CROSSWORD 1306: Mass medium by Columba
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 28 April with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary – ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1306, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Radial lights read from edge to centre or vice versa, twenty in each case. Reading clockwise in the innermost circuit is an operator in a mass medium (two words); transposing these words creates a phrase which, in view of the six entries running clockwise in the circuit next to the outer one, describes the puzzle.
Name Address RADIALS (6)
1 Old hit, sort done very well
2 Knight with sorcery beheaded horned creature 3 A bird going about round rookery initially?
4 Lichen in front of kailyard or near church 5 Gorge cut by thousand-pound rock in Scotland 6 Pastor riled robber 7 Soul, sparing character starting commune?
8 Sound of minor tirade 9 At least empty novelty wears off 10 Deviation by barker 11 Truth? Light's creator embodies it
12 New toy did strange thing
13 Fish in sun eaten by clumsy bird 14 Walked upon punt with pole 15 Doctor, a certain day, bumbled 16 Nest, say, cuckoo traverses once 17 Spots round church, reverse of evil
18 aBetheoone to confine leader of p
19 Brief batting class 20 Steep infantry exercise 21 Runner, lost, out and about 22 Boozers admitting no snobs 23 Bob looks for Jock's questions 24 More than one moneybags pockets rupees 25 Crane's sounds? Complex tones 26 Tenacious colt set to lap gee- gee 27 Universal light absorbs saint 28 Met icy ground about root 29 Airy master-at-arms 30 Boring journey of raja, unsettled 31 Autonomous region in talks over independence 32 Driver of old crock to compete 33 Ace in lawless zone accepted discharge 34 Hug Jack, shaver, cut short 35 Pressure for Afghan 36 Dummies, so wiped out, rest 37 Warship'11 cover miles in future 38 Shy about medical humour 39 See 'ere thing like lute 40 Stable thus lets in pony
Solution to 1303: Supportive
The other unclued lights were the ORDERS (12) of CLASSICAL ARCHITEC- TuRE (3 4) — all, suitably, in differ- ent ccatimNs (5).
First prize: Peter Dean, London NW1. Runners-up: Miss Emma Heath, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon; Brian Cole, Amersham, Bucks.
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