CROSSWORD
A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1991 Port for the first correct solution opened on 12 May, 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 1308, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued Fghts bear a distinct feature which thus precludes any apparent alternatives. ACROSS 1 C-coarse! (5) 4 Verification about a magistrate returning with a hawker (9, hyphened) 9 Daisy from Siam uprooted around tea-tree (10) 11 Below town (5) 12 Trumpets' top registers (7) 14 Some Indian elephant-oil (5) 15 Tipped off male was tricked (5) 21 Hurry away — it's a tall story, reportedly (8) 22 Fruit having flavour of melon at centre (7) 24 Youths outside behaving suspiciously for starters (4) 25 Venetian magistrate and the same goddess (4) 27 Cambric with corded cloth backing and intricate lace (7) 28 Song-writers from Spain, say, in Borders (7) 34 Begin journey without energy for beer (5) 35 Fleeces birds (5) 37 Season of music and drama doesn't start in the summer (7) 38 Hat from plantation and grove, finally (5) 39 Pustule turned sour/soured (10) 40 Organised wet ramble for old fair (9) 41 US chopper beheaded Jeremy
(5)
DOWN 1 Silly clots can't see without new ? (13, two words) 2 Bedchamber's morning reception (6) 3 The same sun-suit (6) 5 Curved bar where Mac lives (4) 6 Could be largely a reaction (7) 7 Indian tree having cause to vibrate before mid-July (5)
8 Rebuilt MacNeill sugar- processor (8, hyphened)
10 Where aster comes from Arab- speaking countries (13, hyphened) 13 Changed what happened at noon (7) 19 Flag in channel for pasta (7) 23 Totally disorganised with nothing on dry land (8, three words) 26 Points out violin on low platform (7) 31 Wine-shop where exclamation upset the old (6) 32 Riding-whip from start of keyboard, we hear (5) 36 River outside the outhouse (4) Crossword 1307: Clue 38 should have read 39; the light at 38 is unclued
Solution to 1305: Pieces of eight
The unclued lights at 6A, 24, 41, 43, 11/38 and 19/7 were pieces of music by RAVEL (8).
First prize: Jack Walton, Epsom, Surrey. Runners-up: Jeremy Goul- stone, Chapman, ACT, Australia; Mrs Macpherson, Stirling.
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