Prize Crossword
A prize of £3 will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 3 May. Address solutions: Crossword 1478, The Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London WC1E 6AE.
Across 1 Popular non-U tree (6) 4 Bind together three strings (8) 10 He puts his foot down and leaves the reader (7) 11 Scrap suits rum chaps to a T (7) 12 Woman and Nationalist leader in the same plane (4) 13 3D representation (7, 3) 16 Provides from broken crates (6) 17 A voter, drunk before beginning of election, obviously had too much (7) 20 Girl has instrument which records volume of particular verse (7) 21 Dressed hippy style and engaged (2,4) 24 'He only can behold With unaffrighted eyes — of the deep' (Campion) (3, 7) 25 Film featuring motorway and street (4) 27 Falls backwards again in front of sun-god (7) 29 Page precedes nobleman in Scottish lace (7) 30 'The — School of Criticism' (Rossetti title) (8) 31 Chestnut and bay achieve hilltop by oppo- site directions (6) Down 1 Game operatic heroine (8) 2 Now observe the duration of undercurrent (7, 4) 3 to Reflection' (Coleridge title) (4) 5 I have underwear that is rather humorous (8) 6 Revolutionary surly fellow gets ham and fruit (3, 7) 7 Familiar name of a cabinet minister in any English government (3) 8 Legal bars in the judge's top story (6) 9 Convincing evidence provided by piano lid (5) 14 Fairy Queen legally presents lolanthe's rela- tion to Phyllis (6-2-3) 15 Open contest in which strip of sail comes in for overall (4, 3, 3) 18 Stuff the fish and get a ticking off! (8) 19 Old shilling subscription obtains the mss (3)
22 'You are not — but men' (Julius Caesar)
(6) 23 Doctor overworks and falls exhausted (5) 26 Two giving a quiet tune (4) 28 Period in which the viola germinates (3) Solution and winner on 8 May
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