CROSSWORD 1287: Your starter for 10 by Doc

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1990 Port for the first correct solution opened on 2 December, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the Cham- bers Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Cross- word 1287, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

One unclued l'ght (of three words) is the source of the remaining unclued lights (four of two or more words), when correctly arranged. Elsewhere, ignore one apostrophe and two accents.

Name Address ACROSS

1 Icicles (not cold) round boat are easily broken (8)

6 Football hooligan is relaxed (6) 12 He's cornered the market and distributed Porn's lotio'. (10) 13 Some banana, raspi,f.rry or other fruit (5) 14 Instruments for holding ice- cream (7)

16 Surround Cockney bird on hand (7)

20 Homeless outcast belonging overseas, initially (4)

22 Buyer cut short one Frenchman (7) 23 Mark off pool (4) 24 Rare group with awfully nasty general manager (7)

30 Literary works from heartless writers (4) 31 Wild animal by river with streamlined flow (7) 36 In France, this unknown Princess is an artist (7) 38 Rifle school disc (10) 39 Herons turned round first heading towards land (7) 40 Material put inside ship (5) 42 Three quarters of the declining years? (6) 43 Gold and sulphur in cave turned DOWN

(8)

2 Small jewellery item fashioned from thin lace (8) 4 Tooth chopped eleven corns (7) 5 Lumberjacks who make the charts? (7) 6 Waterfowl that's got a US louse (6) 7 Committed boy is upset (6) 9 Fall in love, having to play the red card (13, three words) 11 Ornamental letter in large book ..aving three colours (9) 17 Climber topped historian (3) 18 Opening piece, Beethoven's last trio rearranged (5) 21 Lofty Scot got burnt, once (5) 27 Disgust about marginal reading

(3)

28 Piece by Field unfinished at RC matins service (7) 29 Scots fastened peg during sudden snow shower (7) 32 Island bones (6) 33 Reluctant old cattle from Kent?

35 Bullet one put into explosive (5) 37 In the morning, I leave, friend

(5)

Solution to 1284: Fabulous

The unclued lights, individually or when correctly linked, yielded the titles of BEATLES LPs.

First prize: Anthony Booth, Harrow, Middlesex; Runners-up: Peta King, Lytham, Lancashire; G.M. Charlton- Jones, Oxshott, Surrey.