CROSSWORD 1363: Family circle by Columba
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 8 June, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary — ring the word Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1363, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Radial lights read from edge to centre or vice versa, twenty of each. A two-word phrase, clockwise in the innermost circuit, defines the unclued radial light and each of five items (one doubly hyphened) which read clockwise in the circuit next to the outer one.
Name Address RADIALS (6)
1 Snooker ball to play in frame
2 Stranger after fine food
3 Intruder? Active staff cut and run
4 Bad drink got drunk during dreary routine 5 Too much work left over 6 Dispute about covering piano track 8 Soldiers reacting round speaker 9 Stellar bishop's cracking guy 10 Barge on account of which ships deviate 11 Flower old man cultivated one year 12 When fashionable, shock no longer 13 Associate and match scriptures 14 Hail speaker's fresh approach 15 Stew served by the Spanish in china article 16 Glamour in Parisian air 17 Priest who's withdrawn from total fast 18 Hat is shortly shed
19 Wood in pleasant Albion
20 Note, top secret 21 Sumo wrestling charms, using no weapons, such an amount (two words) 22 Assert Bible has timeless feel 23 Murmur by market porter?
24 Bones for all to see in hot and endless desert 25 Front pair of staunch Scots reveal energy 26 Board docked punt and depart 27 'Wingless host' encapsulates studied nymphs 28 Book with rum lore round jacket
29 Improvement from madder put in vase
30 Residential part as far as Washington's outskirts? 31 Deity's power beginning to help Greek character 32 A French side, free 33 Pace, or quiet spin?
34 Pressure showing when chanteuse gives up song?
35 Perception of odd noises . . .
36 . . . rattles girl, tense artist 37 See bats round hollow glide away 38 Mexican dish cheers man 39 Tax cut off 40 Red church tower
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