CROSSWORD
A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1969 Port for the first correct solution opened on 5 August, 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 1270, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
One of the unclued lights, firmed from the last let ers of the oth- ers, set an example which they have followed. One light is of two words. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.
Name Address ACROSS 1 New standard lamp'll attract me? (8, hyphened) 6 Scolds, clubs and whips (6) 11,11-loiter among large plants and lattices (10) 13 People not half given to extremes of boorishness (5) 14 Bee ended feast around yellow flower (8) 17 Cruel khan perhaps caging restless bird (7) 18 Broadcast due in LA from another source (7) 22 Bag second silver (3) 23 Blades and maids? (6) 24 This'll hang, I can work out, from a chill ceiling (6) 26 Cuckoo's lively, not having mated (3) 30 Soft, somehow nice look about graphite (9, hyphened) 33 Cue turn from Perth. Name? That's lassie! (7) 35 Brits catching Blur's latest concerts (5) 36 Go up into ruck (8) 37 Judge top in elite sports (5) 39 Hose only slung between poles (6) 40 Retiring head heard yawns and jibes (8) DOWN 1 Chic shah no longer standing around in charge (14) 3 Issue young woman with old- fashioned brooch (7) 4 Immigration one arranged hastily, saving saint (6) 5 Cross? Tense? The latter (4) 8 Prophecies of tribes, a cut above (11) 9 Distracted gamekeeper duellist engages (7) 10 Way cleaners and testers tried hatbands (14, two words) 15 Wrap up medallist's fust prize (4) 16 Disposed to hail Scotism? Not so! (11) 20 Monster's so upset (4) 21 Spare list (4)
22 Leader of England eleven's ordered crafty one from Cork? (8)
25 Clerics call round soon (7) 28 It's taken three terms, mused
Tory in ending of Thatcherism ) 29 rowd's hot under sun (5)
30 Sailing-boat for amateur (4) 31 On screen I'll flash heels — and gold? (6)
34 Goddess lives on island (4) Solution to 1267:
Rollcollar
Definitions: from and to radial 1 = COLLAR (verb) with CUT OF BACON (noun) round the centre.
First prize: Mrs A.B.S. Cope, London SW6. Runners-up: Myra Stokes, Bristol; Andrew Madge, Duffield, Derbyshire.
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