CROSSWORD 784: Heart transplants by Jac

A first prize of a bottle of Hennessy XO Cognac and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £12.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 1 December. Entries to: Crossword 784, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unnumbered clues roughly define four words of 15 or more letters which account for the 12 otherwise unclued lights (all words ascertainable from Chambers). Ignore two hyphens.

CLUES State that cannot be overcome? 19 Evolutionary excess Scientific researcher 20 Yet 21 IA What controversialists do with national expenditure, as it 23

were? (8) 24 ID Initially precludes Army Corps 25 in case it's given to forward

planning (13) 26 2 Bird joining opposite sides in 27 spirit (5) 5 Spenser's hailed a small boy's 28 sober surroundings (6) 30 6 Sickly foreign friend coming 31 round? No Scots about! (7) 7 Measure of Eastern stock (6) 32 9 The choosing again of a rattling poor notice (10) 33 10 Ideas a sorcerer is without (6) 34 12 Put off a bird on time, see, in a 35 decisive manner (13) 39 13 Supported old King Grub (8) 41 15 Namely, nothing put in order's masked! (7) 42 16 A woolly outwardly dead one (6) 43 18 In one way is stupid (5) Group sex? To copulate permit- ted! (9) Paint out the loo, sport! (7) Opposition leader's sullen rage about a book (8) Helps summon donkey out (7) Speak non-stop (7) Call for a local smear about one (5) It ejects solicitors (5) Namely, lines concealing age of a membrane? (7) A village stops with it (7) A fine cure, note (6) Style, in a manner of speaking

Was Lawrence, in church, such a stick? (6) Mould typist's allowed? (7) Growth-bearing in Amenca (5) Cap a roundabout wager (5) Was not in actual game (6) It bores and, one hears, fore- bodes utter misery (10) See, two exotic articles, includ- ing one hurdy-gurdy! (6) Record second attempt in Arras

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