CROSSWORD
A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 27 March, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (Or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1200, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.
The unclued I ghts (four of two words) include two abbreviations and two apostrophes. 17 (15 22 23) is at 37 (after 41), with its 1 and 12, in 26 34. Chambers 1988 confirms 8 Down.
Name Address
A6CRMOSoSre energetic sounding priestess (6) 13 Shakespeare's auburn sailor by
14 wScaortsshipbir5d) and sailor on the 16 cIrairsphettOw(7n) distributing ethanol (7)
20 Drug charge (4) 24 Old judge died in charge of language (7) 30 Pill container of crude iron (4) 31 Second pair of rollers giving
36 support (7) Shooting with a gun and injuidrien o x
injuring iron 38 ron giving standards
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depth of colour (10, hyphened) 39 Boy was accustomed, it's said, to winning serve (7) 40 Discuss formal agreement endlessly (5) 42 Sister embracing one German fisherman (6) 43 Seeing about account of creation (8)
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2 Electrons' paths affecting strobila (8) 3 Liberal phoned up to growl (5) 4 Gibbonstown, Fa. (7) 5 Birds well up with commendation, we hear (7) 6 Old Rover, with part included in price (6) 7 Some faster bicycles made of metal (6) 8 State worker's chromosome (5) 9 Later modifications according to hints (13) 10 Sign theses about accounts summaries (13, hyphened) 11 Instruments Clare shut out (9) 18 Call round for drummer (5) 19 Shirker embracing fashionable Dutch sportsman (9, hyphened) 21 Endorse a party exercise (5) 25 Measure one in a division of the animal kingdom (8) 27 Bill upset Ben (3) 28 Oldster out to be non- committal, once (7) 29 Descendant having to turn in town (7) 32 Coin not turned over for poet 6) ( 33 Scamp exchanging sides for sailor (6) 35 Old arched roof with old letter, note (5)
Solution to 1197: Fives
First prize: Cynthia Gee, North:am, East Sussex. Runners-up: C. I. Meek, Winchelsea, Sussex; G. Whelan, Liverpool.
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