CROSSWORD 1248: Out of danger by Doc
A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 4 March, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1248, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued l'ghts are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Chambers excludes 7D, a familiar phrase.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Get rid of substance round about wart (8, two words) 8 Pair of jackdaws and a parrot (4) 12 Wife in tow with faithful follower in hansom-cab (10, hyphened) 13 Some seeds (red) later turning into trees (6) 14 Country where one caught antelope (7) 15 Put in after firm's start for easy job (8) 18 Wild, wild girl at sea (9) 19 As corn it's made into roll (9) 20 Primate encloses south end of church (4) 27 Gosh! River ebbing — called one's attention (6) 29 Rallying manoeuvre from odd parts of your map (4) 34 They can't pay: one gets out of car reversing to river (9) 37 Apartment house with note to cut off electricity? (8) 39 Kew lawn tended: without weed (6) 40 Your cinema produces antibiotic (10) 41 Look! City church (4) 42 Afghan tribesmen hunt wildly in mountain area (8) DOWN 1 Container for Spenser's blowfish (8) 2 In France to go round one departement (6) 3 Pipe, thy, very small in the middle (5) 6 Papal edict from last month turned up afterwards (8) 7 Pretext for safe introduction of boat (14, two words) 9 Wagon without a horse (4) 11 Idea about the French magistrate (6) 17 Bird died out initially — twice! (4) 22 Small house could be let as holiday home (5) 23 Openings new team practises (8) 25 River 'ome(4) 26 Two health resorts with springs! (8, hyphened) 28 Benign tumour (advanced) turns one mad (7) 30 Way of fighting the gunners take amiss outside (6) 31 The innards of bats belonging to deserts (6) 33 At home with bird. Shut up! (6) 35 Start of pony-tail, possibly! (5) 36 The basics include one maths chart (4)
Solution to 1245: Double talk
The unclued lights, when correctly ordered (31, 1A, 14, 41, 24, and 43, 21, 29, 16), formed two DELPHIC UTTERANCES, quoted in Brewer.
First prize: Belinda Bridgen, London NW8. Runners-up: T. R. Burch, Burgh Heath; J. W. Shock, Pinner.
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