Crossword 639

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 23 January. Entries to: Crossword 639, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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1 I 42 43 -1 I I Each italic clue is an anagram combining the light itself and a metallic factor: e.g. Metal, tin lumps (5) might give SMELT when PLATINUM is extracted. Ignore two accents.

Name Address ACROSS

4 Aurum slung in t' crate (11) 11 US tin-ore there (9)

12 Gold wheeling deity of air (5) 13 Kid goat has drink round river? (11, hyphened) 14 Ingot English uncovered? (4) 15 Ace card (3) 18 Moslem, one bang in charge (7) 19 Controversial knight in name recalled (7)

22 Cu, Pb, Ti remain (6)

23 Hostility met in muddy front of Ypres (6)

24 Pan, mug, real tin (5) 27 Silver hoe, mum? (5)

29 Vocal pop-star, one above dangerous rock (6)

31 Lint green — Cu? K? (6)

34 Sewer access in a State covered by spy (7, hyphened) 35 Italian town out of Rome lit wildly (7) 38 Ab'or mischief (3) 39 Shore-bird in tangle (4) 40 Scottish flags need even dyes, they say (11) 41 Sounds like forced 'am and wine (5)

42 Zinc-ore — Ag better (9) 43 Red dash, lead-based (11, hyphened)

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1 Pure metal pin, Bud (11, hyphened)

2 Soft soaps the muscle! (5) 3 Regal cham confounded NE emperor (11) 5 Morose, faced noose (7)

6 I ruin metal but (6)

7 Swimming organs caught, tense, tangled (6) 8 Track circuit — near side for flier (7) 9 It's a trick, a twist (4)

10 Mangle a putter, iron (9) 15 Chromium areas (5)

16 Tote in a sell — tricky fraud (11)

17 I, I match curious metal (11) 20 Puts metal, iron, aside (9)

21 Flower border trimmed (3) 25 Get ore, lad (5) 26 Hole for sewer — sight! (3) 28 Proclaim two measures (7) 30 I race madly about old course (7) 32 Henrietta's neat bow (6)

33 Cd, Er, Eu, Na, Ra, Sm, Y (6) 36 Not keen? Look busy, Henry (5)

37 Instrument — spirit-level, it's said (4)