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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') for the first three correct solutions opened on 2 October. Entries to: Crossword 926, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (one of two words), all in Chambers English Dictionary, are of a kind. Elsewhere ignore an apostrophe.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 6 Hard stone encampment sent back mineral (7) 11 Ripped length in city passage (10) 15 The head — of the family, maybe! (4) 16 Iris returning extinct creature and fish (7) 17 One unit's always another (7) 18 Characters returning thus out East (3) 19 Hernia of male hawk swallowing spangle in the evening (10) 21 Tyneside streets' homes (5) 24 Right round around a round (4)... 27 . . . Moulding round suit (4) 28 Fashion index (5) 30 Indicating notable heather (10) 33 An organ is out of tune, artisti- cally (3) 35 Wrote small capitals before split 36 comply, reorganising descrip- tion of games (7) 37 Posh pulse from Shetland estate (4)

40 Diana's home — whence a jolly companion (7)

41 See 5 (5) DOWN 1 Pair of ducks? Co-op sent five out at screaming pitch (14, four words) 2 Dravidian language and Japanese writing confusing seer (8) 3 Like Schoenberg's music — an alto is perplexed (6) 5 41's new theme (5) 6 Noisy revellers: there's one in the Rolls! (8) 7 Old settler's point of view (5) 8 Burst of sunlight in middle of night on bird! (5) 9 SERF'S Neddy once arranged for area in Antarctica (14, two words) 10 Double cut round element (6) 12 End of ballad you'll adapt, forte 20

Old giant's pea (9)

22 Group of speech sounds was not found in volume (6) 23 Birds crossing square (8) 26 Administrative district or zone with one HQ upset (6) 29 Keep quiet on the air-bed, we hear (6, two words) 31 Move about in a gifted way? (6) 34 When round school, they have no feet (5) 35 Deep strait (5)