Crossword 540
A Prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution Opened on 1 February. Entries to: Crossword 540, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 21,L.
AU the unclued lights are often preceded by one word, which the solver must give.
Name
Address ACROSS
I Palm product — white bow tightener (8, hyphened)
5 Dress is at fault (6) 9 'Here and there' is also to mean very much after (10, three words) 16 Indian turning blue in the river (6) 17 Queer — he is in tears (5) 18 Girl giving sound support (5) 20 In Free France, a breeder for points (7) 22 Flier achieves rank after getting bar (7) 24 Girl friend first to get wood (7) 28 Scott's Father (7) 31 Creator of an unclued light (7) 33 Shaw's girl to point the way out (7) 37 Glutted instead perhaps (5) 38 Yarn or flock (5) 39 Dissolved substance, note, in fish (6) 41 Such pens, I'm sure, spell un- chastity (10) 42 Cyril's letters put to music (6) 43 Left in closers as here written and held by a third party (8) DOWN 1 Sinister Venus out gate-crashing (13) 2 So sea-sick for green land places (5) 3 Lament the sad year 2000 (6) 4 Dug up some of the hundred ducats (5)
6 Trust an anagram to make idlers! (7)
7 Confound the doctor of the law with half of it (6) 10 Dandruff from two coats (6) 11 Young birds are the tops about style (9) 12 Covers seniors (anag) (13) 13 The maps I altered for a fellow- sailor (8) 15 Silver given to women only under an added name (7) 19 Moslem's ground cover for His Worship (9, hyphened) 21 Introductory poem about a Giant (8) 23 Though put in a barrel, it's also in the box (7) 27 Scriptural greetings given by returning citizen (7) 29 Sent up to remove, twice (6) 30 His goods must be laid before sale (6) 32 End of the flower festival (6) 35 Precious stone on the Spanish ring (5)
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