CROSSWORD
A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of either Chambers Dictionary or Chambers Crossword Manual — ring your choice) for the first three correct solutions opened on 5 September. Entries to: Crossword 872, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
Lights clued solely by an overall definition are of a kind. One other light is of two words and one's a proprietory name listed in Chambers.
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ACROSS 1 Factor (11) 7 More Scotch, Miss West? (3) 11 Spiritless pilot (6) 13 Conserving (7) 15 Aim of Pole to manage (5) 16 He's endless sustenance (5) 17 One bound by intrinsic quality of a passage (6) 18 Welsh swimmer's two points vic- tory (5) 20 Prevent odd character coming in, notice! (6) 21 Yield to delay (5)
22 Comparatively witty sort of cross (7
27 Apple of an American's eye? (7) 29 Of little harmony, his works? Rubbish! (5) 30 Letter in Umbrian, say (6) 32 Gambling games, my flower! 5) 34 Demon outside-right, chum!6) 36 One animal about to stumble 5) 37 Was easily at the head of the river (5) 38 Medicament a help when upset by a broken nose? (7) 39 The last live-out servant's turn to ogle, as it were? (6) 40 Established usage (3) 41 An aspect once inferior is incon- siderate (11) DOWN 1 Beast about to arrive without first having left (10) 2 Some letter everyone's taken in once a year (8)
3 Officer of US prison over 191/2 (9)
4 Concerned with DNA unit allo- wance for rebirth (12) 5 In time time's the thing in come- back for entertainer (7) 6 Embrace marijuana or hemp (8) 7 Language of Chinese communist scripture lesson (5) 8 Garden (4) 9 Turned-out gunmen's chamber (6)
10 Girl's gossip about sex-appeal (5)
12 Virginal Peg's output? (6) 14 Creatures abide a change when Caesar's out and about (12) 19 Soldiers' birds (10) 21 State observed in possible tail- end of madness? (9) 23 Part builder (8)
24 Have to pay out about 1000 marks? Och, a surplus! (8)
25 Bit of harness (6)
26 The Bard's Soldier's Arms (7) 28 Compound whereof it appears a cowgirl needs not any (6)
31 Puff one's smoke, donkey, out in Cyprus! (5) 33 Aware of women being pulled about (5) 35 Obsolete stake (4)
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