Crossword 581

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 15 November. Entries to: Crossword 581, The Spec- tator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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All the unclued lights, which are veritable in Chambers under the appropriate related word, are of a kind. Ignore one accent elsewhere.

Address ACROSS 1 Chief and Princess look for top league (13, two words) 8 Very best note on new piano (7) 10 One and ten down. Confused? So long! (7)

15 Orchestra giving half a 'Messiah' chorus (5)

19 Suppressing hat wearing out, say (7) 20 Throw back heartless seaman in- to Communist's embrace (7) 22 One right in lavish conifer '(7, hyphened) 23 See 40 (5) 24 Scrutinises jail on board (5)

30 Sickly article on cinema collapse (7)

35 Gazer at girls galore — not one, anyhow (5) 36 Swan and ram confined (6, two words) 37 Vein-channels (5) 38 Heraldic creature I once found in lakes (7) 39 Recluse points out transfer (7)

40 23 MPs steal out for. `The Good Life' (13, two words)

DOWN 2 Registers car (5) 3 Italian banker revealed by Vincenti Bertini (5) 4 Away from the coast and most of foreign country (6) 5 Random disease on the coast (7) 6 Arrange gold on Burmese knife on the spot (6) 7 Sort of record, diagram or treatise (9)

10 See 10 ac,(6)

12 Sloth-like, returning late round lair (7) 14 Rough quality of small valley in Conway (8) 17 Formal accusation apprentice in'

eluded caught Tim out (10), (9, 2(t The fruit of Pope's `Lear '

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21 Principal) lady at love-in, here- about (7) 25 One novice mother's brought liP on 27 A Flireanrcpt: (d7e)tective a8 letters left

manuscript with rounded letters (6) 29 Coin and pieces for inhabitalOs

around the Wash (6)A (41 32 Small class estimate demand