CROSSWORD A first prize of £30 and a bottle of
Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 12 June, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word ,,TictionarY'). Entries to: Crossword 1465, The Spectator, 56 "(nighty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
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give o„ 'Wined lights are uniformly amended versions of words (in --e case, two words) eschewed by the 8/21/3. Ignore an apostrophe. Name Address ... ................................................................................................. ACROSS
1 Sees female dance rudely after false modesty (14) 9 Spearmen always following Empress (4) 11 Concocting mega-pud in recipe that's gross (10, two words)
12 Maximilian's bones (4)
17 Quality restaurant stocks rhino's heart (5) 18 Tithe harvest dandy gathers (5) 20 See tenor blowing tenor instrument (7) 21 A hundred friends periodically like bull's-eyes (7) 24 Punch contains yellow drink (5) 25 Elsinore courtier could be me with retinue role (5) 27 Here's leather and arty dresses
30 (7 Re)
public, not square, caroused freely (7) 32 Tuesdays rendered no yen for deposit (7, two words) 37 Sound of progress in old country 38 Re advance towards left side (6, hyphened) 39 Beat expert at engineering (4) 40 What Tony wants is spin — cite no bungles (10, hyphened) 42 Organ player alighted in a fog (14, two words)
DOWN
1 Some fencing impaired exits (5) 2 Like honey, I put in a cake (5) 4 Mosquito spreading disease is zapped (5) 5 Refining chemical, male removed sand (7) 6 Playing round Madrid course
(7)
7 Bargeman shifts line for dealer (6) 10 Yestermoming, leaving front, I ditched weapon (11) 13 Witnesses engaged in trials (7) 15 Unethical Lorna smitten with love married ninety (8, hyphened) 16 Very latest ram gripped by lout smashing doorpost (11, hyphened) 19 Heartlessly set puzzle? Be non- committal (8) 22 Espy chestnut rough daughter intimidated (7) 26 Opening of curry house upped craving . . . for this? (7)
28 Tastier bananas for C Miranda? (7)
29 Eli's treated after pain in bones
33 Li) e-abed has point (5) 34 State banning Gaia's binges (5)
35 Armenian poem's hard for university (5)
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