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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 opened on 10 June. Entries to: Crossword 1010, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. CLUES 1A Mineral, vegetable or animal's soft-headed complaint (8) 1D In the manner of ii maestro di musica, Paderewski? (13) 2 *Make little use of alien articles that one lies about (12) 3 Cheap sort of Club (6) 4 *Reproduction of article not in a standard book (15) 5 Pointless unaccented cases rare- ly come into effect (6) 6 *Dealers now do if upset when fish-eaters are about (10) 7 'An article to be replaced in a row (11) 8 'Treatment of many too old (8) 9 II maestro di musica in end that's turned out tops (10) 10 Mineral the first balthazar neces- sarily contained (6) 11 Change to my acrid incisiveness in speech? (9) 12 Among equals, a Robert Louis Stevenson — he'll describe some going fishing! (5-8) 13 *Emphatic about a small boy being fickle (12) 14 'Life a foreign fellow found in a pub for the asking (10) 15 Rarely bears evidence of taking property without right (7) 16 Goes to pieces as fall guy (6) 17 Tops and tails of women who reveal all? Always! (5) 18 'Goes awry in remote forces (9) 19 All's one when in a whirl, albeit trifling (9) 20 More in want of control in a river when reversing (7) 21 *To engage too narrowly in love is a precise complex (14) 22 Got lost, rest day having been changed (7) 23 *Hard blows for the old star in the money abroad (5-7) 24 One wench in charge takes another out (7) 25 Braises fish (5) 26 Plant on the spot by the middle of July? Before! (5) 27 Broadcast not so much that's stale (7) 28 B— accessory food factor (7) 29 *Iberian pot-plant (7,5) 30 *Ranks as noise when a midge about-turns aboard (9) 31 Instate in charge of plant (7) 32 'They subtilise and modify in a change of sex (8) 33 One goddess's heavenly body that's embraced by another (7) 34 'In this neighbourhood out East bear South, perhaps? (10) 35 Trouble with State overspill in Scotland (5) 36 'Swing of power in American West, indeed (6) 37 One enticing one to smooth one's felt hat (5) 38 'Not half like a regular Oval lapse — illicit half-time disturb- ance! (4-10) 39 Cleans out fish (6) 40 'Spike? A ringworm! (5) 41 A jolly lad, Eros — is initially erotically upset! (3-7) 42 Giving dope — First Aid? (6) 43 A sailor's chemicals? (8)