CROSSWORD 1215: Fairground attraction by Doc

A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1988 Port for the first correct solution opened on 10 July, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1215, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

The unclued lights (four of two words), individually or as pairs (with one light doing double duty), are of a kind, all verifiable in one of them. Ignore two apostrophes.

Name Address ACROSS 11 Club magazine (7) 13 Fruit crate smashed in square

(9)

14 Feature a Cockney's mate (5) 19 Illegal immigrant's tearful again

(7)

23 Protein entails cooking (7) 24 Scots livid returning from appeal, beaten (4) 25 Nomogram affected elision (7) 30 Catches a glimpse of weapons after midnight (7) 31 Deceive and charge about a penny (4) 32 One form of peat includes it as a mineral (7) 34 Old giant pretends to lose outer parts (4) 35 Reminder or brief note about ten changes (7) 40 Ring left off for sorceress (5) 42 Reject crafty trick about city (6) 43 Playhouse (no first house) showing 'English Shrub' (7, two words) 44 What to do when they're left with Saab, drunk? (11) DOWN 3 New coats for fashionable week

(5)

5 Love grandma and a son of Judah (4) 7 The all-ness of money perhaps includes it (7) 8 Pike topping bird for fodder (7)

9 New initial for Czechoslovakia — written thus (9, two words)

10 Calvinist of spirit, note (7) 15 Variety of 24 — European tree

(5)

17 Old French tax embracing one Scottish limitation on heirs (7) 18 Kerry costed out plant (11, hyphened) 20 Type of vase or container round small portrait (7)

26 Search up north, entering joints (5)

27 Rest during tour organised to remote rock (7) 28 Attention! Settle payment (7) 29 One third of wine, some Welsh bread and a dessert (7)

36 Approaches centre of 28, maybe )

39 Young flier upset savings scheme (4)

Solution to 1212: Gnomic

The unclued lights, which included the pair at 4/12, were GNOMES or SPRITES.

First prize: Arthur Hall, Goring-by- Sea, W. Sussex. Runners-up: M.A.L. Willey, Headingly, Leeds; Mark Daulby, Eton, Berks.

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