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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1990 Port for the first correct solution opened on 18 November, 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 1285, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Two unclued lights (one of two words, with an apostrophe disre- garded) form a timely phrase. Solvers may be described by 6's quotation (ten words) which, with the title of its source, reads clockwise round the perimeter from a square to be deduced. The perimeter's barred-off and corner letters could make WHOLE LIGHTS SOLVED ROUND, HA HA HA.
Name Addres ACROSS 10 Pair nearly haul out Malay boat
(5)
11 Instructress and I agree to differ (6) 12 Lambs outside run around folds (7, hyphened) 14 Brew left in cup (4) 16 Brown otter swims, colourful sight amid spray (10, hyphened) 20 Money gained by Georgia (5) 21 Sent over some tasteless oats? That's hard on the horse (7) 22 Run special edition (5) 24 Low, nameless satellite (3) 31 Insect's back? No, stomach (5) 33 Laicism worried Muslim (7)
34 bReulthr(5)valley's latest developed
35 Sweet to beat is in character similar to Mars (8) 36 Volunteers managed to rehearse a dance (10) 38 Observed fish in sound (4) 39 Inebriate in one fusty bar content, after naps? (7) 40 As ace leader of Romans should be styled (6)
41 Match in prospect with Spain DowinNstead of Italy (5)
2 Rise and rise of secret police (4) 3 Player's foot, in plaster on couch, picked up — fit for walking? (10) 4 Connected hydrant into conduit
(7)
5 Approaches new listeners (5) 7 Circle billet after action in well- occupied area? (7, hyphened) 9 Former husband maybe under diminutive Mary's thumb (6) 13 Tails docked terribly well (5) 15 Leaked dictionary carries little weight (5) 18 Delay boarding transport (3) 19 Royal Society accepts merits of animated progressives (10) 23 Criminal has no dim counsel (8) 25 Quality of metal in Roman coin, for example (5) 26 Engineers aboard launch may prosper (7) 28 Take, encompassed by isles, Jock's directions (5) 29 Character found among ' logophiles (3) '30 Mostly sheer fiction, Lulu's end haunts (7) 32 Risky runs a fellow takes (6) 35 Drops charges (5) 37 Load of openings for bold Ithacan and sailors (4)
Solution to 1282: On the whole
The unclued ligh s were words able to be linked with LOCK (3, 6D, 22), STOCK (40, 20, 25) AND BARREL (6A, 15, 27).
First prize: Dr R.J. Bell, Hampton Hill, Middlesex Runners-up: C.G. Christopher, Selby,North Yorks; Mrs G.M. Fleming, Harare, Zimbabwe.
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