Crossword 631

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 14 November. Entries to: Crossword 631, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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General 6A, according to 12, required a 5 in the form of 31 or 10, the 19's 37. One of these unclued lights consists of two words.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Image-projector with large-scale endless range (8) 13 Proportion, no extremes in speech (5) 14 Like a brilliant cast, with just deserts on reflection (7, hyphened) 15 Tumults about old actors' en- trances (10, hyphened) 16 Bent old wicker work, mostly flexible (7) 20 Fate of old Orkney dialect (4) 22 He flusters a rote-speaker (7)

23 Agriculturalist finally has urge-- for sheep (4)

24 Northern and Southern US rain- shoes (7) 26 See 'em in mists shivering in undersark s? (7) 30 Youngster, left out, snarled (4) 34 Cluster of blood-cells splattered tree (4)

36 Golfer rings soldier back — calls again (7) 38 Examples of dogbane family: 1 cultivated every sort (10, hyphened)

39 See eastern devil turning malig- nant (7) 40 Erysipelas grips one girl (5) 41 Right, disorderly Babel signified audible confusion (10) 42 Fault in a pupil? Miss, upset, will keep most of you in (6) 43 Gum in East, like material for vases (8) DOWN 2 Fruit remains in costermongers' clothes (8) 3 Cuts up fishes (5)

4 Holding forth, 13's inept, no good (7)

6 Girl, Poll, almost captivates a boy (6) 7 Old copper has rank and class (6) 8 Society obliterated old rising autocrats (5)

9 Plants used as condiment out of French vessels are eaten up (13) 11 Street Guides for foreigners (9)

17 Fruit-centre, miss? (3) 18 Pioneer's heart shows Scottish purpose (5) 21 Branch with monkey above us (5) 25 Russ's crime's cracked by Ogpu chief (8) 27 War-god, not half a bully (3) 28 With many flowers, stem is in- volved with ray (7) 29 Sycophant gets bird (7) 32 Horses circling Arabic trees (6) 33 What 22 does, we hear, for glut- tons (6) 35 Each point precise (5)