LIFEAcross
1 Women’s painting seen
initially returning by tube
(5)
4 Look about, right and left,
in a jaunty manner (9)
9 Home I leave — priests’
centre’s defining acts of
wickedness (10)
11 Give address that’s fancy,
not new (5)
12 Porcelain broken, lacking
no true copy (7)
16 Trojan horse finally gains
access to a stable
backwards (6)
21 What is going beyond
The Pale? (8)
24 Fair during the 70s (4)
27 Nemesis from
Bremerhaven, Germany
(7)
28 Fielder at opponent’s
ground has to leave quietly
(8, two words)
33 Thank you, and goodbye
(6)
34 A top up (5)
35 Composer with note in
stamped envelope (5)
37 Ran back with speed to tell
a tale (7)
38 Bananas are OK abroad
(5)
40 Arrogant Edgar, sadly
superior (9, hyphened)
41 Admitted cycling to small
bay (5)Down
1 Salesgirl organised Spanish
toasts (13, two words)4 Snub fruit drink and game
(6)
5 Worthless tinder (4)
6 Repeat it, adding note on
rebuke (7)
8 Hangers-on seen off by
local manager (8)
10 Lagerfeld and graduate
fired ten darts at target in
old German city (13,
two hyphens)
13 Alternative medicine
eliminating one type of
disease (7)
18 Calms when everyone
agrees (6)
19 Vest — and what it finishes
with (7)
20 Maltese town providing
fragrant oil with touch of
delicacy (6)
23 Burning waste in Africa?
(8)
26 One cheats in party game
(7)
29 Chemical company about
to take on the French —
result of the big freeze? (6)
30 Leading lady cut short
with smack (6)
36 Bound to be exhausted,
disheartened (4)A first prize of £30 for the first
correct solution opened on
19 November. There are two
runners-up prizes of £20.
(UK solvers can choose to
receive the latest edition of the
Chambers dictionary instead of
cash — ring the word
‘dictionary’.) Entries to:
Crossword 2383, The Spectator,
22 Old Queen Street, London
SW1H 9HP. Please allow six
weeks for prize delivery.Crossword
2383: Flagged
by Doc
Through marriage to a teenage bride
His loneliness was purged
Too briefly. When Virginia died,
His melancholia surged.
The Godfather of gothic crime,
He never stood a chance,
A writer born before his time
First valued most in France.
You’ll know that he was truly great
If ever you have read him,
But Poe, a tragic reprobate,
Bit every hand that fed him.
Basil Ransome-Davies
Not hardy, but a weakling born,
Ay, weakling born,
Who lived a life forlorn and torn
To shreds by woes and strife:
Two marriages and both a curse
The first a pain, the second worse,
Small wonder that, in doleful verse,
He rued his troubled life.
Confessed as one ‘who no heart hath’,
Ay, ‘no heart hath’,
Who trod the cheerless Egdon path
Beset by wind and rain,
Such words were uttered not in jest,
For now, long severed from his breast,
His heart twixt both wives lies at rest
Freed finally from pain.
Alan Millard
Holily, Galilee:
Jesus of Nazareth:
Daddy’s a Deity;
Born in a shed.
Parthenogenesis,
Lucifer’s nemesis,
Counterintuitive:
Rose from the dead.
Empirical miracles:
Raising of Lazarus,
Walking on water and
Water to wine.
Dishes of fishes and
Dissing of riches
Incontrovertible:
Jeez was divine.
David Silverman
Quirkily-workily
Jorge Bergoglio,
On a career path with
Quite a steep slope,
Unostentatiously
Worked as a janitor,
Then as a bouncer, and
Then as the Pope.
Max Gutmann
NO. 3075: TRUMPIAN VERSE
Last year Canongate published The Beautiful
Poetry of Donald Trump by Rob Sears. You
are invited to compose submissions of up to
16 lines for volume II. Please email ( wherever
possible) entries to lucy@spectator. co.uk by
14 November. A maximum of four entries
per competitor, please.
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40 41SOLUTION TO 2380: DEDOVERThe unclued Across lights are US state capitals and the
unclued Down ones are the states. The title refers to
DELAWARE (DE) and its capital DOVER.First prize D.P. Shenkin, London WC1
Runners-up Margaret Lusk, Fulwood, Lancs;
Lynne Gilchrist, Willoughby, NSW, AustraliaNameAddressEmailThe unclued lights, one of two
words, and the others when
paired are of a kind. One
individual unclued light does
double duty.