12 MARCH 1983, Page 37

Crossword 598

The unclued lights. . . by Mass

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• have something in common. Three are hyphened; ignore two aPostrophes. Chambers gives 33 (an etymon) and all else except 11 (which is in the OED).

Name

Address

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ACROSS 10 Impertinently stare goblin out of face (4) 12 Intellectual male confused with action (10) 14 Stone-dresser, one in kirk going round cross (3) 15 Nonsense word from spirit in hell

(8)

17 Casca's cash acquires houses (5) 19 Hard substance in joint-footed beasts — and it's in part of the head (6) 22 Unfixed a footlight (6) 24 Top from salad veg, half chop- ped (5) 27 Mineral ore round edges of Trent — sandy, we hear (9) 29 Skulks with sulks, abashed (5) 31 Progressively in favour of Radical (6) 34 Pirate's brand located (6) 36 Kings from East buried in ravines (7) 38 Old rough maggoty pears (5) 40 Resort to archaic custom (3) 41 Setting, laying rocks around a tree (10)

42 PM's beauty-spot (4)

DOWN

3 Needing root of law' I study

this? (7) 5 Rich suite composed in logical way (9) 6 Toxic alkaloid gets academic in the cart (6)

7 Sun on lake, with carps about, young fishes (5) 8 Wave once with initial reverence

(4) 9 Sunday School teachers grade 'Articles' (12, hyphened) 13 He copes with gaol-breaks? It's possible (12) 16 Ancient church without roof? (3) 19 Charges sting initially — a dear touch (6) 20 Indonesian with no ties, free (6) 21 Line from writer with dull ex- pression mainly (10) 23 Bird's woeful cry, choked with earth (9, hyphened) 25 Tendrils hamper a crustacean (8) 30 Smoke smothers man and beast

(6) a 33 Salt in silver upturned antique grid (5)

35 A mass of hair on one Ethiopian patriarch (5) 37 In brief, t' salamanders are newts (4)