CROSSWORD
A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £13.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 14 March. Entries tot Crossword 847, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N•2LL.
The answers to the eight italic dentitions (with lengths shown ifi brackets) will form the other unclued lights when each is entered 33 7A 22. Ignore, in all, four hyphens.
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11 ACROSS 1 Uncovers one loose end within lists of minor peers (11) 11 Mac's perverse wrath upset Pole
Puke 13 uke up, disturbed, after second hara-kin (7)
15 El Salvador's money settle- ment's incomplete (5) 16 Initiate, become a member (5) 17 Evoke legal point first (6) 18 One seeking a newt (5) 20 Affirm a hot favourite audibly (6) 21 Very good to scoff, tailed fish (5) 27 Inflated, as before, with time, and critical (7) 29 Short fish like a Scottish hag (5) 30 One rants about royal robes (6) 32 Deity's strange-sounding ser- vants (5) 34 Smelly beast, note, lived near Uruguay (6)
36 Drama, Eastern art, back in theatre (5) 37 Dashing fellow and the French type spoon (5)
38 Country-lover, father, having jog about one (7)
39 Acquired curdled milk locally )
40 Some spurious old knave (3) 41 Free pain-killer, well injected by Edward (11) DOWN 1 Short bent couple splitting cover Of branches for osiery (10) 2 Palm, we hear, used in veritable counterblow (8) 3 Feeds, feeds, filling up with a bender! (9) 4 Item of bed-linen (5) 5 Consumed (3) 6 Chess piece (4) 7 Implement, it's said, for fabric (5) 8 Bird in higher nest (4) 9 Wheel-rim chap's reported (6) 10 Star, society type (5) 12 Farm animal (3) 14 Private cavalry soldier (7) 19 Corroded (6) 21 Soaks, drunken peers, full of hock (9) 23 Rambled round lake, stepped heavily (8) 24 Removal? Yes, of third letter in 'reduction' (8) 25 Pike-like fish (3) 26 Bitter vetch (3) 28 Gentleman has racket set up? Show assent repeatedly (6) 31 Drink slight drop of port (5) 35 Rebuke for fool drinking litre (4)
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