CROSSWORD
A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary') for the first three correct solutions (please, no photocopies) opened on 28 October. Entries to: Crossword 1030, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Radial lights (20 from rim to centre, and 20 from centre to rim) include a key word and nine related by-products (3 triads) all clued without dentitions. Another three by-products (hyphenation + phrase + word) spin clockwise in the circuit next to the outer one.
Name Address RADIALS (6)
1 By-product of smelting is heard to vary
2 Gets soaked from cliffs 3 Wheeling, swoops down again 4 Was Swift imbued with Irish?
5 Bowled twice in green patch 6 Swan, and one of its attributes 7 Creditor has to summon back islander 8 Digestive spirit townee knocked back 9 Servicewoman's joined cham- pion force 10 Perverts with lies, we hear 11 Reach Arab vessel 12 Source of drink, strong, around NE 13 Calm a steed, excitable 14 President Ford at opening of Senate?
15 Boasts new-style shoes 16 Fools? One is short in endow- ments 17 A pole driven into piece of ground 18 Renew life in old first-class beams (English) 19 Fish girl's audible 20 Dish, pale, shattered by the Parisienne 21 Natural much-used boundary, it's said
22 Transfer to another rent, after a time
23 Look round edges of dumped rubbish-heap 24 Pull round with a measure 25 Obtain point for insertion in motor 26 Piled in layers, corded round about 27 Increase in parking (penny, once) 28 Motif of French banner 29 Apocryphal Book? State title 30 Fashion new article in crimson 31 I'm dead wrong 32 Physician reported in Lucerne? 33 Article about radio's first com- mercial 34 Infant's disease — its breast's spotty? 35 Money unit in parable (NT) 36 Passed round last of pepper, sprinkled as before 37 Lies about 500 Scottish gentry 38 Inlets with shallow areas round Japan 39 Coarse cloth, indeed, used in boats 40 Non-sequitur sailor put to us
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