Crossword 560
A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 21 June. Entries to: Crossword 560, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
The unc ued ights (one an abb eviction and Iwo of two words), from which three intr( ductory definite articles are omitted, are, either individually or when paired correctly, of a kind.
Name Address ACROSS 10 Habitat with beheaded dormice, maybe, of similar parts (10) 12 Sort of blind pigeon (6) 16 Islamic leader from half a state (5) 17 In a cream-filled pastry, it's poison (7) 18 Privately returned one service- tree to us (7, two words) 20 Dainties formerly supplied by Ernest and me (8) 25 A vegetable three-quarters fruit (3) 28 Soak measures recounts again (7) 31 It's a pale variety of plant (8) 34 Throbbing by fire-place (7) 36 General levy replaced limit on first-class return (7) 39 Tangles with State, when in beer? (5) 40 Failed to catch: B----'s said! (8) 41 Waterfall with trim rare finch (6) 43 Breastplate that is, finally, in ac- cordance with the navy (6) ' 44 Troubadour's lay about time, in verse, maybe (8) DOWN I Share one Scottish edible crab (6) 3 Sea-snail was not standing, on ceremony (6) 4 'Times' new issues (5) 6 Land of their ancestors (4) 7 Old church official with a fancy tie round part of Eire (11) 8 Fish-party on railway (4) 11 Return of illness — 'e's pastier, getting up (7) 14 Talent to perplex heartlessly (4) 15 Very much love game of chance (4) 16 The snake with muscle? (11)
19 Public-houses take in graduates 21 (4)Po le married a Saint (4)
22 Measure record haul — not half! (4) 23 Old family servant's advance fee 25 (8} 25horse — a punch (4) 27 Leaderless trifling union (8) 30 One Greek Christian lacks one (4)
31 Slight speech impediment (4) , 32 uRn Rip outbouatcekve(r6y)thing to get this coy 33 jAngusyntraatlicar Australian material iiac(6a)cia provides Eerie Hardly long odds! (5) 38 Endlessly retained one hat (4)
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