Crossword 573
Pieces de resistance by Peto
A prize of ten pounds will be awarded For the first correct solution opened on 20 September. Entries to: Crossword 573, The Spectator, 56 D )ught) Street, London WCIN 2LL.
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The nine unclued lights are all of a kind. Ignore one accent.
Name Address ACROSS 9 Having only one partner has a go with Mum soon involved (10) 11 Either way a fright for Mrs Quickly . . . (6) 12 . . . but this object of terror disturbed Burbage (7) 14 Kneels finally before lofty seat (5) 15 Eight money-drawers (5) 16 Stick — and where to put it? (6) 22 Woman generally foxed the guard (8) 24 Non-U interest — once very safe (4) 25 Tips of lace on lingerie left to dangle (4) 27 Cast net to catch mysterious power flowing out (7) 29 Safety signal that's quite obvious (8, hyphened) 34 Goddess turning to a symbiotic animal (5) 35 Foot trench in the country is shallow (5) 36 Moral timeless athletic reform (7) 37 Metal engraving might make one ill (6) 39 Lets me see intricate signalling apparatus (9) 40 Puts back the end piece of medicated cloth (5) DOWN 1 Straying cattle wait for soup in Argyle (10, hyphened) 2 I'm sheltered by a wing of a bird (5) 4 Depraved people resort to trickery, losing nothing (7) 5 Engaged in rivalry — a bird and displaced person (7) 6 Tiptop club-moss coming up that's madder! (5) 7 Clan's head toppled for ancient people (9) 8 Fifteen spikes (4) 10 Winner takes all — $1000 bang on! (9, two words)
13 Flowing water to throw about pungently (7)
15 Flying squirrel soaring at garne bird (6)
18 Pity there's a blob in the candle fat (7)
19 Sort of pelican? Rot, it's akin to a plover (10)
26 Leaves a cigarette in the rare sediment (7)
28 Infinitesimal changes worry most
30 Snimenelt(7r)at — disturbed about in- side information (6)
31 Watered old plant I put in (5) 33 Hold covering before short leap
Lift Lift the foot but not the head (4)
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