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A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £11.95— ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary' above) will be awarded for the first three correct solutions opened on 9 September. Entries to: Crossword 722, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The sole unclued light (which is in the OED) is associated with the five asterisked and three normal ones. Ignore one accent and a hyphen.

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Address ACROSS 1 Poet of lustre (8) 5 County establishments (6) 9 Provoke former bitter deity (10) 14 & 40 38's errant pirate (6)

16 Porgy & Bess's initial take off (6)

17 Entertained, having eaten out 39's heart (5) 18 Marry one at a loose end (5) 20 Measure by number in Lamb's rhythm (7)

22 Discriminates between one end and another about boosting nurses (7)

24 Tends in church to purify (7) 25 Former decoy's pretext (5) 26 Lichen was not found in Amer- ica? (5) 28 Hostile epigrammatist (7) 31 Spectre of horse covered in di- amond dust (7) 33 The eagle of Erin a cat? (7) 37 German town judge (5) 38 Rope in soldiers to taste (5) 39 Foreigner of note in a measure retired (6) 41 Pertaining to holding former affliction of the mind (10) 42 Probe former path obstructed no longer (6)

43 One of two in Cook's Mere Chatter (8)

DOWN I Sort of carefulness as becomes automatic insurance? (13) 2 *Rash half-step in a dance (5) 3 *Three assorted EEC articles in one (6) 4 The old uphold the French Goodwood, one hears (5) 6 Worms out communist classical Greek community centre (7) 7 Obadiah's Scots relative (6) 8 *Spenser's faced 2 (4) 10 Tips one diamond in an after- thought (6) 11 Extraction having messenger hiding a tear (9) 12 Returning in it never upset 7 awfully (13) 13 Always take a girl out as backing

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15 Something Jac has mentioned before about the poet's river- source (7) 19 The fame of a follower 21's taken to heart (9) 21 It penetrated 30's fastness (8) 23 Roundabout ways from town in France (7) 27 Excite a bastard goddess (7) 29 A Frenchman points out a cow- girl's innermost membrane (6) 30 Growth unknown to 34 (6) 32 *This master a locksmith work- ing on own account for dealers Scots compel to soak? (6) 35 Tin head-band (5) 36 Hitting the mark to a nicety, right in the buttocks (4) The solution to Crossword 719 is on page 37. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the Post-a-Book' service.