Crossword 621

A prize of fen pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 5 September. Entries to: Crossword 621, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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.................................................................................... 8 Is 20 24 30 36 aa ACROSS 1 Crimes bear our feeling of loss out (13) 8 One thus precludes indications of pressure (7) 10 Being about to bind to secrecy, is capable of being drawn out (7) 11 Beetle-like fish (5) 13 Fools around second fiddles (6) 15 A constant advantage, being pot- bellied (5)

19 Utah town centre without a pub (7)

20 Fancies fluids (7) 22 No longer give birth to a princess

23 ( Is7) a crust the same as husk for Shakespeare? (5)

24 Garrulous gossip about American mathematician (5) 26 Labour wholly absorbed produc- ing a chemical wood-pulp by- product (7, hyphened) 30 One introduced one once, to be fitting out a place for milking cows in Scotland (7) 36 Controller upset, say, and in tears (6) 37 Star group's willing description of period piece (5) 38 A double after time abroad is a brilliant discovery (7) 39 Infirm insurrectionary king's emblem (7) 40 Plants possible Polish participa- tion in Paraguay lies in? (13) DOWN 2 Turfy sort of fellow, member of society in distant parts of Surrey (5) 3 Lugged clear up over the Border, half-seas-over (5) 4 Former trials, e.g., in Middlesex Quarter Sessions (6) 5 Progressively more nurses here than in surgery? (7) 7 Mosaic bits and pieces — two and, finally, three (9) 10 Order about between times in Gib (6, hyphened) 12 A silvered cage, please, as of yore (7) 17 Came between Earth and Venus with brief notes for us (10) 18 Trifling points there's nothing in (8) 20 Full moon's outstanding feature 21 Overstate erstate partner's garrulous gossip (7) 25 Tell the tale about an ecaudate antelope's growth (7) 27 A Royal Occasion for an adju- tant (6) 28 Classical cross-country group of stars (6) 29 Missouri water reptile (6) 31 To cook up a number's in order (5) 32 Last in, in a river (5) 33 Lobs out Oriental slippers (5)