Crossword 682

Coverall by Jac

Prize: £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, 1983 edition, value £11.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1978 Port, for the first correct solution opened on 19 November. Entries to: Crossword 682, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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As indicated in Chambers, the unclued lights are of a kind with one of the clued ones (wherefor neither cone nor cornet wou d be appropriate).

Name Address

6 8 10 13, 15

17 18 19 20 ACROSS 1 See 17 (5)

4 Witch-like dwarfish type's poem (9)

9 Tom — a servant of periodic discharge? (10) 11 Tom having 'suffered of the entrails' (6) 12 Work managed thus, without voice? (7) 14 A country lad or lass (5) 15 Once uttered pennies some time back (5) 16 Spread out as a problem (6) 22 Way to play her missing ciphers back to censor (8) '23 Flashy service angle (7) 25 Date that is classically curtailed

27 S(4 uch as will exactly divide £1 in distribution of quota (7)

32 Protozoon's earth-bred origins in a bird now extinct (6) 34 Wherein Civil Service characters of woe resort? (5)

35 In Scotland, long about in spirit (5)

36 Striking ardour for rape (7) 37 Ulster roused to ecstasy about braid (6) 38 Princess's death due to being deprived of her faculties? (10) 39 Cheer-leader of team to listen to before entering both halves of 'em (9)

40 Set about describing a deserted

sports-ground (5) DOWN

1 Unloading payment of less important generation (10)

4 Covering a king has when going out in Town (7) 5 p Pertaining to an outwardly

grotesque of an na outwardlY grotesque Scots grandchild (7)9 Be slow getting pitch covered• B( 2g left on a 8 (10) Bankrupt, past being taken in, after degree in double-Dutch (9)

21 Sign 25 maybe is (6)

26 Rising urge in vermin t° confound (7)

28 Is after one in a cat's bond of union (7) 31 A lake-dwelling (5)

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Poet's foreboding of bad luck on losing a pair of spectacles (4). Rope fitting round a Scottish town (9)

Shakespearian putting °ff

playing the fool (7)

Rare reception from a key rad° component (6) Tipping 1A's point of attack (9) Spanish miracle-monger's kisser

The solution to Crossword 679 is on page 35. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.