Crossword 630

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 7 November. Entries to: Crossword 630, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Each unc ued light is one of a well-known 28D bu no two are of the same group.

Name

Address

ACROSS 1 Former PM's steward (11) 7 Actor a dryad turns into a baboon (3) 11 Carpenter-tree (6) 13 Gives word of encompassment in part? In part! (7) 15 Chose to spread out after work

(5)

16 Growth-source of chaos (5) 17 A tanner's one who's trying (6) 18 Quotient hoaxed Nelson (5) 20 Leading fastener (6) 21 More than one stocks one that's very soft in the Channel Islands

(5)

22 Rustic Scottish Lord's now generally do one in (7) 27 Expert on what should be digested by Parliament first (7) 29 Satyr returning for fruit (5) 30 Bird returning in a taxonomic group (6) 32 Northern bird that never was seen round Ulster (5) 34 Poetically precipitous finial to look round (6) 36 Variegated jest about society (5) 37 SA Col Bein's prickly plant (5) 38 Half-asleep in a deer's edible en- trails (7) 39 Bird that's wet behind the ears, this one (6) 40 The old one's indeed more than

that (3)

41 Around noon various tail-enders appear in excellent shape (11) DOWN 3 Count upset over one rebuke about revolting news reports (9) 4 Russian hater of bishop's tours abroad (12) 5 Star-turn time among Socialists?

(7)

6 One unduly patronising relation-

ship an obscure poet somehow isn't without (8)

8 Ways one finishes a Highland festival (4) 9 Look, man, a summer-house! (6) 10 What a pillager does nothing much about (5) 19 Jock's put out — having got the wrong date? (10) 21 Instate Scotstown Art Centre that's completely roofed over (9) 23 Counterpart rest resort for two- year-olds (8) 24 Phosphoprotein a number discern on the spot (8) 25 One among countless other messengers (6) 28 See note under square (6) 31 Look-out is put in possession

• • • (5)

33 . . in Murat's heart-doctor's shadow (5)