Crossword 601

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 18 April. Entries to: Crossword 601, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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Four of the unclued lights are the 12s of he other four.,One is a phrase and two are hyphened; one other is Shakespearian.

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ACROSS 8 Gypsy parking — what a caper (4) 10 House facing ex-PM's zest (10, hyphened) 16 Smashed stein in nearest local (5) 17 Welsh cad's roundabout design (5) 20 Card-game group holding South most vague (7) 21 To sustain one, I'm breaking fast (7) 24 Bar to a degree prevented goal

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25 Scoffs bird with portion of stuff- ing (5) 27 Caterpillars round about in wall slits (7) 30 Hair-dresser carrying one small trunk (7) 32 Soft one in NE taken in by 40 once (7) 37 Kind of parsnip about right to sow in rows (5) 38 Robust in charge, like Socrates?

(6) 39 Active in time of dawn (4) 40 Time warp, happen — in Olde Engiande (10) 41 Rise as before and dive eastwards (4) DOWN

2 Islet on fringes of doctor's circuit

(5) 3 Diminutive kid — and add, bind!

(6) 4 Seal's shrunken hide (5) 5 A short bumpkin taken in by trick — mainly green? (7) 6 Pack of hounds in street gutter (6) 7 Prehistoric beast, wild dog, only part fossilised (9) 9 Carrying too much finished Ted

— doctor's brought in (10)

11 Unusual line, look, in metal ornamentation (6) 13 Quick-time dance step (7) 15 Know old song? Could be 'In a monastery garden'! (8) 18 Mottled pieces — marble par- ticularly ( I 0) 19 Measure sun-oil, blended milky mixture (8) 22 Telepathy has zero practicality, mate (7) 26 Besetting sin — GI e.g. is tricky (7) 28 Senseless wag, worst in ingenuity (6) 29 A kid's father makes capital in Turkey (6) 31 Birds trick cooks (6) 33 Flight of geese in loose line (5) 34 Point out gringo's piebald (5)