Crossword 638

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 16 January. Entries to: Crossword 638, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N

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The unclued lights are of a kind. All can be found in the 1983 Chambers which also confirms 21 Down.

Name

Address

ACROSS I Deformed Iamb — roan hybrid (8) 6 Tarts in Norfolk (6) 12 Religious inmate made soup in bed (10, two words) 15 Make a collection and spend time by heath, distressed (10, three Words) 16 Incomplete RC class with new style manmade agents (7) 20 Resort attraction (4) 22 Board painting back in 9 rev. (7) 24 US students in Rose's form (7) 26 She's loose, if troubled (7) 36 Counterfeit gold came in from abroad (7) 38 Means of communication from river, circling another river mountain retreat (10) 39 Sent back number one (current) issue (7) 40 Bone's broken: with aunt it would be unnatural (5) 41 Love-lyric even arranged too fastidiously (10) 42 Church by cliff is not often found (6) 43 Number betted having lodgers (8) DOWN

2 Ruffian no longer available for start of game (8, hyphened)

3 Dad left porridge with a smell (5) 5 Fools seen outside, near gulfs (7)

6 Town indicating a locked door (6) 7 Gold head smashed in. What a shame (6, two words)

8 Gloomy duke's erect (5)

9 Submitted senseless trade-name without guard coming round (13, four words) I() She devises and rips ancestors off (13) 17 Meet escort (3) 18 Audible criticism of line of verse (5) 19 Europeans upset 30 pairs (9) 21 Market-place coin (5) 25 Pronounce blessing, for exam- ple, over phone system (8, two words) 27 Some Cincinnati lodging (3) 28 Impress fencer confused about love (7) 32 He combines old coin with rand (6) 33 Shoot on single stake (6)