CROSSWORD
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 4 January, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Cros word 1443, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The remaining unc ued sigh s (three of two wo ds), individually or as pairs, are of a kind and a e by IL Name Address ACROSS 1 Long lines kept going up and up, it's said (11, three words) 11 Reprimand covering three months (6) 13 Governor of Apulia placed palm in sack (7) 15 Enter Civvy Street rejecting short time back in bed (5)
16 Dandruff caught in foam (5)
17 Janitor's malt liquor (6) 18 Panto constituents kept in a cask (5, two words) 20 Achieves reconciliation in a single second (6) 21 One fairy back round dead holy tree (5) 22 Impervious material (no top) for shelter (7) 27 Hermes' sandals tied first with a noose, almost (7) 29 Shakespeare's set on starting to root out weed (5) 30 Paintings on top of mountain range (6) 32 Bird of the plain and uplands 34 Green, een, even inside reversed overlay (6) 36 Roman theatre with new dome and posh interior (5)
37 Stupid review of Ernani, right away (5) 38 Fed and stumped up the cash (7, two words)
39 Engine stops working by English lake (6) 41 Like sentry, taking note at Oval, Maybe (11) DOWN 1 Repeat cure, somehow. Therefore what?! (10) 3 No rush for Liberal back-pay (9, two words) 5 Tedious bloomer after curtailing public view (7) 6 Tumour on protuberance in body (8) 9 Edible mollusc; one in L'pool, served up (6) 12 Computer changes upset quiet concert (6) 24 Royal Mail service for Pete's letters being distributed (8) 26 Daubs mud into new gesso, endlessly (7) 28 Reserve range for tobogganing course (6, two words) 31 Bank round nuclear base (5)
33 Gather in numbers for a service (5)
35 Seeks accommodation (4)
Solution to 1440: No (v.)!
The unclued lights (22, 24, 10, 6A, 41, 36, 15, 21) form a quotation from the poem 'No!' by Thomas Hood. 'November' completes the quotation. The puzzle's title thus refers to the poem and the month.
First prize: Mrs O.J. Smith, St Albans. Runners-up: D.P. Shenkin, London; John L. Cope, London.
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