CROSSWORD

W. & J.

GRAHAM'S

PORT

A. first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 10 March, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition "The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word Pictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1299, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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ACROSS 6 1 Destroy the Prince (5) 4 Animal crossing town (9) 7 10 Attendant for cars and hawk (10) 11 Arnold's alter ego (6) 9

14 Kelp from very poor acre (5)

15 Author solved enigma, first (5) 16 Bird — chat — on hill, one way or the other (6) 22 Nodule from vestment one found in isle (8) 23 Poet has attacked old catamite 18 (8) 26 24 Close-up in camera-enclosure 28 (4) 27 Resin for glasses, it's said (7) 29 Second capture made by back and prop (8) 32 Raised a cooking pan with outward emotion (6) 34 Key to reflation, partly (5, two words) 35 Stark characters from rough limestone country (5) 36 Approximately half the pudding ingested. Disgusting! (7) 37 One German valley that is French land (6) 38 Estate-holder following 7 with 10A, maybe (10, hyphened) 39 Teaching a German about old coin, note (9) 40 Is led out and ticks over (5) DOWN 1 Boys' plant (10) 2 A Frenchman's refusal on a plant (5) 3 Money for bridge (6) 4 Chief changed sari for tiara (7) 5 East German and Irish MC organised policy of ignoring facts (10) 31 33 34 13 15 17 8 Scots gruel and husks brought round. Tut! (7) Bay's entrance (5) He provides long ride round, maybe (9) Border of a Cockney garden?

Bleak box on beat (7) They measure rubber in cars (6) Bowl provided disturbance around middle of the week (10, two words) Fish fish (7)

Col with hindrance — a boa! (7) Removing the Times in German (7)

Exciting game out East upset one Conservative (5) The best among the Carmelites

Bird consumed in bitterness (4)