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A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of either Chambers Dictionary or Chambers Crossword Manual — ring your choice) for the first three correct solutions opened on 26 September. Entries to: Crossword 875, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights consist of three creatures, three moods and three towns, and all are of a kind with one normal light and three lights clued without overall definition; three other normal lights are usually hyphened.

Name Address 37 Void id a water-course (5) 38 Was not 14 a plant? (5) 39 A mineral? Not Paddy! (6) 40 Food a boy goes back for (3) 41 Deity makin' a fuss for a diges- tive aid (10) 42 Drowsy at going botanically tuf- t) 43 Irrational rage — only lasting 52 Weeks! (8) DOWN 1 Singular titular means of getting wind of the condemning of drink? (13) 2 Anthony a playboy at heart (5) 3 Island formerly part of Germany 6 versick at heart, a soft-hearted chief quack (7) 7 Thus bordered is an advantage in one of the USA (6) 8 See 20 (4) 10 Spenser's sluggish relative posi- tion in a rising sea (6) ACROSS 1 African girl embracing more than one Northman (8) 9 Rock group with a plum offshoot (10) 14 See 38 (3) 17 Functions in parts (5) 18 A Scots matted wool one's to be found in Zaire (5)

20 Confess his 8's a miss? (7)

25 Count as indecencies, Frances- 26 Tree that's surrounded by sea- co! (5) men (5) 28 A 'little woman' a girl described at 'cut off (7) 31 Sudden emergence without cre- dit — reverse of work out! (7) 33 Grass a lovely lass about-turns in 11 Hazard about £1 on info (9) 12 Shakespeare'sjust right, attitu- dinising about Pluto (13) 15 Navigable channel not all that close (7) 19 Eliminated initially all sort of trace in bed (9) 23 Stimulation? A drinking bout's a non-starter! (7) 27 One way and another men go out for a drink (7) 30 Once becoming an architect (6) 34 Long to amble round a former battlefield (5) 35 Completely left Viola out (5) 36 Gold ring (4)