Crossword 663

In Mass's 50th puzzle the radials (20 from rim to centre, 20 from

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Prize: £10 — or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, 1983 edition (ring the word 'Dictionary' under name and address) — for the first correct solution opened on 9 July. Entries to: Crossword 663, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

RADIALS (6)

I Metal grate in Greenock

2 GI's lapel not quite turned back 3 Minister gets bird 4 Bull? Carp about compiler

5 Boor — that's the gist of it

6 Ridge to left yields mineral 7 Those who reinforce ships 8 Mass of metal (nothing rounded) sort out hide

9 Ta reris tv eto d 10 Broke like a pointer

11 Place of trade, fashionable for 12 flighty taylpoe A id making old uncle bring back egg 13 Deposit gold in carriage 14 Departed without one woolly 15 Lime scattered round Sunday School for bird

16 Convent eucharist

17 Class admits fools

18 Plant a thicket

19 Like a garden retreat in melting ice 20 Scandinavian sounds endlessly

21 Sfunseseyr and taunt child

22 Thread, bit of yarn, entangled 23 Dazzled once by reflecting spring, as 'twere

24 Mourn for MD

25 Giving out parts. acting

26 Pet pig by river, rounded lump

27 Pregnant? Grouse, full of hunger 28 Classify branch

29 Slaves free in Amazonian forests

30 Makes turbid furrows on moon

31 Quick drinks for types around north 32 Odd sort, medico, fishy kind

33 Cured? Prevented 34 Aperient powder dissolving in ales

35 Yarn in steamer loses freshness

36 Luke (SJ) converted Turk

37 Second shot, to soften pain, as before

38 Play a trick on father

39 Root girl's severed without thinking 40 Adored spreading tree