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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' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 30 May. Entries to: Crossword 908, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

The unclued lights (one of two words) and those clued otherwise than by overall definition are of a kind (but only recently) and none of them is to be found in Chambers 20th Century Dictionary. Collins confirms 7 Down.

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10 ACROSS 1 Disturbing bird by heather (8) 6 Roland Amiss (6) 12 Battle of the nations showing power with old Spaniard (10) 13 Man, say, having time in for fibre (5) 14 Motto of one child with long name (7, two words) 15 A rich shade developed for high- backed furniture (10) 20 Produces Scots models right away (4) 22 Surface organisms from North Station (7) 23 Notice the inner part of the ear

4 30 F(rank's ready (4)

34 Heartless Rotarian's horse (4) 36 Snake-bird (7) 38 Mark a quiet love-song (10) 39 Idler and peer taking everything back in (7) 40 Homes from Tyneside streets (5) 42 Niggardly artist leaving formid- ably barbed fish (6) 43 Snoop around English subs re- versing: such falseness (8) DOWN 2 Darts into the air, spilling hot soups (8) 4 Large new semi with pieces in- side (7) 6 French company going under last month (6) 7 US feminist says more about America (6) 8 Experts translating Norse (5) 9 Lear's work showing 7s, maybe, in 8, in 9's boundaries (13, two words) 10 Sporting items going to and fro with clogs (13, two words and hyphened) 11 Sun-monkeys having odd inter- nal complaint (9)

17 Old lodge — one with new name (3) 18 Elephant-boss after 1st of Jano- ar (5) 19 it y supports the rudder and (odd- ly) stops-rent (9, hyphened) 21 Some of the apres-ski limbo-

dancers (5) 25 Stop express (8) 27 I say nothing (3) 28 Bewilder with a minus, perhaps

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29 Author giving short cheer during match (7) 33 One boy upset with another for king-of-arms (6) 35 Inept work for an Eleusinian initiate (5) 37 Rectify and solemnly ratify note

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