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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 14 February, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1448, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The 11) (two of two words) when linked with another 1D (singular- ly) are verifiable in Brewer.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Rejected style in top contrivance (5, hyphened) 4 Slaughter-houses turned Arabs to it (9) 9 Strictly comparable, returned plain snack (10, three words) 11 Train or part of one (5) 12 Greek odes from a mass, it turns out (7) 15 Boy nesting in the USA (5) 16 Decisive moment of riotous coup, note (6) 21 Action-stations! (8, hyphened) 22 Woollen fabric that can't be sold to become richer (7) 25 Insect flourished by river (4) 27 it's not tested moving under it
(7)
34 Power-house exchanged bread
(5)
35 Whence a Duchess in a play or a film version (5) 37 Inverse insert, difficult in lattice- work (7) 38 Sports ground with 500 in new seat! (5) 40 Private teacher coming in last, as seems the rule (9) 41 Bows and strips (5) DOWN 1 See preamble (13, two words) 4 Pleiad translated The Bat (6) 6 To agree completely (7) 7 Porcupine changes top for Welles (5) 8 He is sent money concerning daydreamer, we're told (8) 10 A polygon's versatility (13, hyphened) 13 Dirty bird first caught in the Seychelles (7) 17 Constituents of feast prepared without recipe (6) 18 Kenyan with most of the chrysanthemum badge and jade (6)
19 Shedding tears, that is, in rows (7)
20 One toilet for reps (6) 23 Ruin fort terribly and scarper (8, three words) 26 Psychological believer intoned syllable, entering at first (7) 29 A very loud torpedo causing a disturbance (6) 30 Organ parts showing a bit of rhythm on tremolo (6) 36 Composer without one oven (4)
Solution to 1445: 3/4
The pa'rs of unclued lights 4/40, 6,33 30D/22) are the titles of four waltzes by Strauss. English (18/1A,
Johann First prize: G.H. Cowan, Middlesex. Runners-up: Mr T.M. Crowther, Hampshire; M.J. Puttick, London.
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