A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's
Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 15 May, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the Chambers Dictionary – ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1207, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
10D suggests the other unclued lights (one plural, three others hyphened). Clues each comprise a definition part and a hidden consecutive jumble of the light incorporating one extra letter. These extras spell out an apt phrase (8, 2, 4, 8-4, 9). Ignore an apostrophe.
Name Address
ACROSS
1 Crashed UFO turned up (8) 6 Gold coins (guilders) reissued (6) 13 The drawback of NZ house (5) 14 Habitual fool in quarrel (7) 15 Gas rise controller turns tap, then checks (10, two words) 16 One who agrees with another, I heard (7) 22 Japanese theatre turns (kabuki) ( 23 Calm eyes, fish-like (4) 24 Virtuoso passage amazed a concert-goer (7) 26 Direction. for town errs (7, „hyphened) 30 Old gull? In fact, bobolink (4) 31 Broad-dialled watch, effaced (7, hyphened) 34 Year-old assize (4) 36 Occupy main Tahiti base (7) 38 Radio on safari sports antennas (10) 39 Gems in pile, solitaires (7) 40 Date recorded on front page (5) 42 Sea raged in tidal bores (6) 43 Guards fortresses nightly (8)
DOWN-
2 Known, Hindu, undeniably (8) 3 Longer frock in fashion (5) 4 Dig down to bedrock (pumice- stone, apparently) (7) 5 Grip centre of gut (7) 6 Colour a counterpane with annatto (6) 7 Comparatively clever master edified (6)
8 Barney lost race (5)
10 See preamble (13, five words) 17 Sheba packed Syrian cloth (3) 18 Old sole, holey or not (5) 21 Australian swamp? Tropical, I would say (5) 25 Liqueur in club, then as nightcap (8) 28 Britten concert has musical interval (7) 32 Limited martini? Fie! (6) 33 Each plies men with Scotch (6) 35 Tatar wagon, or Albanian (5) 37 Decree, measure from Muslim prince (5)
Solution to 1204: Jarrings
The title suggested the ring of jars (AMPHORA etc, from radial 1), with EARTHENWARE round the centre.
First prize: Mrs V. J. Hadley, Coverack, 'Cornwall. Runners-up: Anne Madge, Duffield, Derbyshire; F.M. Bernard, Seaford, East Sussex.
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