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1213: Anag or anag by Mass A first prize of 125 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1988 Port for the first correct solution opened on 26 June, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary – ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1213, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL,

The other unclued lights each comprise two consecut ve words modelled on 18A and 36A, respectively. Clued lights include an acronym and two proper names.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 9 Murderer, one in jail (4) 11 Oratories with OE arches up for

repair (10) 13 Unpleasant smut's reduced (4) 15 A Glaswegian's neckties (6) 17 Levantine boat boarded by fifty

of the Franks (5) 20 Sea ape? About a score in the

Hebrides (8) 21 Treated convict back in pen? (7) 23 Noble piano notes (7) 24 Bird's spur, second on magpie

genus (5) 26 Service in war ruined erk (5) 28

ff 32

Old wheel cost Hur badly (7) Bird's cover, hedging lake

(Italian) (7, two words) 34 Disturbing currents rose over short bow first (8, hyphened) 38 A touch, we hear, showing palm

(5)

39 New deism absorbing Eastern scholars at Oxford (6) 40 Old, pre-eminently just (4) 41 Clumsiness? I need it put differently (10) 42 Prophet Huxley's drug's around (4) IfOVVN 2 Symbols in MS I glanced at (5) 3 Impressive record, I state briefly (6) 4 Stop and observe (4) 5 Reduce former pound on earnings, we're told (7) 6, Impairs about one hundred showjumping fences (7) 7 Indian washermen discontinued without heater (6) 8 Bird note over trees, tremulous (6) 14 A dye active in Morocco (7) 16 Timber boat left in place without a launcher (8) 19 Academic enthused over one

old Spanish coin (8) 22 Support love in duet part (7) 27 Stays with Homer, propounds

(7)

29 Reply's right (i.e. about job) (7) 30 Greek measures graduated rod

(6) 31 Umpires, rum fellows? (6,

hyphened) 33 Region containing a new spider

genus (6) 35 Roots of society, maybe (5) 37 Scowl in short old dance (4)

Solution to 1210: 4A

The seasonal tit e, MAYFLOWER, also suggested the emigrant PILGRIM FATHERS (13/6) and the related lights.

First prize: R.R. Macleod, Edin- burgh. Runners-up t Julia Galbraith, West Ewell, Surrey; John Sparrow, Padbury, Bucks.