CROSSWORD 1087: Made to measure by Mass
A. first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 14 December, 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 1087, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued ights (one hyphened, another of two words have something in common. Use alphabetical priority in the spel ing of 9A.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Shore-birds close by boats (8, hyphened) 14 Killer-whale with feature of sea- porcupine (3) 16 Breakfast, say — i.e. cereal (6) 17 Advantage, Ursula's first in set (5) 18 Old stake I'd put outside, co- vered with creepers (5) 20 No time for watching fluttering chat! (7) 22 Incited, one gambled (7) 25 Falcon rakes wildly (5)
26 Colour, look, turning greyer? (5)
28 Unusually hot edge round ura- nium, radioactive metal (7) 31 Yearn about Georgia? 0, for the old times! (7, hyphened) 33 Sloughing extremes of crinkly sides, roughened (7) 38 Southern bird's rump (5) 39 Turns out river's covered with newts (6) 40 Nonsense being over the hill! (3) 42 Fuel gives drill short spin as before (6) 43 Local umpire, about 50 (8) DOWN 2 A North African's reported affair (5) 3 Emphasise ingredient of gateau?
4 Rogue, or one in the pack? (5) 6 Acknowledgments editor put in reviews (7) 7 No longer accepts permits (6) 8 Lord, one in family elevated (4) 10 Short spell on Arabic vehicle (6) 13 Phenol ruined calico bra almost (8) 21 They retaliate, states invaded by English (8) persistent sort, 23 Homer is lifted over county, in wind (7) 27 A German teacher set up rice dish (7) 29 Jostle in lively US dance (6) 30 Commercial opening's coming
32 (6) No beds turned up alga (6) 34 Steer I found in cultivated area (5)
35 Spirit, litre, presents danger (5) 36 Frenzied shout from the voet- ganger (4)
Solution to 1084: `The winner is
The unclued (12, 14, 29 & 32, 43A and 10, 13, 20, 22, 36D) or unde- fined (8, 19D) lights are all films which have won an Oscar for best picture.
First prize: Mrs D. Waller, Rayleigh, Essex; Runners-up: J Sweetman, Basingstoke; C. I. Meek, Winchelsea, Sussex.
Dictionary prizes are sent
out by the Post-a-Book' service.
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