W & J

GRAHAM'S

PORT

W.& J.

CROSSWORD

GRAHAM'S

PORT

A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 21 March, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the new edition of The Chambers Dictionary, priced at £22.50 — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to Crossword 1149, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' Service. 36 I 1933

ACROSS 1 Morph changing shape (5) 11 Write largely to make money? (10) 13 Interlace flaps, bent back (9) 15 Poor king abandons deliberation (4) 16 Portion of hydrogen in ab- stracted state (7) 17 List containing honour hoaxes (7, two words) 18 Sea-monster? Hearts of explor- ers throb quickly (3) 19 Almost all herons go around by the waterside (10) 21 Destroy comfort, stifling resist- ance (5) 28 Sacred parts of shady taberna- cles? (5) 30 Giving authority to prisoner of war in loose regimen (10) 33 States accommodating penny rises (3)

35 Measure, in tiny amount, soft yellow mineral (7)

36 Line on map is round Indian village (7) 37 Northerner's lively slang (4) 38 Maltreat worker taken in by sly smile (9) 39 Eastern sorcerers charged with deep missions (10) 40 Had vision of horror engulfing me (7) 41 Cross before beginning to sip vintage sherry? (5) DOWN 2 Old period church in an area needing renovation (8) 4 Chap, to perform stuff, has in- strument (9) 5 Women, absorbed in bridge, brood (5) 6 Past prime minister can sadly end on the dole (8) 7 Locating equipment extra dark- ness conceals (5) 8 Cut mass in church (5) 9 Time in fuddled ease engenders decadence (14) 10 Limit yellow fireball? (6)

14 Moved little by little — stole softly away (6)

20 African bird in river man co- vered with rifle? (9, two words) 22 Can from scouting start to see Highland shelters (6) 23 Upset 500 end before judge — a sad story (8) 26 Stomach of master in sumo wrestling (6) 29 Blab story about abstainer (6) 31 Flash of lustrous mineral (6) 32 Dessert's to be a flop, we're told (5) 35 Climbing in fog, simply stray as before (5)