W. & J (GRAHAM ' S PORT GRAHAM ' S —) PORT r

1139: Apres-ski

A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 3 January, 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 1139, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

1 2 3

4

5 6

7

8

9 10

12

13

14

16

20

11

18

15

17

19

23

■

21

22

24

25

• 128

■ 33 29

30

31

32

34

38 I

35

36

39

40 41

■

42

Various words may be formed from SKI plus an abbreviation. Full versions of the latter (in Chambers 1988 and/or 1993) constitute the unclued lights (one plural, one hyphened and three of two words). One clued light is a place name. Ignore an accent.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Old clown with a new whimsy (6) 11 Death day? Zero took effect (4) 13 Some expensive ski, modelled for Greenlander? (6) 16 Religion, note, couched in doc- trine (5) 17 Hybrid cattle died thus (3) 19 I fool one partner at first (9) 20 Burst open shed ice's warped (7)

23 Study, frank about rp English knighted person? (8) 24 Petite Spanish article on hand (5)

25 Louts, idiots, losing face (5) 27 Common biplane 'e designed (8) 30 Chariot, horse, facing Eastern slaughter (7) 33 I grope clumsily in vessel for instrument (9, hyphened) 35 Arrest former head . . (3) 37 . . . caught with swag in Mac's cloth (5) 38 Lyrics with sex-appeal in Ukrai- man port (6) 39 Near old Henry after drink's knocked back (4) 42 Note odd tree, smooth and cylin- drical (6) DOWN 1 Married? Matched? No time (6) 3 Goblin, short bogey (5) 4 Tracts with 100 fruit trees (6) 5 Dinner dessert includes fool (4) 7 Put off, regarding grudge (7) 8 Noble around Italy, chiefly (6) 9 Telling tales can be so trying (8) 12 Endless slim mushrooms, three- headed (7) 14 Penning'? Kelvin has a short line in newspaper (8) 18 Bells for Scottish vagrants (8) 22 Motley crowd outside joint in twilled fabric (8) 26 Godfather's surety (7) 28 Deputy, Eastern recipient of be- quest (7) 29 Page in fancy dress feasts as of yore (6) 31 Impressive Queen set up means to an end (6) 32 Measure timber for entrance (6) 34 Pacific salmon in firm weed (5) 36 Daring type (4)