Crossword 548

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 29 March. Entries to: Crossword 548, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Six of the clues, besides defining the word to be entered in the grid, also contain a cryptic clue to what is left when some of the letters (in their correct order and each a complete word) are entered as the Sy( unclued lights.

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1 Remove U-boat 33 (8)

5 Deep channels one sees cars round (6) 9 Took to court a decentralised plan (10) 16 Hard cases try one, attributively in Scotland (6) 18 Save Sun God Isle (5) 20 Former dictator brings beer- grant in (7) 22 Star worker on Mars (7) 24 See 27 (7) 25 Low islet round about W.I. evergreen (5) 26 Gold coin on path (5) 28 Serum for short holiday, on film 31 Frozen ozen term ex Gallica Enigmatica (7)

33 Treatise fellow hired after the French article (7)

37 Inclusive of Channel Island native descendant (5) 39 Sponsor is a stable type. Not half (6) 41 Ever in bed -- a strange bird (10)

42 Look up to present day stick-in- the-mud (6) 43 South eastern variety of fine silk

(8) DOWN 1 Cell-agents' uprising on atom- splitting. Damn! (13) 2 Crewman — an American with a shiner (5) 3 Thatcher takes Spenser's advice first (6) 4' He will be prepared with one from Havana (5) 6 Die horribly with accomplice for the best? (7) 7 Circular sort of square (6)

10 Slave with barrel-stand (6)

11 Shakespeare's hope down under

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12 Get a vet edible fare lacking meat (13, two words)

13 Story of Elsa involved the navy — broadcast before (8, two words) •

15 Watch alternate letters from tomb and grave (7) 19 Eleven square foot inclusion pro- ved quite enough (9) 21 People laid to earth up on the boundaries of 11 (8) 23 Lean appearance of city in naval surroundings (7) 27 Satellite of 24, maybe (7) 29 Adorn island race in a rage (6) 30 Sea-shore grass viewed in either direction (6) 32 US train-corridors are first-class — less jostling (6) 34 Fate of illegal army moment (5) 35 Some taste ingredients mug (5) after a of beer-