Crossword 586

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution Pened on 20 December. Entries to: Crossword 586, The N)ec ator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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ACROSS 8 No sex-appeal? Carp about the issue (7) 10 Lace, dear, sounds the fashion (7) 13 Lathi's misused in revenue divi- sion of India (6) 15 Humour in Gothic horror? (5)

16 Coward? Man retreated (4) 19 Alley needs right stone-worker (7)

20 Sue old devil, go ahead (7)

22 Fishes with pole in wild lunges (7)

23 Knave, king in deal (5) 24 Star, one coming out about NE (5) 29 Star, look, back in capital (7)

30 Rum grips all in the end (7)

35 Coin (1000) in province (5) 36 End of crab in choppy Solent?

(6) 37 More real remorse in trustee (5) 38 Impressive flower gets old sen- sualist (7) 40 Mosaic forms indeed among odd stones & tiles (13) DOWN 2 Endless chemic ruined loaf (5)

3 One in compact short ranks (5)

4 Jag chest 'eld in raid (6) 5 Knotty matweed, it's said (7) 6 A thing emphatically Italian, the ego (6) 7 With variable range lens magnifies as in past (9) 12 Increase measure on ship's up- ward curve (7)

17 Hear beauty's worse — they'll gie this to funeral toiler (10, hyphened)

18 Lute, best possibly for playful pieces (8) 20 One charged around, pointed out (9)

21 Right to necessaries — er — in- cluding heater (7) 27 Salt with nothing on located in sheltered part (6)

28 Dog tailed pitman (6) 29 Historical, the Goya-type draw- ing (6) 31 T' mere's risen, burst up (5)

32 Rising moor, a kind that features tableland (5) 33 Welshman, alias Myers (5)