CROSSWORD
A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary') for the first three correct solutions opened on 14 May. Entries to: Crossword 956, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.
Radial lights (20 from rim to centre, 20 from centre to rim) include ten roughly of a kind, unclued. Another ten theme-words run clockwise in the circuit next to the outer one. Ignore one accent.
Name Address RADIALS (6)
1 First sign of hydrophobia in poor stray dog 2 Communicate with young man, old address 4 Implement an arch 5 Scoffs, as before, seconds sprinkles with salt 7 Fishes knocked back dry drink 8 Cutting article splits party 9 Star made from Eastern material for dress 11 Couple from Ayr devouring Ita- lian shad 12 Brown coal left out for fire 13 Calder's murky bed indulgence 16 Dispense with ndulgence 16 Tax from former windows, they say 17 First advances for essays 18 Spills liquor before Royal Socie- ty 20 Hail beginning to rattle shallow vessel 21 Girl from Germany (East), one in distance 23 A set, we're told — increase no more 24 Discovery, central to Greek genius, about flowing w4ter! 25 Lamented black sheep township rejected 26 Strike plot — one easily broken 28 Tries containing roof's first wood-worms?
29 Gold grip's included, by.the way
30 Paste paste 31 Blunt-tipped, broadly-notched — US tree, maybe 33 In US, guess 'e's gone quickly up North 34 Almost bubble to display fine carriage (two words) 36 Trite book consumed 37 Aloof from odd person 38 Rather low — somewhat risque 40 Hot breezes at end of August for Jock's harvest
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