Crossword 640

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 30 January. Entries to: Crossword 640, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address ACROSS 4 Digital control devised from practical experience? (11, three words) 11 Sick adult restricted by cuts in armpits (7) 12 Fabric salesman in shady deal? (6) 13 Be naughty again and love gal? It could make for a sticky situation (9) 14 Purple-flowering plant and golden plant when cut (5) 21 Joint of pork needed (4) 24 A fish in the seaweed (4) 25 Someone resurrected with old hand back? (7) 30 Find fault with what constituen- cies provide (7) 31 Vessels making trips, turning round at the front (4) 32 Girl holds lamb in school (7) 34 Would it help give king a digni- ty? (4) 35 Take time in resolving — this time? (7) 37 The can's ring? (5) 40 Estate with no one in credit (5) 41 Visual guide around sailor, a lit- tle luminance (9)

42 Brownish-yellow like unproduc- tive land (5)

43 Ludicrous brother or sister corn' ing in to annoy (7) DOWN 3 Shambolic dives no longer con' sidered (5) 5 What's rubbery mostly, needing sodium? Bone (4) 6 Worn out reputation strangles a country (4)

7 Two-timed women discarded, dreadfully left out (7) 8 Believing rot — silly fan (7)

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tion (7) a 15 It's a bit of muslin for straining. (5) 17 Boaters one rams — scuttled! (7) 20 Refutations from England's

opener, former captain, getting cross (7)

26 Tense but able to open up? (5) 27 Waders splashing in a large lake (7) 28 A lord could have me possibly (7) 33 Ras Tafari is heard favourably 6)

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38 Fly in stunted undergrowth (4), 39 Other companion for Dors? (4!