Crossword 596

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 14 March. Entries to Crossword 596, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued fghts find vidually or when correctly paired) are of a kind. Five of hese ligh s are of two or more words (inc uding one abbreviation). Ignore one accent.

Name

Address

ACROSS

9 Sound of diseased lung of poor Earl (4)

11 By and large subject to customs duty, originally (9, two words) 12 Express praise for peer (4) 14 Go to seaside town (6) 16 Former enemy craft admitted snake to do (5, hyphened) 17 A French frolic — strip! (5) 20 Joins forces, having time to use map wrong (7, two words) 21 A bracket candle-stick was awry

(7) 24 Delivering from, initially, Edin-

burgh 'Fringe' (7) 25 Class-system (5) 26 Seamen without time for pro- stitutes (5) 31 Screen version of Lancastrian emblem (7) 34 Places where coal distribution takes set-back (7) 37 River party yields plant-rust (5) 39 Source of danger on that ac- count, out east (6) 40 Cattle without water (4) 41 Lead Cluff out, but not in profile (9, hyphened) 42 Think about reward (4)

DOWN

1 Trapped puma reveals outer

wound (6) 4 The wet season in the Sahara, in spring? (5) 6 Marjoram from a king's daughter in spectacles (7)

7 Selfish fellow, for example, has

love first (6) 8 Separate? Almost — yes! (8, two words) 10 BL car agent (10) 13 Stupidity of putting hill-church on railway (7) 22 Urged Ronay to consume pike (7, two words) 27 Valerian or upper-class teasel, of sorts (7)

30 Fall due from vineyard in outstanding surroundings (6)

32 A wasteland almost sent up the mignonette (6) 33 The monastic habit of self- contained virile fellow, almost (6) 35 Extract from oriental dictator (5) 36 Silenced Frenchman with note on journalist (5)