CROSSWORD

880: Sausages & mash by Mascot

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The unclued lights (one of two words, two others being the components of a hyphened word) are of a kind. Italic clues each contain a definition and a hidden consecutive jumble of the light; initial letters of these lights, when arranged, give an apt (hyphened) word to be submitted with solutions.

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ACROSS

4 Is, say, glory of pharaohs in study of ME antiquities? (11)

11 Sick poodle: vet will provide soap-liniment (9) 12 Block one adult saws (5) 13 Those who debar co iers — or cribs, particularly (11 14 Early, obsolete coin 4)

18 Chemical from. well drilled by rotating nose abroad (7)

19 Caustic wit one dreaded (7) 22 Inserted oil in valve (6) 23 Faith, hope and charity — all- embracing (6) 24 A wage is short, satisfies no longer (5) N Asleep fitfully in wood (6)

31 Write home? No longer dis- 34 rposed, we hear (6) ruit-juice, nut, in concoction for cattle (7, hyphened) 35 Animal holding chest back in frenzy (7, hyphened) 38 Consumed with mischief (3)

40 Mobile thief, word has it, bag- ging gold girdle (11, hyphened) 41 Laird ruled like an old Irish king (5, hyphened)

42 Pearl eroded in set (9)

43 Exaggerating type, getting mer- rier, bored me (11) DOWN 2 At the big house in Edinburgh, standing aside, we hear (5) 6 Second advances? Snubs for Mac (6) 8 Pot-herb, oil upset one in a party

(7) 9 Heavy. thing one lugs (4)

15 Khan is up — about time (5) 16 Large ice Tom made up cone- shaped, say (11) 17 'Conventional poetry's detested by avant-garde (11) 20 Slim fin on perch, shaped like a feather (9) 21 In'ibited age (3) 25 Pride oneself, as a successful employee (5) 26 Look at bit of sausage and mash, we're told (3) 28 Fruit from mango-tree 1 ate (7) 30 A royal sovereign reduced - measure in tsarist times (7) 33 Crude driver damaged steering apparatus (6) 36 Located, full of gold, a trunk (5) 37 Fort (Toth) on hill (4) The solution to Crossword 877 is on page 53 Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.