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1227: Summit meeting by Doc
A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1988 Port for the first correct solution opened on 2 October, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary – ring the word 'Dictionary!). Entries to: Crossword 1227, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued lights are of a kind, those across being at home.
Name Address ACROSS 8 Fuel for the German's leading vehicle (4) 12 Heath coming and going to staff's quarters (10, two words) 13 Green crashed in Peru (6) 14 Flowers around 20 to five (7) 15 Victor Coe not against mixing mineral (8) 18 Knighted actor's temper is a burden (9) 20 Remains outside of libraries (4) 21 Bear first recorded in America (4) 24 Non-U yearbooks? Yes! (6) 27 Types'of shredded greens (6) 29 Showy US plant in well, say (4) 30 Endlessly scrutinise boss (4) 34 Canaries and State bridges collapsed (9) 37 Emergency typist with long delayed pattern (8) 38 Rude remarks about sin and lust
39 (7 Ba)
rge lets in water mammal (6, two words ) 41 This new Ghanaian dialect (4) 42 Botanic condition affecting orris posy right away (8) DOWN 2 I left French boy with one French coop (6, hyphened) 3 Fault about round singer (5) 4 Incalculable factors affect idiom in parable (14) 5 Hornblower at work in SW London (7) 6 Journey on track for flier (8) 7 Fliers spied a snowdrop out (14, two words) 9 Blue Meissen depicts bird rising (4) 10 Bad tear in fabric (6) 17 Audibly recognises the bouquet
23 Th) e office of King, for example, is an effort (8)
25 King disheartened composer (4) 26 Roman road — oddly, few say so (8, two words) 28 Worthless fellows smell of gas (7, two words) 30 Satchel with sort of square handwriting (6) 33 Scots well-known drama shift
35 Im6) mobilise leading Cortina with light (5)
36 Luxembourg town appears in the schedule (4)
Solution to 1224: Sixes and sevens
The unclued lights were six- and seven-letter anagrams.
First prize: Professor M.S. Spencer, Penylan, Cardiff. Runners-up: P.J. 011eson, Nottingham; M.J. Smith, Gt Shelford, Cambridge.
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