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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1990 Port for the first correct solution opened on 20 January, 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 1291, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Five words (in the circuit next to the outer one) have lost a com- mon association which, however, may still be identified in the innermost circuit. Radial lights read from rim to centre or vice versa, twenty of each.
Name Address This valedictory puzzle comes with Mass's seasonal greetings and the hope that he has entertained, as much as tested, his solvers over the years.
RADIALS re(s6s)is concluded, without a 2 Hag's grin captivates lord
3 Royal orbs in heaps 4 Short fungus in glacial shaft 5 Academic confused Lima's gods 6 Address: Fodder Road 7 Mix locally? Yes, causing affray 8 Grief's reflected in my air 9 Stupid squeezing bad cut, it's said 10 Dog's just after meat 11 The Italian priest's outside in distance 12 Precise about the Spanish exam 13 Mercenary, at Ayrshire mart 14 Male with ropes entangled bee- eater genus 15 Tropical butterfly drawn into arum or Phormium 16 Girl on skates, slippery ones?
17 Doric slab almost fitting without apex 18 Prelude without tenor for the time being (two words) 19 Fluffy ball for dogs 20 Mass posed tricky cycles 21 Drum's short silence — then again rolling (hyphened) 22 Cross filling whole shield 23 Check abridged NT book, shortly? At once 24 Prey, diminutive man, facing reduced sentence 25 Model in stone, as of old 26 County worker on edge 27 Starch from argon? My hat!
28 Eastern prince in best robe 29 Former whim for scaldfish 30 Palm note, take Italian one 31 Alme I'd mistaken for apple nymph 32 Open joint, one needing lard 33 A jewel is inlaid, displaying discrimination 34 Snake worship, fallacy without origin 35 Bard's commonplace printing type 36 Is party held in William's knowledge?
37 Free? Think again!
38 Points to bear and consider 39 Detailed note 40 Reduce outmoded cars on highway, initially
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