CROSSWORD 891: Close circuit by Mass
A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 for the first three correct solutions opened on 30 January. Entries to: Crossword 891, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.
Radial lights (20 from rim to centre, 20 from centre to rim) include ten variously thematic words clued without definitions. Another six theme-words (two are proper names) run clockwise in the circuit next to the outer one.
Name Address RADIALS 1 Measure bundle and bind up 2 Nitrogen active in deposit 3 Eagerly desire a sprout 4 Withdraw from habit again 5 My! Earl's eccentric dresser!
6 A Liberal society, in a word 7 Quite, coldbloodedness in fish 8 Siberian cedar, one at end of a list of names 9 Born in good time 10 Eddying abrupt draught at rail- way 11 Game requiring cue in Seychel- les 12 Fastidious with a titbit 13 Scottish judge endlessly fair ab- out right 14 Observed eating portion of cur- ry, seasoned 15 English duke after a manor- house, it's said 16 Overwhelm, drag into river 17 A royal line following first of Normans 18 Twitching in ear and around point of nostril 19 Shoot from base of plant nicked, we hear 20 Base metal battle-axe, Old Norse 21 Render in outsize windows 22 Half-back's first showing in re- serves 23 Troubles at Murrayfield with props pushed back 24 Western shot without Wayne's last spread 25 Counter-Revolutionary 26 Free in letter to mock 27 Short study US author's re- portedly set down 28 In charge in department? Give exact description
29 Rough metal die made in alloy of copper and zinc
30 Bowdler, say, rioted in revision 31 It's in a certain body-segment 32 Feature of design, item provid- ing for fire 33 Take English in school 34 Back in a short time 35 Shaw's initial characteristic 36 Bristle from dog's tail in art is unusual 37 Tidal flood engulfs silver plant 38 Man in USA, genuine, from North 39 Live with kind suitable com- pany, as of old 40 Is reflective, absorbed by ancient historian
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