CROSSWORD 1096: Wizards of Oz by Ascot
A first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 1 March, with two runners-up prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries (no photocopies) to: Crossword 1096, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.
The unclued ights (whose barred-off letters could form the anagram CARMAN'LL MOVE MOST LUMBER) have thing in common.
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ACROSS 1 Foul in a certain game at home, then away (5, hyphened) 4 Imbibes again in bars? Sober, for a change (9) 9 Nobody gets charged for brawl (10, doubly hyphened) 11 Suffering comic tenor (5) 14 A tick after name is evident (5) 15 Cohabit with the Spanish mace- bearer at Oxford (5) 16 It's seldom miniature railway carries one about (6) 22 Bet I'd be sick in sea drift (7, hyphened) 24 Drink dram, one (4) 27 Love mentioning about leader of House (7) 28 Let's switch part in loom (8, hyphened) 33 Me, a boa, wriggling - I con- stantly change shape (6) 34 Hemlock spruce a blast of wind bent back (5) 35 Letter's about right name for alloy (5) 38 Die for drink with kick (5) 39 This won't heal big toe broken at college by one? (10) 40 Where to find young native boy? Desert, maybe (9, hyphened) DOWN 1 Questions during debate stirred silent prelate (13) 4 Broadcasts about 40s (6) 5 Language used by thief I know (4) 7 Poles shattered Greek jugs (5) 8 Illegitimate babe - Ron's, poss- ibly (8, hyphened) 10 One who studies distant con- tours of rough green and pars hole (13) 15 Knotty growth on one tropical tree (palm) (6) 17 French article involved in 'punishment' brought up 'the cat' (6) 18 Drink pledge in Seychelles (6) 19 Coloured Japanese fish in dock (7) 20 Plantations I clear in Pennsylva- nia (6) 26 Racing animal, the northern dog (7)
29 Ayr ( Fussy person, cool sly fellow in 30 Doctor) having control reduced adult's yaws (6)
31 West African tree, old twisted beech (6) 32 Charge with duty Australian essential import (5) 36 Scratch golfer's last hole in one (4)
Solution to 1093: Holy orders
The unclued lights were members of the nine orders of the celestial hierarchy, forming the groups 9, 28, 39; 2, 15, 25; 4, 16, 21D.
First prize: J. Light, Addlestone, Surrey; Runners-up; Mrs D. Philip, Upper Largo, Fife; P. J. Meade, South Ascot, Berks.
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