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1436: Ups and downs by Dumpynose
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 8 November, with two run- ners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1436, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL
Two rios of unclued lights (one doubly hyphened) suggest a 35- 24. Ignore two accents. But watch your step!
Name Address ACROSS 1 Child skipper jumps for ever (5) 4 Hot soup ages poor Jonathan's gullet (9) 10 Power line, copper within quite encased, is fit for computer (10) 11 Semi-Christian Jack impregnates Jane (6) 12 Fierce fish nipped Augustine capsizing canoe (7) 14 Outcast and reject's comeback?
15 (5 Ka)
tharina, say, shows depression without a day outside (5) 16 Commie tearful about America 22 Miss ss out notaries (8) 23 Fabric of church, engineer incompletely dads (7) 25 Idle napper (4) 27 Bit of nerve, fellow pinching queen on butt (7) 29 Leicester Square leaves drunk able to stand (8) 32 Sound of small key in little hole 34 Lapse pse of left in party (5) 36 Fish doorman outside gave as a gift (7) 37 Spelling — solemn act for Puck? (6) 38 Tea guzzling bishop with sur- plice reddish brown (10) 39 Sun crazed wren tit again composed (9) 40 Cleared obstruction apparently wedged (5) DOWN 2 Rock shelters almost lively lizards (5) 3 Producing unripe, shrivelled fruit (6) 5 Substitute teacher does fools in, it's mid (10) 6 Composing duet, piano and voice, in G (7) 8 Wailing beauty upset people without number (9) 9 Not quite fishy fish (4) 13 Accepted cloche styled something like a snail-shell (7) 15 Townie fond of country casuals if in black (6)
18 Playing lyre forte, twice I'll be con fuoco (7)
19 Tripping terminates in Kensington (10, two words)
20 Film's music and direction tally (9)
21 Leaf from the spring before (6) 26 Botched trifle contains black nut (7) 28 Transcendentalist coming out I ignored (7) 33 Boozes cyclically in bar (5) 34 Move around shop (4)
Solution to 1433: Hooligans
4, 13, 15/40, 8, 29/30 and 36/34 were the original 44.
First prize: Mm J. Ramage, Cornwall. Runners-up: J.W.
Leonard, Oxfordshire; P.A.
Richardson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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