CROSSWORD 1345: One-man show by Columba

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 2 February, 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 1345, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The other unclued lights (one hyphened), added to the 10 of 14 (two words, in Brewer), amount to 41 (two words). They thus 23 (three words), according to an expression which Brewer confirms.

Name Address

ACROSS 1 Year after strike on green stranger Gawain, packing up . . . (11, two words) 7 . . . bag, starts for showdown at chapel (3) 11 Dog bounding quietly by hydrant and shrub (6) 13 Note in isle twisting contours (7) 16 Cease base excavation (5) 17 Large measure of work Rilke put out, German (6) 18 Taxi: fashionable saloon? (5) 20 Turning beer bottles I arrange confusing reflections (6) 21 Curious cameo and crowns (5) 22 Certain lemony mousse bearing creator's name (7) 27 Americans want no going back (7) 29 Drinks? Yah! (5) 30 Ossie's old champion bull terriers (6) 32 Lock prop's shaken off but • • • (5 36 . . . back's unyielding (5) 37 Note sequence in menu prepared with latest in software (5) 38 Controversial part of Godfather is ticklish (7) 39 E.g. bat and pad lie untidily (6) 40 Walk home (3) DOWN 2 Bogies and goblins keeping endless watch (8) 3 What we'll get, with uncased wines and spirit before us?

(9) 4 So stage corps grimly stomach viewers? (12) 6 Annual crib's given uplift, covering a boor in confusion (8) 7 One's after liquids, coming to inn (5) 8 Pass bringing Italian to the south of Switzerland (4) 9 Allow fool the odd gin (6) 12 Non-regional opera's head lines famous tenor up (6) 19 Cubic figures raised worries in exams? (10) 21 Peasants include one hedging end of parkland (9) 24 What's played by half a dozen tots storming round estate with energy? (8) 26 Sailor with dirty refrain (7) 28 Strange example of ear (6) 31 A flower, stemmed (5) 33 Sandwich course (5)