1 SEPTEMBER 1984, Page 37

Crossword 673

£10 - or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, 1983 edition (ring the word 'Dictionary' under name and address) – for the first correct solution opened on 17 September. Entries to: Crossword 673, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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the unclued lights (all in Chambers) are of a kind in that they have certain common characteristics. Ignore hyphens.

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ACROSS

1 Bird to fret in a partial vacuum (5)

4 Reduction of duration of life of psychiatrist (9) 9 Getting the better of a crazy twit in an excursion (10) 11 Not the `cratur' of poteen peddlers, but of Chambertin drinkers (5) 12 Indeed a long-winded story about northern food! (7) 14 Long-active pain, back of the buttocks (5) 15 Dope-pushers do (5) 16 Poet's call to stop contest (6) 24 Nothing initially lacking in old refuse (4) 25 See 1D (4) 27 Idiots to see in 34s (7) 33 Poem about a foreign king's imitation gold (6) 34 Nothing in Spike's children! (5) 35 Bird-brain's enclosure (5) 37 B— traitor, remain outside and swing! (7) 38 10's inner energy (5) 39 One held back one finally dead, perhaps? That's foolish! (10) 40 Present a dry conclusion (9) 41 One with a taste for Town (5) DOWN 1 A foreign business centre custom that, to 25, is lacking life-support facilities (13) 2 Haphazard literary character (6) 5 An eighth of a pre-1971 penny for gum-resin (4) 6 European cocktail-maker (7) 7 Slap-up protuberances (5) 10 Muddled second thoughts about truck-driver's form of transport (13)

13 Light up gunners' pile of spuds (7)

15 Inside-right upping pace (6) 17 Playful parts wherein to display one's pets? (6) 18 In part of Pennsylvania, a rustic rumpus (6) 19 Indiscreet measure replaces it as controversial (7) 20 Spenser's hailed it, being over-lusttul (6) 23 The keeper of a religious contrivance inwardly is (8) 26 Built up of wax spread out to dry 30 ne well able to carry liquor (6) 31 A fish-headed goddess, imagine!

36 Conclude one's number was not up (4)