Crossword 679

Prize: 110 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, 1983 edition, value £10.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first correct solution opened on 29 October. Entries to: Crossword 679, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street., London WC1N 2LL.

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In each Wad two unclued lights are of a kind with one (or, in one instance, two) of the lights clued without an overall definition. Ignore three hyphens.

Name Address

ACROSS

, Before an oyster a princess's n half-inclined to spread (13)

1,1 A jellyfish? (4)

" C, omposition formerly concealed

05, creditor having retired on it 12 (10) Commercial Muscovite's claw-

back (4) 14 Backed Guard's Tie again? (6) 16 Retrograde wit's nothing (5)

17 Tree grown originally in Erin Isle (5) 40 Turning to by midnight, inter ,, cilia, is a pain (7) A sort of emu with a polled head , and part only of its trunk (7) • 44 Proofs of 22's Irish Gaelic perso- 24 nal pronouns taken to heart (7) (5)Subject,•say, to tell stories about

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Yemen community's revolutio- 27 nary water-bearer (5) Ireland's Indian out of female Part (7) 30 A less sovereign synonym is put

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.4 danger here (7) s' Badges worn for Easter, about

36 the end of April, abroad? (7) (S)

Eviscerated many a female fish 37

3n Back of a lump (5)

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Drink taken n by the old- ,. fashioned bird (4) Swell failure, note (4) 42 An old fogey's involuntary habi- tual response related them in the south of France (13)

DOWN

1 Smart couple of characters (5) 2 Befitted one angelic tempter of men (5)

3 Emerge in reverse order in Near East (6) 4 God's brainless brain drain (5) 5 Aid to ship-building lo half- learnt about (7) 6 Amazon's one among a number of stars (6) 7 Prosper without a cry from the Scots (9) 11 Jazz fans about to harmonise (6) 18 Affinity with the Italian gangster in a sovereign state (10)

21 Cost of accommodating geordie author in a French resort? (19) 22 English composer unknown here? (7)

26 Sash worn by soldier in partly American-supported signalling unit (7) ,

28 Drink to make a girl sit up (6)

29 Sailor upsetting another's bit of stuff in Fingal's Cave? (6) 31 Slavonic refinement (6) 33 Confirmed choice of letters (5) 34 Soundly blame Theatre (5) 35 Single points indue, maybe (5) Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.