CROSSWORD

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 12 August. Entries to: Crossword 718, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The other unclued ights (two quartets) are exp ained by ihe phrase at 1A.

Name Address ACROSS

8 Masked ghost, note (7) 10 Enzyme with a salt fermenting, in a state (7)

11 Neat short word for Jock's armpit (5)

13 Rattles used in Isis-worship found in winding stairs (6) 15 'E has gen about poem ()

16 Shetland dialect from number at service? (4)

40 Kieselguhr located in N. Africa (7)

22 Girl's fallen, collapsed without energy (7)

44 Make amends for a temper (5) 26 Sarah absorbs translation of a Mosaic teacher (7) 4▪ 9 Go in advance, pedal, then

back-pedal (7)

3▪ 0 Addled brains grasping nothing

Slavonic (7)

34 Hail hits southern birds (4) 35 Spoon with dashing fellow, the Parisian (5)

36 A college's recesses (6)

38 Royal treaty broken in apostasy , (7) Fish from eastern corals at sea An (7)

Non-drug treatment makes hearty hippy so confused (13) DOWN 1 Nimble shallow brook (5) 2 Horsemen in Cape pass, mounted (5) 3 Abhorred phantasm of death

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4 Tyrant almost drunk oil distilled from orange flowers (6) 5 Worker eats fruit for nourishment (7) 6 Like an ostrich in desert location, head hidden (6) 7 Mac's aim is to follow timber vessel (9, hyphened) 10 Dainty cope fastener on novice (6) 12 Odd piece on minor lacking objective (7) 14 Fire class for sports event (8, hyphened) 17 Cross into Spanish city for passion-flower fruit (10) 18 Pale bone broken, may be exposed (8) 21 Pretty civil, note, Celts (7) 25 'E dips for fish, we hear, and eats (7) 29 Ready as before, including point programmed in advance (6, hyphened) 31 Identify fish, we're told (5) 32 Girl 'eld highest note (5) The solution to Crossword 715 is on page 40. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.