CROSSWORD A first prize of £2.5 and a bottle of
Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 199(1 Port for the first correct solution opened on 4 No) ember, 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 12.83, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street. London WCIN :.LL.
Unclued across lights combine with down ones (two of three words ) to suggest four familiar 15.
Address Name ACROSS 6 Aid soldiers willingly (6) 12 A pail can do, mixing drink (10. two words) 13 Visionary elf lacks following (5)
14 Always note stake in inventory. (7)
16 Quick one I baffled (7) 20 .. . understanding the law (4) 22 Idleness wearing Queen on island in retreat (7) 23 Skin turned pink with onset of measles (4) 24 Fish photographer (7) 30 Old painter almost retired (4) 31 Maurice hiding mark round left ear (7) 34 Port decadently swallowed (4) 36 Film renovated fuel plant (7) 38 Mediocre story about fast ship (10) 39 Crazy Cretan unknown for sell- control (7) 40 Odd nation with no first language (5) 42 Welder in ship losing tame (6) DOWN 2 Quarter even granted 161 minor royal (8)
3 Carlyle's imitation map confusing (5)
4 Secretly keen on hugging sweetie (7, two words) 5 Goals Jack scores (7) 6 Run out and clear up base (6) 7 Camp houses 1,000 black sheep (6) 8 Frame tenancy with line dis- placed (5) 11 Capricious little artist 'Eery rings (9) IS Indifferent spread includes hotchpotch (5) 19 Constriction ailing gents is so upsetting (9) is 25 Number one in beer over in local (8)
27 Unfinished bench's roughness (3)
28 Shoulder's number. see hospital for note (7)
29 Spirit in Tokyo's drink festival (7)
32 Independent university cuts session again (6) 33 Young refuse bed (6) 35 Speedy Nigel forgets lines in minister's house (5) 37 Safer dodging risks (5)
Solution to 1280: Pills
The unclued lights, like the title, were slang terms for various TRADES OR PROFESSIONS.
First prize: John Fahy, Thaxted, Essex. Runners-up: D.I.A. Cohen, New 'York: Mrs. C.R. Algal, Cambridge.
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