Crossword 563

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 12 July. Entries to: Crossword 563, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The nine unclued lights are a chain of anagrams from three to eleven letters long with an extra letter added at each step. All are in Chambers.

Name Address ACROSS

7Warm and dry light breeze (3) 11 Elegant Spanish article about gum (6) 13 Oriental sailor hastened back to recount (7)

15 2 Women's Institutes on board (5)

16see 14 (5)

17 The fame Mrs Ruff's placed in (6)

18Beat peas and beans (5) 20 Old copper tears coat taking in one robber (6) 21 Nearly hidden. Shut up! (5) 22 Skilful King Edward (7)

29 Relish impudent speech (5)

30 Salientia show distinctive character on returning inside (6) 32 Oliver's good appetite (5)34 Setback of some irregular timing

of heart-valve (6)

36 Heath's tailless hairy French dog (5) 37 Arab horse brought back Moroc- can timber-tree (5) 38 Inverse insert, difficult in lattice- work (7) 39 Would he exhibit the bread of idleness? (6) 41 Spearfield's distressing personal grief (11, hyphened)

DOWN

2 DiShevelled roué and heartless penman from the continent (8) 3 Electrical measurement made by the Spanish on a Scottish building site (9)

4 Extinct reptilian order contain- ing no heart, idiot (12)

5 Takes back some lost peccaries (7) 6 US rodent clearly in season (8) 9 Arab shirt may be the same in church (6) 10Cheat German wife over duke (5) 12 Evaluate Jenny? (6) 14 Interchanged — take 16 and 20 somehow (12) 19 Relit fires to make enriching soil additive (10) 24 Slender muscle thread from one

rib broken in clumsy fall (8) 26 State suffering UK citizen (7) 28 Assist organising stoppage of blood-circulation (6) 31 Coral island having one bar (5) 33 Bet raised, for example, during hostilities (5)

35 Wild animals hunted for sport (4)