CROSSWORD 1307: Everything but by Ascot
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 6 May, 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 1307, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued lights, four of two words and one hyphened, are con- nected by a theme. Elsewhere, Chambers excludes one place name.
Name Address ACROSS 8 Buoys for tubs (4) 12 Gossip with tense waiter? (10) 13 Records incidental remarks (6, hyphened) 14 Recluse has to relax in outskirts of Eye (7) 15 Small scale could lie if wrongly set (8) 19 Volatile fuel and cores emit radiation? (9) 20 Maple, superb by river (4) 21 Raise the back (4) 27 Find right sort of bullet (6) 29 Collection of poems — some inspired Dante (4) 30 Examine square tin (4) 32 Plays neat score agitato (9, hyphened) 34 Nigel's broken phone hanging around (9) 37 One who mocks average poet (8) 38 Son, young child, loves sledge (6, hyphened) 40 Son, say, bet — losing one? Somewhat (10) 41 Utters, for example, first of syllables (4) 42 Eat tiger roasted — it's savoury (8) DOWN 1 Sergeant major and friend going round France with young children (8, two words) 2 Smear old jack with grease (6) 3 Bounder is, it's reported, in Spanish city (5)
5 Do away with seaman from Poland — off with his head! (7)
6 Composite plant, stingy with a mass of leaves (8) 9 Helper swallows drop of red, dry (4) 10 Spot people of fashion turning up with diamonds (6) 16 Wooden cylinder, hollow, contains litre (5) 17 Watchman drops dead in plant (4) 23 Language used in Niger and Goa possibly (8) 25 Former PM's garden (4) 28 Upset Spanish girl pens mostly dry verses (7) 30 Son is without trousers (6) 31 Chirpy creature from California held by agents (6) 33 Regroup in Blackpool, say (6) 35 Magistrate with drug problems? Not half (5) 36 See the weather's about right (4)
Solution to 1304: Round number
COLE PORTER (12 14) asked WHAT Is THIS THING CALLED LOVE (10 36 18)? Answers: 27, 40, 5 and 35.
First prize: Miss C. Rodger, Edin- burgh. Runners-up: H. F. Thomas, Felixstowe, Suffolk; Keith S. Burton, Harrogate, N. Yorkshire.
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