Crossword 627

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 17 October. Entries to: Crossword 627, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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The unclued lights have something in common.

Name Address ACROSS 4 Degeneracy when commercial interrupts what's seemly (9) 9 Where ale-bush should be handy (10, hyphened) 11 Handle a horse in me (6) 12 Deed in recollections curiously un-noticed (7)

14 Department losing first, under- taking to lose all (5)

15 Spoil — sportsman's equipment?

(5/ 16 Exit too low for dark lady? (16) 22 Leading forward, paid to per- form thus at 5 (8) 23 Instrument used to pipe in 27?

(7)

25 Worry-bead's first in use after brother (4) 27 Non-U tourist upset, getting nothing but food (7)

29 It isn't gin cocktail that's corrup- ting (8)

34 Disguise for a wolf as in Central Albania (5) 35 Formerly a lower advantage (5) 37 Edible kind of hat (6) 38 One to 15 Across (10) 39 Dialogist of the Dead sounds hardly fashionable (9) 40 Smothered laugh begins in snig- ger ends in snort (5) DOWN I Man renewed at hope given by prescriber of hair of dog (10) 2 Hush-money? (5)

3 Main cage for cat-fish (6, hyphened)

4 Tender medical student (7) 5 See 22 (7) 6 Fearful in cheeriest surroundings (5)

7 Corn-exchange for south locality

(9)

15 Artist to pretty girl: ' I could eat

you!' (6)

17 Last to advance — or retreat (9)

18 Men got a l'otous assemblage (7) 19 Letter-acknowledgement. Attic conceals ripped pieces (10)

20 Land a city becoming solidifying property (9) 21 Lost? Sounds like lady cook (6) 26 Odd outcome of showbiz arrest (7)

28 Glucoside or carbon in aboriginal? (7) 31 View, more than half-humorous (5) 33 Illicit wool-gatherer — Cockney schoolboy's blunder? (5)