Prize crossword
No. 1456 DAEDALUS A prize of three guineas will be awarded for. the first correct solution opened on 30 November. Address solutions: Crossword 1456, 'The Spec- tator', 99 Gower Street, London WCI
Across
1 Pitch shred of stuff on the aromatic (8) 5 They go with shares in the garden (6)-- 9 Looks like bright weather—good riddance! (5, 3)
10 True naval style to make a come-back (6) 12 Dream king (6) 13 Resting place that is Royal Society papers (8) 15 A somewhat orchestral backlash? (12) 18 Symbol of Scottish internationalists? (5, 7) 23 Townies! (8) 24 Decimal period to send you senile! (6) 26 Currants account for nearly all of these groups (6) 27 'But oh! that deep — chasm which slanted' (Coleridge) (8) 28 Say it with a smile! (6)
29 1-fe's a red colleger and his number's up (8)
Down 1 Eastern prince who went west and made good (6)
2 Mr Thatcher is literate, it seems, unlike us! (6) 3 Old English rule a halo to be in order (7) 4 Work beginning with address to cat? (4) 6 'Fair — man's imperial race insnare' (Pope) (7) 7 For whose tomb Ravel made music (8) 8 Undesirable tone of birdlike activity (8) 11 Namely, no ice to be cut (7) 14 I get given a noble, it's a gas! (7)
16 One of the 'don't knows'? (8) 17 Poor relation, as it were, of the French heir? (8)
19 'Like a great ring of pure and — light' (Vaughan) (7)
20 A beast of a book spotted here (7) 21 Printer's hall? (6)
22 With which to open the Doors of Percep- tion (6) 25 The complainer's island (4)
Solution and winner on 5 December
Solution to Crossword 1454. Across: 1 Volley- ball 6 Lan 10 Tutor 11 Road-sense 12 Cachucha 13 Philip 15 Mome 16 Tack 17 Lisle 20 Derby 21 Erne 22 Lars 24 Lentil 26 Dividers 29 Miniature 30 Dirge 31 Note 32 Horse-power. Down: 1 Vatic 2 Late comer 3 Earful 4 Bareheaded 5 Load 7 Annal 8 Sleepless 9 Asphalt 14 Skin-divers 15 Middleman 18 Scare crow 19 Lyrical 23 Wind up 25 Nonet 27 Spear 28 Ludo.
Winner: Mrs V. R. Ormerod, 2 Henleaze Road. Bristol.
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