CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 for the first three correct solutions opened on 6 February. Entries to: Crossword 892, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Anagrams of the unclued lights are of a kind with eight l'ghts either clued without overall definition or clued solely by overall defini- tion. Two normal lights are hyphened (one doubly so).

Name Address ACROSS I Tonic of note in recovery (8) 5 Irish county town now about vanished (6) 9 Nothing's lost, not identifying a gum-resin (10) 14 Separate in fighting a former naval squadron (3) 16 One's maybe twenty-five (6) 17 Was not at first the same out- right idle type (5) 18 Upbeat art classically is (5) 20 Cries out between times, cut thus (7) 24 Assesses a Fellow of the Royal Society's hidden payment for services (7) Dictionary prizes are sent out by the Post-a-Book' service. 3 Bird once to be seen outside a cave (6) 4 Partly computerised production centres (5) 6 Girls like Salome, initially trap- ped by deceptions (7) 7 Buried at sea? Completely! (6) 8 Ask a woman it (4) 10 Form of insect popular with a leading lady (6)

11 Type of league out East — in China, perhaps? (9)

12 Chortles, perhaps, with change of scene — some frame! (13) 13 Rest-time? Smashing! (8) 19 As a sportsman, conclude it's maybe idle to boost it (9) 21 Kitchen implement — one that's outwardly not so hot (8) 23 Bespatter, say, an unclued light?

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27 Being under a Doc, has a side side-board (7) 32 In amount, say, a buck? (6) 36 Continental bloodsucker (4) 25 Ruminant carnivore (5) 26 Fanatical gunmen's attempt (5) 28 Though floppy and set aglee, they take some shifting (7) 31 Hurts having one on — and not so much, without! (7) 33 Faithful followers in general turned hers out (7) 37 Sandy's divines some water in some wells (5)

38 Are among kings less common (5)

40 In France, way back, an incom- plete department (3) 41 Disembowelled goddess after former record (10) 42 Iron Lady's wear? (6) 43 A Shakespearian politician from Wales possibly must (8) DOWN 1 Retention of childish character- istics upset Herod's pomp (and aim!) (13)