Crossword 576

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 11 October. Entries to: Crossword 576, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights have something in common. A clued light could be said to have given them a start.

Name Address ACROSS 9 Going in for comp again and making deeper impression? (10, hyphened) 14 Boxer landed one short (3) 16 Part of empire — gold carriage (6) 18 Some benzole ICI supplied oily (5) 20 Burning is constant hazard known to Lloyd's (7, hyphened) 22 Interferometers and other things assigned to Head of Science (7) 24 One (late) taken aback by cer- tain heavenly bodies? (7) 25 Tangle — what fools must finally suffer (5) 26 Valley with coal-dust, black (5) 28 Terrible ordeal around noon in controversial play (7, two words) 31 He may travel in it over it (7) 33 Cowper's work has Greek character endlessly blue (7, two words) 37 Dead serious crime? Answer's hanging (5) 39 Stale vinegar is penetrating fish — end of meal (6) 40 Narrow projecting part 'urt (3) 41 Ixtle's been woven and elastic (10) 42 Secluded lanes with hollow tree among other trees (6) 43 Wyatt rejected eminences magistrates (8) DOWN

1 Blades in country cycle, dress, and hat carefully arranged (13, hyphened)

2 Go off having relaxation without hint of anxiety (5) 3 Punch is nothing after sharp pain (6) 4 What's in poisonous air show- ing up somewhere in Paraguay (5) 6 Alluring commander is in- competent (7)

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upset (6) , I 8 Some bypassed Amsterdam - to go here? (4)

10 What's this — is seen Possib''. (6, two words) 11 Bird in wavy bit of deshabille with few people around (9).0

12 Mean women fool these soete' suckers (13)

13 Canine sight — peer hard8,1 hyphened)

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nothing (7) „ed 21 Element of thrillers Ptro'" by South American write

with energy (8) r 161 28 Obliquely, like philoso011e'„' 30 Rivers in depressed old pasta (6) 32 Bring down medic — to free from pain going round (6) 3) 34 Soft, pure, terribly superior(

35 Prison dance (5)