Crossword 648

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 26 March. Entries to: Crossword 648, The Spectator, 56 Doughty St., London WC1N 2LL.

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The italic definitions, give lights (one hyphened) whose initial components are fish: e.g. SOLEcism. One of these fish occurs twice.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 One in smooth, northern deputy's office (8)

6 Well, plot needs turning, Henry — rakes will do it? (6) 12 Pseudo-serious tosh (10)

13 Fish laying fifty eggs (5) 14 Recanter — by law — covered by Bar possibly (7) 15 Gallop round a wine store for dragoon (10) 16 Salt (rover) blockading Cuba (7) 20 Skirt, eastern, outsize (4)

22 No one vexed about weathering (7)

23 Bear with rounded face (4)

24 Beetles (7) 26 Commercial traveller (7)

30 Foreleg, Mac's mouth, black (4) 31 Is embraced by old dejected lover (7)

34 Long-snouted phrilanger (4) 36 Floral ovaries from lis, tips impaired (7) 38 Cheating (10)

39 Fit for consumption, according to Water Board (7)

40 Girl tucked into hamper (5) 41 Bacteria (10)

42 Name Saint (vaguely mention) out of NT (6)

43 Abstract speculation (8)

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2 Mad beldame 1 restricted with girdle, (8)

3 Thespian agent lacks forte (5)

4 Imagined (7)

5 Sailor distresses birds (7)

6 Inking-pad (6)

7 Scottish spoils left in ship's boxes (6)

8 Sea's rising further (5) 9 Dutch two-masters (13) s 10 DPoraliutigchatl_

Dry party, mainly (3) _, 11 • 18 Girl, old forsaken one (,) 17

Tipplings (9)

whales (5) hopoprsoer(19u)nists (13) 19

21 Urchin at home under school of 25 An industrial process (8) 27 Letter from Aristotle — (8)tau? ted (7) 2298 ALegnacirlutshhreodbiningrup), fret 32 Touching outbburst in feast (6) 33 Shoot nicked, it's said (6) cl 35 Almost crush one, as it viere PI, 37 Endless gossip about drunk showing depth of colour (5)