Heroics: A Jumbojac for Christmas
A first prize of thirty pounds and two further prizes of fifteen pounds will be awarded for the first three correct solutions opened on 9 January. Entries to: Jumbojac, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 211.
ACROSS I One roughed up in police custody, perhaps — a timely Polish complaint (22) 16 Seedy condition of River Dec town (7) 17 Right to keep on about neozoic growth (9) 18 About-turn (5) 21 More than enough for a good solo call (14) 22 Shifting gears in France is for scoffers, apparently (II) 25 Flower book-mark (6) 28 Takes Paul's advice when facing evil — assumes the Lord's pro- tection (4,4,6) 29 Ritual suicide — suit one out on the golf-links, for a start (6) 30 Reticent type — one in demand
34 M) an-made fibre man always conceals (5)
35 Proficient at holding two notes a page (5) 36 Made of money, that's Wood! (7) 37 To many, a drawback in 54's recurrent theme (9) 39 One otherwise than good about hugeness (9) 42 One way to catch a girl — with a ring! (5) 45 Asked over the border of a State on retiring in haste (7) 47 Spot payment up North (4) 49 Interminably inconstant plant (6) 53 Tolerable backbones (4) 54 Dismissal also spoken about in Kabul (7)
56 Subtle point most unlikely in endless choice (10)
61 Part of arm of river some fish first (9)
63 Showy footballer's glimpse of what we've seen before (9)
64 Serfs generally attempt finishing hole off (7)
66 Foggy up North and, initially, re- mainder of United Kingdom? Yes! (5)
68 Recurrent row about sex appeal quotient (5)
73 A simpleton drinks! (5)
74 Rich gal lacking in thrift (6)
75 Could be great, without a screen idol giving views we receive _ second-hand (14) 76 Bristly Tory leader back, so look out! (6) 77 Display sly chap's in as befitting 79 crafty politician (11)
PolYrriath mother (snag) (14) 211 Acid retort to Ulster tribute? (6)
82 Bustle about in Spenserian dress (5) 83 A single season's yield is return- ed in Morocco: a State in which everything appears smiler than life (9)
84 See 15 (7) 86 Instruments to spare, perchance? Hell go crazy! (22) DOW N 2 Socially acceptable in a comman- ding officer mounted on a hybrid horse of a light brownish yellow colour (8)
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Name Address round here in Italy (4) 5 Abominably crude and sly distortion (8) 6 What Sprinkler did was rough on 61 for a start (8) 8 Pertaining to something heard up North in a Lanes town development centre (7) 9 In trouble about being held by bloodsucker, is she? (8) 10 One believing in change manag- ed, in bust up with opponent, getting into position first (21) 11 Draws marginal attention to sub- sidiary activities (9) 12 Chemical compounded of thymol, thiamine, TNT and traces of erbium and rhenium (21) 13 One muses about supporting State theatres (9) 15 Burying one's heart in 84 (8) 20 Put out on being pacified (8) 23 Downy chaps, out to tease (9) 24 The Sandhurst beginner has to support one thus to be at constant temperature (10) 26 More than one creature bounces up and down (5) 27 Part of the body one gets by on (6) 31 Take in I6's meal? That's coarse! (5) 32 A prophet's foreign nanny in issue in Scotland (6) 33 Herald ties knot, we hear (7) 38 One adverse sign of omission in Scots ale indicating a far more serious lack (10) 40 River goddess (4) 41 Variegated but classically without capacity (7) 43 One way and another, found in a registrar's sacrarium (9) 46 Overlong concerning one party's erroneous way of looking at things (6) 48 Clown about in part at Bow (4) 50 Assess time in ages (7,5) 52 Miry Scots digger's flash (5) 54 A soft-headed surgeon's taken one in for Sandy's old 31 (8) 55 Spenser's hard lines Kipiing's sons-of-guns often share (6) 58 County Court's low point revers- ed in part in 65 (9) 59 Engaged in a trial (5) 62 Forward type unlikely to miss the play here (5,3) 65 Injured, we're told, below River Wear (8) 67 Pot-bellied bird? Some dish! (8) 69 Shakespearian tanner upset over bird's part-song (8) 70 In silence a duel is characterised by being affectedly lofty (8) 71 Jollification £50 in Town (7) 72 A whale of a fellow — single, of course (7) 78 Final phase's beginning (5) 80 Cricket gear down under, note (4)
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