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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 18 March, 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 1250, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
To graduate in 12/17, you must bring your 5 to the 10 and demon- strate the remaining unclued lights (one of two words). Ignore two accents.
Name Address ACROSS 8 Yarn from hobo wanting peso (4) 11 Apertures in doors we will cut out (12, hyphened) 14 Demon is active, diabolical in harm (7) 16 Cardinal heading west in evening-dress (4) 18 Sell oily shellfish (6) 22 Cross with bad poet re 'Wheel of Life' (8) 23 Dad's eaten smelly porridge (7) 24 Sailors absorbing Uruguay and Niagara Falls? (6) 25 One in fruit-tree trimmed of bark (6) 27 Palindromic well composed dicta (7) 29 Glaswegian greases drunk's daggers? (8) 33 Strains about love, that's the blues (6) 34 Howl half-heartedly in hell (5) 37 Straw hat is gone, blown sideways (7) 38 The conclusion of home game
(5)
39 LA person working with Coke and beer unlimited? (12, hyphened) 40 Seabird sailors note ahead (4) 41 Extreme sea with eddy swirling (8, hyphened) DOWN 1 Salmon and gutted sprat present together (6, hyphened) 2 Fire-water absolute roué fails to finish (4) 3 Mama rotated acreage for Spanish broom (6) 4 Strength rising in 'eated SDP fan (7) 6 Remains attached being sheared off (7) 7 Front set for tree-planting (11) 8 Doubly tense, fly to Scotland (5) 9 Mountebank holding peculiar pale medicine (9) 13 University nailed learner rioting without supporters (8) 19 Frothy dish to fill fine glass ... (10) 20 ...source of much sugar or egg (8, two words) 26 V her NCO ordered? (7) 28 Unreleased film exceeding the usual receipts (7, hyphened) 29 Blue horse with high tone (6) 30 Office Director filled (6) 31 Heaven hauls one upwards (6) 32 Daisy's faint after turn (5) 36 Character with nothing on showing S-shaped curve (4)
Solution to 1247: The pits
MI !LSO N A No4 Op4 T The title indicated cherry-stones, used in a fortune-telling rhyme (cf. 30/11 MANTIC/ENDOCARPS), suggest- ing tinker, tailor, etc. at 4, 1D, 35, 14, 37, 41, 5 and 22.
First prize: Alison Appleby, St Marcel du Perigord, France. Runners-up: E. C. Hunt, Norwich; David Bartram, Basildon, Essex.
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