Crossword 541

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 8 February. Entries to: Crossword 541, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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The unclued lights (one a phrase one hyphened) can be defined by a common formu a to be deduced by solvers.

Name Address ACROSS

8 One royal globe inscribed with ring and a convolvulus (7) 10 Tarry liquid, a type to disfigure (7)

11 Defeat strikers' leader in plant (5) 15 The moon's age in January! T' head's taken aback (5) 16 Pilfer from the bin (4) 20 Like a stoic philosopher of the Iroquois (7) 22 Unleavened cake, small lump eaten by gypsy girl (7) 23 Puerile yobbo's inwardly disturbed (5) 24 A reel, they say, is so Scottish (5) 26 Bathe once without bodyguards in elchi's residence (7) 29 Assault by a Guard (7) 30 Hardrada's strange godless tribute to ancestral spirits (7) 34 Well-trodden path's an eyesore, it's said (4) 35 Bog-myrtle has a helmet-shaped structure (5) 36 Overcame blooming ancient queen almost (6) 37 Footprint — old way to detect (5) 38 Tidies up a point in unruly Senate (7) 39 Measure? The urgency's for a ruler (7)

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1 Birds positively imbued with sex- appeal (5) 2 Unindentured chiseller gets the bird no end in jai!! (5) 3 Vital Tube a bit divisive to motorists? (5) 4 Rubber indeed gets on to market- place (6) 5 Diamonds? Box displays a transparent mineral (7, hyphen- ed)

6 Drizzly in North and South, and muddy? About right (6) 7 The original voter is in character 10 E(91)i's Fishing Club? (6) 12 Grating sounds, snipe-calls' around river (7) 14 Members edf 'mot 11 Exaggerations 87 He is covere d w mithf srwoeat_drcronps: bwweiergsrg,e(dwm) water-plant externally

getting executed (8)

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h 31 Awe-struck at a love feast (5) 33 Strengthens E. Lothian residence (5)