Listener 1965

 Triagram III by Sam

Each across clue is in two parts, the answers to each part being anagrams of each other. The light is a third anagram. Each across clue also contains a sequence of the mixed letters of the anagrams. Down clues are normal and punctuation should be ignored.

Across
1 Murder tales may be so varied (7)
6 Get rid of gloom sounded like a child speaking (6)
11 Costa Rica's embraced by these like the peritoneal fold (8)
13 You have uncovered a beaver (5)
15 Type of drug for modern doctor - it's described in a narrative (7)
17 Lamented name of a spirit (6)
18 To put in storage, to encircle in sea (6)
19 Unfriendly is the word to describe this Old Testament writer (7)
22 To someone musical , organist for example, it's slow like a chamois (5)
23 Gents' outfitting tailors today don't make this overcoat binding (8)
26 Main roads in mines - place responsible for high mortality rate (6)
29 One gathers the angler will traditionally so describe his catch (7)
32 Promising youngster on stage chatters at length but emptily (7)
34 Earthenware vases, antiques maybe, are composed of rock in Scotland (6)
36 Here is one so disrespectful, you need to vanish (8)
39 Spenser's death-days were his space of time (5)
40 To annul an adverse verdict shows great respect (7)
41 These are stony-hearted pretenders up to their tricks (6)
43 In Scotland, to rehabilitate, start on repeat performance (6)
45 Serious people living in the Orient are so described (7)
46 Interrupts, so causing breaks in continuity in stages (5)
47 Paying guest in Red country rises in the Carpathians (8)

Down
1 English keeper needs good beginning for these games (4)
2 Empty a mill-stream over the border (4)
3 Food allowance for bridge partners (7)
4 Swedish spirit found in petrol lighters (5)
5 Is this the locale of 'The Heiress'? (4)
6 Sign of French distinction (6)
7 A thing of beauty from the lido (4)
8 Scholar is half Indian (4)
9 He has the makings of a leader with 10 (3)
10 Before this meant to plough (3)
12 Islanders out East can produce nice gals (9)
14 He's liable to take a swing and set the place alight (3)
16 Eastern copper, inexperienced, discovered on the tiles (8)
20/44/27 On a helter-skelter the Scots do with relish, you'll find (6)
21 Here's a note - add a penny for Spenser's salary (3)
22 A type of exercise that makes one fit (3)
24 Prepositions short reply from an American senator (3)
25 A sign that there's a peculiar guest about (7)
27 See 20
28 'The last ____ squires ride slowly towards the sea' (3)
30 Though badly reared, he is not illiterate (6)
31 A little of the incandescent range (5)
33 Volleys land right in the middle of the bombed site (5)
34 This trembles like a feather (5)
35 Trial at which to give evidence (4)
36 These experts are tedious for the most part (4)
37 Cloth salesman popularly has a poor start (4)
38 Some of the audiences are when the Beatles entertain (4)
42 Blackleg is about to incite a fight (3)
44 See 20

The Listener, Thursday 25 January 1968. Cost 9d



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