CROSSWORD

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of either Chambers Dictionary or Chambers Crossword Manual — ring your choice) for the first three correct solutions opened on 10 October. Entries to: Crossword 877, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (one hyphened) comprise I A and three different triads suggested by its components.

Name Address ACROSS 1 See preamble (13, four words) 8 So, a wee drop of meths might be stupefying? (7)

10 Preserving a former statesman 13 Points to a husky sailor? (6, Vciin

hyphened) 15 Reflect with gravity on medical dressing (5) 19 Begging letter that is given to steward (7) 20 Cold, among English climbers, shows clearly (7) 22 Obliterates 'f', spoiling 'cafes' 23 girl, pure but heartless one (5) 24 Missile's direction-finder (5)

26 Box, beat one rigorously trained Va)

29Sailor consumed in dance (7) 30 Thrice I met busy creature (7) 35 Phenol's yellow? Bad error, we hear (5) 36 Tamper with decoration, audibly 37 ird that is wheeling before the German (5) 38 Descendants reincarnated as pigeons (7) 39 Drag fruit in cases (7) DOWN

1 Measure uranium in fruit (5) 2 Resident alien found in charge 3tuber one slung for lemur (5) Vu) b

4 He has many serfs (26A) (6) 5 Strange) ironic about point of dreams 7) 6 Kind to oax a marshal (6) 10 Stick medal on European (6) 12 Keeping pace with bank rate, in a way (7)

14 A 20D, maybe, has ms removed and divided into small tracts (8)

20 Rubbery stuff formed from met- al ores (9) 21 Is priest embracing deity a Mid- dle Easterner? (7) 25 Sore spot, a little blue (7)

27 Heads of. 24s dashed hopes round North (6)

28 Tier of seats, notice, held by beam (6) 31 Trick evokes quibble (5) 32 Some vicious crabs use claws (5) 33 One local river's wavy (5)