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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 11 December, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1491, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Radial lights read from edge to centre or vice versa, twenty of each. In each of twenty-three clues there is a misprinted letter in the definition part; corrections of misprints spell the title of a work (three words) and its author's surname. A ten-word quotation from the work, in the circuit next to the outer one, and the name of the speaker (two words) in the innermost circuit, read clockwise. One circuit word is an abbreviation.
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RADIALS (6) 1 Nothing — not a word — about Norse god's stomach 2 Plant surrounded by sap, all over soft mineral 3 Man penning introduction to recondite British law?
4 Clay in fist 5 Note yellow chick 6 Person in party beginning to mine coal 7 Repeat method endlessly in dance 8 With diner getting tipsy, watch keg 9 Brats love wearing baggy trousers 10 Rains softly in spots 11 Slackers sailor chides? Not right 12 Long seat in vessel 13 Fools start to squander gauze 14 Commotion involving duck and a civet-like animal 15 Queen with maid going around Luxembourg properties 16 A nasty liar, a member of icy family 17 Drunk, very annoying initially in box in theatre 18 Trifle one found in French volume 19 Ran unhappily into careless cheat 20 Winding, towering and tapering 21 Volunteers mend broken bicycle 22 Hear worthless stuff about goblin 23 Great, entertaining composer shone 24 Occupant in festival eating bread 25 Respect notice in front of marshy area 26 Weighed anger in invective 27 Departure for example on steamship 28 Cars scorch earth 29 Certain restored diesel pulls 30 Grasp edition, good-looking one 31 Shad's wet, swimming around island 32 Clock, fast? About one second 33 Inject a bit of spirit into miserable tune 34 Handwriting in ink has altered 35 Trick taking in extreme clots 36 Yet to join people of fashion, hasten 37 Parcels put round among stall's jumble 38 Deduces everything? Yes, yes, finally 39 Oil and rocks in fissure 40 Cuckoo stayed away from jam
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