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A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 16 May, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK solvers, the new edition of The Chambers Dictionary, priced at £22.50 — ring the word `Dictionary'). Entries to Crossword 1157, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Radial lights (20 from rim to centre, 20 vice versa) include ten alternating male/female forenames clued in italics with no defini- tions. Four more alternating names in the circuit next to the outer one, and one word in the innermost circuit, all read clockwise.
Name Address RADIALS (6) 1 isle bounded by sandy tract 2 Drunk braced up after Sunday 3 Reptile from Zambia with dapple-grey coat 4 Legendary horse, yes, in. Shakespeare?
5 Tiny quantity, Eastern silkworm eggs 6 Pulse conceals first-rate heart 7 Cooler, resulting from diamond snatch (two words) 8 Bingo? A funny curiosity in Scott 9 Soften note before short slow passage 10 Stableman, rough sort the Pari- sian's brought in 11 Hint of noose in cowboy's rope 12 Stolen item once in fashion 13 Miser, say, presses debtor for return 14 Dull food? Do gets reorganised 15 Private eye, that is 16 So Nike's represented in pictures 17 Concerned with timber fret 18 Cutter piercing excavation 19 Former queen without addition to the House?
20 Tip of ilex among blighted trees puts forth, as of yore 21 Standard article 22 Decree decided a point 23 Remarking on old Norfolk ale, holding can 24 Reportedly pounced on Greek coin 25 Pimply VIP has time in Seychel- les 26 Sharpens censure with touch of satire 27 The old jazz fan's back 28 County's administrative bodies 29 Dilute about litre 30 Aussie horses in India – large ones, they say 31 Terms without Latin classes 32 Local trouble, brawl about Mac's score 33 Some strange lady 34 Sour drink, a bad lager 35 A right storm, downright 36 Gratify, as of old, with a run on cycle 37 Take a meal with Jesuit teacher, not head 38 Beetle in old saucepan 39 Speaker before canon's rejected 40 Endless crime, return of corrup- tion
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