A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's
Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 9 May, 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 1206, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
1A explains the remaining lights (two of two words, one being an abbreviation), all verifiable in Brewer. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.
Name Address
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ACROSS 9 Siding with singular football club? (4) 11 Girl just outside is Lily (9) 12 Flower by original stream (4) 14 Old lover holding note for press reporter (6, hyphened) 16 Merry state worker (5) 17 In time, bismuth oxide (5) 20 Hydrocarbons obtained from NE coast (7) 24 Mediterranean molluscs having indecorous resting-place, we hear (7) 25 Rearranged dates at sports ground (5) 26 Fee for school time? (5) 28. T' cowboy cut off portion (7) 31 Each ran off furious (7) 34 Block-print on fire, with no copper inside (7) 37 Two novices in Austrian province (5) 38 Steals chair-back (5) 39 Turkish chief with knife for ritual service (6) 40 The old refuse nothing, it's said (4) 41 Services have ours left off (9) 42 The French embracing fashionable policy (4) DOWN 1 Inferior turning up holding college deed (6) 2 Antiseptic powder in make-up advert (5) 3 Performance by Indian women upsetting aunt at church (6) 4 The roar Airdrieonians give out? (5) 5 Carbolic endlessly treated yields mahogany resin (7, hyphened) 6 Encouraging shout — a setback for salts (7) 7 Boy with unknown ecclesiastical purchase (6) 8 Malign relation going round state (8) 10 Pit Hall, EC1, rebuilt, having connections with Stanley Gibbons? (10) 13 Great changes thanks to races
(7)
27 Clerical assistant losing money for follower (7) 29 Den, go back! (7) 30 A coving cut off for engraved part of cameo (6) 32 Composer embracing one theoretician (6) 33 Followed English nudes cavorting (6) 35 Gold coin and spirit in house upset? Just the reverse (5) 36 Illness one encountered during game (5)
Solution to 1203: Rush in
The lights at 9, 14, 15D, 34D, 35 and 40 were FOOLS, also the subject of three phrases formed by the unclued lights at lA 10 2 19, 1D 38 and 18 13 34A.
First prize: A.B. Dunlop, Docking, Norfolk. Runners-up: Elizabeth Hughes, Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey. Michael Massam, South Shields.
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