CROSSWORD
A first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 23 October, 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 1230, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The otherwise unrelated unclued lights which include two place names) bear a similar format, as indicated by the title. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.
Name Address ACROSS 11 He speaks of Hebridean isle with duck and ring-dove (10) 13 Qualified sailor left horse (5) 14 Encourage because of ghost (8) 16 Utterly English food (5) 17 Gullet of Dane was affected (7) 18 Sedative for chap's old eyes (7) 19 Catching — and holding — one's attention (9) 22 Bob apparently penniless, once
(3)
26 Silent Unionist among Frenchmen (3) 32 The French author, losing time, is scurfy (7) 33 Exercises where lorry-drivers park (7, hyphened) 35 Attempts at killing? (5) 37 Khan tailed harem (5) 38 Note dispatched to monarch about mid-gut (10) 39 Slough rebuilt arches (6) 40 Most charming Scots lurch to trial (8) DOWN 1 Lot's action is a bashful stroke to leg (14, two words) 2 Ship's chandlers react badly when brought round (7) 3 Sullied, maybe (7, hyphened) 4 The same coin for US lecturer
(6)
5 Sisters point to French ones (4) 7 A square platform loses nothing and gains one fern (8) 8 New tinker cures pathological condition (11) 9 Property is transferred to him from foreign points (7) 10 Recent convert isn't a Mormon (14, two words, hyphened) 15 Goals set up without a hard blow (4) 16 Such a gland afflicted C. Harper with pain (11) 20 In France he embraced the same object of love (4) 21 Specify ornament's centrepiece (4) 22 Zoological realm with no old garment by river (8) 25 Single reveille, out East, is oppressive (7) 28 Waifs, alternatively phootball phollowers (7) 29 Sullen member, a law-maker (5) 30 Tailless lizard and game bird (4) 31 Not used to autumn temperatures, euphorbia starts to droop (6) 34 After some French love-poetry (4)
Solution to 1227: Summit meeting
The unclued lights were MOUNTAIN RANGES, the across ones being British.
First prize: Mrs D. Parker, Dartford.. Runners-up: M. R. Woodhead, Huddersfield, Yorkshire; Mrs K. Orr, Dollar, Clackmannanshire.
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