Crossword 660

Prize: £10— or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, 1983 edition (ring the word 'Dictionary' under name and address) — for the first correct solution opened on 18 June. Entries to: Crossword 660, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The ten clues in italics give five pairs of anagrams (including a place name). The unclued border lights are variously thematic and include four plurals and one variant expression. One clued light is a proper noun.

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ACROSS

9 Shellfish-vendor for it? Yes, we turned queer (10, hyphened) 14 Fruit (3)

16 Dude turned face in sleep (6) 17 Chatterer, right lively locally (5)

18 Cheerless (5)

20 Bring together, deceive with romance (7) 22 Pithy study digested by non- cleric (7) 24 Located faults in outmoded dresses (7)

25 Elizabethan venture (5) 26 Oil (5)

28 Silver service, almost, brought in — no longer matching (7) 31 Inventor, mum old dupe, it's said (7) 33 Nark round about, printer's ex- tra hand (7)

37 Old oriental warrior (5)

38 Wine gets a liver fissure (5) 39 Laura upset about duke's rasp- ing tongue (6)

40 Greek character (3)

41 Has-been at a spree, out to an- noy? (10) DOWN 2 Swiller, not head doorkeeper (5) 3 Pound disc, fashion a Greek coin (6) 4 Coil weak in Mac's rattle (5)

6 Longed to make a wage once above editor (7) 7 Hazard (6) 8 Country (4)

10 Reserve, to overcome polar region (6, hyphened) 11 Where men hop, gad wildly in posture (9, hyphened)

13 Support round utmost colunin 15 s(S8tha)iipi ,onlaed:9)adrift without a star (Me 19 Metal sink? Almost adopt, in- 21 Calm ll with dry vermouth i r•I'l 23 t( A w8) et inkle-toes? (137s; we hear' e,, fir: 27 He steals cattle from king

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