CROSSWORD 1311: You have to larf by Doc
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 2 June, 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 1311, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued ights (two hyphened) are of a kind. Elsewhere, ignore one accent and two apostrophes; one solution includes an abbreviation.
Name Address ACROSS
1 Old timer's swinger! (8)
6 Pears served before starting the meal (6) 13 I will shortly be saying this passage (5) 17 Closure of passage or cavities around their ends (7) 18 Ciphers' shape? (7) 19 In session, making a din (9) 23 Apprehension most of the month about rough sea (6) 26 Old property's not half frail (3) 32 Outcast lost his head — proper distracted! (7) 33 Holiday home — take one into county (7) 35 Doctor with the same burden
37 S(5 tarting on drugs, ignoring normal guidelines (5)
38 Lunches arranged with Dee put on the timetable (10) 39 Kind offer (6) 40 He misguided pilot about right landing-place (8) DOWN 1 One travels past awful uprising (14, two words)
2 He dispossesses champ after first of the events (7) 3 Least interesting US Secretary of State began talk (7)
4 Amino-acid with strange nuclei (6) 5 Middlemen's outer appearance (4) 7 Top note (sounding sharp) of a red deer (8) 9 Kind that is seen in glasses (7) 10 Board with piece for Shakespearian parasite (14, hyphened) 12 Birds from the old pines (5) 15 Wounds stars (4) 16 Flint berries transplanted without one filmy plant (11, hyphened) 20 And others got up late (4, two words) 21 Where to recline: put aged in it (4) 22 Soldier's fag (8) 25 Warriors by middle of dungeon strike (8) 28 Cranes hover around new aerial
(7)
29 Steeplechasing mount! (5) 30 Shrub (one from France) in tin (4) 31 Stretch of land — ploughed acre — with quiet lake around (6) 34 Clubs in the new college (4)
Solution to 1308: Atoz
The unclued lights were words whose component letters appear in alpha- betical order.
First prize: Thomas H. East, Pinner, Middlesex. Runners-up: Jeffrey Allerton, New Malden; Philip Burns, Knutsford, Cheshire.
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