CROSSWORD 1079: Developing debs by Ascot
A first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 19 October, with two runners-up prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary% Entries (no photocopies) to: Crossword 1079, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued lights are of a kind.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Smoke half of joint child? (5) 4 Vehicle for cooking bacon and mash (9, hyphened) 9 Joint heir in Colorado with creep, ran off (10) 11 60 mins in the shopping centre may make one disconcerted (6) 12 Graduate to student, ultimate steadying influence (7) 14 Confuse tot with Latin and En- glish (5) 15 Seaman allowed to fish (5) 16 Palms alee possibly on isle (6) 24 Square near a colonnade (4) 27 Shrubs, name unknown, found in foreign marsh (7) 29 Feedback on the subject of fight- ing 8
32 Chil(d's)
toy duck rejected for real one (6) 34 Chaps taking on endless trouble. With whom? (5) 35 Pure bit found on commence- ment of excavating (5) 36 Rising above the surface of the water in most of swirling Mersey and Dee (7) 37 Prepare to depart by way of bridge (6) 38 Hold's loaded by naval hero (10, two words) 39 Lit meteor produces mineral (9)
40 Plant is placed in one in Scotland (5)
DOWN
2 It's present in alcohol they brewed (litre) (5)
4 Telephone unit worker fixed (7) 5 Shells found in three rivers in southern Sweden (7, hyphened) 7 Odd form of sour 40 containing poison (9) 10 Angry deed, editor's work (9) 13 Sonar? Whale uses it. This one? (7) ) 15 One critical of a grandfather (6) 18 Back up? Batting partnership needs to (7, two words) 19 Censure father about hoax (10) 20 One delaying entry, Marcel with toe broken (9) 21 Old Bob's leg bears examination 28 ood man, one in miserable place, inhospitable (7) 31 Watery liquid seen in those rum- fustians (5)
Solution to 1076: Viennese associations: 16A WALTZ (10 Blue Danube, 18 Emperor) 30 LOAF (9 baguette, 26 brioche) 39 STEAK (14 rump, 41 fillet).
First prize: J. E. Green, Horsham, Sussex; Runners-up: C. T. Hatten, Madrid; P. H. Dacre, Acomb, York.
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