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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1988 Port for the first correct solution opened on 14 August, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1220, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Brewer confirms that the other unclued ights, in the 11A, were condensed by 22D into the 41A. One unclued light is of two words; one is doubly hyphened.
Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 9 Comb map (4) 12 Callas, say, yielding capital melody (4) 14 Ceramic stuff I put in drawing- room (6) 16 Lorry of vegetables, half unloaded (5) 17 Porcelain school within Staffordshire's borders (5) 20 Wrongly directed, fail to find medical department (7) 24 Compound's sentry worked with energy (7) 25 Old vinegar is in general sent back (5) 26 Tea room trinket (5) 28 Obliquely cunning, catching sand eel (7) 31 In foul fen is enemy force turning to surrender? (7) 34 Improve resilience of one struggling with thug (7) 37 Speaker's quote expresses view
(5)
38 Reversal of direction, as by vessel (5, hyphened) 40 Title signifying autocratic Russian, initially (4) 42 Perform again revolutionary Ring (4) 43 Pension set-up a union ran when reformed (14) DOWN Scratch stuff coated with antimony (6)
Love to scold and harangue (5) Lo! such results, perhaps, from animation of Calliope? (6)
Part of empty pentode having more holes than electrons? (5, hyphened) Turk's excessive, on about master (7) Hears tenor, European, in Italian city (7) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Net for fish otherwise inundating Egypt (6, hyphened) 10 Copper and his set roughly covered by a metal protective barrier (10, hyphened) 13 Slander, for instance, blue (7) 15 Attacked very Liberal editor (8) 18 Rude friend, out of order half-baked? (10) 19 Moulding, star-shaped, with silver lining (8) 23 First of stuntmen gets stilts (8) 27 Fish in mesh are writhing (7) 30 Vegetable, soft in furrow, turned over (6) 32 Duck in to-do with a civet? (6) 35 Indicated 'sheeded'? (5) 36 Gold coins from bureau reinvested (5)
Solution to 1217: Golf The unclued lights, and those clued without definitions (7A and 39A), could all be prefixed by the word OPEN, suggested by the title.
First prize: Christine Lehman, Walton-on-Thames. Runners-up: Mrs A. Priestman, Penrith; Elizabeth Hughes, Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey.
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