Crossword 686

Prize: £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, 1983 edition, value £11.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1978 Port, for the first correct solution opened on 14 December. Entries to: Crossword 686, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2L1,.

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The unclued lights have something in common.

Name Address ACROSS

1 It causes heat having blasted Scotch run wild on grass (8)

5 Avoid backing a little way round school (6) 9 German beheaded French queen in evening time — not often occurring (10) 16 One having huge bill caught out in fiddling account (6)

17 Foam that covers rough sea (5) 20 Smother after too much rest (7)

22 More than one dug very quietly in river with spades (7) 25 Pop star king not left all shook up in gutter (5) 26 And 25 more being swallowed by a fish, 21 being this? (5) 28 Imagined on the same river a young dandy (7) 31 Unusually prove to be higher (7) 33 Go to it alone, giving one for one, suffering a painful complaint (7) 39 Fellows retreating ahead of bear coming from Grecian valley (6) 41 Back end of skunk etc entangled in twisted lariat — it hums! (10, hyphened) 42 A sharp edge needed, hard, for stubble (6) 43 Like child of uncle — bashful about Uncle Sam belonging to league (8) DOWN 1 Graves available here or gin. burgundy's corked (13. hyphened) 2 Refuse lights perhaps (5) 3 Annual endless telling off (6) 4 Mouldy, like soft fruit-juice (5) 6 Rum sorts we lodgers (7) 8 Test of capacity from radioactive element (4) 10 Register lost in the French uprising (6)

11 Diggers' quarterly arrival that's the start and end of riots (9) 12 Truly I'd repent misbehaving off and on (13)

13 10c in copper on time deposit 15 Precious stone from the orient accepted in Austria but not upper class (7) 19 Bad dream? Tea helps I recollected (9) 21 Cold place, i.e. central heating

go heywprhoennge,drthing to resort to 23 Fur hats used to protect the chin (7) 27 Party clothes with square folds at corners (7)

29 Have ready a dictionary whicl.lf contains this meaning ° bivalent (6) 30 Caterpillar greaser (6)

32 This, for example, buckled the

bumpers (6) all 34 Look up, we can see it's correct by a tick (5) The solution to Crossword 683 is on page 47. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.