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A first prize of 120 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 11 March. Entries to: Crossword 997, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The other unclued lights form a quintet and a triad suggested by the title Name Address

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ACROSS 1 Rural holiday in e.g. Riva till Aug., maybe (13) 8 Letter sent to authority backing issue (7) 10 Hobbling, held by girl, in public walk (7)

13 Hydrocarbon produces no life?

15 ittect footprint (5) 16 Rejected silly guess (4) 19 British made, we hear, and deli- vered (7)

20 Salt man consumed (7)

22 Ascetic Conservative's intro- duced pithiness (7)

23 Audibly nick a stone slab? (5)

24 . . . Notch is a shame, to us (5) 29 Analysis shows ancient mummy

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34 sauce provided with most of potato (4) 35 Time to muse (5) 36 Erstwhile gloomy day, lacking sharpness (6) 37 Red figure on Left's returned (5)

38 A cloudy vista full of eastern flies (7)

39 Futile customs, including the Gallic kind (7)

40 See preamble (13, hyphened)

DOWN 2 Mud-lava, note, on a rand (5) 3 English birds — and where some nest (5) 4 Falcon: handle with care (6) 5 Greases everything bound in fibres (7) 9 Sharp, Monsieur, vocally impu- dent (10) 10 Language from a Scot in charge 12 secret doctrine produced by rote, yes? (7) 14 Erupt with smoke rising over gallery (8) 17 Cram, do we hear? Ah, most might make lovers of learning (10) 20 Shellfish, they say, piece that's tough (9, hyphened) 21 Ruptures, I hear, treated round N. 'East (7) 25 Bear short note for old adminis- trator (7) 27 Dreads losing head, making slips 28

rboss warms up, including cobalt (6) 31 Man straddling Eastern horse (5)

32 Measure rod, Henry (5)

33 Nothing in minor loamy deposit (5)