CROSSWORD 773: Tetra-trios by Doc

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers Dictionary, value £12.95 — ring the words 'Chambers Dictionary') will be awarded for the first three correct solutions opened on 15 September. Entries to: Crossword 773, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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The ten unclued lights (two hyphened and all in Chambers) have a common feature, half of them once more than the other half. One other solution includes an abbreviation.

Name Address Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service. ACROSS 6 Scurvy fellow in charge of bard

(7)

13 Tattlers in NATO ate out (9) 15 Bird-house's complete exterior (4) 16 Letter by upright stone slab is for Marten? (7) 18 That woman is a mum. Not half!

(3)

19 Starts confusing 9 topics (10) 24 Unpleasant surprise landing by parachute (4) 27 It's time I left the alluring woman! (4) 28 Sheltered church's drain (5) 30 It's peculiar to Stowe, the taste for chocolate (10, two words) 33 Bird's nest located among fallen yew-trees (3) 37 This bird's at home for another (4) 38 A jazz-fan about to steal, in charge of tumbler (9) 39 A vole and otter combining to allow putrefaction (10, three words) 40 Girl and US lawman by river (7) 41 Company's harbours (5) DOWN

1 It's delightful where astronauts travel (14, four words)

3 Dislike a hotel being rebuilt (6) 4 It yields strychnine and canna- bis, embracing union's ruin (9, hyphened) 5 Vessels having tangled net, for instance (5) 6 Pets made uncontrolled rush (8) 7 A brownie on English plant for cordials (5) 8 26 ounces in pit (5) 9 Tidies hospital in darkest Eccles, maybe (14, three words) 12 Subject to policy directly con- trolled by computer (6, hyphened) 14 Kind US and (6) 22 Author's duck and other bird on the tracks (6, two words) 25 Newspaperman with note on malt-liquor (8) 26 See 8 (6) 29 One toilet erected in church for worker (6) 31 Spades to lift up slab (6) 32 Scottish beloved — a monkey for the great drink! (5) 34 Joins together. Aye, that's about right (5) 35 Destroy the boy (5)