CROSSWORD
A first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 14 June, with two runners-up prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary% Entries (no photocopies) to: Crossword 1111, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Eight of he e even 11 two of two words each, and four of them hyphened) are also unclued. The other three are clued without overall definitions.
Name Address
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ACROSS 1 Shakespeare's first issue includ- ing a main scene (8) 5 Barrel smuggler of yore (6) 14 Have to confess (3) 16 Forger of hundred-pound note taking one in? (6) 18 In superior position, win number over (5, two words) 20 Old fools cuddling European cats (7) 22 First-rate band's excursions (7) 24 Language to please Milton's great admirer (7) 25 Bill retains Star Wars detection apparatus (5) 26 Moral quality of the women's society (5) 28 Turn to a mere rhetorical ques- tion (7) 31 Manages to score well — about 500! (7, two words) 33 A family, aged family of lords and ladies (7) 38 Measures acidity value in local rivers (5) 39 Let's do plays of greatest anti- quity (6) 40 In favour of sportsman earning a living (3) 41 Solid cone, hard to split (10) 42 Newton breaks small twig and branch off (6) DOWN 1 Former officer material, soldier with stick, rising above other ranks (13, hyphened) 2 Everybody getting round to Coral Island (5) 3 Caught some close to deep 17? (6)
4 Batting wearing simple helmet (5)
6 Float like fish on account of netting cords (7) 7 Set gilt on mass of unwrought metal (6) S Still equal (4) 10 Bans against English members (6) 11 See preamble (9) 12 Weaving, diminutive lad, we hear — annoying (13, hyphened) 13 Strapping type, ambitious sort, around N.I. (8) 23 Attorney isn't it (7) 27 Checks old Norse ship's timbe
(7)
29 Censor again? Perhaps pen an appeal (6, hyphened) 30 Pnson guard to contend with revolutionary rising (6) 34 Pastor, a heretic, suppresses the Pentateuch (5) 35 Print dreadful howler — not English (5) 36 Square border (4)
Solution to 1108: Landings
The unclued lights (at 13, 16, 17, 22, 24, 25, 26 and 38) are all European destinations of cross- channel ferries.
First prize: Harold Margolis, Letch- worth; Runners-up: R. Homer, Coppull, Lancashire; H. P. Craig, Oadby, Leicestershire.
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