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 31 January, 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 1446, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.
The unclued lights comprise a key word and three triads suggest- ed by its components.
Name Address
ACROSS 5 Man snatching last words around end of duel? Romeo's friend (8) 10 Would-be sages with curious prose — oldish, without depth taking in mug (14) 11 Wings of 8 work well! (4) 13 Divine opener for India, during play, hooked one (6) 16 Stall owner's permit (5) 17 Commander going back and forth (3) 19 Weather warning, not right, comes out (9, two words) 20 Attempt to catch duck and gull for an unspecified reason (7) 23 Past Pharaoh lacking second string (8) 24 House, base for student (5) 25 Scottish town that's inaccessible place (5) 27 Ape, note, in tree with height (8) 30 American spinster, retired, keeping good letter from long ago (7) 33 Heavy meal prepared then fed to cat (9) 37 Tense, almost angry in restaurant (5) 38 E.g. lake after lake dried up (6) 39 Activity of one in exaltation? (4) 40 Property of liquid with peculiar use, for instance (14, two words) 41 One humourless, pompous deserter (8) DOWN 1 Plan, taken up, involving hard measures (6) 3 Work on yard, shaly (5) 6 Inferior followers run into rising criticism (7) 8 Bird with garland on grass (6) 9 Keeper of hawks or egrets, possibly (8) 12 King and prince holding quiet region (7) 14 College altered had edict (8) 18 Malevolent being — quite heartless pest (8) 21 Giving up on false trail (7) 22 Chap with Asti's drunk frac- tional part (8) 28 Sum of money (steep) required for tower (7) 29 Know-nothing ape I upset (6) 32 When fashionable, shock no longer (6) 34 Monkey on a water wheel (5) 36 Reproach occasioned by odd pieces from Whistler (4) The solution and winners of the Christmas Jumbo crossword appear on page 48.
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