CROSSWORD

A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 22 January, 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 1242, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

When correctly arranged, the unclued lights (six of two or more words, and one doing double duty) yield a quotation, verifiable in Brewer. One c ued light includes an abbreviation.

Name Address ACROSS

11 Rationale transferred by him? (9)

12 Conductor making one elaborate lyric (5) 14 The first of the month reversing when slippery? (4) 15 Peer parking by railway (3) 18 He hampers tense fisherman (7)

19 Goddess ate rats for a change (7)

22 Old country by another, almost 23 One e workmate seen during my illness (6) 24 Dark blue kept on striving. Not half (5) 31 Function of note inside bollard (6) 34 Sycophant's suit (7) 35 Manager for another attorney

(7)

38 Recognise wife having sex (3) 41 The fish was off (5) 42 But it doesn't include Ash Wednesday! (9, hyphened) 43 Made amends involved with Epcot? Yes! (11) DOWN 2 Fold centre-fold (5) 5 Isolated lake in Indies, choppy

6 P(7 alest sort of drawing (6) 7 Two in Ancient Rome, perhaps?

No! Three from Ancient Greece (6) 8 Upset true father of Odysseus

(7)

9 Taunton's preposition (4) 10 Somehow, dot three i's and state it's foolish (9) 16 Politician reviewed therm charts (11, two words) 17 Crushing sorrows of cashier in suit (11) 20 Premier beat up doctor, boss of hall (9, hyphened) 21 Compiler doesn't have small Provençal house (3) 25 Break out of slammer uptown

(5)

26 Chain-letter (3) 28 Spenser's untied when late sun is out (7) 30 Enzyme's not like homologous organ (7) 32 Pair miss out solids (6) 33 Old hair from colt upset singer (6) 36 Eight players caught in books and film (5) 37 Turned up with record magazine (4)

Solution to 1239: Intime

As indicated in 19D, the unclued lights were SEWING STITCHES (paired at 11A and 21D to form otherwise unthematic words).

First prize: Dr P. A. Burns, Knutsford, Cheshire. Runners-up: R. Homer, Chorley, Lancashire; Mrs D. Perry, Budleigh Salterton, Devon.