31 MARCH 1984, Page 42

Crossword 651

Prize: flO — or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, 1983 edition (ring the word Dictionary' under name and address) — for the first cor- rect solut'on opened on 16 April. Entries to: Crossword 651, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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9 A company's short measure (4) 11 Put together again (9)

12 Theatre floor, one half taken up (4) 14 Quartz discs back in vessel (6) 16 Busy bishop? Divine soul (5)

17 Of a 16th-century logician (5)

20 Hourly record first concerning Doric magistrates (7) 21 Degrees in eastern sea briefly lowered (7)

24 Scott's type of legging (7) 25 Scorn old doddery Denis (5)

26 12 cents in palm (5) 28 Richly adorn child, noble (7) 31 Wait on audible dullards — fishes (7, hyphened) 34 Woodlouse upset cousins (7) 37 Hog-rat about islet, uh? (5) 38 Course — grub, they say (5) 39 No main evolving embryonic membrane (6) 40 Asafoetida within gum-resin partly (4) 41 Vault in NE plastered, with singular bonding capacity? (9)

42 Wine-maker's fruit-refuse (4)

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I Cost silver held by matron (6) 2 Articulate (5) 3 Sound gunners turned up in spheres of action (6) 4 Mohammedan lord (5)

5 CH systems? (7)

6 Weights & Measures absorbing child (7) 7 Such as society has to reject all over? (6) 8 Virgate garden plant (8)

10 Ill-natured women (10) 13 c'Aonrifeuss'anDianaddis(h7e)artened ed 18 One carrying hyperdulia too far 22 Hae0a)rd con man's cat? (7) 23 Extensive view (8) 27 Hermit tailed virtually autted fish (7)

29 Wrongly count obscure measure

30 Q(7u)een is raising tan? (6) 32 Drink of Hindu gods (6) 33 Wig cut in Mac's parlour (6) 35 Second generation Jap is in Wrong (5)

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