CROSSWORD
A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1990 Port for the first correct solution opened on 21 October, 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 1281, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued lights (all but two of two or three words), as pairs or as one trio, are of a kind, with one unclued light doing double duty.
Name Address ACROSS 11 None left, having no time, perhaps, to make fierce (7) 12 Indian fruit by bum and steeple (6) 13 Time to command heartlessly and destroy (9) 14 Malay chief or two gods (5) 16 Organ cylinder (5) 19 Wulstan distributed fruit (7) 21 Money returned for seed cover (4) 23 Wedge-like chips sorted without measure (7) 24 Very small Dickensian character loses money at city (4) 30 One volunteer army hang-out with a dagger (7) 31 Complaints of medicine quietly cancelled (4) 32 Team ate out— on beef? (7, hyphened) 34 The requirement necessitated disembowelling (4) 37 A religious devotion any Sikh starts (5) 40 Leave no capital (5) 41 Horse and two OAPs almost last out (9) 42 Month with hail for eight days (6) 43 Fish in trees? So silly (7) DOWN
2 Attack ckcooTing up in Uganda or
5 Not completely hard, but smelly (4) 6 Pan the outskirts of an Oxfordshire town (4) 7 Sketch that's used for fishing (7) 10 Keen desire for sport around central Yorks. (7) 15 Small map isn't redrawn around Spain (5) 17 A change of attire and a tune
(7)
18 Clearly a quick take-off! (11, two words) 22 Common lead ore from a corner position (9) 26 A barrier of stone (5) 27 Athenian citizen at river in Scots valley (7) 28 One member turned over to make progress (7) 29 Case for that woman taking in- a short sleep (7) 33 15's apparent opposite, as a start (6) 36 The two of them round the love- stall (5) 39 And an orchestra (4)
Solution to 1278: Professor Stephen
The unclued lights were terms used in HAWKING (listed in Brewer).
First prize: C. Taylor, Northwich, Cheshire. Runners-up: John McI. Cruickshank, Aberdeen; Andrew McKenzie, Wotton-under-Edge.
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