A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's
Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 12 June, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary - ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1211, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
'Tickler' suggests one of the unc ued ights, in which four others, being names for 12D (produced at the 22D), may appear. Three of these lights are of two words; one is plural.
Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 Laconic es separate (without embracing)) (8) 6 Prohibited for good? No! (6) 14 Enzymes from cell act as estimated (8) 16 Lover's pen perhaps enthralling one (5) 17 Sappers aim to repair with mortar (7) 18 Give as part-payment variety of dear metal rings (7, two words) 22 Provided pound coin (3)
23 S6)ponge, note, absorbing money (
24 Makeshift tea houses as clubs (6) ••• 26 Jock's one dark principle (3) 30 Jargon of graduate stormin' round Oxford University (9) 32 Measure off passage in N9 (7) 33 Disordered poetry in books? (7) 35 Feasts — what ceremony! (5) 36 Puddle-duck tucked into fish and tailless crustacean (8) 37 Veteran of soldiery (5)
38 Drunk veers, slews ...gets 401 (10)
39 Fuel 'ad in middle of Wigan (6) DOWN
-I Make shallow pies curl, i.e. as if ruffled (14)
2 Salamander's odd posture (7) 3 Upturned blossom broken by unknown evil creature (7, two words) 4 A floor-covering with inlay of black.and white (6) 5 Card game leads to some losing all money (4) 7 Puzzled or not, ask what Egyptians wrote on (8) 9 Fresh air came in the New World (7) 10 Loss of illusion as Diana dispatched people with tons about Charlie? (14) 15 Homer, close to home — where the heart is (4) 16 Cut-back, timed precisely (11, hyphened) 20 Bone's line captured by Stubbs? (4) 21 Curds, light blue, run (4) 25 Ascent of Sir Paul Batty (7) 27 Siren's seaweed in g-garland (7) 28 Within which vessel's wall rises filling turnover of fruit? (7) 29 Swindles anagram pseud has framed (5) 30 Poet, hindered in utterance (4) 31 Bible we bound in gold? I declare! (6) 34 Alchemist's iron spoils (4)
Solution to 1208: It's over
The components of (9) DEAR JOHN LETTER suggested the triads at 3, 8, 18; 15, 33, 37 and 6D, 26, 38 respec- tively.
First prize: Bill Anderson, London W6. Runners-up: Juliette Merz, Norwich; D.C. Tozer, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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