CROSSWORD 779: Noodledom by Doc
A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £12.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 27 October. Entries to: Crossword 779, The Spectator 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
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The unclued lights, all in Chambers, are of a kind. Elsewhere, ignore one apostrophe.
Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the `Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS ,
1 Organises expresses (8)
6 Notices for flower-growers? Re- sult — Irish oaths! (6) 13 Musicians suited to an eightsome reel? (5) 14 18-pound weight (7) 16 Engineering's latter part reveal- ing units of work (7, hyphened) 20 Calls upon subjects (4) 22 Punish favourite dog (7) 23 Close to one character m Gene- sis (4)
24 Odd feat including beer as item in the brew (7, hyphened).
26 What Mac calls Paddy in the open air is heretical (7) 30 Over half the race is a bore 4)
31 The palm among the Muses 7) 34 Crushed condition of golf-chub that's left (4)
36 Painter and English marines turn round (7) 40 Court-yard Irishman and I love
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roadcast similar ITV trite com- ment (10) 42 French girl, half beaten (6) 43 Like anticlinal folds from Idaho, Capri and Italy (8) DOWN 3 For instance the Indian over- turned canoe (5) 4 Extreme, how the present differs from the past (7) 5 Beg for rent, naughtily, and have a meal (7) 6 Some sign of modesty about one, not wholly indecent (6) 7 Applied cosmetics, utterly fati- ed (6, two words) 8 Spoke.up about long faces (5) 9 Anti-shrapnel discs sent up by porter turning over (13, hyphened) 10 Bring down the standard of legal owners, maybe (13, three words) 11 Do for does? Just the opposite! (9, hyphened) 17 One you and I dread (3) 18 See 14 (5) 21 Midnight is ritual time for Jews (5) 27 The elver's parent! (3) 29 Graduate upset things, revealing a deficiency of the mind (7) 32 Settlement was cut (6) 33 Devout commander in chief coming up for meal (6) 35 Artist about to devour rope (5) 37 I'm taking aim, up in Florida (5)
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