CROSSWORD 839: Trencherman by Mass
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 18 January. Entries to: Crossword 839, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.
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The unclued lights comprise a key-word (with two hyphens disregarded) and two different quartets suggested by its compo- nents. Chambers gives all but 13 (well known) and 27 (in Brewer).
Name Address ACROSS 1 I play-act badly, not in character (8) 8 Short light necklace (4) 12 Beetle shaken off dog's lips (5) 14 Protection in US from French receiver, we hear (7) 16 Select sect, mainly Left (4) 17 Pointed from old city to river (5) 22 Dissertation for short course at gallery (8) 23 Nuisance? About right, one most petty (7) 25 Month with worker's angle gauge (6) 27 Uncouth thug with odd name (7) 29 Material for board (8) 33 Sink timber in alkali (6) 34 Drinks and embraces (5) 35 Flier from Kansas or Alabama (4) 37 A set round East in charge of a drug (7) 38 Nourishment's found in extracts
(5)
40 A horse, not half off the straight . . . (4) 41 . . . obstructing during course (8, three words) DOWN 1 Extemporises in notices about Party (6, hyphened) 2 Jack's nabbed one adornment (4
4 Sec)
ure holds for 100 on edges (7) 5 Discharging account, clearing off (10) 6 Starry Archer in south arrives (7) 8 Footballers who keep to a line?
(5)
9 Fuel, rents could make one peeved (9) 13 Fifty, in rear, bow — as sign of grief (8, two words) 15 Iodine, in odour, I almost en- dure — like one in the lab (11) 19 Tight European gangster's body- guard (10) 20 Fish, animal fibre, given to dog (8, hyphened) 26 Confuse with extreme points (if unknown) (7) 28 Loosen about a quarter of type, and brush out (7) 29 Piece from Chausson, a tango
30 Go) od man predominant in con- test (6)
31 A gig that's light in spirit (6) 36 Right artist, making gumbo (4)
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