Crossword 691
Capricorn by Mass
Prize: £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, 1983 edition, value £11.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first correct solution opened on 4 February. Entries to: Crossword 691, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.
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The other unclued lights form one quartet which may be designated 9, or 13, and a second quartet of interest to 38.
Name Address ACROSS I Dog biting chunk of cotton reel? (5) II Tree from Madras is so ornamental (6) 14 Mean drudge (5) 15 Poet with lung in check retreated (5) 22 Dancing reel, lost jointed steel shoe (8) 23 Vertebrae from giant European stegosaurs, primarily (7) 25 Bird no longer loud in Scottish Isle (4)
27 Buried up North, the old dread changes (7) 29 Dullard harbours a slight disgust (8)
32 Food for cat, a Manx cat? (6)
34 Goat-hair cloth round a foreign , (Ethiopian) patriarch (5) 35 Native Arabic variant of Asdic 36 (5)
With aspiration and with risk of discomfort (7)
37 African instruments without a hint of sweetness (6) 39 Cavalrymen organised all raids to South (9)
DOWN
1 Weaken? Drive must be
injected, it may be argued (10) 2 Evil One? Avoid (5) 3 Marine creature among Percy's tiddlers (6) 4 Silk stuff unfurled with help, we hear (7) 5 From king seize small round ornament (7) 6 French cape, silver in colour (5) 7 Starving barbarian consumed by a terrible greed (9) 8 Riddle: What's the river sound like? (4) 10 Beams from wrecked s.s. inshore (9) 15 Song, the troubadour's unadorned round (6) 17 Cut up any log crudely like a goemetrical figure (9) 19 Interest about promissory notes left with care (10) 26 Lassie's wriggled with her lids flickering (7) 28 In part of London news agency I'll show expansion (7) 30 Catkins, one almost cracked (6) 31 Bell lacks US financier (5) 33 Something weedy about Welsh local intonation (5) 34 Topless birds showing chests (4) The solution to the Christmas Jumbo is on page 36. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the Post-a-Book' service.
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