CROSSWORD 1288: Waltz by Columba
a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage correct solution opened on 9 December, of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest Dictionary – ring the word 'Dictionary'). 1288, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, A first prize of £30 and 1990 Port for the first with two runners-up prizes edition of The Chambers Entries to: Crossword London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued lights (one hyphened) comprise a key word and two quartets suggested by its halves.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Misfits down rifles (8, two words) 5 Rubbish heap containing folios (6) 17 Revel almost certainly in German and Spanish wine (5) 20 zoo of bygone period (7) 22
22 Note union mostly for miners (7)
24 Sweet round sun is yellowish colour (7) 25 Pilasters in recess of house at Naples (5) 28 Butterfly was examined in yard, then freed (7)
31 Flavour about this is of chops (7)
33 organ (7) Austere brass muffles boring g 37 Gets hold of doctor (5) 38 Hamlet, a sad lad charged with ending of uncle (5) 39 Block of shares informed party sent back (6, two words) 40 Batter fortification, knocking out part (3) 42 Airway that's filled with tank's spillage (6) 43 Expectation (
ect8a)tion of old number, e.g. waltz DOWN
1 Scratching cliff I lie, securing bit of ammonite (13) 2 So judo's disseminated out of us? (5) 3 As fighting mass? (6) 4 Vats of cured herrings, not very soft (5)
6 Masons make us act in one body (7)
7 Law breaking pro shows muscle (6) 8 Rank stuff (4) 11 Brazilian rock — wow! Get into wildly plugging that (9) 12 13 15 19 21 Check one stag hustling bears cross here? (13, two words) Clash upset aged sire (8) First two characters go off side by side (7) Like a coach, empty type, on long railway (9) India's opening bats, separated by trap English devised (8) 23 Cunning Scots after skirting loch doubled south (7) 27 Half cake, b-beer, and cheese for Jock (7) 29 Italian forward has opponent appearing below average (6) 34 Spiritual leader's on about decline (5) 35 wear an MD out? (5) 36 Force belonging to god (4)
Solution to 1285: Spirited
First prize: John L. Cope, London SW6. Runners-up: Jenny Gubb, Shudy Camps; M.C.C. Rich, Ripon.
The puzzle, for ALL SOULS' DAY (17 27), was completed by 'Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me' — Ulysses, by TENNYSON (6).
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