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A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 26 June, 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 1467, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Radial lights read from edge to centre or vice versa, twenty of each. Six events (one of two words, and one hyphened) in the cir- cuit next to the outer one, and an item essential to them (hyphened) in the innermost circuit, read clockwise.
Name Address RADIALS (6) 1 Drama, something disagreeable and knotty 2 Band to cease being in fashion 3 Drink, accepting excellent step 4 Wanting money, US expert's written about fish protein 5 Warriors stopped by active resistance weaken 6 Influence mischievous child, do 7 Sign given by goddess, not large 8 Troops with a record in Italy 9 Necklace customer initially tests 10 Muddy tile near..
11 . . Roman coin and tools, valuable things 12 Staunch master's pedigree 13 Tree, one beset by disease, beginning to break 14 Member of sect twice taken in by racket 15 Fungus book, amusing 16 Merry graduate, male 17 Vaulted room reached by soldiers 18 Hairy spot in game, engulfed by real rioting 19 Wrangle in Arabic with man holding francs 20 Timeless art show, Greek 21 Erring spoilt homily 22 Small-minded? Not at all 23 Pot completely filled by fellow saving pence 24 Tackle ridge, then river 25 Good jumper going round ring 26 Letter bound to be received by priest 27 Rough sketch showing most of amount in bottle 28 Plant, name unknown, in wood seen about 29 Lout in train, not in horse-drawn vehicle 30 Company in university entertained by irony?
31 Saw snare 32 Affirm a sure thing in speech 33 Lawless life's hard, tricky 34 Groove in shallow part of Mississippi?
35 Chant? Some begin to, nervously 36 Sale's ending with nothing reduced sufficiently 37 Excuse one in lecture ignoring lecturer 38 I soon worried about hot American cert (hyphened) 39 Quail, eating last of bad apple 40 One living beside river with reputation around Israel
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