CROSSWORD 1289: Craps by Ascot
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1990 Port for the first correct solution opened on 16 December, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary – ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1289, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued lights (one hyphened) are connected by a theme.
Name Address ACROSS 9 Love to play the violin, we hear, or reed instrument (4) 11 Annoying, long fits in rambling poem (10)
12 Countryman, guy with gold (4)
16 Separate and remove from end of the lower back (5) 17 Some stunt I learned before (5) 20 One attendant goes round back of lodge nimbly (7) 21 girl m Instrument in ment doctor located 23 Apprentice, one at home in plant (7) 24 Fruit from Greece given monkey (5) 25 Brazilian port, on reflection, accepts the French tanker (5) 27 Fish? Wading bird holds head of kipper (7, two words) 30 Sickly child in overcoat (7) 32 High, the French church tower 36 Derior cow, say (5) 37 Contemptible person, English, is vulgar (5) 38 Peaceful in dire nick? (6) 39 Group, one making one bristle (4) 40 TV presenter, say, wears scent for a change (10) 41 Song conducted holding one (4) 42 Soldier with pail, he ran off for miscellaneous items (13) DOWN 2 To steal biblical books one can't have any feelings (5) 3 English maiden receives £25 from Victoria, say (6) 4 Ballot-boxes, it's reported, revealing gains by Labour? (5) 5 Excite it u)
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6 Getting better hospital? London borough gives support (7) 7 Tomboy runs after Prince in capital (6) 8 Girl split income (9, hyphened) 10 They sang madrigals at Diss, drunk after dance (10) 19 Newsier out round West?
Booklet may be (8, hyphened) 22 Goes about with couples (7) 26 Copy in parcel I sent off (7) 29 Money from Ghana, in a sweep, counterfeit (6) 31 Plant from lake out East (6) 33 Annual income achieved by network around North (5) 34 Question over trouble makes one flinch (5) 35 Very old books showing early Ceylonese people (5)
Solution to 1286: Cluster pine
PIN ASTER (the cluster pine) 's an anagram of PAINTERS. Unclued lights were anagrams of Rossetti, Renoir, Constable, Turner, Sicken, Dali, Goya, Veronese, Ingres and Degas.
First prize: David Willcocks, Cambridge. Runners-up: J. Andrews, Rayleigh, Essex; Roger Baresel, London SW7.
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