1078: Fruit pie

A. first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 12 October, with two runners-up prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary% Entries (no photocopies) to: Crossword 1078, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

Eight lights, suggested by the title, each consist of one thematic word enclosed in another. Five clues across, and five down, contain anagrams or part anagrams which (in line with part of the title) are not indicated. Ignore two accents and, in all, four hyphens.

Name Address

............ .. .. .. ........

ACROSS 11 Old head, a Turkish governor (5) 12 Drain wine-bottle for pleasant feeling (4) 13 Where to find mandarins, many, round East (5) 14 Wolf, ape and bird (7) 17 Page on food value in former times (5) 20 Och, stale onion (8) 21 Lift for Jock's hard? Sounds anything but (6) 23 Star group, mostly gas (4)

26 Port involving mass sale boosters

(5) 27 Touch of cement in isolated plinth (5) 28 Cure unbleached linen (4)

30 Grass fit for Wimbledon? (6)

31 A crowd, mostly relatives, in social activities (8) 36 Entirely honest (5) 39 Smelly at rodeo (7) 40 Mallet, we hear, for nut (5) 41 British worker's diet (4) 42 Cliff's not quite bright (5) DOWN

2 Smash, pull apart dead tree (7)

4 Extra-large duck's bony (6) 5 Cold making child poorly (5) 6 Doctor here, round N.C., one to force physic down (8) 7 Nothing to beat old coin (5) 8 Gas, oxygen, inhaled by short Mexican (5) 10 See, display fur (4) 16 Gravity? Bank's reported dis- tress (5) 18 Skunk's coat (4)

22 Weakly indulgent one in tavern

(5) 24 Wild gypsy caper (8) 25 Business equipment (4) 29 Ice's apt, preventing rot (7) 32 Best Aussie shearer's erring (6) 33 First cut of pork provided, like tenderloin (5) 34 Hair on one mammal (5) 35 Fur bales (5) 37 A clergyman rising, in state (4)

Solution to 1075: 42A gested the other unclued lights Anagrams omitted letter o— i.e. they were 'missing nothing'.

First prize: A.P. Fabian, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Runners-up: David Clements, Telford, Shropshire: Mitchel M. Bishop, Brussels.

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