Crossword 611

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution Opened on 27 June. Entries to: Crossword 611, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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eleven letters long with a letter added at each stage. One of these is in the new edition of Chambers, just published, but not in the old. Ignore an accent.

Name ... ACROSS 11 The sole purpose before 20 (6) 15 Hood's top man in Military Intelligence (5) 16 Praise latex distribution (5) 17 Some floosies take a nap (6) 18 An ascent back to the Gods (5) 21 Territorial Army has new set 20 See 11 (6) 22 Tyrant put in help if dispensing choice (5) with Liquid (7)

27 Bony fish makes sign in trial (7)

29 Country sounds cold (5) 30 Deceived !Man in a state (6) 32 Fruit of lilac or nemesia (5) 34 Once behind soldiers in the sandarac tree (6) 36 Entanglement that is put back outside (5) 37 Sweet fragrance from one-time sailor (5) 38 Morning was not thus. Can't remember (7) 39 German city's tests (6) 40 Hill in Victoria (3) 41 Like Shakespeare's moustache of dung (11) DOWN 1 III-natured chap interchanged fragment (10) 2 Old railway company put about carefree thief (8) 3 Water enters through this damaged boat shell (9, included fashionable

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5 Where pupils learn, including little dunce (7, two words) 6 Sam A. Keen, maybe. Or me (8) 7 David Steel's self-confessed excuse (5) 8 The gang boasted (4) 9 Battle deed — first part of play in progress (6) 10 The fellow's first robbery (5) 14 Tron — a term Quakers fashioned (12, hyphened) 24 County flip-flop (8) 25 Low pub-song (6) 26 Almost sleep-inducing, yet creating everything (7) 28 Helps turn out Territorial Army sports grounds (6) 31 It extracts moisture from grain between December 1st and 8th (5)