CROSSWORD 871: 36D by Mass
A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of either Chambers Dictionary or Chambers Crossword Manual — ring your choice) for the first three correct solutions opened on 30 August. Entries to: Crossword 871, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.
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8
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9 10 W
R 16
12
13
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38
39
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41
The solueon to 11 (two words) has '39' (two words) — as 21, thus suggesting the remaining unclued lights.
Name Address ACROSS
1 Scoundrel at start cut rough (8) 12 Incline, about mile, old dear .
(5)
16 . . . Incline from a spur (4) 17 Play? Stick around — theatre's opening (5) 18 Animator with desires I'd repel- led (6) 22 One works round bit of hedge- row for nests (8, hyphened) 23 One who fares well has rankle about closure of BEA (7) 24 Steele's subtle: there could be a catch in it (6, hyphened) 25 One after record shows guts (6) 27 Air's a treat, moving around Italy (7) 29 US author is entering. most of trial records in verse (8) 33 Fish makes me sullen (6) 34 Broadside gets ship's rope (5) 35 Carp at a plan? (4) 37 Mavis is converted to a Hindu belief (7) 38 Knotty little bow, quite trimmed
(5)
41 Hades is reported after hero's last wanderings (8) DOWN 1 A youth in Kentish helmet? (6) 2 A letter D provided hint (4) 4 Short typhoon ruined Eastern fern producing egg-cells (7) 5 One local sign in rush not observed (10) 6 Rage about a champion, disciple of false god (7)
8 Spy busy grabbing info (5)
9 Birds resettle, roughly about 100
(9)
10 Woad located in Thames (6) 15 Limit restless stir in building with head away (11) 19 Loose one abroad, FBI man packing a gun (10)
20 In long coat Ted rules anew (8) 26 Provides hand like bridge player . splitting suits (7)
28 Join up again? Sappers, indeed! () 29 River's on course for drink (6) 30 Is carrying cement, we hear, for houses (6) 31 Sounds of indigestion — right off — in deer's entrails (6) 32 Angular cross abutted (5) 36 21's term for 11 in `39'? (4)
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