CROSSWORD 1191: Gee up by Doc

A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 23 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 1191, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

The unclued lights (one of three and two of two words, one of these being an abbreviation), individually or as a pair, are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Chambers does not give 41 (in COD).

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 9 Inheritor among the Irish (4) 11 A St Lucia company somehow

involved in hearing (10) 13 Form of jazz music: a Hindu

mode (4) 15 Arab tunic from French friends in church (6) 17 Lemur removing one from vegetable (5) 20 He knows one language: it's not gloom, anyhow (8) 21 Could be in the round, sort of European art (7) 24 Top of the tall part of the leg (5) 26 One night in France for the Eskimo people (5) 28 Furnace-worker demolishing elm-trees out East (7) 32 Disabled with everything returned on plate (7) 34 Tender left in slender turret (8) 38 Case of butterflies left out (5) 39 Army recruitment display (6, two words) 41 Strange tale about earthenware set connected with a flap (10) 42 Half the letters of sacred river

43 P(4 arlous condition of the French, according to one having a will

(14, two words) DOWN 1 Thin piece of bread father put in water pot (8) 2 Tidy up: start of hearty laughter 3 Rear ar admiral's taste for stew (6) 4 Twelve endlessly sleep? (4) 5 Chap with hemp giving strength to campers (7, hyphened) 6 Remain abroad with support from the mass (7, two words) 7 Watch the reaping-hook, we hear: it's frozen (6) 8 Chooses or chosen back to front (6) 14 Old don's speech (7) 16 Animal with a woolly face one she has on record (8, hyphened) 22 Gold alight round US city (7) 25 Complaint he twice put about present-day aircraftsman (8)

27 Tegular variety of mouse-deer (7) 29 Blockhead holding the French female — a girl of mixed blood (7)

30 Well up last month at intervals (6)

31 Former Spectator editor reading Listener, in part (6) 33 A thousand and 35 molten rails (5)

35 See 33 (5) 37 Trim rarely? Double-ended hairpiece needed (4)

Solution to 1189: Speaking in tongues

The unclued lights, correctly paired, were phrases of use to travellers abroad.

First prize: Cynthia Gee, Rye, East Sussex; Runners-up: Mrs Joyce Dowie, Crieff, Perthshire; F. Hogan, Maryport, Cumbria.