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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 17 September. Entries to: Crossword 974, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.
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The unclued lights (one is plura ) comprise a quartet with 39A, 11A. Ignore two accents (one Swedish). Chambers excludes 22A (in the OED) and one proper name.
Name Address ACROSS
1 Portrait of hypocrite in fancy ruff (Tate) (8)
8 Evil character, one of yore (4) 11 See preamble (12) 12 Bright, clear of British wet (5) 16 A thin short tree (4) 17 Bitter about wit's last rounded maxims (5) 18 One who speaks before canon, reflectively (6) 22 '12' with mixed emotion follow- ing lead of Nazarite? 23 Cat's sharp, they say (7 24 Some lost anna held in Delhi cop-shop (6) 27 Certificates, note, in trousers (7) 29 Stirred, all laud endlessly — i.e. praise Jehovah! (8) 33 Record? Amateur shows guts (6) 34 Month, and in Paris, for music group (5) 35 Take in 216 gal. of ale and roll! (4) 38 Builder well into pawn? (5) 39 See preamble (12) 40 Pretty sleazy club's shunned (4) 41 Acceptable as an attitude, as battle rages? (8) DOWN 1 Lake filled with river fish (6) 2 A headland's raised kames (4) 3 Explosive Italian in temper (6) 4 If curled up, short rope evokes a worm (7) •
6 1 report crazy. clown (7)
7 Mixing a greyish brown in paint- ing (11) 8 Eskimo in Britain? Uitlander?
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9 alt, gorge a variety of meat (9) 10 Rowers love a storm! (6) 13 Girl is a goddess (8) 15 Army, the European one, unites in warfare (11) 19 Fellow-countryman, company member, at disturbance (10) 20 Lane in US excited botanist (8) 21 Arachnid's nipper gets insects within reach, wriggling (9) 26 Bring up food (7)
28 A study medico's written up on a benign growth (7)
29 Wader at cove, flapping about (6) 30 A dessert's made up in layers (6) 31 Once pierce sand eel (6) 32 Net-like state — in brief, shot (5) 36 Wind's tumultuous noise (4)
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