CROSSWORD
A first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 15 March, 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 1098, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued l'ghts (one of them a phrase from a definition in Chambers) are suggested by eight words, forming two significant quartets, not themselves in the diagram. One of these words must be treated plurally. Ignore, in all, three hyphens.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Sap's dead wet (5) 9 Fomented unruly sit-in held in college (10) 11 Undressed kid followed, last to bathe (5) 14 Level time in race? . . . (5) 15 . . . Russian's worsted! (5 16 African tree, old form of beech 21 Beautiful autiful addition, or last word in National Trust (8) 24 Chick-pea's small mass (4) 25 Soft in one's head (4) 27 Madman of US, loose around a city (7 ) 28 Circle in theorem confused in- terrupter (8) 33 I make tall hat for Jock? The wrong idea (6) 34 Vexed king in anger at duke (5) 35 Arabic scnpt defines 'kismet' in part (5) 37 Foster archaic rules – no changes! (7) 38 Cut North leaving river (5) 41 Old letter with very large moral significance (5) DOWN 1 Scorning edict could be disturb- ing (13) 2 Dance with odd sounding academic (6) 3 Prevail on elected leader (6) 4 Small sum, I see, in sterling (6) 5 Wily Welsh fish (4)
6 Drinking Scotch? Fitting litre in! (7)
7 Hammer, it's said, for hard nut
5)
8 hemicals in tests turn grey in fissures (8) 15 Blemished, like cliffs (6) 17 French lover disguised as obi- man (6, two words) 18 Piano: deliver in advance (6) 19 Renovated tyre, concerned with rust? (7) 20 Enrolled and ploughed at Yale 23 yst, one the Italian cut (8) 26 Short length in insect's small antenna (7) 29 Two investigators reported E. African antelope (6) 30 Strong figure in earthenware (6) 32 Counter in game has to mark off 50 (5) 36 Betray political group, we're told (4)
Solution to 1095: Ascot The title (two meanings) suggests the border phrase, A DAY AT THE RACES WITH ONE OF YOUR SPECTA- TOR CROSSWORD SETTERS; and A scar suggests the geographical . clueing device.
First prize: Neville Priestman, Lon- don SW1; Runners-up: Hugh Tho- mas, Bury St Edmunds; Ann Hartland-Swann, London SW1.
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