Crossword 590
A pr'ze of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 31 January. Entries to: Crossword 590, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
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The unclued lights have something in common. A circumflex accent should be ignored.
Address ACROSS 5 Trapper initially played inside right (6) 9 Correctional treatment of Lear, divided by TV in two parts (10) 14 See 19 and 32 (3) 17 Left to Champion to make a catch (5) 18 Boatman's head removed by sharp edge (5) 22 Wind blowing cold fog right and left around one (7) 24 Poet Laureate, one with a dainty plait (7) 25 About the girl the Indian shot (5) 26 Snakes — in a Brobdingnag assembly they appear ... (5) 28 ... and in French horns, put out, they nest (7) 31 Palindrome to ease, heard by judge (7) 33 Sadly, it's ever uneasy (7) 37 Bore mountains away from peninsula, all in bits (5) 38 Engineers compete for second showing (5) 39 Note — Archbishop's a grass! (6) 40 Clean-shaven mohair, nothing low (3) 43 Things for pulling a screw loose (8) DOWN
1 Millinery pair managed to get first (13)
2 Give a big hand for the. Welsh graduate (5)
4 Directors' food (5)
6 Pertaining to Pooh-Bah's ancestry (7) 7 Boat follower (6) 8 Up in a margosa, yet he can't fly! (4) 10 Chemist hides radon in settle (6) 11 Helicopter, it's for Cook (9, hyphened) 12 Malformation in maps — he's altered the headland (13) 13 Governor has an appointment to confirm (8) 19 14 entering terribly late — one's gigantic! (9) 21 Reed, no prize-winner (8, hyphened) 27 Knowledge obtained since, perhaps, the Council of Europe (7) 29 Key ring — look — no beginning in it! (6) 30 A squalid neighbourhood has secret yard as refuge (6) 32 First class chap related to 14 (6) 34 Caesar's light gold place (5) 35 Take indole with odd result (5)
36 Sending up a joke is fatuous (4)
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