Crossword 538
A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 18 January. Entries to: Crossword 538, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued lights (two of which are phrases) comprise three triads. Chambers gives one (unlisted) foreign word at the end of an article.
Name ........ Address.........
................... ACROSS 8 He's taken in by tradesmen (4) 10 Daisy's a persuasive type with sex-appeal in Maine (10) 12 Uncle dated classy bird (4) 14 Sort of footman leading one a dance (6) 17 Tree bent over lake, refuge for King Charles (5) 20 With second effect of lash, Edgar burned (7) 21 Poser? It produces an answer (7) 24 Slice at Gleneagles, not quite a chip (5) 25 Soup ingredient about store (5) 30 They rouse one—worse luck—full of drink (7) 32 Waver with faceless Party and vote again (7, hyphened) 36 Sandy frae Glasgow's drunk out- side church (5) 37 Quite drunk, quite bowled over, that's plain (5) 38 One strips, turning numb and prickly (6) 39 Active in period of dawn (4) 40 Distracted T-Tory skims a political form (10) 41 Hindu Harijan's rejected, possessed of a demon (4) DOWN 2 Monsieur interrupts disconcer- ting and abrasive (5) 3 Salmon soften in a steamer (6) 4 Soak UK under endless Scotch mist (5)
5 Birds, a male among she-swans (7)
6 Baroque line, look, in ornate metal (6) 7 His Excellency's topping speech in Balmoral, say! (9, hyphened) 9 Serfdom, earliest symptom of social waste (11) 11 Antique adorned jar has Saint engraved (6) 13 Remove window ad, for in- stance, from one local club? (7) 15 Tough ploughing earth in open country (8) 21 A fugal form providing non-U caricature (9)
22 Puncture, a puncture in a river (7)
26 Needle-holes around the French blind (7) 28 Hirritating, like a hold-up (6)
29 Blackbird audible on part of bat- tlements (6)
31 A quiet Italian, missing a road, displays coolness (6) 33 Child-bearing position, academically speaking? (5) 34 Prohibition Capone finds trivial (5)
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