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A first prize of £60, three prizes of £25 and three further prizes of Britain in the Eighties: The Spectator's view of the Thatcher decade will be awarded for the first correct solutions opened on 15 January. Entries to: Jumbo Crossword, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The ten unclued lights when arranged in correct order contain (ignoring one hyphen and an apostrophe) a seasonable 26-word quotation. An 'h' after the number in parenthesis indicates 'hyphened'. Ignore an apostrophe in one clued light.
Name Address ACROSS 14 Hail a man of holy works (7) 16 Narrow block of ancient build- ings fronting top of road (7) 17 Cover-up by composer and backer (9) 18 King in charge of a trader (5) 19 Moderate self-control (6)
21 Got back standard return in a variety of machines or other means of making movies (14)
22 Of a shape that makes Roman goddess of spring morbid (11) 25 Tempt opposing players with ball pitched under bat (6)
29 Is, inter alit:, a lecturer's initial complaint (6)
30 The alien gypsy ambassador (5) 34 Fare well, so to speak, in a square-dance (5) 35 Magistrate's return cut off (5) 36 One type of agent sits around, backing action of another bloody type of agent (7)
37 Puts in layers? Many a bird's setback! (9) 39 A princess's seem to vanish (9) 44 Wheatlike mixture of rice to suit . . . (10)
47 . . . 70's place in Devon (4) 49 Pulsating both with ardour first and last, perhaps (6) 51 Genus of plants from Angora (6) 56 BR worker — one in diner? (10h) 57 They employ some eager reli- gious leaders in America (5) 61 A left turn? Turns left and wastes away! (9) 63 Fish, for instance, not put back into a fish-basket (9h) 64 Angered, perhaps, by a frag- mentary grenade (7) 66 Tend to prepare for success (5) 68 Is seen in an author's bias (5) 73 Power was not in place for in- itiating action? Yes! (5) 74 Rascals see the main points (6) 75 One's worst thing, perhaps, liv- ing in a glasshouse (8,6) 76 Left of necessity without aids for old sempstresses (6) 77 Such an occupier's doubly not so much ease, one hears (11h) 79 Is a loss, having been turned, widened out and subjected to katabolism (14) 81 Was easy for some getting about in a Scots cutter (6) 82 A soft one, but fast (5) 83 One's all in, perhaps, concealing piece of rock having folds of similar dip (9)
84 One who swears having. nothing to come back about (7)g
85 Blow Scotsman readily gives (7) DOWN
1 A sheriff's officer in trouble, obliged to hit out (12h)
2 Up round North-East work's left half-empty of folk (8) 3 Brush up a wise man of 46 (5) 4 Lives in, Sir Coffin? (4) 5 A race to assail (8) 6 Was anxious about a bird being rushed (8) 7 Organ part a fool bore out (7) 8 Tells of partners taking part to and finishing 22's end (7) 9 The talk of an island (8)
10 Taking chance, yearns to be- come embittered with dispatch following present bliss — ones aim according to Pope! (9,3,6,3)
11 Laconic Head, soul of wit? (9) 12 March hare shot in April? 0, could be — it played in London 1945-64! (12,9) 13 Reception Centre a possible base-line for Commoners (9)
15 Sullied and covered in mud, church is in a state! (8)
20 Raising, in detail, different points scored (8) 23 Rubrication formerly in one out- wardly fully developed (9)
24 Noisy priests? Too upset! (10)
26 Utter lament, as it were (5) 27 Destroy a number in anger (6) 31 One in flight out of a gaol (5
32 Classical Greek lads reco)
rd Hebe failing to finish one (6)
33 Exact bearing? In a degree! (7) 38 Branch of science in a measure
reversed, for example, when a climber's about (10) 40 Sex appeal upset Jac, too (4) 41 One in love with a social worker covered by assurance (7) 43 Prayer for last in in Derby (9) 46 Had some food — Washington Irving's big apple? (6) 50 Port-colour pigment (12h) 52 MakC different and distinct from oneself (5)
54 Performers like Nijinsky and 57, perhaps (8)
55 Measures about to begin to work for a Communist (6) 58 Many in a city marked their ballot papers with zeal (9) 60 Relative awaiting settlement (9) 62 Unlike 78 these players aren t fish but they catch ?ern (8) 65 How merchandise goes to the top, it's well done (4,4)
67 Potsherd used for writing on and producing cartoons (8) 70 Drink a girl's about to beseech, note (8) 71 Shares in a rich man's fish (7) 72 In general 51 unwillingly embraces one that's very soft (7) 78 Cricketers' descendants . . . (5) 80 . , . play upon a 33 (4)
The solution to Crossword 937 is on page 100. Book prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.
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