Crossword 562

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 5 July. Entries to: Crossword 562, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued ights are nouns (one of two words) which could appear in a variant of a 20 16. The OED gives 3D.

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ACROSS 1 Birds, assorted grebes & waders, around lake (13, hyphened) 12 Goddess of Greek invincibility suffering reverse (4) 14 Short Epistle (Rev. Ver.): leaf appendage! (6) 17 Relative's delicate, without energy (5) 21 Belt-band in Kent provides gaiter? (7) 24 Beat back a beast (5) 25 Malarial fever Edwin got the measure of (5) 27 Editor possesses folios — one's obliterated (7) 30 Old Pretender's cakes? (7)

32 Large braille in revised version (7 36 Fla)

nks deserted? What a yarn (5) 37 Medico drowned dean in folly! 5 () 38 I deceived eastern girl (6) 39 A prophet's rejected the body (4) 40 Endless Greek taters upset peltasts (10) 41 Legal condition has one offence withdrawn (4) DOWN 2 French patron unknown in dives

3 Former Guide, from east journeys northward? (6)

4 Edge of stone axe head lost in Isle? (5) 5 The misprint's not imagined (7) 6 Bird clutching appendix — one might snuff it! (6) 7 Pans male preserves! (9, hyphen- ed) 9 With bust chair, ape ox? Loony imitation (10) 11 Vindicate Geneva riots (6) 13 Initiated and possessed (7) 15 Brassy fashionable yachting spot (8) 18 Cats, ferocious animals at first, slink off (10) 19 Heavenly, yonder, in wild lea (8) 22 King flanked by bands crops up in Ayr (7) 26 He scoffs at some French pro- position (7) 29 Engage sailor's eye (6) 31 I'm 39, unstable and a sensitive plant (6) 33 Incline from vertical, on eastern liquor (5) 34 Cigar-shaped Edinburgh rock? (5)