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1184: Catherine-wheel by Mass
A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 21 November, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the new edi- tion of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1184, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Twenty radial lights read from rim to centre, and twenty vice versa. A definition of the title, in the circuit next to the outer one, and a single word in the innermost circuit, both rotate clockwise.
Name Address
Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. RADIALS (6)
1 Roman theatres maybe 'oused about 1000 2 Shipworm in frigate redoubled 3 Choose one degree for best opportunities?
4 As before, wish for work (nothing in metal) 5 Holding general course in Shakespeare 6 Young swan and audible seal 7 Tropical bird to be sold in marketplace 8 Try English fellow entering defence 9 Honour Salvation Army instrument 10 Wily Unionist in wild state 11 Conduct? Chap gets time 12 See one with wise face 13 Sing about frequented place 14 Backbiting about Henry's lousy in NZ 15 Ordinary boat near isle, 50 disembarking 16 Alga? Not so on most of pool 17 King's on sound Czech coins 18 Metallic compound (with aluminium) in concealed place 19 Bombarded? He'd trouble hiding 20 Social outcast from Panama, regressive old type 21 Northern oiler's spilt oil of orange flowers 22 Jejune peer, we hear 23 Brown school hat 24 Cloth camp-bed's not folded 25 Hasty changes around third- class vessels 26 W. Indian timbers from low islet returned, mostly warped 27 Very humid side in Seychelles 28 Loud girl's second marriage 29 Powerful figure in earthenware 30 Utensil with mature thick soup 31 Soft ottoman? None in short steamboat 32 Drain (i.e. Mac's oilcan) 33 Amusingly easy catch, about choir's last 34 Boxers' exchange of blows without energy, in truth 35 Lory we re-identified in bird habitat 36 Bed of flowers sprang up on railway 37 Return from river always on time 38 Machine for splitting leather? Idle type!
39 Win back, say, breaking old rule
40 Wild Asian ass a German's put in pound
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