CROSSWORD
A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 20 March, 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 1199, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The other unclued ights (one of two words) form three triads sug- gested respectively by the components of 12D (three words, in Brewer).
Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.
ACROSS
1 produces note, bird's chirp in IO p outskirts of Delamere (8, hyphened) letter of, not in public (10) 17 The old separate and remove English cut of meat (5) 18 Can stannary so use mines? Local one can (5) 20 Continued to fire rifle (7) 22 Accountant advances money the first day of each month (7) 24 Industrial activist, one with goal
25 Finieslidghetv?e(n7t) in essence requires height at first (5)
26 Student, effeminate one (5)
28 One's stupid, can't use potty (7) 31 Bone ring possessed by little (7) 33 trade's happy about Textileac e l t
Council of Europe (7) 37 Gust of wind, a nuisance taking hold of brim of lid (5) 39 Number not based on nine (6) 41 They help police in Italy after one dip acquires pocket violins (10) 42 Eryngo drifting? This might check it (6) 43 Nasty scare hit French food (8) DOWN 2 Group spirit displayed in Gt Ormond Street Hospital (5) 3 Small state, subject to flag (6) 6 My child Hal craftily takes in girl (7) 7 Look, there's nobody in fruit- tree (6) 8 Month in Spain—outstandingly good one, mostly (4) 10 Slightly damaged paper makes heads of rags (editors) cross (6) 11 One leaves famous tsarevna on Sunday in convalescence (9) 13 Fish, one pound a measure (Eastern) (8) 21 Caught in almost full embrace (8) 23 Arrive with pet lambs in cloisters (7) 27 Ben and Rita scattered yellow powder (7) 29 Stop working in posh American city? All right (6) 30 Nincompoop, misinformed, losing face within party (6) 32 One the Italian had upset gets a flower (6)
34 Birds run in all directions (5)
35 Colt, one amongst guns brought back (5) 36 What appears first in vegetable row in Orcadian spring? (4)
Solution to 1196: Ice show
The unclued lights were diamonds, and would therefore have been suit- able prizes at the DLAMOND JOUSTS (1A).
First prize: Diana Macdonald, Teddington, Middlesex. Runners-up: R.W. Gore-Andrews, London SW3; D. Morris, London SE19.
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