CROSSWORD 915: Word got around by Mass
A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary') for the first three correct solutions opened on 17 July. Entries to: Crossword 915, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
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Italic definitions give, in either order, the light (e.g. SPREAD) and a word apparent at its extremities (e.g. SAD).
Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS
1 Lively local favourite (5) 6 Party buff (7) 11 Digs out minerals at market, and
soup (10)
13 Bribes Greek dramatist (9) 15 Arabian mountain bird (4) 16 Tree tinkles, shaken (7)
17 Nothing at first, then Ed pro- duces unit of magnetic field strength (7)
18 Dry party cut short (3) 19 Spread some distance (10, hyphened)
21 A bug eating top of tall palm (5) 24 Joy in song (4) 27 Hint of lice throughout wood (4)
28 Shade off mark (5) 30 Season gin (10)
33 Look nimble — right away! (3)
35 Bird near wreckgets sea crea- ture (7, hyphened))
36 Letters flown in from dry north- ern spot (7, two words)
37 Distant light (4) 38 Fan with a veil (9)
39 Brief flu treated around Geor- gia, reducing fever (10)
40 Thin transmitter (7) 41 Wind watch (5)
DOWN 1 Former spoken stanzas bishops' items (14, two words) 2 Bad pears consumed cause roughness (8)
3 Careless representation of ideas used before (6) 4 Pegging down? Pulling apart! (9)
5 A French bathing beach mainly open (5)
6 Has shy sentiments (8)
7 Swimming organ in the net caught, rising (5) 8 I forged coin, Greek (5) 9 Bad, recent weeks, odd cut of veal (14, hyphened)
10 Powerful drug (6)
12 Parrot, eloquent type (6) 14 Artist who erodes metals, caught in volatile liquid (6)
20 Spirit measure (9) 22 Side petal — water-plantain (6)
23 Unusually able, true high-flier in Africa (8)
25 Trap, say — imprison (8) 26 Vex an elf (6) 29 End shortage (6)
31 Numerical? Indeed, in mark (6) 32 Note about wife in clan (5)
34 Leg-guard? Timid! (5)
35 Smell nothing, soldier? (5)
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