CROSSWORD

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Italic definitions give answers (with lengths in brackets from which unclued lights, themselves words, are to be derived Four other unclued lights (two of them plural, one hyphened) form an apt group.

Name Address ACROSS 6 Slough's ruined arches (6) 12 Hear brood from East in repre- sentation of sounds (10) 13 Ravines in barren Alaska (5)

14 e.g. Franciscans (8) 15 Greenish (11) 16 Point to prig's odd selfish indulg- ence (7, hyphened) 20 Quilt (5)

22 Insular location of missing Hebridean? (7) 23 State month in reminder (4) 24 Old amulet for each one, suit- able (7) 26 Smooth block of gold, say, in bank (7, hyphened)

30 Evil spirits (5)

31 Scots savour Mac's perverse form of wit (7) 34 Voiced support for noble (4) 36 Leave palm in suite (7)

38 Justifying (11)

39 Variegated freak on plant (7, hyphened) 40 Man's English restraint, in re- treat (5) 41 Refrain from staggering into rol- ler (10) 42 Former beam marks in earth, reportedly (6) DOWN 2 Complications about royal heral- dic bands (8) 3 Found draft on time (5) 4 Worn in a sober service (7)

5 Fruit tree up in mountain pass (7)

6 Those not fasting for Easter, maybe? (6) 7 Fifty in witch's ring (6) 8 Some Glaswegian entered — to- wards Scotch (5) 11 Tide-line, of old, modified on boat around Malta (9)

17 Plunge (4) 18 Of the belly (6) 19 Not easily influenced (10) 21 Sri Lankans (6)

25 Field shelter with woven lace fly-catcher? (8)

27 Siren (4)

28 One fretting about timber on river (7) 29 Bright disc, sun, above quiet view (7) 32 Rise in Cyprus, like jagged rocks

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33 anic, that was — in second vehicle, we hear (6) 35 Issue weapon — addled marine's lost one (5) 37 Card, a King, in addition (5)