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 29 November, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1439, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
No signs of the unclued lights (including one hyphened and two pairs) are likely to be seen in the work of a clued light lacking definition.
Name ACROSS
1 Rainy island tree clump shelters (5)
6 Necks'll have them, namely frilly collars (7) 11 Slow dealer, East etc. rushed (10) 13 Wash had by trimmer song and dance man? (9) 15 Blue labourer losing heart (4) 16 Adroit blue-chip PLC contained loss (7) 17 Fired( (Poor editing) (7) 19 Henry moaned grimly about the habitat of Livingstone (10) 21 Lock Cassatt, say, away from pain (5) 24 River pub hard to leave (4) 27 Not many heard, thank heavens!
(4) 28 Jock's lifted by tenor in broadcast
(5)
30 Tool possible snuff box on inside (10, hyphened) 33 Veteran's age (3) 35 Fly pawn leaves king checked (7) 36 Caustic English shrew? (7)
38 Old athletes boil up after party (9)
39 Gamin rottenly treated, runs away helplessly (10) 41 Composition Arensky oddly arranged grips society (5) DOWN I Scoffing hot pie and chips motel cooked (14) 2 Rum man perhaps lives on strong punch (8) 4 Too disrupting pager? I've many that buzz (9)
5 Biting cold like the Gobi outside (5) 7 Exile from Oz volunteer put up (5)
9 Sloppiness lost Amy tennis title (14) 10 Black monkey's crate (6) 12 Three-legged race slyboots bags (6) 14 Sound of young bird making impression (6) 20 Ancient ruins in technicolour shot (no, nothing cut) (9, hyphened) 23 Rob swallows tiny apple (8) 25 Soups and endless toast Achilles maybe gobbled (8) 26 Rubber underwear, zip secures (6) 31 Special Boat Squadron seizing clumsy ship (6) 32 Adjust jacket clothing prince (5) 34 Auditor's ruined eye muscles (5) 35 Bad tax Sweden introduced (5)
Solution to 1436: Ups and downs
The BOARD-GAME (35-24) suggested was snakes and ladders. BUSI1MAS1ER (ID), FER-DE-IANCE (17) and ADDER (31) are down-going snakes; POTENCE (4D), SCAIA (7) and INRIER (30) are up-going ladders.
First prize: Mrs James S. Crichton, Cornwall. Runners-up: Laura Lindsay, North Yorkshire; D.E. Rae, Hampshire.
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