CROSSWORD 1450: Quotation II by Ascot
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late- Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 28 February, 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 1450, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
An extract from a speech (11 words, Ignoring one apostrophe) reads clockwise round the perimeter from a square to be deduced. It is followed by the speechmaker (5, 1, 9), an American 3, 15. The perimeter's barred off and corner squares may make HOSTELLER MISS VENUE ON SITE.
Name Address ACROSS 11 Still time to get a result (5) 12 Mixture of oil, old mixture (4) 13 Most of cattle circling one male in compound (5)
14 Short fellow with energy in inn (7)
17 Polish magazine (5) 20 Feeding fruit to one during break (8) 21 Refutation once provided by the Spanish girl losing weight (6) 23 Bones when very round (4) 26 A wild urge to contradict (5)
27 Landmark in Maine hit, bombed 5)
( 28 Spree at university's before end of Hilary (4) 30 Sluggish creature, awfully inert one (6) 31 Just beginning trendy talk about love, last of course (8) 36 A study by one, a Yemeni (5) 38 Jaundiced joker, a caution (10, 2 words) 39 Like a climbing plant Scotsman planted in open (7) 40 The London 'Bronte'? (5) 41 A flower, mostly blue (4) 42 Cover on a continental quilt (5) DOWN 2 Some receiving one literally in dotage (7) 4 Organism turned up in York river (6) 5 Tape jingle without intro (5) 6 Crosses more colourful bit of Sahara (8) 7 Young child holding book, one biblical book (5) 8 See one clear green (5) 10 Jump last in National? Fell before it (4) 16 Fool copper's put in cell (5) 18 Stroke one upturned palm (4) 19 Stop one state producing magazine (10) 22 Youngster, last to take pains (5) 24 Cooked a few pies for clairvoyant
25 P(8 etition clubs perhaps (4) 29 More than one eminent musician
playing sitar with me (7) 32 Vehicle attached to container (6) 33 Some dull, another plain (5) 34 A bird showed up for money (5) 35 Mother caught ape (5) 37 Middle, up and down (4)
Solution to 1447: Where it's at
11, 41, 2, 8, 21 and 36 suggest Doughty, obviously (see instructions above puzzle) linked with FIFTY-SIX (5A) and STREET (42).
First prize: Matthew Day, Glasgow. Runners-up: Eric Side, Gloucester; R.R. Tyler, Exeter.
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