1500 by Mary Land

The Spectator Crossword No. 1500: 10 February 2001

A first prize of £30 and a bottle of Graham's award-winning, Late Bottled Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 26 February, with two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary - ring the word 'Dictionary'), Each prizewinner will also receive a copy of The Spectator Book of Crosswords, signed by all four compilers. Entries to: Crossword 1500, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL

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The unclued lights, all but one of them words, share a common feature. Chambers does not give two of them or the place-name. The 34 unchecked letters of these 8 unclued lights yield MARKET DAY, MUM DAD, MY DOG, conversely DOOR MAT and  MYSTIC N.
ACROSS
1 Silk starts to make objections with anger (5)
11 Bird having part removed - rib? (5)
12 Extravagance once shown by one in wild sortie (7)
14 Fast duck or slow? (5)
15 Desert's endless simple appeal (5)
16 Fury in city suppressed by old lord, returning (6)
21 Young man, boorish in church, left (8)
22 Inspector with view about copper's complaint (7)
24 Period indeed associated with king (4)
25 Parasite in pantry perhaps (4)
27 Intercede and help, after revolution, within measure (7)
28 Ace end to convoluted story (8)
33 So far, stable shows promise (6)
34 Irritable still, reflecting about children (5)
35 Girl I see during festival (5)
37 Only local tales included in old collection of books (7)
38 Start from Delaware, nevertheless (5
41 Neat guide (5)		 DOWN
2 Basketwork made from twigs over in outskirts of Orly (6)
3 Ruling about information initially taped (6)
4 Attack spy on street (6)
5 Paddy upset over Northern Ireland (4)
6 City do, I suspect, is folly (7)
7 Suppressed note penned by slob (5)
8 Local bank stops payment (8
13 Cat in short trousers (7)
17 Old coin, current in South Carolina, with heartless tourist (6)
18 Unlimited contempt riled fellow drinkers (6)
19 Razorbill wheels round towards floater (7)
23 Wearing undone dresses? That's a subtle slur (8)
26 Liquid soap contains it for instance (7)
29 Smart clothes though quiet (6)
30 Appearance of snake shocks (6)
31 Booze-up after good game (6)
32 Feature about anonymous islander (5)
36 Date that is timeless (4)