CROSSWORD
A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 12 August, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary'). Entries to: Crossword 1271, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
IA (four words) hints a the other unclued lights, including one of two words and two of three words. Chambers does not give one Place name.
Name Address ACROSS 9 Nowhere near, one has to travel endlessly on (4) 11 Most golfers never achieve this handicap (9) 12 Left in narrow passage in gorge (4) 14 Give an account of Hull, say (6) 16 Radical friend, lecturer (5) 17 Firearm in sack (5) 20 Refrain from seaman, dirty (7) 21 Caliph in cloth garment, edge trimmed (7) 24 Fish with square head (7) 25 Nag breaks the Spanish backer
(5)
26 Indian from Ohio's mature (5) 28 Notes from pupil mostly about one (7) 31 Bottles made by Florida prisoners (7) 34 They take over from others willingly in the course of research (7) 37 One's taken in by grandmother for a month in Tel Aviv (5) 38 Ocean wrecked slender boat (5) 39 Upright, tribunal's judgment about clubs (6) 40 Doctor holds a maiden's umbrella (4) 41 Piece of furniture was hard to position (9) 42 Diminutive chap imbibes one in capital (4) DOWN 1 Russian girl offers mixed spices (6) 2 Bird of prey, for example, circling a lake, English (5) 3 Strawy stems, millions, carried by carts (6) 4 Devil shows chronic bile on Sunday (5) 5 Flourish? Make out loud one initially (7) 6 Deliver it about one, a plant (7) 7 So enters one pub showing indication of pressure? (6) 8 Catch in net assorted fish (8) 13 Walk wearily with a priest abroad (7) 23 1,000 of us appearing before party whip (8) 27 Refutations made'by eastern boy and gypsy girl (7) 29 Little girl one thanks for ice- cream (7) 30 Fellow has Latin examination about flowers (6) 32 You'll find a bounder in any place of rustic simplicity (6) 35 Another form of bwana? (5) 36 Free one leg (5)
Solution to 1268: Split
Components of 27A, CAT/AtroNIC, suggested he trios of unclued lights at 10, 26, 33;17, 6, 21; and 41, 16, 28.
First prize: Mrs P.G. Dunn, Sevenoaks. Runners-up: Mm D. Waller, Rayleigh, Essex; R.R. Tyler, Aylesbeare, Exeter.
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