CROSSWORD 966: History lesson by Jac

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how finishes first (9)

9 Having a complaint (a clout on one's limb) one has a copper round (10) 11 In open hostility the female's one who cleans up (6) 12 Egghead's turn to go out after a A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary') for the first three correct solutions opened on 23 July. Entries to: Crossword 966, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Solutions to 14 of the clues require to be dealt with in a certain way before entry in the grid as the otherwise unclued lights (all of which are in Chambers). In two cases of possible alternatives the reverse of alphabetical order takes precedence. Three normal lights are hyphened.

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monkey's brothers here (9) 14 Man and dog (5)

15 Trumps times without number (7)

16 A letter in Indo-European (6) 22 Whine about wine? Dreadful! P ) 23 acing Shakespeare's protector

24 oax a with it runner (5) -7)

1 25 Enthusiastic about 6 being end- lessly about (4) 27 Retain maybe one in passivity g ) 29 hap first chosen in charge of a particular technology (10) 32 Measure round a tape-recorder, say (6) 34 Goodbye — the end to Spenser's speaker of a Turkic tongue (5)

35 Shakespeare's chastity a plant? V)

36 ulogies once, maybe getting end backwards (7) 37 There's nothing against being in Reno or some other American town (6) 38 Ancestors adept in ringing the changes? (10) 39 Note 9 goes without in meal of membranes (9) 40 Was daily in a state of bewilder- ment, one hears (5) DOWN 1 Wolf, perhaps? Fashionable

pent, perhaps? Snare for birds! 10) 2 Iigure one with a pigtail's left 26 in a mess (5)

3 Gossip's false yarn about double time (6)

4 A nomad — one breed keeping poles apart (7)

5 Sheds about a ton, maybe? Mainly less (7) 6 Reverse of out of element (5)

7 Like a perch or sardine could be (9)

8 Drives on boats (4) 10 Dominated by clerics and snoops, raising dirt (9) 13 Bird-dog (7) 15 One putting up with a computer operator (6) 17 Incases it — it affects Greek manners! (9) 18 Dries only part of a horse (7) 19 One sort of sagouin seen around — fellow-creatures no longer (10) 20 One and all first to spring about — that's trifling! (9) 21 One dipping out round the bar

26 Holding forth in argot of a sort (7)

28 A breather of a different sort having nothing about it (7) 30 No persons hang about carrying a flag (8) 31 A Kiwi's one to rove about (5) 33 A messenger's last words (5) 34 Island head (4)