CROSSWORD

W. & J .

GRAHAM'S

1339: Kit by Columba

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 15 Decem ber, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the Cham- bers Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to: Cross- word 1339, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC IN 2LL.

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Name Address ACROSS 8 11 12 14 Square timber frame (4) It's central element of instructional tour NASA organised (12) People behind the republic (5) Star is able to work (7) 16 Make sound of eagle (4) 17 What's given by little pig after

end of suckling? (5) 22 Past sales reduced our herds (8) 24 Honour queen beside king (6) 31 25 Lower ? It could be, if 32 soused, a mouser will (6) 27 Tender as Moor besotted with love (7) 29 Monk in green and brown (8) 34 Adorned edging that's shorn of odd bits (5) 35 'Oles up for a day (4) 37 Crates, number with mineral back aboard ship (7) 38 Estate without superior palatial lodging houses (5)

39 Jelly surrounds nicer bananas of the same sort (12)

41 Silver coin's latest in wide country's economy (8) DOWN 1 Give away denouement (6, hyphened) 2 Heartless conduct? Right (4) 3 Fish in burn without constraint 6) ( 4 Food from trading estates (7) 5 Native goes outside to flooded area used for swimming (10) 6 Parade in street and near ... (7, hyphened) 8 ... nick, reckoning to make a point (5) 10 The ass unusually hurries (6) 13 This overtops skyscraper — low duck skirts it (8) 15 Bit of beach, empty place, h-happy one (11, hyphened) 19 Hoax rogue began in person (10, two words) 20 Like a type of ring road, lit irregularly around ring (8) 28 Hood, old cap and rest thrown

out (7) 29 Favourite may be this funny boy

(6, hyphened) Will's necessarily sharp (6) Summoned king's following away! (5) 36 See American soil (4)