CROSSWORD

996: Down under 37 by Doc

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') for the first three correct solutions opened on 4 March. Entries to: Crossword 996, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London VVCIN 2LL.

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Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.

ACROSS 1 Odd person seen during recrea- tion is beyond it (13, three words) 8 City doctor (4) 10 A shining reflection in flower having little roots (10) 12 Muslim leader's married — ab- out 0100 hours (4) 14 Remains block up hermitage (6) 16 Doctor X had to, once (5) 17 Everyone's fish (5) 20 Lamiger disturbing resident (7) 21 Defend one favouring race round city (7) 23 Passages for voices (7) 24 Rest-day (5) 25 Amphetamine dispatch (5) 27 Bird changing direction midway, gliding (7) 30 Poorly tagged small devices (7) 32 Preparatory drawing from empty box, apparently (7) 36 Square with level shaded walk (5) 38 He made 32s, giving directions in handyman's work (6) 39 Barge back into Haworth (4) 40 Receive tax changes tending to be abhorrent (10) 41 Time of day on the outskirts of Seville (4) 42 Learning by experience from troubled IRA territory held in fear (13, three words) DOWN 1 It's true for 34 and 35 (5) 2 Section of the catechism, I thought (5) 3 Extreme Irish fruit (6) 4 Roman magistrate, some in- veterate dilettante (5)

7 Stand-in secretaries admitting long-delayed models (9) 9 Spurious rearrangement of hap- py carol (10)

11 Falsely obtained log revised in badly lit surroundings (6, hyphened) 18 Sorrowful way East put on weight (10) 21 Royal Mail identifications of Ted's Co-ops, maybe (9, hyphened) 22 Attack a sailor, one hears (7) 26 Time a flock of mallard nses over insectivorous plants (7) 28 One fleet author, half-Albanian (6) 31 Award in one of three stages (6) 33 Undistinguished mournful song unfinished (5) 35 Pure female hesitation? (5)