Crossword 678

Prize: flO (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, 1983 edition, value £10.95 — ring the word 'Chambers Dictionary' above) and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1978 Port, for the first correct solution opened on 22 October. Entries to: Crossword 678, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

4 5 16 7 8

1 - I - I 4 Five

• 10 1

3 14 15 H 29 30 31 21 • iiii iiu 6 27 I 33 35 36 37 3171 TL-

unclued l'ghts of a kind are synonymous, respectively with another five (one of which consists of two words).

Name

Address

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12 17 24 38 34 43

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5 Impudent pout (6) 10 Dispute settled: I got Ian off (10)

12 Row past with one abroad in heat (6)

13 Symbolic tale, without point (8) quite bloody

17 Mica ruined in standard tar Product (7) 18 Wearing drag, right — and gas-mask (7)

20 They stagger in Ayr .with drunken red dials (8) 25 Bit of cake attracts bird (3) 26 'Pisces'? 'Libra' I study America (7)

28 Waits on — aim in service (7) 31 Concerning a revised paper to be Published again (8) 34 N;Vhat's-his-name — Henry — has abrupt speech (7)

36 Old shrubs about in plain to South (7) 39 Struggle on making money (5) 40 Dons shoes? (8) 41 Oil varies in fish rating? (6) 43 Gold European reportedly set apart (6)

44 t20Y gent feverish, without energy — effect of pollen (8)

DOWN 1 Blow in band, US kind (6) in 2 Asphalt fashionable in Utah mainly, I note (8) 3 Splenetic? Alien oddly under 'Libra' (6) 4 Dish proposal — misconceived in part (5) i 6 Lash that s cutting into mariners (4) 8 Scotsman's top chest garment (4) 11 Tree producing ,transparent black stuff (7) 16 One who might become sort to cadge? (11) 19 Sold short on the spot, spare Scotch (4) 21 Quiet river, Kentish? (4) 22 Grub, it's said, on a herb (4) 23 Measure potter spilt in storehouse (8) 25 Botch up contract (4) 27 Removing smear about Persuasion? (8) 30 Empty played out seam, they say (4) 31 Exposure grips five up in Shetland rock-cleft (4) 32 Salutation right, in place (6) 33 Lost copper vessel (6) 37 Dog headed for fence (4)

38 One short, short time up in the Isles (4)

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