Crossword 545

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 8 March. Entries to: Crossword 545, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The answers to the clues are words (or, in one instance, a phrase) of five letters. Except for the numbered ones, the clues are grouped to relate to the four quarters of the diagram. Within each group the clues are in no special order either up or down. Correct posi- tioning, and the insertion in the central square of the letter necessary to complete the puzzle, will reveal six eleven-letter words (three of them hyphened) not otherwise clued.

Name Address CLUES Chain-letters.

Board PSV without blackbirds.

Silk fabric many refuse.

Car-lists.

Fashion points and shades. Helmet decoration having bit of condor — with others 1 . . .

. . . and this one is the very best - bit of egret!

Old grease sailors endlessly reveal. A finally fatal curse in the realm of the Picts and Scats.

Young lover's capital love.

Swallow spirit.

A sect of a sort? Yes.

Goddess by ancient city compound. Once coupled with a Scotsman's aim out East.

Choose or schoose?

Poet from Dublin? — top to tail! Gather governors expressly to inter- view new heads (two words). New camp out East — Caesar's object of peace.

A little discreet hiccuping is rarely descriptive of morality.

Clarify or cleanse around midnight.

Near-miss following a ton-up Alexander's or Alexanders? John's English course, of old. Motoring club out a bit for main trunk route.

Eel is pickled in old vinegar. Having nitrogen inside is true of the kidneys.

Least dispensed tablet.

Plant before peak. Framework to rest Lowrys, initially. This way to prance is not new.

Tots from Madras? Not one!

A number set on a sacrificial block. What old helmsmen did without energy is brilliant.

Dewy must take spoken examination. He may have treated Egerton's stomach disorder.

Letter for the papers and radio. Monkey died before a play.

Craze one Ulster mother embraced. Revolutionary in ebbing river gives outdated counsel.

Representative from 'Sontag' Enter- prises Inc.

I D Measure to destroy trees.

2A Having time on Island for hot baths.

3A Gauge suited the Queen.

4D Ruby, Pearl etc?