Crossword 547

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 22 March. Entries to: Crossword 547, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London %WIN 211..

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Ten answers, entered in accordance with the title (7 words), are clued by starred definitions. An adverb (OED) almost makes it in Chambers. Ignore two accents.

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11 Prison management* (8)

12 Developed fully* (7) 13 A Military HQ* (8) 14 Short pensive poem a busy type polished (7) 15 Upright* (13) 17 I score hundred runs haphazard- ly with willow (5) 20 His pride's none so pretty? (8) 21 Press strip round edge of border (6) 23 Almost dragged to a state of ..

(4) 26 Queen eschews top 'brass': it's cheeky! (5) 27 Lines on escutcheon, facing for galleon's stern (5) 28 Foreign thoughts (7) 30 One material got by oxidising indigo (6) 31 Like the Titan — not quite flab- by — in Greek (8) 36 Room-heater* (8, two words) 38 Buff! It's a hindrance to her, clutching garment (10) 39 Like a scamp — touching, get- ting in the money! (7) 40 Boredom arising from genuine lack of extremes (5) 41 Punishment also includes touch of cat (4) 42 Making a cine-computer? (5) DOWN

t Mysterious star-circle showing reason in its influential manner? (14)

2 Boarding and loitering astern?

(7) 3 Toped wildly in bands with these? (10, hyphened) 4 Hard stuff — bird drinks nothing, note (6) 5 E.g., bitter vetch bores (5) 6 Disparage Li'l Bette badly (8) 7 Arabic wizard climbing a palm (5) 8 Timber cross-piece gave out (5) 9 Cooking ring oily with recent banger? (14) 10 Falls out* (7) 16 Pope's revenue, from Italian naturally (5) 18 A gaseous hydrocarbon* (7) 19 Golfing area, exotic end near church, produces birdie (10) 22 Hemp is dipped in tar mainly (5) 24 Small flag* (11) 25 T' trunk hasn't one piece of clothing for Emperor (4) 29 Nice boy could be almost nine- teen? (7) 32 Lumen unnerving lichter (6) 33 Scatter herbs upwards (5) 34 One virtually obscure dwelling (5) 35 Inclination* (8) 37 The affliction of the crestfallen set? (4)