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A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £13.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 4 July. Entries to: Crossword 863, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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17 A man's fate to be a slave! (5) 18 Colour a girl in part needs (5) 22 Only one variation in state of open water midst a sea of ice (7) 24 A sailor-man not half like a Dynast (7) 25 Hybrid sort of missile, man (5) 26 Garbles 8 old lyrics (5) 28 Willing to try 14, perhaps? (7) 31 Expose a continental confeder- ate (7) 33 Press ahead of first follower of Socratic method of communica- tion (7)

37 Alexander's nominal capital alternative (5) 38 Selling-price top for a drug (5)

39 Take mushroom, indeed! (6) 40 Pin it? Well! (3) 41 Undergo trial as it were (10) 42 Was proud upholding Slav (6) DOWN 1 Of a curative process maybe 12's task paid a lot (13) 2 Relieve a splinter (5) 3 Deplorably bad rise that's upset a number (6) 4 Wind up? Take pity on us! (5) 6 That's so in set-up that's a plant

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7 Number supporting 8's partner in power (6) 8 See 26 (4) 10 Spenser's Tot-luck' — capital yarn (6) 12 One who arranges, inter alia, her poor charge (13) 15 Having a mouth and head like 24, it turned a goddess on (7) 21 Symbolised a measure dupli- cated after longin bed (8) 27 Butterfly-fish (7) 29 Catch an author bending (6) 30 Best up in upper part of shoe (6) 32 Fool one infirm playful character (6) 34 Father's name for a mermaid (5) 35 Sheer left in pile-up (5) 36 Colour of the raw recruit (4)