w. & j.

GRAHAM'S

PORT

W. & J.

CROSSWORD

GRAHAM'S

PORT

A first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 6 September, with two runners-up prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries (no photocopies) to: Crossword 1123, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Four unclued lights variously designate the reg'on which, as Brewer confirms, is classically encompassed by the other five.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Essentially dark blue (5, one or two words) 4 Feeling soft feathers land (9, two words) 9 Frequent defendant receiving the cat? (10) 11 Creature retracted thin plate of bone (6)

12 Tax first opponent of Thomism? (7)

14 Wild lament about last pair in Alcatraz (5) 16 His job's saving life with a stretcher (6) 22 Drawing out from teaching, los- ing heart (8) 23 Artistic movement – match is transformed (7) 27 Pretty drunk, following a whis- key (7) 29 Round naos (note: eyelike and ringed) (8) 32 Hamstrings pawns, we hear (6) 34 Furious about return of spelling checks (5) 35 Hotel Niagara's concealed back entrance (5) 37 Decline to yield again (6) 39 Exclusive new car is neat (9) 40 Some of Hume's system's con- fused (5) DOWN 2 Age, time, and love – amatory poet's inspiration? (5) 3 Plant variety of lilacs (6) 4 Wanderers live in boats (7)

6 Discourage resolve? Not mine (5)

7 Laundering place? Used to be a river, with hands immersed (9, hyphened) 8 Attend to old tune (4) 10 Tainted couple at deadlock (9)

13 Spectator, champion in quality (7)

15 Said to need speck of milk (6) 17 Secret society member, not even keen? Ouch! (9) 18 Equipment to mend broken sign

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19 Lewdly naughty Lucy an' Seth (10) 20 Priestess graduate to sing in church? (9) 21 Italian castles often quite over- thrown, seized by power (6) 26 One who interpreted Fool, raised into playing Lear (7) 30 Meditate about class power (6) 31 Exhausted, seconds shut up (5) 34 Sinks softly in the infernal world (4)