31 AUGUST 1991, Page 37

CROSSWORD 1024: Ding-dong 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 16 September. Entries to: Crossword 1024, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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7

gai■ 12

9

. 1 13 D 1 F 16 14 a 17 18 I 1 28 29 21 1

22 27 33 19 34 I 24 ill 26 32 36 39 II 41

The other unclued lights (one is a phrase) form two different quartets suggested by 1 Down. Use alphabetical priority when entering 24. Lights 34 and 37 are in Chambers, but not as headwords. Ignore a cedilla.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Hands man records (5) 6 Unknown in State (Unionist) (7) 13 Tree in dull gold tint, such as wastes away (9) 15 Following Pole from Thailand (4) 16 Courtesan, learning sober En- glish (7)

17 Joins in measures, including reel (7)

18 Page prefacing the old rule book 21 Drunk, unk, indeed, reeling singers 27 Miss, ss, unattached, heartless (4) 28 Con fifty, make money (5) 30 Cautious editor's turned free (10) 33 Experienced type, Doc (3) 35 Tea, with amount of butter on one's bread (7) 36 Odd toeless quadruped's growth () 37 I added to franc for Hebrew (4) 38 Upper Palaeolithic stone Ural washed up (9) 39 One who explains varnish is absorbed by skill (10) DOWN 1 See preamble (14, three words) 2 Doctor, assess wound (8) 4 Look under apple, observe past (9, hyphened) 5 Lions eating Eastern viands (5) 6 Milton's false notions? One old MS is forged (8) 7 Dress spiced dish (5) 8 Musical tone represented by Euterpe? (5) 9 Subordinates I noted, vaguely stated below (14) 10 Reportedly cool, the Spanish church vestment (6) 12 Yield thoroughly, sink (6) 20 Soot? Ah, could be waste in kiln (9, hyphened) 23 Forty reassembled outside be- fore shrine (8) 25 Academic was furious over one ancient coin (8) 26 Carnivore, as found in local snare (6) 29 Fret I altered in part of network (6) 31 Copier with prompt abridged summary (6) 32 Sword, Eastern, with short handle (5)

34 English lily with English name )

35 Bird in mint bordering lake (5)