Crossword 559

A Prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 14 June. Entries to: Crossword 559, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Each of the clues in italics contains two defnitions; the subtraction of a recognised abbreviation from the longer answer provides the other answer, which is to be entered in the grid. The abbreviations are all of a kind.

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ACROSS

1 Pronounces spears obsolete (5) 4 Dog Latin in Indian copper sounds Oriental, say (9)

9 Young deer skirting English wood (10) 11 Stew, see, for Irish doctor (5) 12 Girl with old hat in lane, rambl- ing (7) 14 Cursive script discovered in one's kindergarten (5) 15 Opera feature — to wit, a measure leading in aria (5) 16 Respectable house and home (6)

21 Pacified? Kicked like a colt! (8)

22 Mainly iron, calcium, caesium, in mess of industrial waste (7) 24 Trifling figure once, we hear (4) 25 Uneasy feeling it's a risky stake (4) 27 Baroque singers entrance (7) 28 One exists eating short amphi- bian and, apparently, herrings (8) 33 Union omits unruly mouth (7)

34 Fabrics, floor-covers? (5) 35 Jove-like, changeful (5)

37 Townee has bath in N.A. river, all eddies (7) 38 Disdainful rejection's an incite- ment to the North (5) 39 Agitated on account of note in Principal's possession (10) 40 Favouring, as 'twere, the close of a day? (9)

41 Wound with skin peeled off (5)

DOWN 1 'Know Thyself' — so the Union tag's construed (13, two words) 2 One garment'll turn up, dubious- ly acquired (6, hyphened) 3 Destroyed bream in river, rising (6)

4 Efface state representative (6) 5 Receivers of radio anecdotes (4)

6 Mass is captured by improvised

cine lenses (7)

7 Oaks perhaps date back (5)

8 They justify waste disposal units

(8) 10 Prattles about Northern belle? Soldiers will produce flatteries (13) 13 Settler incorporated more changes (7) 15 Dowry's set up heartless guy, unenterprising (6) 17 Hood, say — Border type — not topper (6) 18 Enjoy a musical ornament (6) 19 General engaged in hoax, sly up North (7) 20 Stays like migratory birds chats, in US (6) 23 Frisk around rising 'eight in type of splint (8) 26 He's always wildly 'Rad' (7) 29 A brute holds on lady's knitted cape (6) 30 Leafy appendage among buds, tip elongated (6) 31 Mexican whips top of Redwood leaves about (6)

32 Forgiving North's plunder (5)

36 Ratify a State (Northern) (4)