CROSSWORD
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 18 May, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary — ring the word Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1360, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The other unclued lights are 9 (three words, from a phrase in Brewer). Seven clues each comprise a definition part and a word which has to go 9 to produce the answer; remaining clues are nor- mal.
Name Address ACROSS 4 Bands with awful numbers without depth (11) 11 Menial cut fine round fruit (7) 12 'Uge American plant (6) 13 Hate tiling (9) 14 Set willow by chestnut (5) 16 Seats lining halls of assembly (5) 19 Splendid state jets (7) 21 Herb said to grow wild (4)
23 Alliances in clubs and guilds (7)
24 Heavy blow bringing tyrant's end forward (4) 25 One in hotel ordered alcohol
(7)
30 Rulers, heads of state expecting red carpet (7) 31 Unoccupied lounge (4) 32 Absurd talk, Karl! (7) 34 Gas one mixed with nitrogen (4) 35 Closure of passage aria set off
(7)
37 Soul so simple (5) 40 Creep to crib (5) 41 Blouse? Georgia has blue one
(9)
42 Seedy gen (6) 43 Sappers aboard pontoon may prosper (7) 44 Sly sect, mean (11) DOWN 1 Retaining honour, blocking rogue in merger (11) 2 General data manager has stored (6) 3 Old song, first of jingles for channel (5) 5 Press, good in practice once (4) 6 Dislike attention (4) 7 Right French is superior (7) 10 Resolute captain in action (7) 18 Trailing insignificance (11) 20 Hard workers in market-places around Jamaica (7) 26 Terrier runs for ball hit high (5)
27 Study to probe slow climbing of sloths? (7)
28 Nonconformist made lip pierced
(7)
29 Stars, jotters about Garland (7) 33 Did time (6) 36 Sun affected pale tubers (5) 39 Live over beside wood (4)
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