Crossword 675

Virgo by Mass

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thematic treatment and one of the word remaining after such treatment which is to be entered in the grid. The process suggested by the title has nothing to do with the 13, 36 27 40 (six words).

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peace plan (9)

12 Red timber, piece of teak, arrived (5)

14 Very good house in London (4) 15 Demon hind 18 Tau-piece fixed, wedged (7) 19 Round number in old Indian money for receiver (7) 22 Stream almost soaked cloth (6)

23 Bruise old nuts badly, i.e. outwardly (6)

24 One set on shore, sandy tract in S.W. France 29 Grace rejected first-class weed 31

Tipsy-like baron's out, in frightening manner (6)

34 Fish, a champion food (7) 35 Against recalling European State to assemble? (7) 38 Swell khan 39 Old Cape Dutch toil 41 Lady's brimless hat, necklace 42 Trick fishes? They're plants! (9) 43 Cut across amongst dry spread grass (1 I ) DOWN 1 Sensible changes round a street in foul condition (11) 2 Force on gold part of a helmet

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3 Antique? More than that perish, rotten like moulding (11) 5 Up river in time to find primitive sources (7) 6 Plumper local girl in row (6) 7 Hard-ended fruit for dessert knocked up with a touch of honey (6) 8 Woman editor left pack (7) 9 Keeping fit 10 Prediction, last in 'Virgo', grips son strangely (9) 15 Rotten strip of wood 16 One local bale collapsed without rope — can't be found (11) 17 Bard's front, timeless, devoid of edge (11) 20 Pin notice haphazardly for a start (9) 21 In the capacity of an old poem 25 Nut cracker's opening in part (5) 26 Past open grassland

28 More like snow blurring lake, fir (7)

30 Italian, no. among birds? (7) 32 Interrupt money order 33 Powerful omen 37 Indicate malaria