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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1988 Port for the first correct solution opened on 3 July, 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 1214, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
`Tickler' suggests one of the unclued lights, n which six others, being names for 30D (produced at the 19D), may appear. One of these lights is of two words; one is hyphened.
Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 Cooked pasta snacks (5) 4 Senate's leader, with Bill hemmed in by hawks, negotiates
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11 No money for one who's guilty (6) 12 Consoles son cane injured (7) 14 Sandpiper's migration round Spain (5) 16 Pulse, fast by middle of thriller (6) 22 Welcome in Dunedin, Scots have endless stay (8) 23 Mode of curling — French one? Yes (7) 24 Rain-cloud passing over US tree (4) 27 Spend lavishly indeed — stand drinks all round! (7, two words) 29 Love dear funky burden too much (8) 32 Mend part of shoe, female's backwardly slippery one (6) 34 A country mostly inhabited by British? (5) 35 Headgear of pith I accepted (5) 37 Answer Greek goddess handled (6) 38 Keen little flips, suggestive of stinger (10) 39 Rocky V — it's ace! He wins, as before (9) 40 The Welsh, well versed in prayer (5) DOWN 2 'Home is the sailor' — piece of poetry (5) • 3 Yeats mused about isle's self- origination (6) 4 Protecting a turtle at sea (7) 5 Finds fault with salesman he's in tears (10) 6 Newton, an eager buff (7) 7 Heartily old-fashioned 'mush!' fills heads of Alaskan dogs (5) 9 Frame Baldrick? (4) 13 Not believing in chess federation, left (7) 15 Rough, bounding one like bawd? (6) 18 Shelter crooked mob in jug (7) 20 Serious lieutenant grasping Holy Grail's source? (9, hyphened) 21 Individual insurgent has hidden explosive (6) 26 Pal drinking in pub picked up alcohol (7) 28 Money received by lifting deep dishes? (7) 31 Tickler, hot measure (5) 33 Compound leaves termite • carries (5) 34 Continent of upside-down sloth, South America (4)
Solution to 1211: Tickler 1
Four unclued l'ghts were names for HANDS (12D) which, produced at the SHOWDOWN (22D), may appear in POKER (13A).
First prize: E. A. Side, Gloucester. Runners-up: Mrs Joyce Dowie, Crieff, Perthshire; P. A. Richardson, Brussels.
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