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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 18 December. Entries to: Crossword 937, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 21.L.

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The asterisked clues have a common peculiarity. One normal light is hyphened.

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1 Dwarfish person on the way (5)

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4 Nothing it lacked, this metropo- litan variety of aids to motorists

9 Fo (9)

ur-parted edited matter intro- ducing rewrite of Lear (10)

11 *Professional on-and-off nitwit (6)

12 Share the German soup-ladle? (7) 14 *Sausages one might get hooked on? (5)

15 *About to swindle? That's un- fair! (5) 16 Tribune or star turn (6)

22 *Shorts in such bottles? (8)

23 Plant that has to be docked in a meadow (7) 24 Blackwood, for instance (4) 25 Spoil one's part in turn in variety entertainment (4) 27 Flies from places beset by set- back (7) 29 *In part green and black and extremely angry (8)

32 Figures Rowland Hill or Max Beerbohm individually initially indicate (6)

34 A King's is surely the reverse of down-beat (5) 35 They sing without aspiration, being what could be termed husky (5) 36 *Right in the middle in hordes of delinquent youths (7)

37 *Real neat in Scotland — mainly rum? (6)

38 A prodigy's name in a heraldic bearing (10) 39 Conscious minds an outcome of sin's tenet (9) 40 Alcohol's base, as they perhaps will finally indicate (5) DOWN 1 Dignity in some local authorities may be fly — lots are without right! (10) 2 *Dress Circle dustman (5) 3 One note in another could be sustained (6) 4 Willing tattle about turn down of hand (7) 5 Twigs a girl's put out again (7) 6 *Flashily dressed men's liberal affectation of superiority (5)

7 Drink's a startling enlighten- ment? (9)

8 *Boob in choice of element (4) 10 A number (like 24) that can be accumulated (9)

13 An atom that is, has nothing in bar inside (7) 15 *Snob short of a pound for a mate (6) 17 Place aboard and specify space unoccupied (9)

18 Pleasant to earn a bit (7)

19 A missile so complicated consis- tent in earth-shaking effect? (10)

20 Particular form of substance to assign to 29? Not half! (9) 21 Maidens taking one in help keep partners apart (6) 26 Was ill-omened and more than just 33 (7)

28 *Bags of upsets to relieve within (7)

30 A swell's no idler? On the con- trary! (6) 31 Death, or close to it (5)

33 *Endless pestilence held in by someone with ginger hair (5)

34 *Sailors' 24s (4)