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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 13 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 1441, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL
Radial lights read from edge to centre or vice versa, twenty of each. A proposed 2 (circular, as Brewer confirms) in the inner- most circuit, and nine appropriate names in the circuit next to the outer one, read clockwise. Three radials, to be obtained by stirring 2, are clued by definition only. RADIALS (6)
1 Main disciple, mature 3 Rock number broadcast 4 Glossy fabric's appeal, juvenile?
i 5 One n twelve, out of depth, accepted discharge 6 Greeting getting Arab perturbed and cross 7 Mysterious monster stopped by Greek character 8 Plants with purple flowers and broad leaves 9 Scraping noise from shovel catching bit of rock 10 Dog's tail full of force 11 Income tipster declared 12 Old dried plums 13 Complicated transactions, dis- tasteful 14 Last of backbenchers seen by whip? Unimportant one 15 Sublime start for sprinter in lane, going after gold 16 Place and time for bean 17 Bar that is entered by politician and journalist 18 Mischief-maker with drink to spike 19 River perhaps in fine Egyptian town, or out of it?
20 Poor man ending in penitentiary if in disgrace 21 Stuff guy's needed for game 22 Yellow piece of cake to devour 23 Amorous nonsense breaks ice naughtily 24 Serve shrimp with no end of vinegar 25 Climbing plant's sweet next to house 26 Leader.of ambush on Choctaws?
27 Child in Sweden loves sledge 28 Lots of rough diamonds, loose 29 Wood-god managed sly advantage 30 People certainly not around island after revolution 31 Eccentricity in piece about monkey 32 Infancy, say, soon over 33 Refined American writer has settled in 34 Power in defence by Dominicans 35 Seabirds feeding on plankton 36 Grooms right to wear carnations?
37 Animal from Alabama, rodent 38 Disturbance created by war cry indeed! (hyphened) 39 Variety of atoms active in bodies 40 Alloy special bat apparently contains
Solution to1438: Awkward The other unclued lights were ALL FINGERS AND T: IUMBS (919).
First prize: Mrs J.D. Crabtree, London. Runners-up: Gillian McAndrew, London; D. & D. Keating, Yorkshire.
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