CROSSWORD 802: What cheek! by Doc
A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £13.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 21 April. Entries to: Crossword 802, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unclued lights are of a kind. Ignore all accents.
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Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 Got a bit confused about 17 down (8) 6 Imprisonment for rioting US reds (6) 13 Bitter maple's top branch (5) 15 Sudden change of fortune according to one boy, having first-class return (10) 20 Relation: a born gossip . . . (4) 22 . . . these relations are in home
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23 Poor design (4) 24 It's perhaps at five o'clock, but could be meet at one (7) 26 Old cat, very black and grey, coming round (7) 30 Highland festival — Eastern kind (4) 31 Footprint of reserve's tigers (7) 34 Disorderly mob first uprooting tree (4) 36 Sycophant's romper-suit (7) 39 Ask for exchange of partners in 5 40 Out of condition — just a rumour (5, hyphened) 42 Sea-nymph is irritable: caught out by the sun (6) 43 Sesame's yield: I judge its con- tents (8) DOWN 3 Endless drink for Sikh baptismal ceremony (5) 4 Mark, it's said, knew me, artist and Liberal (7) 5 Copy letter to act upon (7) 6 3-D film of river-bird (6) 7 Reveller or one, maybe, who's not half a nuisance (6) 8 Start to run landwards (5, two words) 9 Don't lie about it! That usher kept moving (13, three words) 10 Subsidence disturbed mother and mean vet (13, two words) 17 See 1 (3) 18 It's a fact persimmon lacks re- cord length (5) 21 Ancient North African region's head-wrap (5) 25 Wild geese turning left away sideways (8) 27 Some future Democrat? No Republican (3) 28 After Nov. 30: 'Measure for Measure' (7) 29 Twist until iron's bent (7) 32 Book of the law notwithstanding that tailless demon (6) 33 Organs? There's one up in the gallery (6) 35 Dog consuming top of cotton- reel (5) 37 Slav's turns (5)
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