A CHRISTMAS JUMBO
Party pieces by Mass
A first prize of £60 and two further prizes of £25 will be awarded for the first three correct solutions opened on 13 January. Entries to: Christmas Jumbo, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.
ACROSS 11 Palms gripping silver spears (8) 16 Original native porcupine (5) 19 Insect, it's said, rounded cask for fruit (8, hyphened) 20 Man from US to arrive must catch right transport to the coast? (9, hyphened) 23 Nothing, prattle about Right (4) 24 Crib from 49-er's box (6) 25 Cool? Emphatic, wild about H — concerned with radiation effects (13) 26 Kind old lad heard greeting (9) 27 Fragments: types first out (4) 30 Church area for, happen, 50 (7) 31 St. Christopher's burlesques (5) 34 Slip in military rota upset force once (15, two words) 35 Hydrocarbon spoilt entree (6) 41 Sprinkles from bag-nets (7) 43 Leveller? Yes, short thump (8) 44. Appointed, laid down law (10) 48 Sea roars in harbour chains (5) 49 1,000 intone vague name (7) 50 Box with spring and huff! (7) 53 Nags do, c-cut (4) 55 A short letter vexed ex-PM (6) 58 Ruin a French do (6) 60 Effective unless I have short- coming with return (4) 62 Maybe a lager? Take mineral (7) 64 Town-crier has to strengthen roar first (7)
65 Golf:course in Hale? (5)
66 Pursue affair in hiding (5) 69 Spread finished about 10, with pop (8) 70 Pasta made Ann ill once (10) 72 Grape supplier? France has en- couraging kind, we hear (7) 80 Reach wrecked old vessel (5) 81 Handle grit, most of desert! (6) 84 Savoury meat's last, 'urried (5) 86 Placed location in school (7) 87 Delay's not quite ethical (4) 88 Yacht's kept here? To haul with tackle's full of appeal (9) 90 Horses' first positions — jump- ing jobs? (13, hyphened) 92 Bury actinium alloy (6) 93 Birds, and gull, wheeling (4) 94 Quality of rocks creates tension with steamship (9) 95 Meat from royal oven, with hock (8, two words) 96 We're told to stop at a point for coastal view (8) 97 Wanton, the Spanish star (5) 98 Wind t'reel, say, tangled (8) DOWN 1 Solid's mathematical content? Novice needs time (6) 2 Poke round mound once raised (8
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d-song impression (4) 5 Chanting in Chinese guild, burn- ing within (8) 7 Dubbed? Sounds close, to Heath (8) 8 Awful ham opera jars (8) 9 Fancywork cut close in card (8) 10 Planes or severs areas (8) 11 Continue old active past (3) 12 1 see NCO corrected weed (7) 13 They receive communications The other unclued I ghts (five triads, with one hyphen 'gnored) are related by a theme hinted at in part of the nine-word greeting which forms 21DII4D. The OED gives 80A.
Name Address from lofty saint (7) 15 Weighing-machine giving highly dependable measure (9) 18 Called, with rising growl (4) 22 Beetle in entrance heard (4) 28 Ore in alluvial ground — pity about rotting matter (9, hyphened) 29 Cocktail splashed into clinging coat (10) 32 Town could be OK, Les (5) 33 Ganglions 1 found in layers (7) 35 Meal about finished (6) 37 Red guild later reformed (5) 38 Soft colour left after thrash (6) 40 Frank's indecent? Guiltless (4) 42 Bird over lake, angler's part (4) 45 Bet meat's game (10) 48 New road into plant where direc- tors meet (9) 51 Nip? Eke out in tavern (6) 52 Garment for drag? (6, hyphened) 54 Dock second donkey (4) 57 A cairn collapsed — here's ap- plication for bruise (6) 61 Spring with energy divine (4) 63 Politician's eastern study (4) 67 Gleam from pole in mottled gilt
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72 Poor fag cut duties, tired (8) 73 Liberates northern plunder mainly held by customs (8) 75 Army round east in desert, such as varies resistance (8) 76 I mark his bad language (8) 77 Water set at angle to wind direc- tion: odd case round isle (8, two words) 78 Louse on chaff in fertiliser (7) 79 E.g. third service-book (7) 81 Brooded about spike in thin material (7) 83 Bears king in republic? (4) 85 Spotty, whitish without sun (6) 89 A spinner's over (4) 91 Just short of whole mussel (4) 93 Girl always hugging Mass (3) The solution to Crossword 736 is on page 75.
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