Crossword 552 ACROSS

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A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 26 April. Entries to: Crossword 552, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street London WC1N 2LL.

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Eight unclued lights are related. Three clued lights are hyphened. Ignore an accent.

Name Address

1 Gloomy past in Tennyson's Memory (11) by Egma 11 Beastly product, sloth in

gazelle (6) 17 State shortly deception of medicine (6) 18 No scores, or 405! (5) 20 Has ten twists to handle (6) 21 Fellow's singular fried mince (5) 22 Italian getting refusal among birds (7) 27 Shrine not seem unattractive?

(7)

29 Pours out remains of Scotch (5) 30 This weight's zinc (6) 32 Use it with drink (5) 34 Mother's love-starts guzzling in larder (6) 36 Sudden rush to strike about nothing (5) 37 Royal backing for drink (5) 38 Gnarled, aged umpire in the Sudan (7) 39 Outlandish — strip-teasing? (6) 40 Fall back to nothing (3) 41 Crude levity, crude diminish- ingly (11) DOWN 1 Bird on northern bark in high wind (10) 2 Bat and canary about to change direction (8) 3 Being on time is deaf about be- ing fashionable (9) 4 Carelessness in a tent, no, not possibly (12)

5 Get on well with a girl in a porch (7)

6 Transpose complex oeuvre for poet (8) 7 Move to head off uncertainty

(5) 8 Alliance member alr110st radical! (4)

9 Poet beginning to comPose in appropriate hours (6)

10 Corrupt Scotsmen in jails (5) 12 It may be removed from carte silently (6) 14 A Gothic close? Could be! (1,,,2,) 21 Channel el 19 Insect emerging belly first (1`!,,)

28 Fish lose heads in drunken revels (6)Ihstaasndlest (9) adjutant .

23 Superior cricket watcher (8),Q, 24 Badly torn ear's turned 111).,[,”, 26 Timber hazard for Light 130' boat? (7)