CROSSWORD 1033: Ye gods above! 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 (please, no Photocopies) opened on 18 November. Entries to: Crossword 1033, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Ten lights are words (one hyphened) formed respect vely from ten answers clued in italics with no overall definitions. Deities are instrumental, one of them not listed in Chambers.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 1 Fortification's standard support, we hear (8) 8 HM's left relative, to stay at Balmoral (4) 11 Farmer put ice, piled up, in snap container? (12, hyphened) 12 Deities, indeed, ancient things

(5) 14 Marvel, most of ruin, in distance (7)

16 Foot, that's me, and British (4) 17 Monkey about in mountain (5) 18 Parties for little fellows (6) 22 Harp time, producing divine im- ages (8) 23 Window opening before one (7) 24 Yorick's head in Shakespeare's cut: rather cunning (6) 25 Creditor accepts old coins (6) 27 Finished with a Latin suitor (7, two words) 29 Pig's back used in thin glove (8) 33 Bridge players stir odd sniggers from Jock (6) 34 Fragrant stuff from priest with- out measure (5) 35 Starts old hoisting machines (4) 37 Cleanse, prevent beginnings of germs (7) 38 A vocal manner, pleasant (5) 39 Subsidiary occupants, set turned out without bread (12) 40 Eddie's after square cut (4) 41 Pithy factors from some dull associate? (8) DOWN 1 Fifty, in season, wed (6) 2 Headpiece set on, covering one (4) 3 Swimming organs caught on riv- er round North (6) 4 Train as complex mechanic (7) 5 Magnificent, Demeter's head 6 Those involved in grafting shrubs around Belgium (7) 7 Mercury's inwardly exhausted 8 Southern type's reported Scot- tish rascal (5) 9 Isle possessed by war-sod 10 Belief in deity (Them's, maybe) (6) 13 Goddess imbued with love 15 Insects round Thoth's head?

19 Volatile goddess of mischief 20 Short pipe for Pan 21 Ceres, initially unproductive 26 Second lumberman makes strong bat (7) 28 Noosed, the European took ac- tion audibly! (7) 29 Birds, 500, bursting into songs (6) 30 Raised feature of awful Ammon 31 End of Zeus, last of gods writ large 32 Correct pieces held by editor (5) 36 Worker on a pilaster (4)