1454: Centrepieces by Doc
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 27 March, 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 1454, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued lights share a common p ace, literally.
Name Address ACROSS 1 Spicy sauce from some salad, twice (5) 10 Gaudy quality of unacceptable Hessian rugs displayed (10) 11 Cylinders' keys (6) 14 President Clinton's first musical 16 Old d name for the evening primrose by memorial site (6) 23 Half-year's stipend for orange dye (7) 24 Customer's jacket isn't finished (4) 25 I am a leader of the mosque (4) 27 Rebel is a cotton-worker (7) 35 Date by well-ventilated creamery
(5)
36 Two ducks by water — tailless — and one fish (7) 37 Butter-tree — I drag one round 38 Unnamed named expert round American type of magnolia (10) 39 Vital French points by unnamed guard (9) 40 Capital magistrate (5) DOWN 1 Right hospital wanting liberal review for those with a personality disorder (10) 4 Spenser's deformed this map badly (7) 5 A hotel award on B-road winding towards the right (10) 6 Creeping round (not quietly), but full of go (7) 7 Maintain the Deputy PM, in part (5) 8 Made vulgar bird-sound on cottage-room, it's said (9) 9 Deserve some dear nylons (4) 13 Alerting to a US nurse in annexe (7) 15 Solid fish accepts first place? (6) 17 Two women making 20/- (10) 18 Help is organised installing new and old stock (7) 19 War-god and girl in awful rain at sea (10) 20 So, to China deviously colluding (9, two words) 21 Shire personnel (6) 26 Incisive and playful loose woman outside (7) 30 A squalid home including year's refuge (6) 31 Climbing plant, one in a row (5) 33 Thread of endless publicity stunt this year (5)
Solution to 1451: Columba
The unclued lights (and title) are
CONSTELLATIONS.
First prize: Richard Bacon, London.
Runners-up: CM. Hastings, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; Mrs J.R. Allingham, Peterborough.
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