CROSSWORD
A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1990 Port for the First correct solution opened on 14 October, 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 1280, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued lights three of two words, are of a kind. gnore two accents elsewhere.
Name Address
Apologies for printing the wrong solution diagram last week The correct solution to Crossword No. 1276 appears on p.78.
ACROSS 10 Greek character has one left slipper (4) 12 Medical condition, a trauma he and I treated (10) 14 Outfit set up fraudulently (3) 18 Badly angered nobleman (7) 19 Rails, angry about eastern society (6) 22 Instructions for chef cooking piece on front of range (6) 24 Lady doctor, Irish one (5) 26 Healthy-looking boy we hear's beaten (9)
27 Such language used by Dr Zamenhof! (9)
29 Hook with golf club (5) 31 Depart hastily around end of year with foremost of yachtswomen, amorous (6) 34 Ropes and sails (6) 36 Rowing movements in a storm adopted by sailor (7) 40 English Rear Admiral showing age (3) 41 Priest, Edward, holds measure of thin plate (10) 42 A length's therefore further (4) DOWN 2 Girl with little boy, cunning and without pity (10)
4 Conspirator gets nothing for a barge (5)
5 I must leave new Rouen dairy open all the time? (9, hyphened) 6 What punk wears? A hindrance round awful bar (6) 7 Muslim teaching is unnatural in part (5) 8 Become hostile and break up camp (4) 9 Accepts a duke, always away, doesn't go to work 112, four words) 11 Girl to exchange light instrument? (8) 13 Old birds, bringers of bad news? (12, hyphened) 16 A letter from Redhill (3) 20 Walk on board in underwear (6) 21 Do they fly from a London borough? (10, hyphened) 23 Type of steak dish served round hospital bed (9) 25 Resisting change at home? Later I changed (8) 28 Second, I make a mistake on one of a range of mountains (7) 30 Girl with 'it' embracing man I left (6) 32 Flighty thing, topless, displaying chest (3) 33 Brickie, say, in bed (5) .35 Carry maiden under symbolic pole (5) 37 A sea bream found in the sand- banks (4)
Solution to 1277: Muck man?
16, 27, 5 and 34 were suggested by ,SLANDER 19); 1A, 40, 8 and 22 by I SLANDER.
First prize: Dr T. G. Powell, Llangefni, Anglesey. Runners-up: Philip and Rose Dacre, York; Daniel E. McConkey, Belfast.
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