5 MARCH 1983, Page 41

Crossword 597

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution Opened on 21 March. Entries to: Crossword 597, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights have nothing in comm m, but their unchecked letters (in order and in numerical sequence of clues, across before down) will prove the title for solvers.

Name Address ....... ACROSS I Spoil a fight in a Moslem shrine (8) 9 Grimace with moderation in a hunter's vestment (10) 14 Butter's three consecutive letters

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16 Lord in a pickle after a party (6) 17 Measure his out in winter, accor- ding to the Bard (5) 18 Agreed, note, between Guadalimar and Segura (5) 20 Author's concern about partition

(7)

25 Plant goldenrod? (5) 26 Weird bit of junketing (5) 28 Backward girl with a past in front of her — no bottom, though (7) 31 A knave's place in the outskirts

(7)

33 Proscribe headgear for fighters

(7)

37 Second generation Japanese on the way back? That's a shame!

(5) 39 Meal to settle father in (6) 40 Grand children's letters? (3) 41 Buries ball where there's little space among body-parts (10) 42 Vegetable plant in currency abroad (6) 43 Prosaically green (8) DOWN 1 Nursery heroine's wear (13, two words) 2 He can't say 'goose'? (5) 3 In the same place turned out to summon a water carrier (6) 4 Having points of note (two of them) in operation, once (5) 6 Suffer in conjunction abroad as a result (7) 7 Harshly criticise the foreign pimp (6) 8 Story-teller's up-train (4) 10 Prepare to leave a pub about Spring (6) 12 Made out using this somehow died out (13) 13 Rupture one a follower follows in Ireland (8) 15 Pure water — puff for a Highland galley? (7) 19 Wild about a residence's window (9) 21 Sweet song of a bird — one that's settled in? (8) 23 Complaint of fairy losing head about American daughter being upset (7) 27 Pass on a thousand less in reverse (7) 29 Stake out dope's outcrop (6) 30 Non-starter drips about birds (6) 32 Quiet place (6)