Crossword 683
Prize: (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, 1983 edition, value £11.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first correct solution opened on 26 November. Entries to: Crossword 683, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.
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The unclued lights (one of three words and two of two), either singly or when correctly paired, are of a kind.
Name Address ACROSS 4
1 Choral work: '0 desert, 0 city'
(8) . . . . 6 5 . . . . the end sounds to be like 8 Sibelius (6) 12 Birds under par? (6) 9 13 Gamble that's enough to make 14 your hair curl! (8) 15 16 Judo expert with note for author
(5) 16
17 Lion's associate? (7) 18 Somehow tell of black 19 prehistoric flint (7, hyphened) 21 20 Bloom: one will be carried by the wind (8, two words) 23 25 Eggs from 7 (3) 26 Deeply fixed, in essence (7) 24 28 Settler's pot (7) 29 Many always make time (3) 25 31 Change pound for old pence in 2, maybe (8) 27 36 Ill-defined crowd about lake (7) 39 Flower-net (5) 30 41 Mixed drinks and slices of lemon (6) 31 43 Not so much gold for the landlord (6) 32 44 Bushmaster's fate (8) 33 DOWN 35 37 2 See 31 across (8) 38 3 Platforms: artist accepted new Dictionary prizes are sent out by the `Post-a-Book' service. The solution to Crossword 680 is on page 39. sort (6) Part of the atmosphere's central fog-belt (5) Wrapped in torpid lethargy (4) Place to build on? Sounds like sense (4) Vile yell heard at game (8) Fruit said to be horrible (4) Panel-beater conceals a flower (4) Pretty girl arrives with William's notes (11, two words) Stupid, heartless old fellow (4) Custody outside of Waterford (4) Photographic portrait given out with race entry, first (8) Incidental benefit of cancelled car-trip? (7, hyphened) Notice the inner part of the ear (4) Some foreign items are light again (8, hyphened) and 37 Knave has turf-cutting spade for herb (8) Decree and article make official proceedings (4) Lyrical author with facial spasm (6)
Holds pen-top in form (6) Refuse dyke-builder has left (5) See 30 (4) Something fragrant for Klemperer? (4)
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