CROSSWORD 1018: Round-houses by Mass
A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary') for the first three correct solutions (please, no photocopies) opened on 5 August. Entries to: Crossword 1018, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Radial lights (twenty from rim to centre and twenty from centre to rim) include ten theme words, one in each segment and three of them plural, clued without overall definitions. Eight more theme words read clockwise in the circuit next to the outer one.
Name Address RADIALS (6) 1 Old republic, backward state with rocks 2 An evil maybe pardonable 3 Six left, see, in depraved manner 4 Against wickedness, old copper 5 Jolly poems 6 Foul stuff, onset of discharge in ulcers 7 Piano notes stirred connections in the brain 8 Bristly plant, very large, Eastern 9 In fine fettle in Connecticut 10 Cracked little fellow, they say 11 Endless cramp grips alien islan- der 12 Townee has most of fruity bitter 13 Social refinement in language 14 Quantity of meat and 2 litres in basket 15 Pop and fish losing freshness 16 A century bagged by Border? 17 Girl's inducement, one accepted by man 18 Most of bohea's brewed with it 19 Uranium in cut channel 20 Emblem of French force – . .
21 . . . Armoric hat 22 Glance at no yorker 23 Quench with Scotch, measure after tipsy `Skol!'
24 Political party's reduced vision 25 Wary eating one northern fish 26 Henry fires round 27 Exclusive, the French boarding school 28 Lists billions in false accounts 29 Shows contempt for fortune- tellers round North 30 Rose is weaving material for baskets 31 Worker engaged in fling 32 Mac's trick gets one in scrape 33 Area of earth producing tin-ore 34 Last of fertiliser in shed, sprink- led as before 35 English drill in square 36 A local food product reportedly not fit 37 A monarch's audible longing 38 Jester full of wine, going from side to side 39 Key chain 40 Sober before second wine
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