CROSSWORD

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' above) for the first three correct solutions opened on 20 March. Entries to: Crossword 898, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL.

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Chambers indicates (and 25 suggests) that the unc ued lights (one of two words and one in which .1 is preferred to Y) are of a kind with those clued without overall definition.

Name Address ACROSS 1 Helping one to meet costs of ruined gas-pipe, perhaps (13) 8 Middlesbrough School character (4)

12 Incitement? A lie! (4)

14 Hold a boy back, boy (6) 16 Measure aright a measure (5)

17 One by one, one's one of three

US towns (5) 20 They're super finishers (7)

21 Indicate approval for a band (7)

23 The very devil of a wicked fellow

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24 Lawyer's endless talk (5) 25 Pinks, such fellows (5) 27 Oaf's jest, once an egg-head's experimental task (7)

30 Not quite everyone's cup of tea (7)

32 Spiders are, when seen round a Northern drainage-canal (7) 36 Someone else's change (5) 37 No trace of former attachment for him (5) 38 Moths set in a tizzy by one or more birds (6) 39 Round Peterhead is so divine,

the locals say (4)

42 Condition of being able out- wardly to show it is not lies by arrangement? (13) DOWN 1 One sort of African palm's one 2 Cement byway (5) 3 An extortioner's certain to appear in a half-hour (6)

4 See a girl about an antiseptic (5)

5 One who reaps or merely gathers wool (7) 6 National insurance tax formerly raised for Brownies (6)

7 Ends by being sound as a bell (9 9 The growth of raw courage (10 11 Moment quietly to count out (6 13 Dresses up, old stick (7) 18 Canon having characters of 41 endlessly barred out East (10) 21 Confused type, cut up about a party purgative (9) 22 No Western Region mathemati- cians identify such fish (7) 26 Encase a butterfly in a non- metallic element (7) 28 Tube in operation once out of sequence, take note (6)

31 Partially atrophied mouth-parts (6)

33 Not so old hat, turning one former award into one (5)

34 In US police, night-stick used against Britons (5) 35 Nose around a neat substitute

(5) The, solution to Crossword 895 is on page 44. Dictionary prizes are sent out by the 'Post-a-Book' service.