Crossword 605

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 16 May. Entries to: Crossword 605, The Spectator, 56 D nighty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (one of two words) are of a kind.

Name Address ACROSS

j Youngsters' military body may be democrat spy car (14, three

words) 9 Control return of skin disease (4) 11 Left exhausted, with a troop en- circling (9) 12 Turn and strip over the border

14 Attack — or attacked in speech (6) 16 Shakespeare's to pay for take- away from armed guard (5) 17 Blockhead giving Amin occupa- tional therapy (5) 20 Elation ill-suited for this growth (7, hyphened) 21 Separate love and Catholic in low haunt (7) 24 Empty instrument which is just above the coffin (7) 25 Bed covering of some French animal doctor? (5) 26 Nimble US soldier consumed by beer (5) 28 Jaguar, new Opel and a Ford (not half!) (7) 31 Square judge hopes for caped overcoats (7) 34 Another theme-word: individual who's exhausted (7) 37 Old Persian coin near isle (5) 38 Crustacean for prince with beard

39 Oil-palm genus from reject sale

that is brought back in (6) 42 Pound for a priest (4) 43 Hopeless condition of sad peer agonising with a will (14, two words) DOWN 1 Mount Cook dances (6) 2 Dull church marriage (5) 4 Smart sloop-like vessel (5)

5 Name part of the sediment it leaves (7)

6 Struggle with heartless nobleman to the finish (7) 8 Satellite loses one revolving like a pentagram (8) 22 Shakespeare's in readiness, fielding near the slips (7, two words) 27 Oriental reason affecting one's feelings (7) 29 Specimens from flower and uprooted palm (7) 30 Threefold and initially serious at- tempts (6) 32 Passed round warrants (6) 33 Confection for a year and a day, we hear (6) 35 Vehicle by the gold Standard (5) 36 Unleavened bread from the farm at Zafad (5)