Prize Crossword

A prize of £3 will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 13 April. Address solutions: Crossword 1475, The Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London WC1 Across 1 Were these some of the tools of Henry James's trade? (12)

8 Evening in Italy finds winter sportsman in guise of the terrible Turk (9)

9 Divided, I had removed, took the plunge (5) 11 Fourth note gets in my way, it's a disgrace (6) 12 A hundred rules so indicative of ends of debates (8) 14 Worked together in the theatre? (10) 16 The bird that did nine, naturally (4) 18 Royal sovereign having a secret too (4) 19 By which method the low country life may be economically enjoyed (5, 5) 21 Bale rain out, it's simply unploughable (8) 22 Springy but fastish (6)

25 , Sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can' (Dr Johnson) (5)

26 Cerium viewed askance, secreted the days of wonder. Beware the venom (9) 27 Might these seem to have to do with a national housing scheme? How beautiful they stand! (7, 5) Down

1 A Latin thing arising from a condition to be seen in these very letters (5)

2 That's for remembrance, said Ophelia (8) 3 Identify the chap with an occidental touch to satisfy a fancy (4)

4 A sand ruler taking cover in rusticated clerics (5,5)

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5 I've got muddled with Subscriber Trunk Dialling; get through to a learned Hindu (6) 6 The 'African Queen' as a case in point (5-4) 7 Miss lit again; it's just a way of becoming incorporated (12)

10 'See a nation Springs like day from desolation' (Shelley) (12)

13 Give it a ring to encourage the snail-like one of the ages (6, 4) 15 Try out to a T with prayerful inclusion. It will be (9) 17 Plus this (8)

20 'What is a man, If his chief good and of his time' (Hamlet) (6)

23 Efforts that are triply rewarded (5) 24 A guffaw gets into the quiet sound, behold the eastern potentate (4) Solution and winner 17 April