Crossword 618

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 15 August. Entries to: Crossword 618, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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The unclued lights are of a kind. One other light, a foreign word, is not in Chambers. Ignore an acute accent.

Name Address ACROSS 9 Giddy Texans in love with exotic Pole — the beast (10, hyphened) 14 Russian community's enthralled by Smirnoff (3) 16 Mac's clothes-horse for large scarf (6) 17 Almost confound a Jewish priest (5) 18 Revolutionary type with two spokes! (5) 20 Entertainer, note, in come-back. Hardy character (7) 22 One on oath wears out the Queen (7) 24 You may find me where fungus — — spore (7) 25 Chauffeur nearly gets push (5) 26 Mater's fancy old headpiece (5) 28 Small spots are aloe smudges (7) 31 Pinter's revised — about right for second edition (7) 33 Bardic lament — short triplet, brief numbers (7) 38 English in inks for flowing hand- writing (5) 39 Girl indeed rounded in temper (6) 40 Is used by burgermeister? (3) 41 Rosie tries out cooker (10) DOWN I Woos US police chief, we hear, in trials (13, hyphened) 2 Strikes included black sheep (5) 3 Climbing aid from East German town (6) 4 Ideal forms producing ogle from Shakespeare (5) 6 Old English tombs for col- onialists (7) 7 Tilted well off (6) 8 Decided, as of old, to tidy up after one (4) 10 Out-of-date — not the gear for Ascot (6, two words) 12 Dunces are, ain't, mischievous? Not proven (13) 15 We're piled up in crazy US highroad (7) 23 Plants — ones with oval head found by Tees, wild (7) 27 Metal articles can erode, we hear (7) 29 Oppose drunken sister (6) 30 No port in a storm? Better find one — (6) 32 Inferior god in Japan is kami (6) 34 A short exam for Latin entries (5)

35 Eastern fragments raised en- thusiasm (5)

36 Tree-knot overgrown, pushed up (4)