1994

LBV PORT

GRAHAM'S

CROSSWORD 1486: Hidden characters 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 6 November, 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 1486, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street., London WC1N 2LL.

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Each clue comprises a definitional part and a hidden consecutive jumble of the light including one extra letter. These extra letters, in clue order, spell out something that first appeared in 1900 (8 words). The unclued lights (including two of two words), individu- ally or when correctly matched, are connected by a related theme. Elsewhere, ignore an accent. Chambers does not give the simple compounds at 5A & 15 (both in the Concise Oxford).

Name Address ACROSS

1 Gardener contrasts kniphofia with cuckoo flowers (6)

5 Fighter pilot, our chap, pressed `eject' (8) 11 A light set of bones (4)

13 Ardent editor makes one blush (6)

16 Watch the last eight pass Chiswick Eyot (5) 19 Film artillery firing small projectiles (9)

20 1 read a piece reinforcing those promoting peace (7)

23 Swearing in a store? Stone me! (8) 24 Left gear on the floor (5) 25 Wine in a jar, poisoned (5) 27 The aged weaken in wintertime, she reported (8) 30 Rodents ate up all the chicken- feed (7) 33 They may be executed on the slopes at Klosters — ten murderers (9, two words) 35 Early crossword lover (3) 38 Sea holly found in underwater cavern originally (6) 41 They're learning about eastern ailments (8) 42 Crave for what this brasserie offers (6) DOWN 1 The old express amusement at some billet-doux (6) 2 Conjuror has great spirit, I opine (12) 3 Its telecasts rely on fibre optics

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5 Steer a Ramsbottom bus (4) 6 There's the devil to pay in the City — look out! (7) 7 One game, basketball, is tame compared with netball (7) 9 Nine red deer returned (8) 12 A stringed instrument played by some Asians (7)

14 One seen wandering round fitting room (8)

15 They make one aware it's foolish entering relay race (12)

21 Indeed I screamed, stabbed with a dagger (7)

22 The sadist's sex orgies were the most obscene (8) 26 A toxin, say, may cause gent pain (7) 28 The dramatist Moore walked on air (7) 31 Lie in wait in West Ham's tube station (6) 32 Speak as you would long ago at a state symposium (6) 34 Roller used by a typesetter reeking of beer (5) 36 Card-sharps with knives (4)