CROSSWORD
1305: Pieces of eight by Doc
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 21 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 1305, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
One unclued light is the origin of the remaining unc ued lights (seven of two or more words), either individually or as pairs. Ignore three accents and two apostrophes in the completed puzzle.
Name Address ACROSS
1 Apparently 50 per cent support rugby player (8, two words)
12 Tales of a king painting a ruin badly in Scottish hall (10) 13 Some stolen tulips with a smell
(5)
14 Plot to reject pub in bay (7) 15 Scottish vagabond turned up Lord Lane (10, hyphened) 16 Also left young Christopher the equipment (7, hyphened) 20 Shabby Mexican lost heart (4) 22 Dressing for Spenser's hell (7) 23 One pound and one shilling for garments (4) 26 Makes final payment for benches (7) 30 Chooses and competes evenly (4) 31 It makes grandee enraged (7) 34 From the heart of the manor, a wild ox (4) 36 He arranges gold article from Germany with Queen (7) 39 Misled, I am seated in front of an artist (7) 40 Very confused, lost a pound and said more (5) 42 Small cup from a set is broken (6) DOWN 2 Everybody's college? (8, two words) 3 River round a northern lighthouse (5) 4 Old convict — one with b-blemish (7) 5 French girl and worker embraced by Romany fellow (7) 6 British girl and Aussie crane (6) 9 Love poems: one about Eastern game and foreign dealings (13, two words ) 10 Outlaw, almost, in opposition to smuggler (13) 17 Letter when you are due (3)
18 Coach — or coaches (5)
21 Brazilian trek uncovered cave
(5)
25 College and tea tree demolished, and so on (8, two words) 27 Half the milk for bird (3) 28 Small reproductive body with leprous constituents (7) 29 American Indian or French reindeer (7) 32 Midnight accommodation for newly-weds? (6) 33 A Frenchman, father and physicist (6) 35 Theme at start of long novel (5) 37 Cockney bird has died, we hear. It's all over! (5)
Solution to 1302: Men in the street
The unclued lights were phrases with Tom (5, 14 [reversed], 15), Dim (18, 19, 22/12) and HARRY (41, 43, 10).
First prize: Sir Norman Price, Eastbourne. Runners-up: Mrs A. Reszetniak, London N22; Jack Fletcher, Sheffield.
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