Crossword 713

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £11.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) will be awarded for the first three correct solutions opened on 8 July. Entries to: Crossword 713, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 21,1..

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Eight of the across lights are clued without overal dernition and each has an affinity with one of the unclued down ones. Ignore two hyphens, one accent and an apostrophe.

Name Address 10Take it a short answer is intrinsic in a politician (10) 12 Nothing to beat without something with which to make bricks (4) 14 Start of play a bit short of seven (6) 16 Shake-'n'-roll? (5)

17 Points to the heart of the Heart of Midlothian (5)

20 Receiver a group of lawyers with outstanding egg-head skill rejected (7) 21 A girl having once implored to go out (7) 23 Umpires scraps by soldiers (7) 24 Brood and brood about the middle of spring (5) 25 Droll non-commissioned servicemen of repute in the States (5) 27 To a Bolshevik, perhaps, a hiveless Siberian community (7) 30 State clothes? They're groovy!

32 ee into a quote about a medicine (7) 36 Thoroughly concealed . . . (5) 37 . . . down-town (5) 38 Separates, by washing, do in season on retirement (6) ACROSS 39 1 Formerly called out in front of a 40 Head (13) 8 Was not taken aback after work 41 Fish long unknown (4) Container, perhaps, empty of black marble (10) Horses of literary renown (4) Good livers have rural economists losing head about mid-May before harvest-end (13) DOWN 2 Fruit an old satyr turned up (5) 3 End of the stock interferometer (6) 4 Indian soldiers the White Goddess supported (5) 5 Wink from Shakespeare's out of touch wanton (7) 6 Inspector General in sound unit turned out well in France (6) 7 Instruments Wing-Leader's woman screams out for (9) 9 Fairy left in unsatisfactory condition in dangerous manner (10) 11 Cherish bearing and raising pigs 15 ne poet sort of saw Spenser's is not within (8) 22 Note no key gypsy girl's a dish

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29 ark's turn first over a pyramidal tower (6) 33 Accepted straight back (5) 34 Indians in the early part of life upset it (5) 35 Game of pontoon, apart, say (5) 42 The solution to Crossword 710 is on page 39. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.