CROSSWORD
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Six Grapes Port for the first correct solution opened on 20 April, 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 1356, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
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■■ The unclued lights (five consisting of two or more components) are of a kind.
Name Address ACROSS
5 He sculpted this, working rock
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14 God of the villa (Roman) (3) 17 Closest old home contained one (5)
18 Not any time for music (5)
20 Commander accepted charge for traditional utterances (7)
22 Lionel's new engraving methods
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25 Endless ferment results in formal departure(5) 26 Upsets last bit of brandy, being slightly drunk (5) 28 Heartless African in piece of ground without a trail (7) 31 Element composed of iron, radium, beryllium and iodine (7, hyphened) 33 Dreamy individual, one almost wealthy (7) 37 Guitarist's thumb-key made of odd bits of drift-sail (5) 38 Presenter from Monaco, reportedly (5) 39 Active service with one-time leader (6)
41 (I 10) got career running US store
43 Valerian little different from urban defence-work (8) DOWN 1 Big race starts from Aintree, Liverpool (13, two words) 2 Improvised speech from modern times politician (5, hyphened) 3 Doorway to mobile lavatory lost rings (6) 4 Divide a tax up (5) 7 Butter-tree — I drag one up (6) 8 Slight error cutting undergarment (4)
10 Old fool rang up during Ten (6)
11 Old sweet briers, for example, afterwards gain points (9) 12 Calling up stored facts, making a varied rattle (13, two words) 15 Turning, along with one African 23 Centre ntre of Henley housed bird in style (7) 27 Charge lifted, say, on a cart (7) 30 Live rail affected fine deportment (6, two words) 32 Stubborn bird put in pen (6) 34 Weapon of our mediaeval ancestors (5) 35 Capital obtained from account with credit note (5) 36 Part-time Aussie (4)
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