CROSSWORD 936: At one remove by Mass

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 11 December. Entries to: Crossword 936, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL.

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Each italic definition yields an intermediate word (with length in brackets) whose associated term is the light to be entered in the diagram. Ignore five hyphens.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Sweet sham bubbly needs 'monkey' (14)

11 Metier (5)

12 Every coach is defaced (4)

13 Powdering-pad (4) 14 Snowball (8) 15 Old coin widely current with rest, we hear (10)

17 Confident author (5) 20 Smooth writer's sources of ener- gy (8) 21 As before, convey point with unusual lingo (6)

23 Tartan (5)

26 A pupil's short, squandered sup- port (5) 27 Share round hot dog (5) 28 Host's frothy beer, initially off (4) 30 Flier from tee added to golfer's score (6) 31 Cast-iron for durability, it's said? (8)

36 Noon (8)

38 One's due for fizzy light lager (10, two words) 39 Diamond gang in cooler (7) 40 Cat-calls heard in stable-yard (5)

41 Relative (6)

42 Scrutinise a shell (5) 43 Remedies for treating DTs, amiss in a cop? (14) DOWN

1 Boating lad held off leeches (14) 2 Scope (4)

3 Hastens to gather spring flowers (10) 4 Heart (5) 5 Present in Ten Downing St (5) 6 smile (8)for Cross makes Pole 7 Cries for the old records (5) 8 Composition making Doc tetchy in part (5) 9 Fifty tangled dense olives in flower (14)

10 Concept just short of perfect (4)

i 16 What cooper might make n company fiddle? (5) 18 Exploiter's former profit recipe (4) 19 Snake in grass caught outside (10) 22 Daily (5) 24 111-made carpet, to a spinner (8)

25 Revolutionary (3) 29 Exciting factors limit us? Wrong (7)

32 Snake-cult, work of a man first seen in Madras (6)

33 Key (6) 34 Attic wit (4)

35 Giants — Gargantua's first -- cast in metals (5) 37 New wine's a necessity (4) The solution to Crossword 933 is on page 68. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the Tost-a-Book' service.