CROSSWORD 1080: Have a break by Doc

A. first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 26 October, with two runners-up prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries (no photocopies) to: Crossword 1080, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

Brewer confirms that the remaining unclued lights were at 43's 18 (three being of two or more words, one including a hyphen). Elsewhere, ignore an accent.

Name Address ........ ............ ACROSS

9 Thatching for Scottish enclosure (4)

11 Convert redesigning poster about see (9) 12 Loveless slave's manner (4) 14 Hang down from half-made vaulted passage in Scotland (6) 16 Fresh canape without a nut (5) 17 Imitating a bullet's sound (5) 20 Silk fabric from manor-house in new Russia (7) 21 One of two forms of obscure tailless butterfly lacking ring (7) 24 Called to help — designed it sanctioned (7) 25 Some minister celebrating office of third hour (5) 26 Jewellery for sporting areas (5) 28 Setting down halfway upstairs

7 31 '7■?riting once about clean old eating place (7)

34 Miser with some salad and meat included (7, hyphened) 37 Caused by transposing love song for two (5, two words) 38 Some-one electrocuted old pointer (5) 39 Measure golden body from space (6) 40 Oil obtained from hydrangeas, on reflection (4) 42 The future is time to have an award (4, hyphened) DOWN

1 Red pad renewed and covered with cloth (6)

2 Vessel drawing that's not started

c5)

3 ust the chap to make exercise, during one run! (6)

4 Pensioner on board of Neigh- bours and Eastenders (5)

5 Little bone's round slices broken

(7)

6 Polished funeral-song unfinished by worker (7) 8 Customs officers stirring up sedi- ment (8, hyphened) 10 Ale Tim Rice distnbuted, living apart (10) . . . 23 . . . Tim Rice's out, describing three short syllables (8) 27 Cliff's inseparable companions?

29 Speed of 1970s Austin car (7) 30 Incarnation one month in Arkansas (6) 32 Minority, say, soon rising (6) 33 Aim permitted small hole (6) 35 Clear skin (5) 36 In wine I disclose my identity (5)

Solution to1077:Dressed to kill

The unclued lights (1, 14, 37(A), 7, 13, 15, 20, 30D) are pieces of armour. For 1A & 13D Brassart and Pouldron are also acceptable.

First prize: R. W. Purnell, Cerne Abbas, Dorset; Runners-up: Ken- neth Hampson, Norwich; J. C. C. Leach, Sheffield.

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