Crossword 595
A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 7 March. Entries to: Crossword 595, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
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4D ('n 18's 15D 30) and 21 (in 14's 20 7) have something in common. The OED gives 22.
Name Address ACROSS 4 Dame lit up cooking range (9) 9 Black ice traced in pile-up, fragmented like slate? (10) 11 Closer — almost facing Her Majesty (6) 12 A garment in excess? Quite (7) 15 Feast curtailed: fish is ponging (5)' 16 Burns in historical ruins, wandering round bit of Edin- burgh (6) 22 Mix things in rare old way, when cross? (8) 23 Pope holds poetry etc reflectively to be very stimulating? (7) 24 Elgar never shows influence of this composer (4) 25 Very old German drops in for dancing girl (4) 27 Venomous cold-blooded type swung at Edward in a row (7) 29 Spirally coiled groove round receptacle — aluminium (8) 32 Tars initially among old shipmen in oil-vessels (6) 34 Old silver coin given to a girl (5) 35 Ejects, tilts first piece out (5) 36 Sloe-gin, once mixed, carries some distance (7) 37 A household deity in Zoroastrian scriptures (6) 38 Assessing building site was daun- ting (10) 39 A great many (having the means) can be accumulated (9)
40 Letter in Hindu scripture end- lessly, excessively discussed (5)
DOWN 1 Rats strip waterfowl in isle (10) 2 Force of hypnotism needs time in music-hall (5) 3 With time blunders would become extreme fears (6) 5 Old lively dance indeed — pair of `flappers' busy kicking up (7) 6 Sandpiper from east in migration (5) 8 Lied about age (4) 10 A Spaniard caught Easterner eating sesame (9) 13 Crush tailless round fish, star- like phenomena (7) 17 A baroque sundial, one in Juan's home? (9) 19 Brit. Rail is holding some French girl who held up a train? (10) 26 Roman lady, busy one on out- skirts of Ithaca (7)
28 Salt 100,000 rupees? A pinch for Jock (7)
33 Nag tops the French champion- ship (5) 34 Green environs for black arma- dillo (4)
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