CROSSWORD
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 16 March, with two runners- up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary ring the word Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1351, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Radial lights read from edge to centre or vice versa, twenty of each. A key item in the circuit next to the innermost, and four def- initions (one of three words, one of two) of the item's components in the circuit next to the outer one, read clockwise.
Name Address RADIALS (6) 1 Old vinegar that's returned to market 2 Some narcissi enchant little Cecilia 3 Nut, sound ingredient of salad 4 Close wrapping exactly put on 5 Like public library, quiet 6 I break down cell walls: bad act, yes?
7 Fret about ministry's latest spin 8 Interferometer and other things working 9 Moth having flutter round vase 10 Note new colonist, occupant 11 Channel showing Tango uncut 12 Wicked spirit, bit mean 13 Odours, first signs of which annoy urbane folk from Scotland 14 Hazards of fins at sea (hyphened) 15 Composition including superior bit of lemonade: snowball?
16 Passionate saint working truly ...
17 ... although fell traps occur 18 Suspect on bail in Britain 19 Alphorn's first peal, one making Swiss pine 20 Enclosures for bowls and marbles 21 Court, after endless delay, failing 22 Heated tea nourished 23 Stop draft (two words)
24 Dog making dash out of wood behind heath
25 Two cards 26 Intervals in pavilion, reverse of quiet 27 Utter intensity 28 Smooth pipe not emptied 29 Hidden dry rot 30 Fine sauce affected throat 31 Inverted part of pharos bedraggled Egyptian measures 32 Big names Lee freely introduced to network 33 Leading us is prudish bishop 34 Adder in heyday ...
35 ...s-sinuous and vile 36 Sets about framing copper plates 37 Thin canopy outside pub 38 Confusion in sketch? Never mind! (two words) 39 Unblocks earliest of memories suppressed by us and altered 40 Old characters in ring, good and bad boxers
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