CROSSWORD

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 17 August. Entries to: Crossword 819, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights are of a kind and their non-intersecting letters could be, why, 12 and 13! One other light is hyphened and one or two are acronyms.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 Women's Libber's utter gaffes? Could be! (11) 7 Very much a return of service

2 11 ) uy in the City a bit wet? On the contrary! (6)

13 She starts to cry like a sheep? Nonsense! (7) 15 Colour one's about to shout ab- out . . . (5) 17 . . . and one a giant hides (6) 18 Union 7D upset (5) 20 An old type's stiffly formal re- turn (6) 22 Highland bird's complaint (7) 27 Commanded to hold forth? Fan- cy! (7) 29 Object about the time from sun- set to sunrise (5) 30 Trouble with one of the Brow- nies? That's just dandy! (6) 32 Material used in weaving rings? That's right! (5) 34 Indians with aspiration for grease (6) 37 Wise, perhaps, a bird without one (5) 38 Scotsman's inner impulse to make a face (7) 39 Mythical river-god's content? It's a plant! (6) 40 The Bard's dirty old dress (3) 41 Taking otherwise than the French sort of wheat without cheese (11) DOWN 1 Bird following junior officer's Indian stand-in (10) 3 One male getting on his hind legs about having a fresh trial (9) 4 Manipulates so as to reach un- due conclusion about merry- making simpletons (12) 5 Spenser's hell of a sauce (7) 6 Record in the same place the final embryonic feature (8) 7 See 18 (5)

9 Soldier active as leader of poli- tical party the White Goddess supported (6)

10 Empty husk (5) 12 13's best concealed folios (6)

14 Creature having Charon descnb- ing his craft (12)

19 One who calls her pet Noel, perhaps (10) 21 Take a King in second move -- Spenserian member of landed gent (9)

23 Makery? very little from a small outlay (8)

25 No flies on one using this in Indonesia after food (6) 26 Goodness! No blame when up- set, in a word? (7) 28 Remove the blemishes from a Dictator, say (6) 31 Star a company of birds (5)