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A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of 110 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary') for the first three correct solutions (please, no photocopies) opened on 27 April. Entries to: Crossword 1054, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The =clued lights (one a phrase) form two quartets suggested indirectly by the title.

Name Address ACROSS 1 One cause of suffering's over (6) 5 DTs? Aware, newly orientated! (8) 11 Food, ground grain (4) 13 Officer in garden reduced what moles do? 6) 16 Peer in uniform (5) 17 Cockney's maintained in age (3) 20 Old brass, money gains (7) 23 Reaction concerning Southern pimp, we hear (8) 25 Snake in alien vessel (5, hyphened) 27 Senegal's housing modern slut 30 eat includes one grand ramble

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g ) 37 ash from Pulacayo, Bolivia (5) 38 One cleric's consumed article about Cretan mount (6) 39 Nose reset in time (4) 41 Lens, informed girl (8) 42 Bird, seal, audible (6) DOWN 1 Answer, maybe, for beard re- . movers? (6) 2 Stopper jostled, reportedly, in playing area (12, hyphened) 3 Border with US and NZ trees (5) 4 Square cloak on E. Spenser's shoulder (6) 5 Language: Queen's English (4) 6 Stones, timber left — formerly cut (7)

7 Hysterics? So much Gallic spirit (7)

8 A moulding round piano's high- est point (6) 9 These tired nurses! (8) 12 Doctor holds drunk up for milk- sugar (7) 14 Dog on line's mine (8) 18 Remove jockey? Local one's bad (8) 21 Letter I misspelt in name again ) 22 Odd dives upset Asians (8) 26 Test demand (we're told) for canvas (7) 28 Ropes indeed hoisted steps (7) 29 Pledged much-used piece (6, two words) 32 Liberal in view's moderate (6) 34 Foreman of crew mostly lashed about Sunday (5) 36 Turned up fish knives (4)