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CROSSWORD

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 (please, no photocopies) opened on 6 July. Entries to: Crossword 1064, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Five unclued lights have certain factors in common besides yielding definitions for five other lights (which have nothing in common). Ignore a hyphen and three accents.

Name Address ACROSS 1 About 81b. of cheese and some garlic (5) 12 Sad time? Wrong, wrong time (7) 14 In Glasgow, exchanges blows (5) 15 One's clothed in extra fabric (5) 16 See long Scottish grass (6) 23 Plant that's mostly found in a lake and river (7)

24 A Breton, this French officer? 2 V)

5 For example, heartless gas bombs (4) 27 One harassing runner (7) 32 Finishes off songs (6) 34 Look: time is short (5) 35 I look into travel home (5) 36 Warm coat, semi-posh lining (7) 39 Time reduced in second court case finding (9) 40 Disc left in sword (5) DOWN 1 Agreement from former ally ab- out article (10) 2 Catch up with a climber (5) 4 Religiose rascal's craft (7) 5 Controversial townee's anger's mounting (7) 6 Sculptor raised strong smell (5) 7 Found out former trustee ex- erted influence (9) 8 A meadow reportedly on shel- tered side (4) 10 Rainy, dull, misty every day (9) 13 Roasters subsequently put in steamer (7) 15 Is involved in simple, not tricky undertaking! (6) 18 Old, old, some vagrant I enter- tain (7) 20 Newly-fashioned EEC collar and coat (9) 21 Periodical, clean old attractive type (6) 26 Ancient shield: king has one in part of play (7) 28 Spray's causing roseola (7) 30 Girl sent up garland and booze 31 One deserter up in cave, once 33 Spring Civil Engineers attached to box (5) 34 Mineral spring on right (4)