CROSSWORD 1066: `. . . and all that' by Mass

A first prize of f20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 20 July, with two runners-up prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1066, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

Twenty lights (whose cross-checking letters give: FIGHT OVER, COUPLE RECOIL) are each clued by a word contained in the corresponding italic clue — eg 'inch', or 'chest', in 'Winchester'. The remaining, roman, clues each consist of a definition and the hidden letters of the light consecutively jumbled. Ignore four hyphens.

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ACROSS

4 Tostig (11)

11 Sticklers for arms, ordinaries, etc . . . (7) 12 . . . . Frenchmen made disput- able claim (6)

13 The 'Conqueror' (9) 14 Feats pictured on wall-hanging (5) 16 Bishop Aldred (5) 19 Robert the 'Devil (7)

21 Look, Rollo the seaman (4)

23 William of Normandy (7) 24 Scots push to Ebor, briefly (4)

25 Counsel? A hall-moot may have remedy (7) 30 Heredity's voiced by climbers!

31 F(7 acet, item of armour (4) 32 Harold II (7)

34 Duke's re-enlisted servicemen

35 Warrior, rrior, English muleteer (7) 37 Earl Morcar (5)

40 Fossil from historical port (5)

41 Stamford Bridge (9) 42 Robert Fitz Wimarch (6) 43 Feudal System (7) 44 Hastings (11) DOWN 1 Harald Hardrada (11) 2 Witenagemot (6) 3 Earl of Northumbria (5)

5 Stout cord used by archer, poss- ibly (4)

6 Earl Godwin (4)

7 At prayer, keen Leofric, with hassock (7) 8 Open fabric present in e.g. tapestry (7)

9 Cap is a Norman's ornate attire (9) 10 Pevensey (7)

15 Housecarl, a happy character (5)

17 Domesday-book (7, two words) 18 Edward the 'Confessor' (11) 20 Shield is neatly tinctured (7) 22 Bayeux Tapestry (9, two words)

26 Refined Gallic attitudes (5) 27 Battle-weary, with an arrow wound (7) 28 Engage Telham Hill, having manoeuvrable support (7) 29 Huntsman, Saxon, at Caen (7) 33 Waders, from France, shore- wards (6)

36 Edgar the 'Atheling' (5)

38 Brave Siward's rivals (4) 39 Wavy (heraldic) line, Duke's (4)

Solution to 1063: Laver

Thematic lights were kinds of sea- weed (laver): lA sargasso 11 Phaeophyceae 18 tangle 19 car- ragheen 29A Conferva 38 varec 39 bladder-wrack.

Winners: Geoffrey Beale, Burgess Hill, W. Sussex (£20); M. A. Sargis- son, Caldy, Wirral; Mrs R. J. Stan- bury, Swindon.

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