Crossword 603

A prize or ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 3 May. Entries to: Crossword 603, The Spec ator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights are of a kind with five of the clued ones. Ignore one accent.

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ACROSS I Lightly touch the nape of the 4 Yankee rascal chases round, hav- ing to aim at turning in (9) 11 Severe clout? Pity! (5) 12 State beauty tax (7)

14 ' ...sold a goodly — for a song' (All's Well) (5)

16 Back room occupied by head of house for ages (6) 21 City in Pennsylvania concerned with architectural features (8) 22 A legume is thus held to be another plant (7)

24 Wrath displayed by a penny dreadful (4)

28 Younger woman, originally 33 Tree's limb broken in a third of a unsparing (8) 34 A brigand lacking dress and hav- ing to strike out for some (5) 35 Extra grand (5) 37 It takes a long time, note, to do again (7) 38 Writer of somewhat overhasty love-stories (5)

39 Stress-Point worn out? On the from 1r0o an old poem) 41 contrary! raagreys ! (

specifically described (5) DOWN 1 Hit or miss, finally with it, once in the position of one about to take over (13) 2 About to grab a source of oil (6) 3 Violent rise in city spoliation in Scotland (6) 4 Brimstone hydraulic cement paste (6) 6 Heraldically motley meander about (7) 7 Serin that's current in France (5) 8 Austroasiatic tree a people of Kerala raised (8) 10 Seat this Court Assembly in four rows (13) 13 Able to show anything goes in Dahomey (7) 15 Keeping in trim — initially without profit, note (6) 17 Without issue? Nothing to avail oneself of, mate! (6) 18 Work away when frigid without complaint (6) 19 Fathom out an aphis in an im- mature way (7) 20 Hammer everybody inexperienc- ed (6) 23 One outwardly mature — or, e.g., Aulus Vitellius? (8) 26 Spearfish? On the contrary! (7) 29 Bittie bird's sob-story (6) 31 Flighty lassie always sick in a plane (6) 32 Scottish reels non-Roman Catholic English princes take to heart (5)